Posted May 30, 2016
This is not exactly about PST, but I think I can find the best answers here:
In fantasy games (like DnD, but not only there) you meet lots of creatures who are called immortal.
I am not an DnD expert, but think about gods, demons and devils, angels, elementals?, undead? others???
But there are stories that such creatures have been killed and in many games your char is the killer.
-Does immortal mean, that a creature does not die just because time passes, but it can be killed by performing actions that would kill a "normal lifeform"? (like cutting off the head (if it has one head) or burning it to ashes (does not work for fire elementals))
- Are there several "degrees of immortality"?
Most undead continue to exist for a very long time, but if you kill them they stay dead. (Some people made themselves undead to cheat death like liches or Bodhi from BG2). Things may look different when you look at gods or demons or some other things.
- What happens to a god/demon/devil/angel/something else when you kill it?
In PST (and other games) you fight a lot of such creatures. In BG2 ToB you have the option to beat a demon lord in in PST you have to fight an angel. When you succeed, you get exp for killing it and you see a dead body on the ground. But the game tells you they are not really dead.
- It looks like demons, angels and gods reproduce themthelves like normal lifeforms. The fact that they have children with mortals (tieflings, aasimar) supports that. In many games it looks also like there are some creatures of the same type who look older than others. If those creatures have children but they cannot die, the multiverse must be crowded with them until all existing space is filled with their bodies.
- Regarding the point above: Grace says she has lots of sisters and her parents sold her to the devils. Trias (and a celestrial party member from NWN2 MotB) have problems with their father. This means those creatures are born as small children, they grow until they are adults and then they stay this way and simply grow more powerful over time? So a demon lord is just a demon who survived long enough to become so powerful that most other demons connot harm him anymore?
- Does it matter on which plane you "kill" such a creature?
- Did the one who invented those games actually think about those questions?
Or was it like this:
player: Why is char A in game X and also in game Y that is set 1000 years later?
dev: She is immortal.
player: I have the greatsword of demon slaying. What happens if I attack her?
dev: You get many exp and an artifact.
player: If I can kill her, why is she immortal?
dev: shut up and buy more games!
In fantasy games (like DnD, but not only there) you meet lots of creatures who are called immortal.
I am not an DnD expert, but think about gods, demons and devils, angels, elementals?, undead? others???
But there are stories that such creatures have been killed and in many games your char is the killer.
-Does immortal mean, that a creature does not die just because time passes, but it can be killed by performing actions that would kill a "normal lifeform"? (like cutting off the head (if it has one head) or burning it to ashes (does not work for fire elementals))
- Are there several "degrees of immortality"?
Most undead continue to exist for a very long time, but if you kill them they stay dead. (Some people made themselves undead to cheat death like liches or Bodhi from BG2). Things may look different when you look at gods or demons or some other things.
- What happens to a god/demon/devil/angel/something else when you kill it?
In PST (and other games) you fight a lot of such creatures. In BG2 ToB you have the option to beat a demon lord in in PST you have to fight an angel. When you succeed, you get exp for killing it and you see a dead body on the ground. But the game tells you they are not really dead.
- It looks like demons, angels and gods reproduce themthelves like normal lifeforms. The fact that they have children with mortals (tieflings, aasimar) supports that. In many games it looks also like there are some creatures of the same type who look older than others. If those creatures have children but they cannot die, the multiverse must be crowded with them until all existing space is filled with their bodies.
- Regarding the point above: Grace says she has lots of sisters and her parents sold her to the devils. Trias (and a celestrial party member from NWN2 MotB) have problems with their father. This means those creatures are born as small children, they grow until they are adults and then they stay this way and simply grow more powerful over time? So a demon lord is just a demon who survived long enough to become so powerful that most other demons connot harm him anymore?
- Does it matter on which plane you "kill" such a creature?
- Did the one who invented those games actually think about those questions?
Or was it like this:
player: Why is char A in game X and also in game Y that is set 1000 years later?
dev: She is immortal.
player: I have the greatsword of demon slaying. What happens if I attack her?
dev: You get many exp and an artifact.
player: If I can kill her, why is she immortal?
dev: shut up and buy more games!