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"Oooh... PK, I like the idea of being incorporated entirely into a spell. That's neat."-- said Senri, about an idea from PK
This actually fits in kind of neatly with something that shows up in later books...don't want to spoil anyone, though. (I'm new...what are the rules on spoilers here?)
But, in general terms, consider this: the higher price than a lifeprice is, indeed, to bind yourself so tightly that you become part of the spell. But in doing so, you create a spell that will not continue to function without your energy and full attention: you cannot look away from the spell for one instant or it will collapse, so you have no mental capacity for the rest of your life. But, but the same logic...if you turn your attention away from the spell by dying, the spell also collapses.
So you are left in the inbetween state: catatonic, comatose, or merely insane. A constant reminder to your friends and family of what you once were, a shadow of your former self. An empty mind in a whining, animal body. In some ways, harder than death-- death is such an old part of our biology that we, as a species, have developed techniques for handling it. But to always see the person you loved-- and never be able to speak to them? To always have the hope that they will one day "come back" to you, and to have that hope constantly dashed?
And for the wizard inside? To see or hear glimpses of her old life around her, but never to be able to touch them? To know that even to reach out to what you love most dearly is to fail in your self-appointed task?
PS: Susie, are you talking about the Agammemnon cycle? Agammemnon kills his daughter Iphigenia to get a fair wind for Troy and his family collapses? If you are, your analogy won't quite work, because (as I remember) Clytemnestra (Helen's mortal sister) kills Agammemnon with her lover. Then her son kills her, and then HE's the one left in the ruins.
This actually fits in kind of neatly with something that shows up in later books...don't want to spoil anyone, though. (I'm new...what are the rules on spoilers here?)
But, in general terms, consider this: the higher price than a lifeprice is, indeed, to bind yourself so tightly that you become part of the spell. But in doing so, you create a spell that will not continue to function without your energy and full attention: you cannot look away from the spell for one instant or it will collapse, so you have no mental capacity for the rest of your life. But, but the same logic...if you turn your attention away from the spell by dying, the spell also collapses.
So you are left in the inbetween state: catatonic, comatose, or merely insane. A constant reminder to your friends and family of what you once were, a shadow of your former self. An empty mind in a whining, animal body. In some ways, harder than death-- death is such an old part of our biology that we, as a species, have developed techniques for handling it. But to always see the person you loved-- and never be able to speak to them? To always have the hope that they will one day "come back" to you, and to have that hope constantly dashed?
And for the wizard inside? To see or hear glimpses of her old life around her, but never to be able to touch them? To know that even to reach out to what you love most dearly is to fail in your self-appointed task?
PS: Susie, are you talking about the Agammemnon cycle? Agammemnon kills his daughter Iphigenia to get a fair wind for Troy and his family collapses? If you are, your analogy won't quite work, because (as I remember) Clytemnestra (Helen's mortal sister) kills Agammemnon with her lover. Then her son kills her, and then HE's the one left in the ruins.
) so it may even be a future plot point or something she plans to expand on. but she offered one hint:
But Ed didn't live forever. I mean yeah he lived a long time but he does eventually die. And I have a feeling that HE didn't preform an blankcheck spell. But, he only went to The Heart of the Sea (timeheart) b/c he was loved 9in a friendly way) by Neets.
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