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Arresting natural decay - Imotepchief - 03-18-2024
Applicable BYOND Key - Imotepmechythings
Character Name - Daemyra Salrel
Request Type - Rp ability
Request Details - I'd like for Daemyra, as part of the contracts she offers as a witch, to be able to pause the physical aging of a living entity, once they have hit the point at which they'd start to naturally decay. (i.e. A point past their physical prime)
Specific Request - The intent behind this ability is simply to help people explain why their character is not aging over time and provides no actual benefit beyond that.
The ic behind it is, after studying elven longevity and coming to the conclusion that such is a result of their affinty towards healing magics innately, that artificially recreating a shadow of this would permit someone to halt their own physical decline, but only if constantly applied or theoretically extend a natural lifespan if the effect is periodically applied.
If said manipulations cease, natural age progression would simply resume, the years would not 'catch up to them', as it's only just nudging natural regeneration to prevent decay.
The cost to Daemyra for providing these contracts comes about in leaning ever more heavily into the need to consume the lifeforce of other entities to fuel herself, something that is already a rather pressing addiction and taxing to her psyche, limiting the amount of people she can actually sustain the effect on.
The cost to the people recieving said effect is that they must endure the stipulations of the contract that she states is required to sustain it, along with all the additional rules she sets as terms of that contract, something that icly must be fully accepted and agreed upon.
Oocly, alongside providing a logical ic reason for their character remaining the age they are, this is purely used as a means to offer the character in question additional rp tracks if they're wanting to interact with witchy woo in some manner, as people are not forced to age up their characters anyway.
Reason why you are making this request - It provides a logical way for people to prevent their characters aging up if they desire one and due to a few people wanting me, as Daemyra, to facilitate that for them.
Roleplay & Lore supporting your request - Elves in lore are entities that don't age beyond their peak, such has been ascribed to their natural affinity to healing, another reference would be glykin who also possess an increase to natural regeneration, alongside an elongated lifespan, causing corrolation between innate healing and the length of someone's life.
RE: Arresting natural decay - CuteRedCrab - 03-21-2024
Immortality in the sense of preventing aging is only possible through the biology of elves. If it were even possible via magic, it would require for Daemyra to use gleamweaving, while only known for her grimweaving. It would invalidate the uniqueness of the elven race, with the potential of normalizing this unique trait of few into one of many.
Unfortunately, this app request will have to be denied.