History Main / LongLived

** Princess Celestia and Princess Luna from are well over 1000 years old. We don't even know how old -- they were both ruling the kingdom ''and'' the skies when Luna became Nightmare Moon and was sealed a thousand years ago. The very ''first'' flag of Equestria has them on it. The royal sisters were as they are now, or at least (as proven by the flag) already in charge of the sun and moon and a big enough deal to put on your flag, when the country was founded, and that's enough to get [[OhMyGods people swearing by your name]]. However, there's no word on whether they're truly immortal or just very long-lived. According to ''Literature/TheJournalOfTheTwoSisters'', they aren't immortal. Natural alicorns like them just have very long lifespans.

->'''Odin''': We are not gods! We're born, we live, we die, just as humans do.\\
'''Loki''': Give or take five thousand years.

* ''LightNovel/TrinityBlood'': The Methuselah/vampires (300+ years) and Kresnik (haven't aged in over a millennium).

** Titans live for so long that entire ecosystems rise and fall on and sometimes within their bodies. [[spoiler:It's later revealed that Titans are actually the final form of a Blade's evolution, which means all of them have lived thousands of years as a Blade before becoming a Titan.]] They are not immortal, however, which forms the crux of the plot: the Titans are dying off, and no new Titans seem to be being born to serve as landmasses for society [[spoiler:which is revealed to be because Amalthus' Core Crystal "cleansings" that make it easier for them to resonant with Drivers is eliminating the accumulated data the Blades build up for the course of their many incarnations to eventually evolve into Titans.]]

** Mikhail is an adult in the present, but it's eventually revealed he was a child [[spoiler:who survived the Aegis War and the destruction of the Tornean Titan 500 years ago before he was taken by Amalthus for his Blade Eater experiments and subsequently escaped.]]

** The Indoline can easily live for centuries. Most obvious with Praetor Amalthus, who looks as young now as he did 500 years ago during the Aegis War. [[spoiler:In fact, Amalthus's lack of aging ''at all'' is remarked upon: even with an Indoline lifespan he should be approaching advanced age by now. He passes it off as being a side effect of being the Driver of an Aegis, but in fact the reason he's retained his youth is that he's consuming the Core Crystals of Blades delivered to the Praetorium.]]
** Blades can easily live for millennia at the least, but every time their Driver dies, their memories are erased as they revert back to a Core Crystal, so they don't remember anything before their most recent awakening. The [[PerplexingPlurals Aegises]], naturally, are an exception: they keep their memories forever and are suggested to be ageless, capable of living forever if they're not killed. [[spoiler:Flesh Eaters meanwhile are Blades who [[CannibalismSuperpower consume human cells]] and consequently lose their Blade immortality in exchange for independence from a Driver and possibly other new powers, but they still have exceptionally long lifespans. Cole/Minoth and Jin are Flesh Eaters who have survived for 500 years since the Aegis War, though both of their bodies are starting to break down in the present, Cole's moreso since he's visibly aged though that's in part due to the environment he's living in. It's implied Nia, whose Flesh Eater powers include incredible regenerative abilities, will easily live even longer than that in good health.]]
** Titans live for so long that entire ecosystems rise and fall on and sometimes within their bodies. [[spoiler:It's later revealed that Titans are actually the final form of a Blade's evolution, which means all of them have lived thousands of years as a Blade before becoming a Titan.]] They are not immortal, however, which forms the crux of the plot: the Titans are dying off, and no new Titans seem to be being born to serve as landmasses for society.

** Blades can easily live for millennia at the least, but every time their Driver dies, their memories are erased as they revert back to a Core Crystal, so they don't remember anything before their most recent awakening. The [[PerplexingPlurals Aegises]], naturally, are an exception: they keep their memories forever and are suggested to be ageless, capable of living forever if they're not killed. [[spoiler:Flesh Eaters meanwhile are Blades who [[CannibalismSuperpower consume human cells]] and consequently lose their Blade immortality in exchange for independence from a Driver and possibly other new powers, but they still have exceptionally long lifespans. Cole/Minoth and Jin are Flesh Eaters who have survived for 500 years since the Aegis War, though both of their bodies are starting to break down in the present, Cole's moreso. It's implied Nia, whose Flesh Eater powers include incredible regenerative powers, will actually live even longer than that in good health.]]

