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<blockquote data-quote="Mouseferatu" data-source="post: 4865420" data-attributes="member: 1288">I've long thought this would be a very interesting idea. (I do love how Brust handled it, but I'd love to see some more of the sociological consequences.)For instance, you'd have a political/social situation not unlike Vampire: the Masquerade, in which the current generation has almost no chance of advancement, because nobody above them is moving on. (Yeah, I know you can't resurrect someone who dies of old age, but there are ways around even that with powerful enough magic.)What sorts of political systems would develop when nobles/rulers/whatever don't die? What happens with an area's limited resources? When the aristocracy can fight duels to the death with no repercussions, what happens to the society's sense of honor and insults? And when those traditions filter down to the lower classes who can't afford resurrection, what then? For that matter, what happens to belief in the gods when the notion of death and an afterlife are no longer considered inevitable by the ruling class?I'd love to see, or be part of, an exploration of all this, but to this point, I've never had the time/energy to devote to it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mouseferatu, post: 4865420, member: 1288"] I've long thought this would be a very interesting idea. (I do love how Brust handled it, but I'd love to see some more of the sociological consequences.) For instance, you'd have a political/social situation not unlike Vampire: the Masquerade, in which the current generation has almost no chance of advancement, because nobody above them is moving on. (Yeah, I know you can't resurrect someone who dies of old age, but there are ways around even that with powerful enough magic.) What sorts of political systems would develop when nobles/rulers/whatever don't die? What happens with an area's limited resources? When the aristocracy can fight duels to the death with no repercussions, what happens to the society's sense of honor and insults? And when those traditions filter down to the lower classes who [i]can't[/i] afford resurrection, what then? For that matter, what happens to belief in the gods when the notion of death and an afterlife are no longer considered inevitable by the ruling class? I'd love to see, or be part of, an exploration of all this, but to this point, I've never had the time/energy to devote to it. [/QUOTE]

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