If you are expecting a rant, sorry to dissappoint. More of a philosophy
discussion that doesn't include the church, chaos, governments, good or
evil. I'll let you compose yourself from the shock before we continue.

We had a very odd discussion on the order channel the other day that
sort of stuck with me. The discussion centered around love between a
Divine and a mortal. I had commented that I imagined that it would be
rough for a Divine to love a mortal because we tend to wither and die as
opposed to the whole living agelessly until eternity thing that Divine
mostly enjoy save the odd death on Their end. Someone (and forgive me
for forgetting who) said that we are not true mortals because we do not
die. We just keep living. At first I thought this was a ludicrious
statement. But, I could not think of an argument against it. The thought
stayed with me and I started researching the matter.

First off let me say that I do not believe mortals have become immortal.
We do die. The difference between ourselves and ages past is that we
come back. So what changed? Thats actually the easy question to answer.
When you die, what happens? You go before Sarapis, your life is judged,
and you return. Its fairly evident from reading the histories that this
is a relatively new occurance. You read the epic battles and read of the
heroic sacrifices that people made. But then they are gone after they
die. Something about 200 years ago changed. Why? Now thats the real
question.

Mortals tend to be ego driven. I'll admit that freely. So the first
thing that popped into my head is that we are needed. Sapience needs
heroes for some reason. But I'm also a fairly logical person. Define
hero. Those imps that live in Minia, would you consider them heroes?
First sign of trouble and they'd be squished like a bug. But yet, they
too come back after they die. In fact, death seems to be only part of a
neverending cycle now. The physical body is destroyed, but the spiritual
body comes back in a new body. Its obvious that this is all part of
Sarapis's plan and truely figuring out the why would be quite impossible
indeed.

Its obvious we live in a time that we all seem to take for granted
however. Reading through the histories we find those who died at an
early age, yet there are those of us walking this world who are 120 to
150 years of age and not only alive, but out actively slaying creatures
as if they were still 20 years old. Have we progressed to a higher
state? I doubt that. An entire world evolving at once is insane. There
is but one answer. Because Sarapis wills it. Its the why that sticks
with you after you consider it. And that I'll leave to the philosophers.

Penned by my hand on the 18th of Lupar, in the year 331 AF.