It’s also worth mentioning that arcane-infused elves walk a thin line between not wanting to starve themselves of magic, whilst not indulging excessively either. Either of those paths leads to madness and physical deformities.
The above is a good example of arcane magic having the ability to corrupt.
I guess that’s less of a problem to sin’dorei with their Sunwell restored to them, but it has got to be on their mind to this day. “If the Well could be extinguished once…”
I agree, but I also see it as the confirmation that it is possible. Nowhere is it stated that mages have to actively extend their lives. It’s implied that they simply live longer. You could argue that Aegwynn did artificially extend her life, but that simply serves to prove that both pathways are possible, depending on the kind of power the individual has access to.
I think you are under the impression that I mean an extended youth, but that’s not what I’m saying. These people live longer, not better. At least, that’s what I take away from it.
I think it’s very important not to equal a longer life to a lack of corruption.
While true, it once again confirms that arcane magic can alter a natural lifespan. Titanic levels of magic is still magic. As a rule, those base properties would be there.
I’d just like to add that even if a character does have an immortal demon soul, that doesn’t mean they’re safe. I think I recall Illidan mentioned constantly being on the run from demons when the Illidari contacted his spirit before his resurrection at the Nighthold, and one can only assume demons in the Nether have more than a couple ways to make your journey there a living hell.
We have no real way of knowing how common immortality among demon hunters is, since it hasn’t been mentioned outside of a few cases. That said, I don’t see a problem with claiming your character has one. As long as it’s done right, it could make an interesting part of the story.
Like someone mentioned above me though, there’s not really any way of a hunter to know it until they roll the dice of death.
Then there are Void entities, infamous among demons for their ability to pull their prey into the Twisting Nether and kill them. I think Alleria and Lothraxxion visited a prison world overseen by the Legion, only to find that everyone had been butchered. The demons included and permanently so.
I guess today’s lesson on the Illidari curriculum is to beware Void Walkers.
Yes. I imagined that going through death and wandering aimlessly through the nether lost, does something with your character. Not only are you going through living hell, I also belief it does something different with the calculation of time.
Meaning, the time you spend as a lost soul in the nether, may be longer than the time that is actually spend on Azeroth.
Even if my character comes back alive after only two months crossed, it perhaps felt like a 40 years being lost in the nether. Causing loss of memory, lose of skills, change of character, or other.
Maybe I use it as a character reset. But yeah. Death does need have penalty. Else death is meaningless, and without the meaning of death, the suspence in roleplay becomes meaningless.
Virtually immortal because an axe can still kill them not because they live long.
In time, a tribe of [dark trolls] came to settle near the translucent waters of the Well. Over time, the Well’s cosmic power affected the tribe, making them wise and immortal. Their skin turned various shades of violet, and they gained a shorter, yet more upright stature. Inspired by titanic words found on [titan-forged] relics around the Well’s periphery, the tribe adopted the name “[kaldorei]”, meaning “children of the stars”. They believed that their moon goddess, [Elune], slept within the Well’s shimmering depths during the daylight hours
late to thread but coming in with some fact checking
It’s specifically not druids who do this, but hedge mages in the countryside. Nowhere in the passage where it’s brought up did Medivh ever talk about druids, but asks Khadgar about his training as a mage.
Everything else Alannyse seems to have answered pretty well. The use of magic prolongs the average human mage’s lifespan to about 200 years, but it doesn’t keep them young. That 200 year old mage looks like as if a human lived for literally 200 years – ghoulish and at death’s door.
Aegwynn lived for 800 years, but she is specifically pointed out in the novel as not representing the norm due to her being infused with the power of the Guardian. Most people in-universe didn’t even believe that Aegwynn lived for 800 years, but instead assumed it was a title worn by a dynasty of female mages because of how impossible it was believed for a simple mage to live for that long. It takes some serious magic to achieve that. Even learned mages dismissed it as a conspiracy by some mage family to retain power through out centuries.
That being said, it seems to be possible to appear youthful on the outside despite your actual age, but that has no bearing on your lifespan. An example of this is the White Haired Warlock in Varian’s kingsguard(?) who keeps appearing as part of his entourage through out the MoP novels like Tides of War and War Crimes. She keeps getting described as there being a visual disconnect between her white hair and her unnaturally youthful appearance, making her true age difficult to place because of the toll fel energies have taken on her.
I always interpreted that as her draining the life of other people to counter the aging effect of her magic, but that’s not explicitly confirmed as a fact.
Oh it wasn’t a criticism, more just an idle trivia piece. I know that she played a human warlock around and then this unnamed human warlock kept showing up in her books.
I would have done the same thing of course. If I’m writing a wow book you can be damn sure my OC (donut steal) is getting a mention or five.
And the insert of the warlock never felt out of place – she appeared in scenes where all sorts of classes were making their presence in the battlefield known which also showed some cool insight into how the presence of these different classes in lore would actually impact the flow of battle, and she was one warlock among many and seemed to get the job done well enough to be brought along to do Things that Need To Be Done.
Varian knew that having a good warlock in your entourage is useful. But also the passage confirms that warlocks are conscripted into military service against their will in the Alliance for the sake of the greater good.
ver time, the Well’s cosmic power affected the tribe, making them wise and immortal. Their skin turned various shades of violet, and they gained a shorter, yet more upright stature. Inspired by titanic words found on relics around the Well’s periphery, the tribe adopted the name