Immortality

Immortality is the power to avoid or refuse death by any number of reasons, from having an endless lifespan, to being able to regenerate from usually fatal injuries (see Regeneration), to having one's soul guarded by a higher entity, among multiple other causes. Entities with immortality can possess several types of immortality, whether it be they have more than one way to return, or another reason.

## Types

**1: Eternal Life:** Possessors of this type of immortality cannot die from natural causes, like age or conventional illnesses, but can be killed by unnatural causes, like being lethally wounded. This type of immortality includes both those who simply do not age, and those who still age, but will never die of old age.

**2: Immortality via Regeneration:** Possessors of this type of immortality are able to avoid death by healing normally fatal injuries, this can be bypassed however depending on the tier of regeneration the character in question possesses.

**3: Resilient Immortality:** Possessors of this type of immortality can indefinitely endure wounds that would be fatal to a regular human, without needing to regenerate. This type of immortality has different levels of strength, and can be bypassed, such as evisceration or total bodily destruction.

**4: Immortality via Reincarnation or Resurrection:** Possessors of this type of immortality can return from total bodily destruction, and in higher degrees, can return from total erasure. Possessors of this type will reform in another body, or recreate their destroyed body.

**5: Deathless Immortality:** Possessors of this type of immortality are not part of the traditional cycle of life and death, either simply separate from it, or existing outside of it. Erasure of their existence is typically needed to kill possessors of this type of immortality.

**6: Parasitic:** Although borderlining with Possession, this type of immortality will have the possessor permanently inhabit the body of the entity they choose (if a choice is in question) after death. In most cases, the body's original spiritual host will remain buried beneath the new soul or consciousness, but can sometimes be as extreme as being entirely erased.

**7: Undeath:** Possessors of this type of immortality avoid death by being already dead, this type is often paired with other types of immortality, as in the Ladsverse, dead things can still die.

**8: Reliant Immortality:** Possessors of this type of immortality will have another separate factor contributing to their immortality, typically a magical artefact or form of energy/soul magic, but can range anything from a location, to another entity, to an existential force, to a curse or blessing, amongst many other means. This type of immortality is most often paired with other types to determine how they return to life (or undeath), however this means overwrites the means of the other paired types. In most cases, this type can be bypassed by destroying or disabling the cause of the possessor's immortality, rendering them mortal again.

**9: Transcendental Immortality:** Possessors of this type of immortality have their true selves exist entirely independently from planes, dimensions, verses, etc where they can be killed, and often exist independently from the cycles of life and death