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    Quote Originally Posted by purgatori View Post
    EDIT: Slightly off-topic, but I'd be very curious to know what the WoL's lifespan is supposed to be. Is it just the same as the race we've chosen, or will all the aether we have chowed down on over the course of our adventures confer super-normal longevity?
    Well, given that multiple sources seem to suggest that Warriors of Light existed in every era and on every Shard, and specifically seem to appear just prior to a Calamity on the Source, only to then "vanish again as Calamity rains down from the heavens", and what we now know about Ardbert... it would not surprise me if the WoL is the same person on every Shard and at every time in history, but continously reincarnated by Hydaelyn.

    They would certainly have a normal lifespan for whatever race they're born as (which raises questions about how long lived a viera WoL would be ) - Hydaelyn Herself after all outright told the WoL to "be as a beacon for the world, through all the days of thy life" in the ending cutscene for ARR's main scenario, suggesting for all their power and their apparent Ancient origins, they are still just mortal and have a normal mortal lifespan just like anyone else.

    Because we are not like the Ascians who have achieved mastery of the Echo and no longer require our soul to be directly maintained by a mortal frame and such are virtually immortal, the WoL is born and lives and dies normally like anyone else, with our (superpowered) soul, returning to the Lifestream at the end of our mortal life, to await the next Calamity (the only time this didn't seem to happen is the prime timeline where the 8th Calamity occurred because we were already alive at the time and died during the disaster, so Hydaelyn did not have time to reincarnate us to make a difference, there was certainly no indication of someone appearing with a potent Echo and the Blessing of Light 200 years later by all accounts).

    I could speculate how and why this specifically occurs with us... but such speculation is just a tinfoil theory I have at the moment so I'll keep it myself for now. But either way, the WoL would have a normal physical lifespan of whatever race they are incarnated as, not taking into account that alas it seems their lives are often cut tragically short, due to the nature of the work (ala, saving Hydaelyn) - again, you only have to look at Ardbert and his unfortunate friends to see how being the WoL is not conducive to having a long peaceful life and happy retirement.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rannie View Post
    Aaaaannnd now I just had a mental image of Lahabrea walking into a store called Bodies R Us and trying on different humans.... >.<

    Lahabrea: hn too tall... tooo short.... Juuuuuust right.
    Venat was right.

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