To: Everyone

[speak_n_spell]

For those who identify as human: what's the worst injury you've survived?

I'm not just asking to be nosy - with everyone coming from different realities, I've been wondering if my understanding of Things A Human Can And Cannot Do is accurate? What if we're all operating from different baselines? It could be helpful to know before we get one another into trouble!

Comments

[unnecessaryflourishes]

My world has long since fallen to ruin. And the inhabitants of those which have risen in its wake are considerably reduced from what would have been considered normal by my people.

[speak_n_spell]

Are you considered a normal example of your people, then?

[unnecessaryflourishes]

As of the destruction of our world, yes. Provided being a mage of notably exceptional skill is not enough to bar someone from being 'normal'.

In the time since, I have managed to attain a form of immortality, though this, too, is typical for we few who were fortunate enough to survive the destruction of all we had known.

[speak_n_spell]

Attaining immortality is most certainly outside the abilities of humans where I'm from! Magic isn't, though it's fairly uncommon, and doesn't inherently come with an extended lifespan.

So that's one very marked difference in what your world and mine would consider a typical human. Fascinating, this is exactly what I've been wondering about!

[unnecessaryflourishes]

It was... a matter of necessity, let us say. And something we would not have been forced to seek out had it not been for the destruction of our own world.