In a message dated 7/7/2002 10:14:15 AM Mountain Daylight Time, stvitus at flash.net writes: > "You get what everyone gets. You get a lifetime." -- Death > > Dragaerans really don't seem to reflect on how long their lives are, but > rather, how strangely short Easterners' lives are. Their lives are only > long > by comparison to Easterners; it seems normal to them. And since Dragaerans are NOT immortal, perhaps that is the real difference. Despite having a longer life span, they can still expect to grow old and die (if something doesn't kill them first). In other words, depiste the "extra" years, they still have a NORMAL life cycle. > > I wonder how Sethra thinks. I don't know if it would really be possible for > a human of our lifespan to grasp the amount of time she's been alive, or > what her mindset would be like after all those years. IMO, any human would > only grasp the ideas that are relevant to his understanding, and filter out > the stuff w/ which he couldn't empathize. I find it very hard to believe > that a being could accept a third millenium as more of the same. > I think Sethra (and the Necromancer and any other undead out there) would think quite differently about Time and its passage. They have achieved a measure of immortality, one must assume. However, they were NOT immortal to begin with. They actually suffered the touch of Death, and were sent back.