History ReallySevenHundredYearsOld / Literature

* ''LightNovel/IveBeenKillingSlimesFor300YearsAndMaxedOutMyLevel'': Azusa, who is at least 300 years old but still looks 17, along with most every other non-human character such as the dragons, the demons, and the slime spirits, who've all looked like young adults or little children for several decades or centuries.

* The vampires in Poppy Z. Brite's Literature/LostSouls play this straight ''and'' subvert it a little. While ageless, its hinted at in the book that due to their violent lifestyles, someone or something tends to kill them sooner or later. Christian, the oldest vampire we meet in the book, is "only" a few hundred years old. Zillah is 100 years old, and Molokai and Twigg a bit younger than him.

* In ''LightNovel/TheExecutionerAndHerWayOfLife'', Pandaemonium looks like a ten-year-old child, but is an immortal who has lived for over a thousand years.

** {{Downplayed}} with Sally from ''Literature/Thud'' She looks about sixteen but is actually eighty, which is relatively young for a [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire vampire]].

--> '''Tom Bombadil:''' Eldest, that's what I am. Mark my words, my friends: [[ThirdPersonperson Tom]] was here before the river and the trees; Tom remembers the first raindrop and the first acorn. He made paths before the Big People, and saw the little People arriving. ...When the Elves passed westward, Tom was here already, before the seas were bent. He knew the dark under the stars when it was fearless--before the Dark Lord came from Outside.
*** In a weirdly meta sense Bombadil is ''older'' than the world: he and Goldberry were originally from a poem Tolkien wrote in school and the setting grew around him.

-->"You've trained as a doctor, haven't you? I can't stand bloody doctors, especially when they're five years old."

* Creator/KarlEdwardWagner's Literature/{{Kane}} looks like a very muscular and strong man in his forties, while in fact he's been around since the dawn of time, as he was [[Main/CainAndAbel one of the first humans]] created by a MadGod. He also met most famous leaders and artist throughout history, including legendary ruler Halbros-Serrantho (whom he served as an advisor) and [[MadArtist mad poet]] Opyros.

** Don't forget Cernunnos, [[UpToEleven who's even older than Hekate.]]

** Dumbledore is in his 110s throughout the series and still badass enough to take on [[BigBad Lord Voldemort]] at the end of the fifth book when he's 116. His eventual death comes from a {{Curse}} and not any sort of natural cause. The only other characters who are for sure in his age range, his brother Abeforth, oldest friend Elphias, and Grindelwald, are also healthy. The former two survive the series but the latter only dies because he lets Voldemort kill him. Ron’s great great aunt is also 107 in the last book and healthy.

* ''LightNovel/IveBeenKillingSlimesForThreeHundredYearsAndMaxedOutMyLevel'': Azusa, who is at least 300 years old but still looks 17, along with most every other non-human character such as the dragons, the demons, and the slime spirits, who've all looked like young adults or little children for several decades or centuries.

** Dragons are not immortal, but they will only get StrongerWithAge. Balerion, the dragon rode by Aegon the Conqueror, was born before House Targaryen moved to Westeros. It died of old age during the reign of Viserys I, Aegon's great-great-grandson, 208 years later. Vhagar, the dragon rode by Aegon's sister-wife Visenya, lived to the age of 182, dying not to old age but to wounds sustained during the Dance of the Dragons.

* In ''Literature/AeonLegionLabyrinth'', most citizens of [[ShiningCity Saturn City]] are several centuries old since they have technology that can [[TimeMaster roll back time]] to [[TheAgeless restore their youth]]. They observe a cultural tradition of dyeing a lock of their hair silver for each lifetime they live. Most of them now have [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair completely silver hair]].

* ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'': [[WitchSpecies Channelers]] enjoy a drastically extended lifespan, the extension likely dependent on power and usage. The oldest living Aes Sedai—and a powerful one at that—is approximately 300 years old. [[spoiler:The oldest living ''channeler'' met in the series (the Aes Sedai Oath Rod drastically ''reduces'' their lifespan) is about ''800'']].

** It is explained that after a certain point in their life all [[WitchSpecies warlocks]] stop getting older, and so go through the centuries. In the late 1990s or early 2000s, there are said to be eight warlocks still alive who were born before the pact with Raziel and are therefore over a thousand years old.

* Wanderer from ''Literature/TheHost'' claims to be thousands of Earth years old, though she admits that she's lost count of her real age. Plus, she's spent a large chunk of her life in suspended animation. Her species doesn't age, though it makes no difference to their apparent age -- they survive by taking host bodies, so they look only as old as their hosts.

* Roman Soldier Casca Rufio Longinus pierced the side of Jesus with his lance as He hung on the Cross. This atrocity put Casca under a curse... he would live never-dying as a wandering soldier until Christ's Second Coming. The late Barry Sadler's acclaimed book series ''Literature/CascaTheEternalMercenary'' (22 volumes; 18 by other authors) explains the anti-hero to be over 2000 years old, having fought alongside such historical names as Attila, Cortez, Marco Polo, Adoph Hitler and George Washington.

* Magnus Bane from ''Literature/TheMortalInstruments'' and ''Literature/TheInfernalDevices''. While his exact age is never given we know that he looks around nineteen and has to be older than two hundred and younger than seven hundred. Historically speaking (and given that Camille wasn't lying about his anchestory) he can't be much older than three hundred years old. In ''The Mortal Instruments'' he is implied to be lying about his age (telling Alec that he's eight hundred years old) while ''The Bane Chronicles'' flat out state that he lies about it whenever it suits him. He eventually admits to being around four hundred.

** The Seelie Queen claims to have met Thomas the Rhymer, which gives her an age of at least eight hundred years. However, it is implied that it is significantly older.

** In ''Literature/Endymion'', which take places 272 years after the original books' events, [[spoiler:Martin Silenus is ''still alive'', and although it is never stated as a fact, he is almost certainly the oldest human being in the universe.]]