ithildin | (Reply)

Actually, that reminds me of one probably little-explored question - can you imagine how vulnerable an immortal is during a death? Mostly I guess we tend to concentrate on how lucky they are to revive. But what thay can or can't regenerate notwhitstanding, a large chunk of those deaths tend to happen in a situation where vulnerability is very bad from the ultimate survival point of view. So sometimes I think that dying for an immortal wouldn't be quite that run-of-the-mill experience it sometimes gets described as, and not only for the physical discomfort involved - it's still the ultimate trip into the unknown - they never know if they're going to get back up again or whether this is IT. Which also brings me to the point that when an immortal character is tortured (to give up information for example), I'm not convinced dying would be an 'easy out', before the pain/torture grows great enough to override self preservation instinct.
As to the regeneration of limbs etc...wasnt Nefertiri entombed for a while? Which would have meant removing internal organs for the mummification process. So if canon says 'no regeneration of limbs' then it's contradicting itself *biiig surprise eg*. Because, no regeneration of a toe, for example, but will grow a new liver? Well, duh. Or we can try to get around it saying *they can regenerate as long as the head is attached (and maybe a reasonable chunk of the torso too), but it takes a hell of a long time?