Maybe as a repeat offender yes, but as the average citizen would be scared of getting an ageless face and would thus be less inclined to commit a crime that would lead to binding. I guess its akin to if you know your hand will be cut off for stealing, will you steal? Some people still might, but others will think twice I suppose.
Knowing that you'll get an ageless face might've been more akin to knowing that you'll have a better chance to get lung cancer and die if you smoke. It's not a very frightening possibility, an ageless face, is it? No matter how serious the consequences are, you still might not _get_ it beforehand. Threat of mutilation seems way more extreme, yet even that didn't create a peacuful society, far from it.
Anyway RJ said in one of his answers that the face requires more than one Oath (if I recall it correctly). Therefore an ageless channeler is a very serious criminal with more than one serious violation. Even Semirhage was listed to be bound only once.
Well..I didn't recall this. It changes things a lot, making this whole discussion a moot point. What could have been so much exponentially worse that more than one oath was required? Wouldn't the extra oaths have been implemented just out of spite? I mean, the standard version is "I won't do [insert crime here] again." What else could there be?
purpose of agelessness?
- 18/10/2010 03:13:17 PM
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It's a brand
- 18/10/2010 03:24:44 PM
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but why? and why agelessness? and the oath rod is only for use on channelers.... *NM*
- 19/10/2010 04:26:41 PM
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It's not certain whether this was a side effect or an intended consequence of Binding criminals
- 18/10/2010 03:48:02 PM
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Re: purpose of agelessness?
- 18/10/2010 04:33:50 PM
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Deterrence to crime? How is that?
- 18/10/2010 05:13:07 PM
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Re: Deterrence to crime? How is that?
- 18/10/2010 07:51:35 PM
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Re: Deterrence to crime? How is that?
- 18/10/2010 08:13:33 PM
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Re: Deterrence to crime? How is that?
- 18/10/2010 08:32:39 PM
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Imagine being told you were going to have to swear on this device that will make it impossible
- 19/10/2010 04:17:29 PM
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but why does it take a while to achieve the agelessness then? why isn't it immediate? *NM*
- 19/10/2010 04:27:41 PM
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does it require a purpose?
- 18/10/2010 07:12:16 PM
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i would imagine that the AoL had very little in the way of inexplicable side-effects....
- 18/10/2010 10:16:07 PM
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The purpose is thematic and scientific; & keep in mind that most were bound from just one thing...
- 19/10/2010 12:45:03 AM
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Maybe the weaves the Binding Rod utilizes are similar to the Keeping weave, in terms of ...
- 19/10/2010 04:09:49 PM
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