I talked to the newcomers this morning, getting to know them mostly. Of the three, two of them are demons, a Devil and an Akan specifically, I honestly know next to nothing about either of those species. The third is a monster, specifically a troll water variant, where he any other creature that variant trait of his would grant him great control over water, but as trolls are incapable of magic he is instead able to do things like swim really well and breathe water, not just breath underwater but actually breathe water, he was rather clear about that. That last part does allow him to spit water hard enough to break stone though.

Anyway, the Akan, whose name was Toreth, was the one that talked to me the night before. He primarily studies dungeons, but in a different way than Mest does. While Mest mostly studies already established dungeons, Toreth primarily studies young and newly forming dungeons as well as what causes them to exist in the first place.

The Devil was named Soros, he is a botanist, which is apparently someone who studies plants. He is the one I’m most interested in learning from, after all, plants are literally my life in many different ways. It seems he brought a number of interesting samples with him, I’m going to need to see about getting some from him.

Lastly, the water troll, Trovich, studies evolution, specifically monster evolution. He has stated that his life’s goal is to map out the entirety of the monster evolutionary tree, he also mentioned a friendly rivalry he has with a lion kin who is attempting the same with the Beast evolutionary tree. Something he said at the end of that particular discussion stuck out to me, he said ‘jokes on him, trolls are immortal’.

It got me thinking about the fact that I am supposedly immortal, and after asking around it seems that so are many other people around. All of the newcomers and Mest belong to supposedly immortal species, while Lesser Kitsune live a very long time, so long in fact that no one has seen a kitsune die of old age, despite the fact they obviously age. Other then that Willow is in the same boat I am, being a sprite and all, while the Ents are plants, more similar to a tree than to any other kind of plant, and there are entire forests in the world that predate most Origin, obviously not all of Origin as something had to make them. And beyond my circle, it seems like immortality is still pretty common, for one all dungeon creatures can be resurrected when killed so long as the dungeon lives, which doesn’t really count but close enough.

After talking to the resident scholars it seems that immortality isn’t really a big deal until you are able to obtain it through brute force, but they weren't clear on the why for that last part. Though it does seem like certain trees of evolution are more prone to being immortal. Undead and plants have the highest rate of immortality among sentients, to date, not a single sentient undead or plant discovered has been mortal, while undead drops of sharply when you include non-sentients, while plants keep that top spot. Of course, plants and undead also have the lowest rate of sentience any of the trees of evolution, with Undead being slightly higher than Plants. Next, we have Demons and Angelics tied for second place for the highest rate of Immortality overall, tied one to one as all Demon species have an Angelic counterpart, like Devils and Angels, Pixies and Fairies, and Imps and Cherubs. Draconics barely beat out Monsters like myself. A little farther down Bipeds barely beat out Beasts while Undead is dead last in terms of absolute rate of immortality.

Unfortunately, I didn’t get to learn more about what exactly I am now because the evolution expert is a troll, and so he can’t directly examine me with magic, he needs to use specialized tools to do so, and those tools had to be set up, and that took all day.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.