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[Eliende]

Jacks-Up wrote...

Appolo90 wrote...

Oh my god.. absolute immortality would be awful! It reminds me of when *HUGE NERD NOSTALGIA INCOMING* Garlic from DBZ is sucked into purgatory just as he becomes immortal. He's stuck in total darkness but has to live with it for eternity.

The ideal immortality would be one when you can choose to die whenever you wish. Like.. you have to do the mocarina backwards if you want to die.. because just thinking about it wouldn't work.. because you can't control your thoughts!

Or how about immortal but can still be killed if hurt enough.

W00t, the possibility of getting a serious brain injury and becoming a vegetable until the end of time! So alluring! 

[Eliende]

I get the sensation that you are all young folks. Eternal life is a dream of the very young and the very old.

[Eliende]

I get the sensation that you are all young folks. Eternal life is a dream of the very young and the very old.

[Jacks-Up]

Eliende wrote...

I get the sensation that you are all young folks. Eternal life is a dream of the very young and the very old.

you assume too much.

[Jacks-Up]

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W00t, the possibility of getting a serious brain injury and becoming a vegetable until the end of time! So alluring! [/quote]

Theres magic that can fix that.

[TheNecroFiend]

Taleroth wrote...

Zweijsters wrote...

Who wants to live forever?

Anyone who is smart.

Immortality would be cool ....... at first. But when you really look at what it would entail it doesn't seem to smart. After awhile I know that I would be looking for a way to die. What happens if your immortal and your spine gets crushed, leaving you a immortal paraplegic. Or you get caught in a freak landslide and your entombed for a few centuries. Or what if your immortal and the sun goes supernova and your left floating in space for all eternity. Even ignoring all that and the cliche of watching your friends/loved ones die as you remain ageless, I  could see the boredom eventually setting in.

[The Angry One]

TheNecroFiend wrote...

Taleroth wrote...

Zweijsters wrote...

Who wants to live forever?

Anyone who is smart.

Immortality would be cool ....... at first. But when you really look at what it would entail it doesn't seem to smart. After awhile I know that I would be looking for a way to die. What happens if your immortal and your spine gets crushed, leaving you a immortal paraplegic.

Immortality would entail a lack of cellular degenration, so in due time one would recover from this.

Or you get caught in a freak landslide and your entombed for a few centuries.

Well at least there won't be any birds to crap on you.

Or what if your immortal and the sun goes supernova and your left floating in space for all eternity.

Float to Zeta Reticuli and check out the local wildlife.

Even ignoring all that and the cliche of watching your friends/loved ones die as you remain ageless, I  could see the boredom eventually setting in.

Boredom? People forget the world is huge and there's so much to do.

[SoleSong]

Hm! Why would it be boring to live forever? Is an interesting life a short one?

[frokenscheim]

Immortality, eh? Well there's this thing called The Anvil of The Void...

[Jacks-Up]

SoleSong wrote...

Hm! Why would it be boring to live forever? Is an interesting life a short one?

It wouldn't be some people are just I don't know.

[DeathTyrant]

Whether immortality is totally desirable or utterly intolerable is subject to a great many factors, that vary on the person and their situation.



If I lived forever I'd end up doing bugger all if everyone else died out because I am too thick to be able to start civilisation anew anywhere or start a new set of people.

So it would be just me on my lonesome kicking pebbles about. Then eventually the Sun would die out, and even if I were invulnerable and not just immortal, I would be suffering eternal boredom in pitch black.



Now, if everyone on the planet was immortal AND we all spread out into space to avoid overcrowding (and had FTL travel to meet up every weekend) now that would be PimpSauce.

[Herr Uhl]

The Angry One wrote...

- Perpetual drunkeness in the halls of Valhalla (okay this one is awesome)

Until the giants attack and you are slaughtered with the majority of everything. Poo-heads.

If you make a transition a la Flemeth, shouldn't you be able to avoid the age limit. The taint is a physical disease and not some kind of divine curse right?

[andysdead]

The Angry One wrote...

Zweijsters wrote...

Who wants to live forever?

Let's see, what are the alternatives?

- Total oblivion (unless you're some emo vampire, no)

- Living forever on a cloud with an Abrahamic deity (boring)

- Eternal punishment by said Abrahamic deity (ow it's hot!)

- Perpetual drunkeness in the halls of Valhalla (okay this one is awesome)

- (in DA) Eternity with the Maker (the Maker is stupid, I wouldn't be seen with him. I'd catch the dumb)

- Reincarnation into a cockroach (no. just no)

I'll take eternal life thanks!

Really? I'd take perpetual drunkenness in the Halls of Valhalla.

[Zenthar Aseth]

Valhalla is the most awesome thing ever. You drink and feast whole day and fight with your friends, honing your skills. And at night everyone is resurrected and it all begins again!

[Dan_CS1]

What about the Q from Star Trek? I think they get bored easily though.

My kind of immortality would be:
- indestructible unless I complete a long and complex process in my mind to end it - much like the elves' sleep in this game
- ageless, with complete regeneration capabilities
- permanently sober as if it's morning after a good night's sleep; the capability to perform whatever reflection goes on in sleep automatically
- able to travel though time; and reinhabit my own body at different time periods without losing anything from my mind; I could visit history, live it and relive over past mistakes
- a small arsenal of superpowers would be nice to complement all that

By the way, with what I've mentioned I wouldn't have to lose my friends; I would just re-visit them by travelling through time, into my own self better still; the only downside is they would forget much, but that could actually be sweet in a new beginning kind of way.

Modifié par Dan_CS1, 22 novembre 2009 - 02:57 .

[Elanareon]

It's not smart if you keep repeating your life. But who says anything about repeating your life? you have forever to do everything! And every year there is something new to do.

[Elanareon]

Herr Uhl wrote...

The Angry One wrote...

- Perpetual drunkeness in the halls of Valhalla (okay this one is awesome)

Until the giants attack and you are slaughtered with the majority of everything. Poo-heads.

If you make a transition a la Flemeth, shouldn't you be able to avoid the age limit. The taint is a physical disease and not some kind of divine curse right?

It is a divine curse. Maker to tevinter magisters right?

[My Name is awesome]

how do you get blood magic?

i ve alll ready tried turning emo and dripping my blood on my xbox.



just joking just incase anyone took me seriously

i used animal blood instead!

[ToJKa1]

Eternal life sounds like a really bad idea, we (humans) aren't supposed to last forever.



As for the Grey Wardens, i'd say living into 50's in Dragon Age's mythical medieval times is quite a respectable age, and like Wynne said Leliana, fearing death takes all fun out living. Besides, i bet the taint is cured by a plot device in a sequel

[Kyrellic]

For some reason, when someone mentions immortality I think of the scions of Amber and the Courts of Chaos (Roger Zelazny's Amber series, especially the character Corwin). Sure, nobody in that family is really immortal, but they're pretty damned close.

And, honestly? I wouldn't mind having their version of Immortality (from either pole of Shadow).

[istockscott]

There can be only one...

[Jacks-Up]

istockscott wrote...

There can be only one...

You know what that would make a good evil plot if that mage found a ritual which would give you out of the 30 year deal and give you god like power at the expense of killing other Gray Wardens than you could pull a Sarevok.

PC - I Will be the last and you will go first!

Alistair - "whine" I don't Wana