- "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
- Concept-Dependent Immortality
- Emotion-Connective Immortality
- Object Immortality
- Symbiotic Connection
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)
- Kaulder (The Last Witch Hunter); tied to the Witch Queen's beating heart
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
Comics
- Ulysses Bloodstone (Marvel Comics); via the Bloodgem
- Users of the Infinity Gauntlet (Marvel Comics)
- Users of the Cosmic Cube (Marvel Comics)
- Ra's Al Ghul (DC Comics); via the Lazarus Pit
Folklore/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)
- Erebus (Persona 3); via humanity's collective desire for death
- Nyarlathotep (Persona); via humanity's collective evil and destructiveness