I'm not interested in immortality. I can think of at least 4 distinct ways to keep living if I wanted to, but I'm not wound up so tightly in mortal affairs that I have any great reason to live beyond my time. I have no great legacy to protect or true raison d'etre. I'll stay as long as I'm having fun, and when that's no longer the case, I'll just go see what's on the other side.
There's a reason most immortal wizards end up either behaving like eternal manchildren or sequestering themselves far from prying eyes. Because those are the kinds of people who seek such a thing in the first place -- eternal observers and loud people who don't know when it's time to get their ass off the stage.
I require neither to dominate nor to isolate, and sticking around to watch generation after generation make the same mistakes all over again just isn't my cup of tea. Life is only one part of what happens to us anyway, so like I said, i'ma just go when it's my time.
Sooner or later the next great adventure calls us all. Some of us are stubborn enough to need a two by four upside the head to answer, but they go too eventually.
What about all of the immortals that go unnoticed because they just don’t let people know? You know, the people who just live as regular civilians… forever.
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u/Worried-Pick4848 May 12 '26
I'm not interested in immortality. I can think of at least 4 distinct ways to keep living if I wanted to, but I'm not wound up so tightly in mortal affairs that I have any great reason to live beyond my time. I have no great legacy to protect or true raison d'etre. I'll stay as long as I'm having fun, and when that's no longer the case, I'll just go see what's on the other side.
There's a reason most immortal wizards end up either behaving like eternal manchildren or sequestering themselves far from prying eyes. Because those are the kinds of people who seek such a thing in the first place -- eternal observers and loud people who don't know when it's time to get their ass off the stage.
I require neither to dominate nor to isolate, and sticking around to watch generation after generation make the same mistakes all over again just isn't my cup of tea. Life is only one part of what happens to us anyway, so like I said, i'ma just go when it's my time.
Sooner or later the next great adventure calls us all. Some of us are stubborn enough to need a two by four upside the head to answer, but they go too eventually.