# Looking for mythical/fictional characters raised from mortality to immortality **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 16, 2008, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-mythical-fictional-characters-raised-from-mortality-to-immortality/463862 "2008-09-16T17:40:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Darkhold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@Darkhold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darkhold)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2008, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-mythical-fictional-characters-raised-from-mortality-to-immortality/463862/41 "2008-09-17T16:18:50Z")
> [@akira5822](#): > > If i am not mistaken, Durnik the blacksmith(David Eddings Belgariad) was raised to godhood to perform some task that i can not remember now. Durnik was a normal man who died and came back to life with sorcerer powers (which makes him ageless so semi immortal) are you thinking of when he was infused with the Orb’s power to battle a demon? That’s the only thing I can think of that made him godlike. Errand was raised to godhood in the series but he was the god that was meant to be instead of Torak. I don’t think he counts because he was immortal before hand (it’s implied he was centuries old at least, he survived a direct blast of dragon’s fire, he also did a bunch of other stuff I can’t remember at the moment) as he was a potential god before hand I’d say he was like Jesus in the OP’s example. Only the ‘good’ prophecy being destroyed could have prevented him from becoming a god. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2008, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-mythical-fictional-characters-raised-from-mortality-to-immortality/463862/42 "2008-09-17T17:13:44Z")
Doctor Who’s old teacher Borusa won the game of Rassilon for which the prize was eternal life - turned into a statue, and kept alive and self aware forever. Mawdryn tried to steal the Timelord secret of regeneration and thus lived in constant pain, unable to die. Doctor Manhatten from Watchmen of course. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2008, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-mythical-fictional-characters-raised-from-mortality-to-immortality/463862/43 "2008-09-17T17:42:43Z")
A few candidates: 1. From Babylon 5, I think the guy’s name was Jason Trueheart, maybe Ironheart…something like that. He was a rogue telepath, and through some mystic process evolved into a “Being of Light” for lack of a better term. 2. Kes, from ST: Voyager did something vaguely similar. 3. Gord of Greyhawk, from a series of AD&D books by E. Gary Gygax…think he became a sort of demigod. 4. Milo Morai, from the Horesclans series…one of several “Undying” people in that universe, but his origins are unclear…and he can be killed, by drowning…but otherwise he’d live forever. 5. Jean Grey, of the X-Men. She became the Phoenix–some sort of immortal primal force of the universe. 6. Wolverine, also of the X-men. Dude regenerates to such an extent that killing him is virtually impossible. I am sorta curious as to what would happen if you split him in half, vertically. Would each half regenerate, and now you’ve got a tag-team? ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2008, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-mythical-fictional-characters-raised-from-mortality-to-immortality/463862/44 "2008-09-17T18:11:55Z")
> [@TWDuke](#): > > Different Lazarus. [Luke 16:19-31](http://www.bartleby.com/108/42/16.html). :smack: And me, the son of a preacher man. Ah, well. My earlier response was mostly snark, anywhistle. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2008, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-mythical-fictional-characters-raised-from-mortality-to-immortality/463862/45 "2008-09-17T18:13:24Z")
> [@Jello](#): > > There are a few different versions as to how Romulus died, but the most popular version is that he ascended to the heavens during a storm. The Romans worshiped him as Quirinus. > > I don’t know if you’re looking for real people who became gods in various national mythologies, but Julius Caesar, Augustus, Livia, Claudius, Vespasian, and Titus all managed to become deified, and Vespasian even managed to get off a witty quip about it in his last words as a mortal. Actually, the Romulus thing would have worked in my story; it’s close to Enoch & Elijah. I’ve moved past that passage, but I’ll make a note of it anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2008, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-mythical-fictional-characters-raised-from-mortality-to-immortality/463862/46 "2008-09-17T18:29:07Z")
Depending on which variety of the Camelot legend you like, King Arthur is taken away from his last battle with Mordred, badly wounded, to recuperate and await Britain’s call if he’s ever needed again, as “the once and future king.” ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2008, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-mythical-fictional-characters-raised-from-mortality-to-immortality/463862/47 "2008-09-17T18:29:18Z")
