Board Thread:Clean up Concerns/@comment-34097347-20160924191552/@comment-1705775-20161210155646

Mesektet wrote: Would perpetual reincarnation apply then?

Foreshadow of City of Heroes is continually reincarnated whenever he dies. Additionally he rotates each life from hero to villain to hero to villain, (some bit about originally being a nature spirit that wanted to understand the complexities of human morality). It is the sort of reincarnation where he gets the cliff-notes version of his past lives no matter which side of the morality fence he pops up on, he isn't being born a completely separate being, he is just raised differently each time while he slowly gets his memories back. A similar such case would be Kurama from Yu-Yu Hakusho. Dies, comes back, knows who he is but has been raised differently in his new life so incorporates the old into his new identity. - Originally a sociopath, dies, possesses a fetus, reborn but his human body is not predisposed to sociopathy so he develops a conscience. And both can just keep doing this. Since they die and are reborn but their personalities change, would these being qualified as immortals or is it too far removed from immortality proper.

I realize this isn't concise and I am sorry for that but just want to know where the line for this is.

sounds like Time Lords, who are considered Immortals - they in turn can all be traced to the "life, death, rebirth deities" of countless myths - every culture has a fascination with characters that can die and then be reborn.. they are effectively immortals, since unlike us "mortals" they don't seem to "reset" after being reborn, as were.

some deities specifically kill themselves (or their avatars) to restore balance or show that they can overcome even "death itself" - as long as they are shown as being able to continually "come back" they are immortal.

I have doubts on parasitic entities counting however, they aren't truly immortal - just parasites (sure you can argue vampires are immortal but really if you get down to it if a vampire doesn't get blood it dies - in that sense they are leeches).