Re: What does death by "natural causes" look like in Glorantha?

From: differentcomputers <mdawson_at_iEC3TsYyU0YWZQyFG1492cJwPmKgx8W7DNfIuYsmFiYl99GQ9GJHN8b7dBHQ0b62c5uu>
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 20:29:47 -0000

> He's managed to avoid Death through war, disease, or accident. But our aristocrat knows that a Death has been assigned to him. He's spent his time evading it through piety and magic (and luck) but he knows that eventually Death will catch him. At some point his luck will fail and his magic will be too weak - he will die.

Sure. Yet not what I asked. What happens to him from age 97 to age 107 *if his luck holds?*

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> > All I can think of is a stroke or aneurism. Both are fast enough to make the healers too late. (Though an aneurism, being a wound, would be easy for a healer to cure if quick enough.) But what causes those in Glorantha?
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> Our Lunar believes that the Death assigned to him from birth is the cause. At first it tries to kill him through easy ways - war, disease, accidents and so forth. But eventually it will attack him other ways and succeed.
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Namely? That's what I'm asking.

Mike            

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