> [@Sr\_Siete](#): > > From pop culture there’s the obvious answer of Connor MacLeod, from “Highlander”. I don’t think this counts, he went from immortal to mortal. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2008, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-mythical-fictional-characters-raised-from-mortality-to-immortality/463862/48 "2008-09-17T18:55:00Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > 6)I am sorta curious as to what would happen if you split him in half, vertically. Would each half regenerate, and now you’ve got a tag-team? Well, for one, it would be damn near impossible to do that. Since he’s whole skeleton is coated in adamantium, you’d have to have an adamantium blade of some kind, and to top that off it would have to be swung by someone really strong. But let’s say The Hulk is really pissed off (again…) and decides to chop him in half, I’m guessing whichever half has more mass is the one that would regenerate. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2008, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-mythical-fictional-characters-raised-from-mortality-to-immortality/463862/49 "2008-09-17T19:15:26Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > _snip_ > > 1. Wolverine, also of the X-men. Dude regenerates to such an extent that killing him is virtually impossible. I am sorta curious as to what would happen if you split him in half, vertically. Would each half regenerate, and now you’ve got a tag-team? This would make such a cool stand alone or What If? comic. Back to the OP there are also the Ascended and the Ori from the Stargate universe. And to a specific individual there is the half ascended Anubis. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2008, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-mythical-fictional-characters-raised-from-mortality-to-immortality/463862/50 "2008-09-17T22:23:04Z")
> [@](#): > > by \*\*Elendil’s Heir \*\* > Depending on which variety of the Camelot legend you like, King Arthur is taken away from his last battle with Mordred, badly wounded, to recuperate and await Britain’s call if he’s ever needed again, as “the once and future king.” Likewise, Charlemagne, Holger Danske, Frederick Barbarossa, and a whole lot of others. [King asleep in mountain - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_in_the_mountain) ---
**Author:** ![akira5822](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/53a042/32.png) [@akira5822](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/akira5822)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2008, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-mythical-fictional-characters-raised-from-mortality-to-immortality/463862/51 "2008-09-17T22:52:25Z")
Thank you Darkhold, Im sure you are correct so i will mark it as ignorance fought. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Tyger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Silver\_Tyger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Tyger)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2008, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-mythical-fictional-characters-raised-from-mortality-to-immortality/463862/52 "2008-09-17T22:57:19Z")
Several characters in **Tuck Everlasting** ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2008, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-mythical-fictional-characters-raised-from-mortality-to-immortality/463862/53 "2008-09-18T00:12:55Z")
In Mike Carey’s _Lucifer_ graphic novel series, there is [Elaine Belloc](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaine_Belloc). We first meet her as a fairly ordinary 13-year-old schoolgirl in London, whose only “un-ordinariness” seems to be some sort of psychic power. By the end of the series, she has… … taken the place of God. ---
**Author:** ![First\_Amongst\_Daves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/4491bb/32.png) [@First\_Amongst\_Daves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/First_Amongst_Daves)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2008, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-mythical-fictional-characters-raised-from-mortality-to-immortality/463862/54 "2008-09-18T13:23:03Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > In Mike Carey’s _Lucifer_ graphic novel series, there is [Elaine Belloc](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaine_Belloc). We first meet her as a fairly ordinary 13-year-old schoolgirl in London, whose only “un-ordinariness” seems to be some sort of psychic power. By the end of the series, she has… > > … taken the place of God. She does have a signficant geneological advantage in that, though. Mazikeen, too, also does pretty well out of the conclusion of the series: she is gifted with Lucifer’s “lightbringer” powers - the ability to light suns. In Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, does Ahab transcend? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-mythical-fictional-characters-raised-from-mortality-to-immortality/463862.md?page=2)