Below is a post I put on the 'improvements' thread last night (sorry, don't know how to do a link like ladycfii did above). At 1:00am in the morning I didn't see this thread, or I might have put it here. In the meantime, I've had another idea: maybe after a certain time (1 year within the game?), this magical, never-aging being ascends/departs in some manner (with possible a hint that they'll return later, meaning at the end of VV2?).

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