LobselVith8 wrote...
You keep claiming that ghouls don't live that long even though we have multiple examples of ghouls who do live that long. I don't see what the point is. Are you expecting me to take a single line from a passage in the ghoul codex entry over the multiple examples of ghouls who demonstrate longevity?
The multiple examples of Grey Warden ghouls, and people who only recently turned into ghouls you mean? Oh my.
LobselVith8 wrote...
The Dalish protagonist, Mahariel, and Tamlen both contract the taint during the Dalish Origin, and Wynne's dialogue to the mage protagonist explicitly notes that almost a year has passed since the events of Ostagar and the latter part of the Fifth Blight, and we later encounter Tamlen as a ghoul.
Almost a year is still only a few months and thus not a very long time, and Tamlen is virtually dead when you encounter him.
LobselVith8 wrote...
Ruck has been forced to eat darkspawn flesh for years.
A couple of years *isn't* a long time. You haven't provided any evidence of ghouls that live longer than a year or two.
Think of the taint as a form of cancer, and then look to those stricken with fatal cancer in the real world and their life expectancies as an example.
On top of which you still haven't proved he was a ghoul for years and hadn't recently resorted to eating darkspawn flesh to survive.
LobselVith8 wrote...
The taint turns a Grey Warden into a ghoul. I don't see anything in his statement that says that ghouls only live for a short period of time. Avernus' line in that passage also notes how he used his magic to slow down the effects of the taint.
When there are ghouls who have lived for much longer than a short period of time, I don't see what I need to prove.
You could try actually citing some sources and providing real evidence other than assuming that ghouls other than Grey Wardens live for long periods of time. Because the official sources claim that ghouls don't live long, and I've seen nothing contrary to that. The only exceptions are Grey Warden ghouls, and the longest living of those used blood magic to prolong his life.
LobselVith8 wrote...
Especially when Utha has been a ghoul for two decades, and Ruck has eaten darkspawn flesh for five years.
Pretty bold statement given you've provided zero evidence of that. I say that Ruck survived for years before only recently having turned into a ghoul, as supported by the official sources which claim that ghouls don't live long. And Utha's a Grey Warden, REMEMBER. Do you remember what I said about Wardens and how it takes them 30 years to even turn into ghouls? Lol, remember? Do you remember that bit?
So um yes. My point still stands and you're still wrong. Ghouls don't live for long and certainly aren't immortal as you so falsely claimed
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