Time Abyss / Video Games

• Ancient Domains of Mystery:
  • Mist elves in general. A Player Character mist elf's biography describes their infancy as taking decades, childhood centuries, and youth millennia. The Player Character will start the game as a novice adventurer at around 7,000 or 8,000 years of age, and their maximum life span is around 60,000 or 70,000 years.
  • Rolf, a forefather of the dwarven race, and objects and possibly characters associated with him. His description gives his age as "probably hundreds of millennia."
• The Silver Lady from Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura, while considered incomprehensibly ancient even by the oldest of elves and dwarves, probably falls short of required minimum age by about a thousand years or so. Nasrudin, on the other hand, was considered to be the oldest living being at the time when a certain annoying Silver child was interrupting his works and he is still around at the time the game takes place.
• Kal'tsit of Arknights is implied to be older than she looks during the latter portion of Rhodes Island's feud with Reunion, with the 200 year old Patriot surprised that she looks no different than when he saw her "decades ago". Later side story Stultifera Navis has Kal'tsit herself place her age at over ten thousand, and Chapter 10 "Shatterpoint" has the King of the Nachzerer, himself another example of this trope, call her an "ageless dame".
• The Demi-Gods of Asura's Wrath are an entire race of these. 12,000 years old is basically a few months as far as aging is concerned, and there have been at least 127 emperors, all really old themselves, making the civilization even older than thought. Chakravartin is at least as old as the universe, and it is implied that this isn't the first he's created.
• Although the last remaining bud of the planet-wide fungus Mikollopria that fights as a Battleborn was spawned in 19,209 C.R., Miko's Hive Mind consciousness first gained sentience over a million years before. They are thus in a sense the oldest living being in the entire Battleborn universe having even been sentient during the time of the ancient precursor Aztanti civilization.
• BlazBlue:
  • Rachel Alucard started as "merely" Really 700 Years Old. Put together the Jigsaw Plot, though, and it's revealed that she's lived through, and remembers, every possible iteration of both Arcade Mode and Story Mode, with a full century passing between each. That puts her age at over 72,500 years. No wonder she seems bored.
  • Hazama/Yuuki Terumi, the Big Bad Troll, who has lived though even more time loops than Rachel. It's even heavily implied that the Time Abyss he's been put through is the reason behind his batshit insane behavior; after the millionth or so loop he just couldn't take it anymore, snapped, and set out to put an end to the loops, once and for all. Central Fiction finally gives a full idea of just how old he really is, and he's probably as old (or pretty damn close to) as the BlazBlue universe itself since he's the original will of the Susanooh Unit meant to protect the Master Unit Amaterasu.
    Hazama: How many years... how many years? Oh, how many years I've waited. How many times has this been repeated? How many hundreds of times? How many THOUSANDS? ONE HUNDRED THOUSANDS? MILLIONS? TRILLIONS? I've repeated this worthless comedy show more times than I can count! Hmhmhmhm... yes... just a little bit more... Just a bit more, and it will be within reach — the lost "Embryo". Once that's done, this shitty, worthless comedy show will end. Hatred will beget more hatred. War will beget more war. The party will turn to heavenly disaster, and all of the dead souls will be invited to the Doomsday! And then... a new "BlazBlue" will be born.
• In Bravely Default, when your now former ally, Airy reveals their true nature and intentions to the party, they reveal their plan has been in the works for, in their own words "Eleven hundred million years". As in, they are no less than 1.1 billion years old at the time the events of the game take place.
• Chrono Trigger
  • Lavos, whose life cycle was over 65 million years long, and that's only counting the amount of time since it landed. There's no telling how long it spent on its birth planet or how long it drifted through space before landing on ours.
  • Queen Zeal probably also qualifies, at least in any time period other than her native one. By the time Lavos is due to rise, the Queen is 14,000 years old; she's probably gone more than a wee bit crazy from spending millennia locked up inside the Black Omen with—from the look of things—absolutely no one else to talk to. Note further that she had indeed achieved the immortality she sought; had the Lavos timeline played out, she would have eventually been the very last human—indeed, the very last ANYTHING on that world.
  • Chrono Cross shows that Lavos can live in the Time Crash. Every time Chrono or Serge defeat Lavos, it just retreats there, picks a different timestream where it didn't die, and returns. How long has it spent in the Darkness Beyond Time, learning history from different time streams?
