Board Thread:Custom Lore Development/@comment-26535281-20170810231745

The Sarcophagus is a ancient coffin, tomb, or machine in Rin society said to descend from the Angels themselves. The actual Sarcophagus was a ancient Angel coffin/casket used for burial within their society. Both it's face and sides where lavishly decorated with intricate carvings and entire crypts devoted to either a families collection or massive complexes for those of a noble. While the poor generally just used stone caskets or slots carved into the sides of a crypt's wall.

As the Empire grew in both power, size, and wealth the Sarcophagus of the rich became richer and richer with both larger Sarcophagus themselves, further decorations, and large complexes taking over areas the size of cities for the richest nobles all dedicated to one's life achievements.

Now this wasn't good enough while the lavishness filled most's desire they where still haunted by death. Eventually Sarcophagus that doubled as cryo chambers where invented with the nobles and wealthy able to expanded their lives by 10 fold and eventually 100 fold as the technology got more and more advance with smaller and shorter variants being available to the middle classes.

Eventually 'sleeping' for a few years was not enough the rich wanted to both live longer and be awake the whole time so they created more advance Sarcophagus, living Sarcophagus massive machines or thrones that have the user literally 'plugged in' and as long as the machine is given the required power, minerals, and so on it can run indefinitely (Until the machine breaks or the users organs finally give in) to stop at least the Organ part transplants from clones or enhancement drugs are used.

Even this wasn't enough due to bodies finally giving up or the machines breaking down. Thus they seeked even more and the answer came in both the arcane arts, bio mechanics, and holy cyrus crystals. Much the same way one would create certain types of Artificials (Infusing of a crystal with a bio mechanical 'frame) the nobles began to do this with their own creations. Most of the bodies where modeled off a 'beautiful' or perfect form of themselves, the form you would make into a statue. They can also be 'changed' or 'modified' to the users demands or tastes and nothing is permanent meaning they can live and fad and let it die (unlike some people...)

The biggest perk of this is one could live pretty much forever only at the cost of a massive fortune (Like Donald Trump couldn't get one of these), lengthy arcane rituals, and the cost of your immortal sole, but hey immortality is immortality is it not?

Note:

- The Crystal used for these bodies are both larger, more potent, and rare then any used for the creation of artificials and 'magical' items. Not something one can just find in any old mine.

- They are immortal in the sense that they can live forever but can't truly do anything 'human' for example they can eat yet not taste, drink yet still thirst, and so on. But for some that's both a acceptable and cheap price for immortality. 