We can't be sure of his age because he doesn't remeber enything before taking his first head and who is to say how long that took, or how he would calculate his age before most calendars were invented... so I can totally buy that he is older than that thought we might never be able to say exacly how old. If he was mortal around 3,000BC than might have been alive when Gilgamesh was... maybe he even knew the guy.
How are they to know when his first quickenning was? They wouldn't know the guy... they might have really old records and think they saw him take the first head.
I agree that the Watchers don't make much sense historically, I once saw a fic in which they were more like a religion and those who went out to Wacth were chosen few from families that were part of it. It might have started with Ur and then expanded throught out the world as it started to grow and found out that Immortals come from all parts.
They seem very unlikely and I think that in order for the chronicles to not have been misused a lot of martial discipline was employed taking heads from watchers and immortals who stumbled on the secret, especially during the middle ages.
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Date: 2009-03-25 06:31 pm (UTC)If he was mortal around 3,000BC than might have been alive when Gilgamesh was... maybe he even knew the guy.
How are they to know when his first quickenning was? They wouldn't know the guy... they might have really old records and think they saw him take the first head.
I agree that the Watchers don't make much sense historically, I once saw a fic in which they were more like a religion and those who went out to Wacth were chosen few from families that were part of it.
It might have started with Ur and then expanded throught out the world as it started to grow and found out that Immortals come from all parts.
They seem very unlikely and I think that in order for the chronicles to not have been misused a lot of martial discipline was employed taking heads from watchers and immortals who stumbled on the secret, especially during the middle ages.