  • It turns out that the Nu are also this, as in the DS remake one can be fought in the prehistoric era and shows up for round two in the Dark Ages.
  • Which also explains why Spekkio's strongest form is a red Nu. "The stronger you are, the stronger I look", to paraphrase. He too is probably an example as he's the embodiment of magic... possibly.
  • Spekkio lives in "The End of Time", some sort of vaguely-explained dimension that exists outside of time. So how old he is would be a matter of perspective. To him, time probably doesn't have much meaning.
• In Civilization, the player is this. They take control over a civilization back in the Neolithic and observes millennia of its history during their rule.
• Kane of Command & Conquer is revealed to be on earth since the dawn of humankind at least, guiding mankind from cavemen to where they are at the end of Tiberium Twilight.
• Contra: Hard Corps has Brad Fang, a cyborg werewolf super soldier with a gun for an arm who is apparently over 100 million years old.
• Dark Souls III
  • Slave Knight Gael, the final boss of The Ringed City DLC. Gael was a lowly cannon fodder knight for the gods in their heyday, and by the time of Dark Souls 3, the Gods' time is long gone, making him one of the oldest existing undead in the series. By the end of the DLC, you travel to the end of time to face him, where everything is nothing but ruinous ash and dust. Through unbelievable dedication and willpower, Gael was able to live for millennia, possibly even billions of years, of consuming the dark soul of everyone on earth to harvest the Dark Soul of man to help his niece paint a new world. In the end, his will was so strong that he became the apotheosis of everything the gods feared about the potential of man, and this nameless man all but outlived every single one of them.
• Dead by Daylight:
  • Benedict Baker's journal entries for the three original killers are dated 1896. That's nowhere near as long as most of the examples on this page, but it's a long time to be in the Entity's realm.
  • The Plague is a particularly strong example; she's been killing people for the Entity since the days of ancient Babylon, making her several millenia old.
• In Dicey Dungeons, Lady Luck casually mentions at one point that she's older than humanity while describing Dicey Dungeons as the world's longest-running game show.
• Doom Eternal: The Dark Lord of Hell, Davoth, is said to be around a decillion years old... which is around 72 trillion trillions of times longer than the physical universe has existed (Justified: in Doom: Eternal lore, this universe was created long after Hell was). Likewise, the Father is even older, if indeed age is a concept that can be applied to such a being.
• Dragon Ball Xenoverse: The Supreme Kai of Time, Tokitoki and The Demon God Demigra all existed 75 million years before the show started.
• The Elder Scrolls
  • From the series primary Creation Myth come Anu and Padomay, the anthropomorphized primordial forces of "stasis/order/light" and "change/chaos/darkness", respectively. Their interplay in the great "void" of pre-creation led to creation itself. It is from their spilled and intermingled blood that the et'Ada would emerge.
  • All of the et'Ada, pre-creation spirits, qualify. Depending on their actions during creation, they would come to be known as either Aedra ("our ancestors" in the old Aldmeris language) or the Daedra ("not our ancestors"). All have existed since before linear time was even conceived of as a concept. Of them, Akatosh, the Chief Deity of the "Nine Divines" pantheon, was said to have been the first to manifest out of the raw energy of the universe. Perhaps fittingly, he governs over time itself. The Dawn Era came to an end when he and the other pre-creation spirits settled into their roles, with Akatosh specifically creating linear time as a concept.
    • This also includes the lesser et'Ada, such as the lesser Daedra and the dragons, who are divine lesser Aedra. There is no definitive answer regarding the origin of dragons other than that they come from Akatosh. A Dremora, a member of a lesser Daedra species, upon being questioned simply answered that dragons "just were, and are," with no definitive beginning. The very concepts of mortality, being finite, and being temporary are so alien to dragons that these words, spoken in draconic, were used against them in a mortal-created Thu'um shout which temporarily cripples dragons.
  • The Hist are a race of ancient, sentient, and possibly omniscient trees native to the Black Marsh where they are worshiped by the Argonians. They are said to be the oldest beings on Tamriel, older than any Man or Mer, and were around to see the wars of the Ehlnofey during the Dawn Era, before linear time had even been conceived of as a concept. According to The Annotated Anuad, the Hist were originally from one of the 12 "worlds of Creation," which were destroyed by Padomay, the embodiment of change, and reassembled into Nirn by Anu, the embodiment of stasis. This would make the Hist literally older than the world itself.
