Or become a figure of reverence, a source of wisdom, a person to be valued more.
>he may stay alive but lose so much bodily strength as to become immobile,
how and why? Not because of a broken hip!
> 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,
How and why?
>or perhaps his paranoid clinging to life
I find this a curious characterization. Is a rich guy in NYC who insists on the best doctors "a 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"
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> He turns into a vampire.
An interesting parallel to the "cannibals become ogres and rapists become broo" bit. It seems a stereotype of old people rooted in real world experiences of aging.
I'm trying to understand how and why Gloranthan aging is simialr to RW aging--if it is at all!
MIke
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