I Is For Immortality
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Men are mortal; this is an indisputable fact. This has not stopped many Men throughout history of seeking perpetual life, either through magic or other means. So far as anyone knows, only one Man has ever succeeded in achieving immortality - Turms Termax - and the truth of even this claim is doubted by many. For if, as the story goes, Turms found an alchemical means of transcending his mortal flesh, why, then, did he not share this secret with his closest followers, many of whom instead turned to undeath as an alternative means of immortality?
Admittedly, this hasn't stopped many from trying to discover the Termaxian method and recreate it, but, to date, there have been no successes, which only further strengthens the notion that the legends about Turms are just that - legends. Other supposed means of achieving immortality include:
* A gift of the gods to their most devoted followers, though such a reward is usually taken to be granted in an otherworldly realm removed from the material world and is thus of little interest to those who seek to persist in the here and now.
* Lost magical spells from the days of the Ancients that grant the ability to warp all reality, including the aging process.
* The transference of one's soul into a vessel that is incorporated into an automaton, golem, or other artificial body.
* The seizure of the elven "secret" to immortality, based on the notion that unending life is not natural to elves but rather a process of some sort that they undergo while very young.
The only tried and true path to immortality, though, is the aforementioned undeath. There are many different specific ways to this end, from the involved formulae that lead to lichdom to the prolonged cannibalism that turns one into a ghoul. In general, such methods are viewed with distaste, given the widespread belief that the undead are the spawn of demons and agents of Chaos, but for many, fearful of death and unable to uncover other means, if they even exist, decide that continued existence as a rotting corpse is preferable to the possibility of permanent extinction.
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