Changes: Reliant Immortality

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"Frodo: But he was destroyed. Sauron was destroyed."

"Gandalf: No, Frodo. The spirit of Sauron endured. His life force is bound to the Ring, and the Ring survived. Sauron has returned."

― The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

The power to be immortal so long as a certain object, person, etc exists. Variation of Immortality.

Also Called

Immortal Link

Capabilities

The user is immortal, their existence tied to an object, soul fragments, or even a person or concepts. So long as these things exist, the user can never die.

Applications

Variations

Associations

Absolute Immortality may even be the result of the link.

Limitations

Destruction/death of the source will either:
- Kill the user outright.
- Immortality Removal/Immortality Negation, leaving the user alive, but mortal again.
The link may only protect the user's spiritual existence, and thus may end up as a disembodied spirit upon their body's death/destruction.
Connection Removal can sever the link between the source and the user.

Known Users

See Also: Soul Jar.

Cartoons

Mr. Meeseeks (Rick and Morty)

Films

Charlie B. Barkin (All Dogs Go To Heaven); via his watch
Einon (Dragonheart); via sharing half of a dragon's heart
Sephiroth (Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children); via Geostigma/Jenova Cells
Max Winters/Yaotl (TMNT)

Literature

Tom Riddle/Voldemort (Harry Potter); via Horcruxes
Melkor/Morgoth (The Silmarillion); via Arda itself

Live Action TV

The Man in Black (Lost); via Heart of the Island
Natural mermaids (Mako Mermaids); via their magic to the Moon Pool
Flint (Star Trek)
Alaric Saltzman (The Vampire Diaries); via Elena Gilbert's life
Freya Mikaelson (The Originals); via Niklaus Mikaelson's life

Manga/Anime

The Demon King (Doraemon: Nobita's New Great Adventure into the Underworld); via the red moon surrounding Magic Planet
Kouka (Gintama)
Utsuro (Gintama)
Nations (Hetalia); expect China
Holo (Spice and Wolf)
Phantom (Marchen Awakens Romance)
Quon (Towa no Quon); remains absolutely immortal as long as his younger brother Towa remains sealed.
King Gilgamesh (Tower of Druaga: Aegis of Uruk); remains immortal as long as Druaga exists
43rd Floor inhabitants (Tower of God); remain immortal as long as they remain on the 43rd Floor
Hanatamago (Hetalia); is immortal as long as she remains owned by Sweden and Finland

Mythology

Koschei the Deathless (Slavic Mythology) via a Needle hidden in an Egg, inside a Duck, inside a Hare, inside an Iron Chest, buried under a Tree on the island of Buyan.

RPGs

Liches (Advanced Dungeons and Dragons); via their phylacteries.

Video Games

Omega (Dirge of Cereberus)
Scathach (Fate/Grand Order)
The Deathless Ones (Rise of the Tomb Raider)
Jacob the Deathless Prophet (Rise of the Tomb Raider)
Amon (Starcraft); via his Void Crystals
Psi Reavers (System Shock 2)
Asphodelus (Valkyrie Crusade)
Doppelgangis (Realms of the Haunting)
Greater Psi Reavers (System Shock 2)
Reaver (Fable Series)
Yuyuko Saigyouji (Touhou Project)

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 The power to '''be immortal so long as a certain object, person, etc exists'''. Variation of [[Immortality]].