I have a few lore questions id like to nock out before making my newest mistake of a character.
i wanted to do an old vulpera that uses drain life as a… stay young forever sorta deal.
is that possible?
Recent studies have shown that replacing an old mouse’ blood with young blood revitalized them. Gonna have to make sure the blood type matches I guess
That would not be what drain life does in any instance of the game, lore, or supplemental material so not really if you are asking about that specific spell/ability, but you can just RP it as a different or altered spell/ability.
I vaguely recall seeing Drain Life somewhere being described more or less as stealing the vitality from the victim, essentially taking years off their life span. I can’t remember where I saw it, though, and I can’t be bothered to look it up myself so take it with a grain of salt. Regardless the effect on the caster had nothing to do with their youth, from what I remember. Aging, or the appearance of aging, seems to be more of byproduct based on that.
As mentioned in the post above mine one could write a peculiar version of the spell to steal youth or something similar but altogether different.
This is a bit anecdotal but there is an example of a character who does more or less what you ultimately want to who might be worth mentioning; Challe. In WoD an AU version of her reveals that she kills people to stay young, though there are no hard details as to how. Based on inferences from the MU version cannibalism is involved.
Here is one of the Wowpedia pages on her, to support at least that much of what I’ve mentioned. The others relating to her can be found there as well:
https://wow.gamepedia.com/Challe
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There is nothing in the game
that specifically states what drain life can or can’t do. Threadmaker you can be flexible with the move. Originally this is just an in game spell with a cool idea to drain life from your target and give it to yourself. I dont see why it couldnt make you younger. You can use that in your roleplay.
You’re thinking too formulaic-like and approaching the problem from a bad angle. Writing (and RP) is not an equation that can be quantified and rationalized like a formula.
Instead of asking “does this work?”, instead explain why it works (for your character) and ask is this believable?
For example:
- Concept: your character stays youthful by siphoning life energy
- Explanation: the character uses dark magic. siphoning life is fairly consistent with dark magic’s behavior across most fantasy settings, and the energy would likely reverse the effects of aging, particularly if taken from a victim younger than the host.
- Takeaway: this is believable in a fantasy setting.
Once the belief (or suspension thereof) is established, it becomes a “rule”. From there, good writing is a matter of being consistent with the rule. In the example’s case, the “rule” is that siphoning life energy from younger victims restores youth. It could be inferred that siphoning life energy from someone the same apparent age would have no effect (aside from the healing involved), and siphoning from someone with an older apparent age would theoretically accelerate aging (since the rule is reversal of aging is tied to the relationship of apparent age between host & victim). Important to note the usage of apparent age: some beings have actual ages that belie their physical appearance and nearly all races hit maturity at different ages. For example, demons regenerate fully mature but their bodies may be only a matter of days old whereas dragon aspects are thousands of years old but retain the appearance of humanoids at the height of their procreative years.
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I use a straw.
You’re implying we’re mice aren’t you
Nope. I understand why you would think that though. Besides I like vulpera. I like mice too. And I have two pet rats. One looks like a nug from dragon age. Only reason rodents were mentioned was because they were used in the lab.