So i am currently crafting a Wizard NPC for my group as possible futuer questgiver / allie and am thinking about his motivations. I imagine sooner or later most wizards would be confronted with their mortality and will propably try to figure out a way to avoide it. The first that comes to mind is lichdom but in my personal opinion that sucks. The second one, but its only on a "sort of" level, are clones.
So i was wondering . Could a carefully formulated wish spell also grant you immortality without the pseky downsides of you know ... becoming a rotting corpse that is constanly required to murder people? I mean that would be worth the risk of never being able to cast that spell. Don't you think?
Immortality comes with a price tag - an emotional one usually. For mortals so far, immortality always ends up in some kind of madness.
That stated:
Koschei the Deathless - in one of the tales about the sorcerer - kept a phoenix's tiny, fragile, unhatched egg to draw the power for his magic and immortality. (Also known by Kachtcheï the Immortal.)
Human. Male. Possibly. Don't be a divider. My characters' backgrounds are written like instruction manuals rather than stories. My opinion and preferences don't mean you're wrong. I am 99.7603% convinced that the digital dice are messing with me. I roll high when nobody's looking and low when anyone else can see.🎲 “It's a bit early to be thinking about an epitaph. No?” will be my epitaph.
You could go for a Nicolas Flamel approach, though. If you have a Transmutation Wizard at Level 14, you might somehow get rid of the restriction about extending your lifespan with a Transmuter’s Stone.
A Wish for immortality, no matter how carefully worded, is the classic 'Wish gone wrong' scenario.
Agree 100%, that's why I would have gone for it! What is the fun if there is no catch?
I would say that some kind of divinity is probably the best chance of any kind of immortality without a catch I would allow. I wouldn't treat immortality as something that can be "achieved" by a pure mechanic, it needs to be based on the story. If the "only" thing you need to do to achieve immortality is to learn the wish spell, why isn't "every" high level wizard already immortal?
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So i am currently crafting a Wizard NPC for my group as possible futuer questgiver / allie and am thinking about his motivations. I imagine sooner or later most wizards would be confronted with their mortality and will propably try to figure out a way to avoide it.
The first that comes to mind is lichdom but in my personal opinion that sucks.
The second one, but its only on a "sort of" level, are clones.
So i was wondering . Could a carefully formulated wish spell also grant you immortality without the pseky downsides of you know ... becoming a rotting corpse that is constanly required to murder people?
I mean that would be worth the risk of never being able to cast that spell. Don't you think?
Immortality comes with a price tag - an emotional one usually. For mortals so far, immortality always ends up in some kind of madness.
That stated:
Koschei the Deathless - in one of the tales about the sorcerer - kept a phoenix's tiny, fragile, unhatched egg to draw the power for his magic and immortality. (Also known by Kachtcheï the Immortal.)
(In that tale, the phoenix that laid the egg, while not captive by Koschei, was trapped in the same immortality, too. When a prince managed to capture her, she offered a deal to help him in exchange for her freedom. To seal the deal, she gave him one of her feathers. She told him of a magic garden inside a magic castle that held princesses prisoner in perpetual youth and that he should free them. In the garden, he finds statues of unlucky heroes and the princesses playing with apples. Of course as those tales go, he falls for one of the princesses. He gets captured by Koschei's minions and brought before the sorcerer, and after some banter, Koschei orders the prince's death. The prince manges to wave the feather and enter the real hero of the tale: the phoenix. She entrances the minions while the prince runs off to find the source of the sorcerer's power. After a tough battle of wills and some help from the princesses, the phoenix manages to put Koschei and all his minions (and the princesses) to sleep just as the prince finds and destroys the tiny, fragile egg that was hidden elsewhere in the castle. The phoenix begins dying. For a brief moment, Koschei awakens with the realization of his returned mortality and he and the phoenix die. The sorcerer's castle and all his minions crumbles into the air. The princesses - while still retaining their youth - are freed. The statues return to life. ...and here the tales diverge on a major point. In the older tales, the phoenix without her egg is dead-dead - a true martyr. In more recent tales, she rises again from the dust of her destroyed egg - the happy ending.)
Human. Male. Possibly. Don't be a divider.
My characters' backgrounds are written like instruction manuals rather than stories. My opinion and preferences don't mean you're wrong.
I am 99.7603% convinced that the digital dice are messing with me. I roll high when nobody's looking and low when anyone else can see.🎲
“It's a bit early to be thinking about an epitaph. No?” will be my epitaph.
You could go for a Nicolas Flamel approach, though. If you have a Transmutation Wizard at Level 14, you might somehow get rid of the restriction about extending your lifespan with a Transmuter’s Stone.
I would say stick to Clone. It's immortality by most practical applications.
A Wish for immortality, no matter how carefully worded, is the classic 'Wish gone wrong' scenario.
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Agree 100%, that's why I would have gone for it! What is the fun if there is no catch?
I would say that some kind of divinity is probably the best chance of any kind of immortality without a catch I would allow. I wouldn't treat immortality as something that can be "achieved" by a pure mechanic, it needs to be based on the story. If the "only" thing you need to do to achieve immortality is to learn the wish spell, why isn't "every" high level wizard already immortal?
Ludo ergo sum!