Personally, I think the Forsaken bodies age (and die) just like any other (non-oathrodbound) channeler.
What makes them immortal is that the DO can tranmigrate them into new bodies when the old bodies die, with their memories intact. I don't think there is anything more to it than that.
What makes them immortal is that the DO can tranmigrate them into new bodies when the old bodies die, with their memories intact. I don't think there is anything more to it than that.
Lanfear and Graendal think they are immortal already...
Prologue
The First Sparks Fall
"A point Graendal raised. Once we were thirteen, immortal." Lanfear speaking
Q: Aren't the Forsaken already ...
RJ: No. They're not immortal.
Q: Do they know that?
RJ: Yes, they know that.
Q: But they believe they are immortal.
RJ: No, they do not believe they are immortal, but they believe they will be. All they need to do is get the Dark One free. And they have been promised this. This is their reward for getting him free. If they manage to get him out of that prison, he will grant them immortality. And they believe this because they have seen him in the past, as he has done now, bring the dead back to life. Give the dead new bodies. Transfer souls from a dying body into a young and healthy body. They've seen him do this. So they know that can be done. So it's not as though they are believing something, somebody just walked up to you and said "I can make you immortal if you go out and do this, kill and do awful deeds". They've seen him, they have seen these incredible things done. So they have reason to believe.
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What makes the Forsaken immortal?
- 07/01/2010 06:08:50 PM
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Their bodies aren't immortal ...
- 07/01/2010 06:12:26 PM
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I agree *NM*
- 07/01/2010 08:31:19 PM
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What about Aginor and Balthamel, then?
- 08/01/2010 02:14:38 AM
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I think the Dark One "plucks" their threads from the Pattern and holds them apart from it.
- 07/01/2010 06:32:55 PM
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who says it needs to look exactly like their old body
- 07/01/2010 06:41:55 PM
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Re: who says it needs to look exactly like their old body
- 07/01/2010 07:04:35 PM
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I actually thinks this confirms that the DO has kinda fulfilled his promise..
- 08/01/2010 04:03:04 AM
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They're not immortal, yet.
- 07/01/2010 06:41:58 PM
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Didn't Graendal say "They'll have to make a new term for us...because we live forever...etc" IIRC?
- 07/01/2010 07:20:34 PM
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Re: Didn't Graendal say "They'll have to make a new term for us --
- 07/01/2010 07:28:13 PM
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Or perhaps Moggy meant to ask for that as part of her reward?
- 07/01/2010 08:43:12 PM
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OMG imagine being truely immortal and stuck in the clutches
- 08/01/2010 07:39:04 PM
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Bonden's gives the answer to the OP but now I wonder about their appearance/vitality.
- 08/01/2010 08:43:58 PM
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well, they only lived 1/6th of their life during the war of power, and no more than half before it..
- 07/01/2010 07:40:39 PM
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