Quote Originally Posted by Alleo View Post
I think the biggest thing about immortality (or very long age because seemingly the concept of death is known to the Ancients) is how a few of them are not able to let go. Nidhogg and his vengeance, Tiamat and her sorrow, the Ascians and their wish to bring them back instead of accepting their passing and honoring it. It feels that a lot more immortals have problems with moving on. Of course its also understandable because they have such a long life spawn and losing someone there is horrible because you know that there are many more years to be believed without them. So I also got the feeling that being immortal is really only great if you dont lose anyone dear to you.

About flight height and mountains. Well it really depends when they landed here. Yes flying might have been much more restricted and the amount of people living there sparse after the flood of light. But who knows how long its already there? And if it fell down from the sky then someone should have noticed and investigated it. I just have a big issue believing that something like that was hidden for who knows how long. (And did nobody ever climb these mountains and see it then?)
That's always been kind of the thing, we as humans can only understand the world in terms of the fact that everyone eventually dies, due this fact, our minds cannot really process the idea of eternity or even an extension far beyond our mortal lives. Even if someone were able to extend their life to a thousand years without being able to extend the lives of those, we care about what would that mean? Is that something our minds can remain Sane under or it is a fate worse than death? How long could we live before we completely forgot who we were in the first place or the people that were in our lives. What happens when we stop remembering?

Nidhogg played an example of this, for him a 1000 years was the same as yesterday, his rage can't ever really be satisfied so he takes it out on Ishgard over and over again, even though the ones responsible for the crime have long since dead because he cannot see those lines because his scale of time is so far detached that it becomes almost impossible for him to reconcile the fact that most of Ishgard doesn't even understand why the dragons are attacking them. Even once the truth has been revealed and Ishgard attempts to take some responsibility for what happened it's not enough because there will never be a period of time long enough for him to accept what happened and moved on. The Ascians have a similar problem with basically endless sorrow and sense of failure about a duty that almost lost all meaning the more time has gone by so they attempt to restore that meaning by trying to force the world back to the way it was before. The harsh thing is, can the world ever truly be how it was were the Ascians to succeed? I'd guess the answer is likely no, but there is no way for them to reconcile that.