A term that is often misused in refferance to someone really tough or is
hard to kill.
The actual term means it cannot die, no matter what.
'Vampires'
definition of immortality is often misleading. Where it is true vampires can live forever, they can still be killed via sunlight and other various means. This means they are, in fact, not immortal. The same goes with characters like Kratos from the video game 'God of
war 2'. He had his immortality taken away, and was mortal again. Because there was a way to take away his 'immortality', he wasn'
t really immortal in the first place.
Immortals are not liable or subject to
death. If there is a way to kill them, they aren't really immortal.
The true
definition means 'unending life'.
There are several meathods of immortality. One is regenerative abilities, to be able to regenerate from absolutely nothing. Another way is resurrection, where one can never really die but instead their
death is their rebirth and they simply reincarnate like a
Phoenix without the use of ashes. And of course, last but not least, the invulnurable kind. The ones that you just can't harm.
Immortals have lived forever with no way of dying and were/always be around, and mortals who achieve immortality eliminate
death altogether forever. This is
sad however as eventually they will be forced to live in a boring and unending existence with no way out because they cannot kill themselves to stop it and no way to reverse the process. You are immortal, it's impossible become mortal again because that would mean
death is a possibility, a fate impossible for an immortal.
Abundant health and vitality.
Infinite health. Automatically instant refilling health bar when it reaches zero.
Immortals can jump off a building and live.
They wouldn'
t die even if you killed them. There is no way to kill an immortal.
Year 1:
Dude, check it out! I'm immortal!
999999999 years later:
Baaaaaaaaawwwww!!!!