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

From: Keith <keith.nellist_at_uFfQwjbCzqIIIV36CghPwUtZR44AEx8JDWrbI4nZdjSHcpqtJL0USxcPNwJw0N>
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 22:01:25 -0000


Another point, is that such an individual, determined to live forever, begins to lose all his contempories, his descendants may begin to resent him maintaining his position as head of the family, he may stay alive but lose so much bodily strength as to become immobile, more like a spirit, a totem kept/trapped in a room by his guards and carers, or he may lose so much of his mental capacity as to be like a zombie, shuffling around devoid of conciousness, or perhaps his paranoid clinging to life makes him to resort to desperate obsessive compulsive behaviour that he dare not stop in case that they are the things keeping him alive - drinking blood, avoiding sunlight perhaps, avoiding certain foods, cold water, being typical of your normal "wants to stay alive forever noble guy"

He turns into a vampire.

Keith

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> --- In WorldofGlorantha_at_yahoogroups.com, "differentcomputers" <mdawson@> wrote:
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> > --- In WorldofGlorantha_at_yahoogroups.com, "Jeff" <richaje@> wrote:
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> > > 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?*
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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.
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> > Mike
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