> Assuming no violence and that he doesn't trip, fall down the stairs and break
>his neck, ***how does this guy die?***
. . .
> 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?
In the real world, as I understand it, our genes have telomeres that act as a kind of buffer to losses of DNA during replication. This means that DNA can only replicate a certain (large) number of times before either failing or resulting in genetic errors (like cancer, I assume). I'm sure I only digested the pop culture version of the idea. But that doesn't matter. The point is that there is a proximate cause for any death (like "his heart stopped" or "lung cancer") and an ultimate cause. I would think that age itself is an ultimate cause in both the real world and Glorantha. That is, at some point, things just start to go wrong in your body. Things just stop working. They are not woounded nor infected, just worn away. In the real world, we have a neat explanation for why. In Glorantha, the explanations would vary, but I would expect a lot of cultures to blame aging on whatever force it was that (for them) caused the disasters of the darkness and the God's War.
Narmeed says more:
We Praxians all blame chaos, without exception. <glares at Yazurkial and
Roneer> Maybe Little Brother's people do, too, but they are stupid sometimes.
The moon people probably think being old is good because it lets them come back
as a new moon. The dragon people also think strange things about coming back; no
one can understand them. I've never met a Pentan <spit> who lived to old age; so
who cares what they think?
Chris Lemens
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