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* The ''Film/{{Labyrinth}}'' ExpandedUniverse says that King Jareth is [[OlderThanTheyLook older than he looks]] the ''Manga/ReturnToLabyrinth'' manga says he's been ruling the Labyrinth for 1,300 years and the ''Labyrinth: Coronation'' comic said he was a human child kidnapped by the previous king in the 18th century. Both could be true due to the Labyrinth running on NarniaTime.

* Vigo The Carpathian from ''Film/GhostbustersII'' was a SorcerousOverlord who was still in his prime at 105 and only died after a RasputinianDeath where his head was still talking after it was cut off. In the movie, he's trying to come back and possess a new body.

* Vigo The Carpathian from ''Film/GhostbustersII'' was a SorcerousOverlord who lived to be 105 and only died after a RasputinianDeath where his head was still talking after it was cut off. In the movie, he's trying to come back and possess a new body.

* In ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'':
** Zig-zagged with psykers: the power of the Warp can keep them [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld young and healthy for hundreds of years]], or [[PowerIncontinence burn them to ash within hours]], or [[BodyHorror mutate them into horrible creatures]], or grant them AgeWithoutYouth, or turn them into a planet-dooming {{Hellgate}}, or just leave them to live a normal lifespan with the added ability to set people on fire. It varies as the power of sheer unreality tends to do.
** In general, it seems to be a rule that races with psychic ability live longer. The Tau have almost 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 TheAgeless. The rules are muddied by extensive life-prolonging technologies -- rumoured to be [[PoweredByAForsakenChild fuelled with the lives of children]], mind.
* In ''TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}}'':

* In the ''[[TabletopGame/OldWorldOfDarkness Classic]]'' and ''TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness'':
** ''TabletopGame/MageTheAwakening'' has many life-extending options. The Life Arcanum can maintain perfect health and enhance the body's performance, with more advanced levels increasing the user's lifespan by 30 to 130 years and even suspending aging entirely for short periods. Mages with mastery of Death magic can steal the lifespan of others, and mages with mastery of both Life and Death can BodySurf -- though at the cost of tremendous ImmortalityImmorality, unless they're targeting non-sapient victims like golems or [[OurHomunculiAreDifferent homunculi]].
** The changelings of ''TabletopGame/ChangelingTheLost'' get longer lives as their Wyrd rises and they become more closely linked to Fate -- which has the side effect of making them addicted to [[{{Mana}} Glamour]], vulnerable to the Wyrd's fairy-tale logic, and, worst of all, much more interesting to the [[TheFairFolk True Fae]].
** In ''TabletopGame/MageTheAscension'', Life magic works much as in ''Awakening''. There is also an option to select "Unaging" as a merit when creating a Mage, which gives eternal youth. This merit is quite inexpensive, because [[CrapsackWorld very few mages live to die of old age anyway]].

* The immortal elves in ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'' are all stupendously powerful magicians, but the causality goes the other way around: they're that good because they've had thousands of years of practice, and because they know techniques from the previous magical age that everyone else hasn't (re)discovered yet.
** Some normal elves have unexplained genes that make them live longer, which are more common in powerfully magical elves.
* Planeswalkers in ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' used to be able to live indefinitely, and post-{{nerf}}ing they still live for a very long time. Even wizards who aren't planeswalkers can extend their lifespans by drinking water from [[NarniaTime an area where time passes more slowly.]]
* In ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'':
** Zig-zagged in older editions with Wizards. On the one hand, they can craft life-extending potions, although most reach old age before reaching the necessary level of expertise -- and an error can [[RapidAging messily]] take back all the years that the potions delay. On the other, many powerful spells are CastFromLifespan, meaning wizards are vulnerable to living ''shorter'' unless they're careful with their powers.
** Some editions grant Druids the "Timeless Body" class feature at higher levels: in 3[[superscript:rd]], they simply don't lose ability points for aging and still die at the normal age; in 5[[superscript:th]], their aging slows by a factor of 10.
** In 5[[superscript:th]] edition, Oath of the Ancients Paladins, upon reaching a high enough level, outright stop aging and are unable to be aged magically.
** ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'': TheArchmage Elminster is over a thousand years old, thanks in part to being Chosen by the goddess of magic.
* Justified in ''TabletopGame/ArsMagica'' by a LongevityTreatment that any Hermetic mage can design. Mages can eventually get too old for the ritual to work, but most get partway through their second century before accumulating enough residual magic that Wizard's Twilight permanently glitches them out of reality.
* In ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'', wizards and {{alchem|yIsMagic}}ists can choose to become TheAgeless once they reach the highest level. Sorcerers of the Imperious bloodline do so automatically.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Starfinder}}'s'' mystics achieve Enlightenment at level 20, and thus cease to age any further.
* In ''TabletopGame/{{Witchcraft}}'', those with strong [[{{Mana}} Essence]] age more slowly. Becoming TheAgeless isn't possible with magic, though - that takes [[PsychicPowers Mindheal]].
* ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasy'':
** Wizardry appears to have some correlation with a longer life both amongst elves and humans, and BlackMagic (like that practiced by Morathi) can keep one eternally young. Though the sheer danger of practicing wizardry past a certain level does mean most human wizards are killed in battle or by an experimental accident long before succumbing to old age. Averted by the lizardmen, where the skink and slann are the only two of their castes able to touch magic and they are respectively the shortest-lived and the longest-lived of the lizardmen species (Slann and Saurus are both TheAgeless, though in the Slann case [[DyingRace they are also irreplaceable]] because only [[{{Precursors}} The Old Ones]] could create more).

