I was wondering, in the lore, is every single Lightforged draenei and void elf functionally immortal, immune to aging and disease?
Because if that’s true, then the Alliance now basically has two immortal races come to think of it, one with thousands of years of war and combat experience. In the Horde, I’m not sure if any of the new allied races are necessarily immortal, with the nightborne having lost the Nightwell.
Lightforged, yes I believe they are immortal.
Void elves I don’t believe we every got word that void could keep you alive like that. Hell it anything I’d think it would kill you faster.
I’m sure the Lightforged are. Even ordinary Draenei seem immortal, or so long-lived they’re practically immortal. I imagine being infused with the Light only helps.
They’re[Forsaken] in a state of ‘preserved decay,’ depending on condition when raised. Could live forever if body kept in-tact! - Cdev
With BtS tho, the “keeping the body in tact” was exacerbated or made difficult by applauding.
Forsaken are kinda-sorta immortal. Blood Elves live either a few hundred years or 10,000 depending on what the current writer is smoking that day.
My guess, and this is just a guess, is that Void Elves are kinda like Forsaken. I don’t think they’d age, but being void’ed up probably ends you in the long run.
Lightforged seem to be, or at the very least lightforging makes you longer lived than normal. Turalyon is a thousand years old as a Lightforged Human.
I don’t think we’ve seen any indication void elves are.
The process of Lightforging does seem to make one functionally immortal. Turalyon’s lived for over a Thousand Years, as a Human, thanks to having been Lightforged.
As we know virtually nothing about how Void Elves have been changed by the Void other than aesthetically, we don’t know if they’re immortal. It’s quite possible they have shorter lifespans now, as the Void consumes their life energy.
Or it might be quite the opposite. The cancle that burns brightest, burns that much quicker.
That had occured to me as an interesting concept, and I almost put it in my post. Turalyon seems to prove the opposite, though, since he’s been alive over a thousand years, now.
I’m not sure how we’d even find out though. Given a Draenei’s lifespan, even if the Light burns several millenia off of it, we’d never see it in WoW’s timeframe. Unless we timeskip at some point.
That wouldn’t make any sense though, in the Warcraft universe at least, the Light is a cosmic power used to empower, restore and renew; the naaru’s very purpose was to protect and nurture all sapience. And didn’t the short story mention that Turalyon has been remade into an “eternal protector of creation”? Nothing thus far at least in the lore suggests it would consume life instead of sustaining it.
That would be the Void, I suppose, as someone else kind of touched on. Which is why I don’t think most ordinary servants of the Old Gods are immortal.