Shard of Adonalsium Posted February 24, 2015 Posted February 24, 2015 Unfortunately, that's not really immortality. TLR needed an ever-increasing amount of atium to stay alive, because he kept getting older. He needs to tap 10 atium-years per year to turn from 40 to 30, but he needs to tap 20 atium-years per year to turn from 50 to 30 (and tapping does not pause your age), so when he's 1000 he needs to tap 970 atium-years per year to look 30. Eventually, there's just not enough atium to sustain your life anymore and you die. Hoid has a lot of Breath, though. Biological immortality in a can. I wonder if he has enough to reach the full stopping of age, though... his Breath aura is strong enough for perfect pitch, but isn't noticeable to people like Kaladin, so it's not clear if he's hiding the aura or not. Darn. There goes a theory. Could he possibly be of the Fifth Heightening in order to reach immortality? And via Shadesmar, he can travel anywhere in the Cosmere, does that include back in time? (If there is a direct WoB on this I will jump off a cliff for sheer (pun intended) stupidity.)
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