It's a little break. Get your cultists to bury you, set the soul trap, spread a few rumours about treasure. 200 years later, rise and shine, clear up the drained adventurers/archaeologists and head out into the world to find out why technology STILL hasn't progressed.
Which is why my thesis was on how immortality was inherently foolish. Phylacteries or reincarnation is my go-to. Undeath has its perks, but getting a brand new backstory every respawn makes it fun.
Never use a magic sword, especially one with fancy enchantments. The more complex and powerful it is the likelier the Hero is to be able to completely neutralise or bypass it. Stick to steel
(this is a paraphrase, and of course the sword applies to any other personal magic item)
Of course not, lichdom used to be so common that practically every wizard knew how to cast invert phylactory to make a license soul explode on command.
Hate to tell you this, but lichdom got out competed.
There are too many downsides to this method, and besides I CAST RETURN BACK TO LIVE, or literally just anything similar will just nullify the whole process of lichefication, so youāre mortal again, so whatās the point of being lich anyway?
I replaced my heart with a magical artifact and hid it in an infinite nightmare dimension. Though to be fair that's not exactly something I came up with on my own.
And I knew someone had to have reposted this one here! I tried scrolling but didn't find it right away!
The times they are a changin. Gone are the days of good ole fashion phylacteries and peasant sacrifice. My apprentice told me that his cousin has an āI-Soulā ??? Its stored in clouds or something. Crazy stuff. Pretty soon we wont even have to imbue magical artifacts with cursed energyā¦ we will just download power or some nonsense.
I actually don't really have to do any. The powers I get make up for any possible downside I can think of. Gratitude makes it real easy to "kiss the ass" of someone who saves my life on the regular.
Nah, all in good fun. Everybody's a different kind of sucker, I mean nothing by it. I personally fall exactly into the wizard stereotype of not being able to hurt a fly without my fancy words and doohickeys.
Nope. A self designed ābatteryā composed of an entire dimension fueling myself and my school tied to the existence of several major and minor deities allowing myself to manifest from any living flesh across any point in space and time.
It took way too long to get the entire process set up and going.
Ascended to Godhood after becoming a Dragon of Spellfire. Even if i should somehow fall from my position as God Of Freedom, so long as magic exists im immortal.
In my case it was classic warlock pact; I become the vessel for Void incarnate, and In return I get eternal reincarnation which is effectively immortality without sacrificing my mortality.
However I broke free of the pact & covered my tracks, becoming stronger than my patron ever anticipated. Now I have immortality with none of the drawbacks.
Best part is starting off as a primordial spirit means my soul will forever be above those of God's, even if I technically live under them.
Ah, I have quite the story for my own work in this area.
I went to a shop with a literal handcart full of (ill-gotten) gold and bought a Ring of Regeneration.
Took them something like an hour to count all the Florins or whatever they were, partially melted from the, erm, obtaining of said gold, but recognizable enough to spend.
Just find a lo-fi, high narrativium ratio fantasy world in an oneiric lacuna and insert yourself into the immortal wizard trope. The incumbent will always have an exploitable vulnerability for a sufficiently ruthless exo-dimensional traveller. Personally I like to imprison them in their own crystals.
You can then either lean in to the 'evil interloper stealing immortality' role or, my personal preference, 'charmingly selfish anti-hero who mostly engages in petty cartoonish villainy and will step up to support The Heroes against a larger genuine threat.' You can milk the latter for millennia if you know what you're doing. Spread around a little mundanity and grit to stabilise the narratological topography, dump in a bunch of nature spirits and bingo, you're functionally The God Wizard of your own inaccessible terrarium.
Keep a pet 'cubus for other isekais and you've got tropological immortality.
Transmuted my bones into spellglass, etched with countless spells to make them indestructible. When I die, they self animate and rise from my corpse, having retained a copy of my intellect.
Yes and no. For all intents and purposes it will, essentially, be me. It is very difficult to imprint knowledge into new kin, much less an entire lifetime of learning. Besides, I know nothing of child care, and the very nature of my work makes me reclusive.
What Iāve done is placed my body in a planar extension and have my soul move from corpse to corpse, as long as my soul dosent go back to my body it stays in a stasis state, at the same time I am letting it pass into the shadow realm slowly enough that it stays of this realm, then I will cast a spell that makes my physical form a part of the shadow realm, and makes my shadow a physical form, but the realms they are in at that point will be swapped so I theoretically should be able a shadow based being, so long as there is an absence of light, I can be there
This is just that one alchemist from season four of symphogear. Became immortal, turned herself into a woman and ratcheted her bust size up half the alphabet. Queen shit honestly
I performed an ideological purge of "oxidation" from my cells, making me immune to both fire and most physical wounds since my flesh can just seal back together.
I also have a pocket dimension that exists only to build clones. I update the brain template every week and feed it various biological matter, then just toss the clones into the nearest alternate dimension if I'm not dead yet.
One of my apprentices went to a cut-rate online course. Poor fool ended up as an alchemically preserved brain in a jar. He carries himself around with mage hand and has to cast an illusion of a body just so people will take him seriously. He is becoming an expert at casting without vocal or somatic components though.
I studied the echoes of the words of creation and anchored myself to reality. My existence in this world is now a fact for the entire multiverse. Due to this and some time schenenigans I also exist at all times before I was born.
I tethered my thoughts and beliefs to the aether in a field around me, and then reduced my intelligence in a fashion that makes me not recognise any wound as lethal. also as a side effect I now love dakka
I reduced and concentrated a bunch of greater healing potions into pill form, ground them up, and just sat there eating the resulting powder for an entire day. Still snack on it. Iām like Obelix but with healing potion.
Noobs. Just blackmail enough gods of death and have a few dead-manās switch spells ready to disseminate the the leverage you have over them if you die, and they will just keep bringing you back
Well uh, clayfolk don't age. We DO dry out if we stay away from moisture for a few centuries, but otherwise we just keep on truckin. My mom is old enough to have personally visited the Stilted City, so you can imagine we last a WHILE
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u/Slurms_McKensei Feb 27 '25
Through a mixture of philosophy and necromancy I've managed to make myself immortal by just dying and moving on š¤·š¼āāļø