#Dnd elixir of immortality Pc#

#Dnd elixir of immortality Pc#

In short, the very rare PC who succeeds in becoming immortal is removed from the ranks of PC-dom and becomes a tool of the DM. There are, however, ways to achieve immortality, but they require epic-level efforts to succeed, and result in quasi-deity status for the character. that are advertised to deliver immortality but can't deliver. The lesson in all this for the DM? Immortality probably has a place in your campaign world, but it if mortals aspire to it, they are liable to be fooled by charlatans and perhaps even poisoned or otherwise harmed by elixirs, artifacts, etc. There were also the Isles of the Immortals, supposed to be located somewhere in the great eastern ocean-the first emperor sent an expedition there, but it never came back. (His subsequent adventures as henchman of a Buddhist monk who controlled him with a magical squeezing iron headband are a must for all fans of Oriental fantasy-read Arthur Waley's translation 'Monkey'). When the gods subdued him (he put up a great fight, of course), he was punished by being imprisoned under a mountain for ten millenia. Then there was the Monkey King, who sneeked into the laboratory of Lao Tzu (the premier Taoist sage/deity) in Heaven, and managed to filch, and consume, a pill that made him immortal. Of course, this meant that they were, for all practical purposes, gods.

In the realm of myth, there were the Eight Immortals, Taoist priests who engaged in a variety of yoga-like disciplines and gradually weaned themselves from the necessity to eat, ultimately discovering the secret of immortality. Of course most of them died of mercury poisoning, since this alchemical concoction contained cinnabar, a mercury ore.

The Elixir of Immortality-several Chinese emperors paid Taoist priests large amounts of money for such concoctions, historically.