History Main / WizardsLiveLonger

* ''HarryPotter'' wizards live a ''long'' time. Dumbledore was pretty much the picture of good health at age 150, and would have gone on to live for several decades more [[spoiler: if he had thought to de-curse the Ring of Resurrection before putting it on]].
** At one point we meet someone who claims to have been ''his'' teacher. And Bathilda Bagshot is understood to have been a mature and successful writer by the time she met teenaged Dumbledore, and she [[spoiler: outlived him, only to be murdered a few months later.]]
** This perk doesn't seem to apply if you are a Black, [[BigScrewedUpFamily though there are probably reasons for this]].
*** Or a [[WorldOfNoGrandparents Potter]] for some reason.

* ''HarryPotter'' wizards live a ''long'' time. Dumbledore was pretty much the picture of good health at age 120, and would have gone on to live for several decades more [[spoiler: if he had thought to de-curse the Ring of Resurrection before putting it on]].

*** WordOfGod has stated that wizards subconsciously shapeshift into the form they think they should have. Apparently, no-one thinks cellular degeneration is part of who they should be.
*** It also explains why the male wizards have all gained a few grey hairs over their lifetimes, whereas Polgara looks as beautiful as ever.

* Wild Wizards at least in ''David Weber'''s {{War God}} series. Wencit of Rum wasn't precisely young during the Fall of Kontovarr and is showing no signs of slowing down over a millenia later. The same 'magic field' that gives Wencit his power is also responsible for the Hradani living twice as long as humans and the immortality of the elves is explicitly linked to magic since they used to be a human strain of spellcasters with a specific natural gift rather than a learned ability.

* Played straight in {{Arcanum}}, where elves, the most magically inclined race, have the longest lifespans, and humans who practise magic tend to live slightly longer than technologists. Also subverted, since orcs and halflings, who were created by magical mutation, have shorter lifespans than their non-magical cousins, the humans and gnomes respectively.

** Aang himself is chronologically [[OlderThanHeLooks 112 years old]], due directly to his Avatar abilities. Physically and mentally he's still twelve.

** Just to clarify, the Scouring was an ancient war between humans and [[OurDragonsAreDifferent dragons]] occurred about 980 years before the events of ''Fire Emblem 7'' (1000 years before the {{Prequel}}).

* In {{Warhammer40000}} psykers can live much longer lives than normal humans due to the power of the Warp, keeping them [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld young and healthy for hundreds of years]], or [[PowerIncontinence they can burn out a few hours after their powers have been awakened and become ashes]], or [[BodyHorror mutate into a horrible creature]], or [[AgeWithoutYouth live a long time but steadily become older until they look like mummies without the wrappings]], or [[YourHeadASplode explode]] and usher in the doom of the planet as TheLegionsOfHell begin to march on it, or just live a normal lifespan with the added ability to set people on fire. It varies as the power of sheer unreality tends to do.

** Infernals - not stated, except that they are apparently able to "[[OneWingedAngel gain apotheosis]]" before age becomes an issue.

* In {{Warhammer40000}} psykers can live much longer lives than normal humans due to the power of the Warp, [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld keeping them young and healthy for hundreds of years]], or [[PowerIncontinence they can burn out a few hours after their powers have been awakened and become ashes]], or [[InvoluntaryShapeShifting mutate into a horrible creature]], or [[AgeWithoutYouth live a long time but steadily become older until they look like mummies without the wrappings]], or [[YourHeadASplode explode]] and usher in the doom of the planet as TheLegionsOfHell begin to march on it, or just live a normal lifespan with the added ability to set people on fire. It varies as the power of sheer unreality tends to do.

** This mechanism is immitated in the card game, but it only works if the controller of the Dark Magician uses Time Wizard and only if they call the coin toss correctly.

**** WordOfGod has stated that wizards subconsciously shapeshift into the form they think they should have. Apparently, no-one thinks cellular degeneration is part of who they should be.

** In general, it seems to be a rule that races with psychic ability live longer. The Tau have no warp presence, and live 40 years. Humans have some warp presence, varying from person to person, and live hundreds. Eldar, the standard psychic powers race, can live to be over 1,000 (with specialized fortune-tellers living far longer, one even managing to stay alive for over 10,000 years). The two races most connected to the warp, the Orks and Chaos proper, are both effectively immortal, though still capable of being killed by injury.

* The Fellowship of Seven in Janny Wurt's ''{{War of Light and Shadow}}'' are over ten thousand years old. Their apprentices are also capable of avoiding aging, as are the Korinthain.

** Averted, however, for male channelers, who quickly degenerate mentally and physically due to the taint on the male half of the One Power.

* When Joey duels Yugi in the Duelist Kingdom arc of ''YuGiOh'', he uses his Time Wizard to make Yugi's Dark Magician 1000 years older. Not only does this fail to kill the Dark Magician, it ends up transforming him into the more powerful Thousand Year Sage (or something) because [[strike: the writers were making things up as they went]] the magician simply spent those thousand years studying and training.

** Aang himself is [[OlderThanHeLooks 112 years old]], due directly to his Avatar abilities.

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** Avatar Kyoshi, most {{Badass}} Avatar ever, lived for 250 years, the longest of any Avatar, and presumably retained all her faculties until the very end. (And no, this was not merely a HandWave on the writer's part so that they didn't have to invent four more Avatars to go between Roku and Kyoshi.)