What about titles and family? Does the character remain the same one, just with their age periodically reverting to 0 and their portrait behaving accordingly?
Today I Made the Immortal Great-great-great-great-great-great Grandson of Karloman Karling Augustus
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Couldn't you just keep your heirs unlanded to remain in control?
That would go against the immortality stopping the decay of body and mind though.
Could that newborn be outside your dynasty?
Not quite as gross of an Immortal character, dynasty wise. Happened to be my first and so far only one. I've only got the quest chain once but it was a breeze, due to a stupidly high martial score.
Brilliant Strategist, Shrewd, Brawny, Immortal, Saoshyant, Scarred, Strategist, Kind, Ambitious, Brave, Zealous, Diligent, Lustful, Charitable, Lunatic, One Handed. It's too bad that I have Direct Leader instead of Calvary Leader, it would be more useful to teach my marshal's that.
It's a bit boring though. Just crushed the Seljuk invasion. I'm going to continue eating my way through the Byzzies and Africa, pick up some achievements on the way.
Brilliant Strategist, Shrewd, Brawny, Immortal, Saoshyant, Scarred, Strategist, Kind, Ambitious, Brave, Zealous, Diligent, Lustful, Charitable, Lunatic, One Handed. It's too bad that I have Direct Leader instead of Calvary Leader, it would be more useful to teach my marshal's that.
It's a bit boring though. Just crushed the Seljuk invasion. I'm going to continue eating my way through the Byzzies and Africa, pick up some achievements on the way.
If you become immortal as a woman do you still stop having kids at 40 because that could make managing your dynasty a tad bit more difficult.
As long as you are before the cut off of 45, you're good for more babies. Being an immortal female must mean it replenishes eggs or something with magics...that poor woman though. 700 years of giving birth...
Or perhaps she ends up addicted. There is some British woman who has something like 20 children because she is addicted to being pregnant.
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I had to make my son the basileus to take the ERE in one swoop. Also I didn't plan that far ahead.
And immortality or not, there is still a limit to the amount of information the human brain can store. One of the reasons real-life immortality wouldn't be so awesome.
Also, quick update. I am 274 years old. I'm now a one-handed, one-eyed, one-legged, lunatic possessed immortal eunuch werewolf with a parrot.
I did get a glass eye, so at least my portrait is normal again.
Wouldn't that rather lead to forgetting things long gone rather than getting less sharp?
Also given that memories actually aren't stored as such, but recreated when remembered I am not sure how firm that cap is. But I am no expert on the subject so the cap might be very real.
Information in the brain is physically stored, and activated when needed. But not just your memories (episodic memory), but also language, motor skills, and recognition of sensory input. In my opinion, if you're immortal , one of two things will happen;
1) At some point, the brain starts overwriting connections to store new information. And not just in your memory, but everywhere new space is needed. Starting with the things that are used least often. Even in places like the cerebellum, where autonomous motor skills (walking, how to move your mouth when you want to speak certain words, everything you move automatically and ordinary mortals usually think they can never unlearn).
2) It takes a long while before things start getting overwritten, so it gets harder and harder to access information. You'd just be constantly lost in the endless networks your brain now contains. Your cognition would start to get slower and slower, because it would take longer and longer to use the part of the brain that's necessary.
It could also be somewhere in the middle, it depends on the physical limit to the brain's capacity to make new pathways. But yeah, either would be what TvTropes calls "The Fog of Ages", and I think either would be an interesting way to balance immortal characters!