This brings up another important aspect about Death: his family. Ysabel is his daughter through adoption and his first true experimentation with human nature. He, of course, got a fair share of things wrong in trying to raise her, but she ultimately became a fiercely independent woman willing to actually stand up to Death himself for love and personal freedom. Mort was Death’s one and only apprentice who eventually mucked up his master’s business enough that Death literally slapped his cheek so hard his child would feel it. Mort and Ysabel, following the events of Mort’s apprenticeship, were allowed to return to the human world and managed to take over a Duchy as Duke and Duchess. This led to his most important and ongoing relationship: that with his granddaughter, Susan. She is a precocious but good-natured young woman bearing a birthmark in the shape of the scar Death left upon her father’s face. The two met following the passing of Susan’s parents and bonded over the process of grieving and assuring themselves that the job of Death is one that must be taken with the greatest severity. She is quite possibly his most favorite person in the world, and it is because of her that he can find comfort in the death of his daughter and son-in-law.
Apart from these things, there is not much that truly needs being said about Death. He is a living skeleton in a black cloak, and carries a scythe that can cut through the very words in the air. His eyes glow blue with the color of infinity, and he is both the most terrifying and perhaps most loving person to ever walk the Disc. He shows mercy and compassion in leaps and bounds, but never strays from his Duty. As Death, he is to end all things in time, including the universe itself.
And as a final note: HE ALWAYS SPEAKS IN CAPITALS LIKE THIS. IT IS MEANT TO SHOW WHAT HIS VOICE SOUNDS LIKE, WHICH IS SAID TO BE LIKE THE LID OF A STONE COFFIN DROPPING INTO PLACE. Wizards, witches, and cats usually seem him clearly, although anyone could. There is usually a glamor effect in place to make him seem more like something the human mind can deal with, although he can just as easily appear as himself. And on a whole, most liken him to sounding like Christopher Lee.
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Apart from these things, there is not much that truly needs being said about Death. He is a living skeleton in a black cloak, and carries a scythe that can cut through the very words in the air. His eyes glow blue with the color of infinity, and he is both the most terrifying and perhaps most loving person to ever walk the Disc. He shows mercy and compassion in leaps and bounds, but never strays from his Duty. As Death, he is to end all things in time, including the universe itself.
And as a final note: HE ALWAYS SPEAKS IN CAPITALS LIKE THIS. IT IS MEANT TO SHOW WHAT HIS VOICE SOUNDS LIKE, WHICH IS SAID TO BE LIKE THE LID OF A STONE COFFIN DROPPING INTO PLACE. Wizards, witches, and cats usually seem him clearly, although anyone could. There is usually a glamor effect in place to make him seem more like something the human mind can deal with, although he can just as easily appear as himself. And on a whole, most liken him to sounding like Christopher Lee.