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

From: Jeff <richaje_at_AkduORubWO_KsJxl2T2KGL-bM5P9RvS3OVj2EkqqI-SvOZeK9QQWB6DtpqwxP1v7rrEX>
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 21:18:53 -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.
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> Sure. Yet not what I asked. What happens to him from age 97 to age 107 *if his luck holds?*

Our aristocrat must be remarkably pious/magically powerful and very lucky! He stays alive.

> > 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.

He keels over dead, dies in his sleep, dies in mid-sentence, is visited by dark demons that overpowers his guardians and dies, his soul leaves his body before the body realizes he is dead, and so forth. A hundred variations, maybe a thousand.

Jeff