Immortality through dark magic

[muhaha8]

It's not exactly a Lich, Bovel, similarities aside. Typically, (and this comes from the D20), a Lich must go through a series of complex and utterly evil rituals called the Ritual of Endless Night. It involves a series of atrociously evil acts to create a potion to be drunk on a full moon. Since the only real explanation on making a Lich in the WoW setting is Kel'Thuzad, who was thrown into the Sunwell, which automatically makes it a special case, we really have to go by the D20 on this one.

That was the D20 reference. ^

And yes, anyone using a soul stone would age, but not die. Eventually, though, one would acheive such an age to where they would simply want to die by crushing the stone. If one is killed whilst using a soul stone, their soul will reinhabit the body and revive them. They will then be forced to make another stone.

[FlyingSquirrel]

Which they'd probably be too weak to make.

[muhaha8]

See, here's hoW I view it: one's soul cannot move on if it has a physical anchor to this world. The most obvious anchor is life. But if a amall fraction of one's soul is stored in a ridiculously powerful magical artifact (which an artifact of ridiculous power would be required, i.e- a talisman with the spirit of a demon in it (a fel artifact)), it creates two anchors: the artifact, as well as life itself. More artifacts with said small shards of a soul in them means more anchors, thus more to destroy before the person dies.

[Aphetoros]

But you'd still age.

[Duraza]

I think this:

Or will Aulten be forced to keep searching for new ways to acheive endless life?

And this:

There seems to be five 'apparent' ways of becoming immortal through magic.

• Live near or on the shores of the Well of Eternity or Sunwell.
  
• Become a favored servant of Ysera.
  
• Become undead.
  
• Use a Soul Stone (Which don't have a duration in the RPG, they do in fact last forever).
  
• If I do recall correctly, the Highborne Mages in the Dire Maul have achieved immortality through the arcane.

Are ultimately your only options. Beltharean's list seems right, in which case the only way you could as a player achieve something close to immortality is through becoming undead or using a soul stone. Both are kind of fake immoralities for flaws you and others have already mentioned. I'm fairly sure anything else might just be a little OP though.

Something similar has been suggested before (though I can't find the post) about specifically making a lot of different soul stones to have more or less the same effect. If I remember correctly that idea was not allowed (and if I do find the post I'll put the link up).

In the end, your character can always keep searching for new routes to immortality and fail... Perhaps not as satisfying if you're looking to win but there is plenty of room for a bit of fun that way.

[muhaha8]

I think that I'm going to have him try a ton of neat little tricks and eventually happen upon something that succeeds. If this idea is approved, this'll be what he will discover. And, thinking about it, this idea and whoever posted that one are different. Soul stones involve the storage of the -entire- soul. This idea doesn't.

But yeah, the IC search for obscure little tricks now begins.

[Miah]

Also, the undead in most cases are not immortal. While they don't age, they do degenerate untill anything you could call living or concious about them goes, leaving them mindless

[Roxas65]

Death Knights being an exception to the previous statement. At least I've seen no proof of they deteriorating as well.

[muhaha8]

The only exceptions I see to that rule are Death Knights who did not choose willingly to serve Arthas and Liches. Liches can simply recreate their body when it decays too badly. Death Knights...well...yeah.

[Miah]

Well, with death knights...I doubt any would have actually reached the end of their natural life by this point, or they might have an extended life, but not be immortal entirely. Either way, hard to prove, say, or tbh worry at all if they are immortal or not

[muhaha8]

Eh true. Unless they were old when they became death knights. But that's beside the point. We needn't worry about their immortality, really. I suspect that in 100 years, we'll have something to worry about, as human death knights will be reaching their age limit then. Or will be close, haha. But that's 100 years from now.

[Roxas65]

Consider frost Death Knights. They're very, very cold. It'll most likely keep them from decaying.

[muhaha8]

True Roxas, but still, back to the point. Would he be able to gothrough with the idea I presented? If no, what else? Could he go through the process by which Gul'Dan created the first Death Knights of the Horde? Or what other suggested obscurities could he attempt?

[Beltharean]

I'm also extremely regretful I didn't mention this earlier...

If your character was to travel into the Nether, and manage to stay there for one week, they would be able to theoretically 'conquer' the madness that naturally resides in the Nether. While in the domain of demons, one does not age, eat, sleep, or drink. They in effect become immortal, but at the same time are completely disconnected with the world unless they venture back to the mortal plane to visit others, etc. etc.

However! This brings up an interesting point. If one was to make a soul stone, and place it somewhere deep within the Nether, would they age slower?

[muhaha8]

I like that idea! Unfortunately though Aulten needs to remain on Azeroth to help the White Sun (whatever the name is) Conspiracy to enslave permanently yhe Doomguard he made a pact with. Something that involves him staying on Azeroth would be very beneficial!