** Blades can easily live for millennia at the least, but every time their Driver dies, their memories are erased as they revert back to a Core Crystal, so they don't remember anything before their most recent awakening. The [[PerplexingPlurals Aegises]], naturally, are an exception: they keep their memories forever and are suggested to be ageless, capable of living forever if they're not killed.

* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles3'': It's explained that the Queens of Keves and Agnus are both from species that are exceptionally long-lived; the Kevesi queen is a High Entia, and the Agnian queen is a Flesh Eater Blade. Of course, there's also the added wrinkle that the main characters only live ten years; they consider the sixty year-old Vandham to be unspeakably ancient, so the idea that the Queens could be hundreds if not thousands of years old floors them completely. [[spoiler:Furthermore, the "Endless Now" muddles things further. The original assumption was that the Queens had outlived all their old friends, but some things imply that the merging of the worlds happened only a few decades after the events of the first two games, which froze the world in place. However long the Endless Now lasted, Melia and Nia spent most of that time sleeping, so it's unclear how long that was either]].

* In Creator/MikhailAkhmanov's ''Literature/ArrivalsFromTheDark'', several alien races routinely live for centuries, if not millennia. The [[HumanAliens Bino Faata]], the first aliens officially encountered by humans, have their highest caste potentially live for several millennia due to genetic engineering. In contrast, the lower castes are engineered to only live for a few years. The [[SpaceElves Lo'ona Aeo]] are also extremely long-lived, which also means they perceive time differently. For example, in a later novel, a Lo'ona Aeo talks about a character's death several decades ago as if it were yesterday. It's unclear how long the [[VoluntaryShapeshifting Metamorphs]] can potentially live, but the Exile has been on Earth since the 13th century, and reappears in a book taking place in the fourth millennium, looking no worse for wear. Some descendants of [[HalfHumanHybrid Paul Richard Corcoran]], whose biological father is a Faata, are known to have lived for at least 150 years.

* Elves in ''Webcomic/EarsForElves'' live into their 900s, with adulthood being between 200 and 700 (explained [[http://www.earsforelves.com/archives/390 here]]). They don't act [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld or look]] old when they're officially elders, either.
* In ''Webcomic/DominicDeegan'' Dominic and Luna meet an elf who is long-lived even by his species' standards due to magical SuperSoldier augmentations he received from the ancient empire that died out thousands of years ago.
* Quite a few Creatures in ''Webcomic/DanAndMabsFurryAdventures'' have projected lifespans that can be measured in centuries. That said, most people in Furrae, Creature and Being alike, end up dying long before their time. Furrae is a dangerous world that offers plenty of ways to kill you besides old age.
* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', Adrian Raven, is a half-immortal elf. Pandora, his mother, was 156 when he was born so, assuming that Pandora's [[https://www.egscomics.com/egsnp/2015-05-08 statements]] about her age are true, then he is at least 350.

* The drow and other fae in ''Webcomic/{{Drowtales}}'' are ''technically'' not immortal but stop aging at the human equivalent of 30 years old as long as they have a sufficient mana supply (otherwise they start aging much as a human would and can eventually die) since it's stated that fae do have a finite lifespan, with evidence pointing to it being somewhere upwards of 1,000 years. Most never get close to this and die long before then.

* Holo from ''LightNovel/SpiceAndWolf'' is stated to have a ''very'' long lifespan. How long is never said, but given that by the time the series happens she's already several centuries old (if not older), [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld yet still looks like a teenager]], she clearly has a long life ahead of her.

