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Anonymous writes...

(1) Okay, could you clear up a sort of dilemna our comment room has been having? What we want to know is: when the Three Sisters were helping out the Archmage in "Avalon", was it out of petty revenge on the Avalon clan for getting past them 1000 years before, or was what they did in that episode part of some "master plan" with the Archmage as some sort of "cannon fodder"? (Personally, I think it's the former.) (2) For that matter, did the Archmage die at the end of Avalon, or was he for some reason "automatically" sucked into the Pheonix Gate to some time and place we don't know about? (3) One other thing I'm curious about: about how old, in "gargoyle years" was Demona in 994? I would have thought she was in the equvalent of her twenties at the time, but she has grey hair only twenty "gargoyle years" later, which would make her in the equivalent of her late thirties or fourties in 994. (4) And finally, what is the average lifespan of a gargoyle anyways?

Greg responds...

1. I've answered the Weird Sister thing. Check the ASK GREG FAQ archives.
2. The Archmage is dead. Of course, so was Hakon.
3. In 994, Demona and Goliath were both 56 years old chronologically (twenty- eight biologically, i.e. in human terms.) In 1020, Demona was 82 (or 41) and aging prematurely because of the extremely difficult life she was leading. In 1040, Demona was 102 (51) until she recieved Macbeth's youth in magical trade. He was 35 (35) so she became 102 (35). He became 35 (51).
They've been stuck at those (biological) ages ever since.
4. It's hard to say. Gargoyles have always led lives of such intense conflict that it is extremely rare for a gargoyle to die of old age.
In fact, it's rare for them to get very old at all. Hudson, thankfully, is a marvelous exception. On the other hand, their daily healing is a big plus, so I'm figuring they'd wind up on the high end of what a human can accomplish. I tend to believe that a gargoyle maxes out at 180 to 200 years old (or 90 to 100 biologically) assuming they escape a violent end or a magical reprieve. Same for a Gargoyle Beast.