Trope-a-Day: The Ageless
The Ageless: Mature eldrae, galari, and anyone else who possesses the Lesser Immortality, such as everyone the aforementioned has sold immortagens to recently. See Immortality.
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Immortality Blues
“Every year, since I was old enough to read them, more books have been published than I can read in a year. My reading speed has increased many orders of magnitude in the millennia since then – I have a submind which does nothing but read, continuously – and yet the authors
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Trope-a-Day: We Are As Mayflies
We Are As Mayflies: What, humans? YOUR LIVES ARE MEASURED IN YEARS AND DECADES. YOU WITHER AND DIE. WE ARE ETERNAL, THE PINNACLE OF EVOLUTION AND EXISTENCE. BEFORE US, YOU ARE NOTHING. …well, okay, awesome Sovereign quotations aside, they’re rarely that arrogant. (Unless irritable, and let’s face it,
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Trope-a-Day: Time Abyss
Time Abyss: The members of the assorted naturally or artificially immortal species of the modern day still haven’t been around long enough for this – although the Empire contains plenty of people who are older than all Earth’s modern nations, and at least a few who are older than
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Trope-a-Day: Stronger With Age
Stronger With Age: Averted. The eldrae, and various other immortal species and immortagen-users, don’t generally get stronger with age, short of grafting in more advanced biomods and other enhancements as technology marches on. (On the other hand, they do generally get more skilled at applying that strength, and remarkably