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Taqwus said:
I'd agree that pretenders shouldn't be aging much at all... so long as they have believers to sustain them.
I haven't tried to systematically identify magic sites in the game, but a rare site (N4? Or W4, fountain of youth) that had an 'enter to reduce aging' effect would be thematic.
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Imho aging pretenders are fine.
After all they are still mortals and not yet gods.
It depends on the type though. Most pretenders should just age normally. An archmage e.g. can life forever, but he has to do rituals every now and then for that imho. Just as it is currently in Dom3.
Also dragons, giants etc. age eventually. As long as they have enough believers they can easily do the rituals for rejuvenation. But if they have not enough believers they might have not enough resources(=gems) to do rejuvenation.
There is a handful of pretenders though for which it feels a bit wrong that they age, mainly the immortal undead ones.
A vampire or a lich never ages. And for a being from other worlds other laws should exist too, be it a beeing from the underworld like the PoD or a mighty demon like the moloch or a divine beeing like the virtue.
For all those aging is harder to justify i think.
But a story of a great archmage who had many believers but eventually died and thus was forgotten and thus became no god is imho thematic. For this type of wannabe gods the race against time adds flavour. They have not only to fight vs. the other contenders but also vs. their mortality.
Someone who is already dead like a demon or an angel doesn't have to care about his age, he only has to care about entropy which can still kill him too
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