* ''Series/TheWitcher2019'': Yennefer stops aging after becoming a mage, appearing the same age over a decades-long arc.

* It' unclear if this applies to the Avatar in ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''. Avatar Kyoshi, most badass Avatar ever, lived for roughly 230 years, the longest of any known character in the setting at the time. The assumed reason was that Avatars naturally lived longer. The only other Avatar to be given a definitive date of their natural death, Aang, died at only 66, but this was explained in ancillary material as being caused by spending a century frozen draining his life force. However, the novel ''Literature/TheRiseOfKyoshi'' implies that her long life was due to a secret technique she learned from a seemingly immortal assassin, not due to her being the Avatar, so it is unclear if Avatars actually live longer then normal people.

* It' unclear if this applies to the Avatar in ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''. Avatar Kyoshi, most badass Avatar ever, lived for roughly 230 years, the longest of any known character in the setting at the time. The assumed reason was that Avatars naturally lived longer. The only other Avatar to be given a definitive date of their natural death, Aang, died at only 66, but this was explained in ancillary material as being caused by spending a century frozen draining his life force. However, the novel ''Literature/TheRiseOfKyodhi'' implies that her long life was due to a secret technique she learned from a seemingly immortal assassin, not due to her being the Avatar, so it is unclear if Avatars actually live longer then normal people.

** Human ages in ''Legends'' vary DependingOnTheAuthor; in Creator/TimothyZahn's works [[Literature/ChoicesOfOne a governor can be forty and considered young]], and [[Literature/OutboundFlight sixty is middle aged]], perhaps because they have better medical technology in the Galaxy Far Far Away. At least one later-set book states that Han should have until he's about a hundred twenty before his faculties start to fail, though other books regard human ages with more Earth-standard eyes. However, a Force-Sensitive woman in ''Literature/TheCourtshipOfPrincessLeia'' is stated to be three hundred years old (not quite clear-cut as Dathomari are a HumanSubspecies and the Witches follow completely different rules from other Force users). [[TheWikiRule According to the]] [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Human/Legends wiki]], ''ComicBook/TalesOfTheJedi'' has an example of a Force-sensitive human living to ''eight hundred''.

Subtrope of WeAreAsMayflies, though it may not extend that far. Whether this is [[TheAgeless straight up immortality]] or [[LongLived merely a few tidy extra decades (or centuries)]], it certainly is a nice bonus -- assuming you don't get killed in action. Universes where CastFromHitPoints and CastFromLifespan are in play are less likely to have this hold true.

* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'':
** Benders and the spiritually connected seem to have better than normal life spans: Bumi is over 112 and still active, and Guru Pathik is spry at 150 and still active. By ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', the original series' protagonists are in their eighties, [[TheTeamNormal Sokka]] is the only one besides Aang (see below) to have died, and though past their prime, all are in quite good shape.
** Avatars can live longer still. Avatar Kyoshi, most badass Avatar ever, lived for roughly 230 years, the longest of any known Avatar, and presumably retained all her faculties until the very end. Although this is likely a [[WritersCannotDoMath math goof]] that they had to stick with. In one of the very early episodes , they go to her home island and it’s said she was born there over 400 years ago. Roku, her successor, lived to be about 70 (although he didn't die of natural causes and might have lived significantly longer if for Sozin's betrayal) and Aang was in the iceberg for a century, giving the 230 approximation. There are plenty of similar math goofs throughout the franchise. The novel ''Literature/TheRiseOfKyodhi'' implies that her long life was due to a secret technique she learned from a seemingly immortal assassin, not due to her being the Avatar.

