Why is my NPC Wizard cursed with immortality?

nevin · Dec 13, 2020

He made a deal with the God of Death gave him the Uber Artifact of xxxxx and Death gave him immortality, Gleefully knowing he'd eventually get tired of living.

Umbran · Dec 13, 2020

"Be careful what you Wish for..."

ccs · Dec 13, 2020

zarionofarabel said:
That's what you get for drinking a potion with no label.

No, that's what you get when you mix potions.....

ccs · Dec 13, 2020

Perhaps he stood too near a Wild Mage at some point?

solamon77 · Dec 13, 2020

Wow! These are some pretty good ideas here! Really good stuff guys!

I think I might combine some of these together.

DEFCON 1 · Dec 13, 2020

He doesn't even remember that he was actually originally an Archpriest of an Arcana deity and was so powerful that he was granted the prayer of True Resurrection by his god. And he was such an important cleric for this God of Magic that he was granted permanency on his own personal True Resurrection so that he would always be available as the god's mortal conduit.

But over the millenia, the needs of this pact for both archpriest and god slipped slowly away... and now they have both completely forgotten that they had this pact in the first place. And century after century, resurrection after resurrection, this archpriest of Magic eventually just morphed into a regular archmage. To break this "curse" the archmage needs to find or reconnect to his former God of Magic and have them both remember the pact, and agree to end it.

p_johnston · Dec 13, 2020

So I'm gonna shamelessly steal the plot from The Misenchanted Sword for mu suggestion. The immortality, on purpose. The aging, total accident. It was really dark and he picked up the brass ring instead of the gold while casting his spell. Gold doesn't tarnish/corrode. Brass does.

Benjamin Olson · Dec 13, 2020

During his adventuring youth he was raised from the dead so many times that all the gods of death refuse to bother to come try to claim his soul.

Irlo · Dec 13, 2020

Time travel shennigans. Sometime in the far future, a young wizard meets a very old man (himself) who taught him a dangerous time-travel spell. The young wizard cast the spell, was thrown back thousands of years, and now, to prevent a reality-ripping paradox, the Universe must keep the cursed wizard alive long enough to teach his younger future self the dangerous time-travel spell.