** Maester Aemon Targaryen is 100 years old at the start of the series, making him the oldest known person in Westeros. During his long life, he has seen seven different kings reign from the Iron Throne. He managed to escape the fall and destruction of House Targaryen that his great nephew, Aerys II's family endured, as a rueful witness from the distant Wall, where he was protected by his oath to the Night's Watch. [[spoiler:In ''Literature/AFeastForCrows'', upon learning that a young Targaryen is rising up to become a conqueror across the Narrow Sea, he finally decides to leave the Wall and meet her, just in time for age to catch up to him, leading to his death at age 102. By this time, he has outlived his entire House, barring Daenerys and (possibly) her nephew, Aegon.]]

* ''Manga/DeliciousInDungeon'': Distinction is drawn between the "long-lived races" (elves, dwarves, and gnomes) and the "short-lived races" (mostly [[HumansByAnyOtherName tall-men]] and [[{{Hobbits}} half-feet]]). The long-lived races don't live equally long; elves live for 400 years on average, but gnomes live for 240 and dwarves for 200. Cryptically, it's stated that all the long-lived races once had 1,000-year lifespans, but this gradually shortened following a series of ancient wars. [[spoiler:Only half-elves such as Marcille [[HybridPower still live so long]], as if having mixed blood somehow reverts their lifespan back to its original length. Fearing she'll outlive everyone she loves, her goal is to devise a spell that will extend ''everyone's'' lifespans to 1,000 years.]] Half-feet, incidentally, invert this trope: they live only 50 years on average.

* ''Manga/DeliciousInDungeon'': Distinction is drawn between the "long-lived races" (elves, dwarves, and gnomes) and the "short-lived races" (mostly [[HumansByAnyOtherName tall-men]] and [[{{Hobbits}} half-feet]]). The long-lived races themselves don't have live equally long; elves live for 400 years on average, but gnomes live for 240 and dwarves for 200. Cryptically, it's stated that the long-lived races once lived for 1,000+ years, but their lifespans gradually shortened following some ancient wars. [[spoiler:Only half-elves such as Marcille [[HybridPower still live so long]], as if having mixed blood somehow reverts their lifespan back to its original length. Fearing she'll outlive everyone she loves, her goal is to devise a spell that will extend ''everyone's'' lifespans to 1,000 years.]] Half-feet, incidentally, invert this trope: they live only 50 years on average.

* ''Manga/DeliciousInDungeon'': Distinction is drawn between the "long-lived races" (elves, dwarves, and gnomes) and the "short-lived races" (mostly [[HumansByAnyOtherName tall-men]] and [[{{Hobbits}} half-feet]]). The long-lived races themselves don't have live equally long; elves live for 400 years on average, but gnomes live for 240 and dwarves for 200. Cryptically, it's stated that the long-lived races once lived for 1,000+ years, but their lifespans gradually shortened following some ancient wars. [[spoiler:Only half-elves such as Marcille [[HybridPower still live so long]], as if having mixed blood somehow reverts their lifespan back to its original length.]] Half-feet, incidentally, invert this trope: they live only 50 years on average.

* ''Manga/DeliciousInDungeon'': Distinction is drawn between the "long-lived races" (elves, dwarves, and gnomes) and the "short-lived races" (mostly [[HumansByAnyOtherName tall-men]] and [[{{Halflings}} half-feet]]). The long-lived races themselves don't have live equally long; elves live for 400 years on average, but gnomes live for 240 and dwarves for 200. Cryptically, it's stated that the long-lived races once lived for 1,000+ years, but their lifespans gradually shortened following some ancient wars. [[spoiler:Only half-elves such as Marcille [[HybridPower still live so long]], as if having mixed blood somehow reverts their lifespan back to its original length.]] Half-feet, incidentally, invert this trope: they live only 50 years on average.

** In the same episode, [[WesternAnimation/SylvesterTheCatAndTweetyBird Tweety]] is also shown to have been alive during World War II, being the time he and Granny met. After hearing the story, Sylvester asks Tweety how old he is. Tweety refuses to answer.

* Implied in the case of Granny from ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'', who made a cameo in one episode of ''WesternAnimation/LoonaticsUnleashed'' (which is set in 2772) despite having a descendant in Queen Grannicus. In [[WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow the next series]], she is revealed to have been a WAC spy in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, meaning she's at minimum 850 years old by the time of ''Loonatics''.