Though the claims of mysterious warrior-monks who endured millennia without feeling the cold grip of age are surely exaggerations, there have certainly been many tales of those who labored to restore the strength of use to their tired forms, slowing the inevitable, and recovering from the toll of lost battles long past. Somewhere amidst these claims is likely a seed of truth, and the vigor of the seldom-seen Elders of these orders bespeaks the success of their ways.