** Avatars can live longer still. Avatar Kyoshi, most badass Avatar ever, lived for roughly 230 years, the longest of any known Avatar, and presumably retained all her faculties until the very end. Although this is likely a [[WritersCannotDoMath math goof]] that they had to stick with. In one of the very early episodes , they go to her home island and it’s said she was born there over 400 years ago. Roku, her successor, lived to be about 70 (although he didn't die of natural causes and might have lived significantly longer if for Sozin's betrayal) and Aang was in the iceberg for a century, giving the 230 approximation. There are plenty of similar math goofs throughout the franchise. The only confirmed character to have lived anywhere that long is Aang, who chronologically lived to 166 years but physically 66. Thanks to spending an extra century as a HumanPopsicle and maintaining the [[SuperMode Avatar State]] throughout that time, and his body [[CastFromLifespan wasn't able to handle that level of strain]].

* Azusa from ''LightNovel/IveBeenKillingSlimesFor300YearsAndMaxedOutMyLevel'' died and asked for CompleteImmortality when reincarnated in her next life. In response, the angel made her a witch whose body recirculates {{Mana}} and stops her aging. The woman at the guild reception says that some powerful witches can fine tune their mana circulation to prolong their lives but is shocked that Azusa has immortality at [[RPGMechanicsVerse level 1]].

* Implied in ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'' when Shabranigdu tells Lina "Those who employ sorcery sometimes live for centuries". There are definitely limits, though, as Xelloss later makes clear.
-->'''Xelloss''': Rei Magnus was a sorcerer who lived five thousand years ago, you realize.\\

* Adventurers in ''LightNovel/IsItWrongToTryToPickUpGirlsInADungeon''. While not wizards per se, though even those who aren't primary spellcasters tend to pick up a spell or two, have potentially longer lifespans than normal members of their race. It is explained that the same divine blessings that allow them to become stronger have a side effect of slowing the aging process and the effect gets more pronounced at higher levels. However being an adventurer is a high risk occupation, there's no guarantee that any given adventurer will actually get to enjoy their potentially extended lifespan.

* The Flames Hazes from ''LightNovel/ShakuganNoShana'' are humans who have made a pact with a powerful demon. From that moment, they will not be older. The anime even shows a Flame Haze, which was over 3000 years old.

* Fluder Paradyne from ''[[LightNovel/Overlord2012 Overlord]]'' attempted a complex ritual to make him immortal but failed it though he was successful enough to be alive at 200. Ainz gave him a copy of The Book of The Dead that could turn him into an immortal [[OurLichesAreDifferent lich]] but it's useless to him as he can't read Japanese.

* ''LightNovel/DaybreakOnHyperion'' has mages routinely living to two centuries barring illness or injury. Samarans lives a comparable time and it is suspected this is because they are inherently magical to some degree. Dhampire's may live even longer, or at least enjoy an extended period of youth.

For some reason, just because you wield magic (or {{Magick}}), even if you don't practice the [[DarkSide dark arts]], your life span is expanded. This can be reasonable if you practice healing magic (as you can heal your body's natural decay). This increased life span is not dependent on [[PoweredByAForsakenChild the suffering of others]] or any other questionable method -- it's just a simple equation. Got magic? Live longer.

* Mages in ''LightNovel/AnArchdemonsDilemmaHowToLoveYourElfBride'' can control every aspect of their bodies, including controlling how much sleep they get despite how tired they are and can live for centuries with ease. Zagan notes that despite this, he's still human and the non-humans who make up his group will eventually all outlive him.

** [[RetiredMonster Gellert Grindelwald]] manages to outlive Dumbledore by a year, before Tom "Uses [[OneHitKill Avada Kedavra]] on EVERYTHING" Riddle comes calling. And this was while he's imprisoned in the top floor of [[HoistByHisOwnPetard the prison he had used to house his opponents.]] Admittedly, he would have been 60-something by the time he was thrown in there, but still.

** Avatars can live longer still. Avatar Kyoshi, most badass Avatar ever, lived for roughly 230 years, the longest of any known Avatar, and presumably retained all her faculties until the very end. Although this is likely a [[WritersCannotDoMath math goof]] that they had to stick with. In one of the very early episodes , they go to her home island and it’s said she was born there over 400 years ago. Roku, her successor, lived to be about 70 and Aang was in the iceberg for a century, giving the 230 approximation. There are plenty of similar math goofs throughout the franchise. The only confirmed character to have lived anywhere that long is Aang, who chronologically lived to 166 years but physically 66. Thanks to spending an extra century as a HumanPopsicle and maintaining the [[SuperMode Avatar State]] throughout that time, and his body [[CastFromLifespan wasn't able to handle that level of strain]].