  • The eponymous Elder Scrolls themselves, referred to as "fragments of creation", are a history of all time — what was, what might be, what will be, what could have been — written in a complex, mind-searing form. Also, while each Scroll is a definite object, any scroll that a sentient mind isn't keeping track of may or may not exist.
  • The Dwemer as a race, but likely not the individual Dwemer themselves (though with their abilities, it isn't out of the realm of possibility). It is said that, during the Dawn Era (an era before linear time existed while the mortal plane was still settling post-creation), they studied the "death of the Earth Bones", essentially the laws of nature and physics, to find ways to manipulate them.
  • In Oblivion's Shivering Isles expansion, you meet Dyus, keeper of all the knowledge Jyggalag's library held (which knew all the actions of all beings divine, mortal, and creature) prior to being being made immortal and imprisoned by Sheogorath when he destroyed the library. It's unknown how long he's been imprisoned, but given that Sheogorath was Jyggalag before being cursed by the other Daedra, it's probably a good bet it's been a few thousand years.
  • Gelebor and Vyrthur from the Skyrim DLC Dawnguard are the last two original, uncorrupted Snow Elves from the time of the war between their race and the immigrant Atmorans (who, in time, would become the Nords). The reason for Gelebor's longevity is presumably a special blessing from Auri-El (the Elven name for Akatosh), and Vyrthur is a vampire, one of the first in Nirn that wasn't directly converted by Molag Bal.
• Akron, the final boss of Epic Battle Fantasy 3, muses on this in his Boss Banter. He has lived for billions of years and no longer even remembers when or how he came into being. He remarks that he has been defeated, weakened, and imprisoned countless times, but ultimately, he endures while his enemies fall to the ravages of time.
• The four Ancients from Eternal Darkness are all millennia old at the least.
• Fable.
  • Jack of Blades is one of three demon-like creatures from the Void and was old before the world was made.
  • Scythe is hinted to be the original Archon, William Black, who lived in the time when mankind was young and forged the Sword of Aeons and ruled the Old Kingdom for millennia, and it still alive millennia after it fell.
• Fate/EXTRA: The Moon Cell, an unbelievably powerful supercomputer in orbit around Earth (aka the Moon), has apparently existed before the Earth itself had even finished forming. Who built the thing is entirely unknown, though most believe it has to be aliens, since it pre-dates all life on Earth, and even pre-dates the gods.
• The Creator from Final Fantasy IV: The After Years is implied to be several thousand, if not several million, years old. Old enough to conduct biology experiments on a macroevolutionary timescale.
• Final Fantasy VII
  • Jenova crashed on the Planet some thousands of years ago. It saw/caused the extinction of an entire sentient race. Its implied life cycle is similar to Lavos from Chrono Trigger, as described earlier: going from planet to planet, wiping out all life, absorbing all the souls on the planet, and then moving on to a new world to absorb (with god knows how long spent in space in between).
  • The WEAPONs, on a smaller scale. They were created when Jenova landed, and are biological weapons that protect the Planet's consciousness from any threat.
• Garland from Final Fantasy IX is at the very least 5000 years old, having started the process of assimilating the player's world of Gaia with his world of Terra that long ago through a ridiculously complex procedure too nonsensical to fully explain here, but it's never stated how long he lived before that. Ancient structures he built on Gaia can be explored as dungeons filled with Lost Technology. He's watched the growth of all the major civilizations on the planet. For example, he built the massive Iifa Tree and is responsible for the natural phenomenon called "Mist".
• The fal'Cie from Final Fantasy XIII have been around for thousands, if not millions of years, and it's very possible that the vast majority of them will live eternally until they are killed. No wonder they all want to die.
• Zero from Final Fantasy XIV was born shortly before the Thirteenth became the World of Darkness. This makes her several thousand years old, the only older characters being Hydaelyn, the three unsundered Ascians, and possibly Midgardsormr and Omega, none of whom were born as ordinary people, and most of whom are dead or in some form of stasis as of her introduction.
• The Elder Dragons from Guild Wars 2 are stated to awaken about every ten-thousand years, with heavy implications that this is not even the second or third time they've awakened, drastically changing how old the world is. And on a smaller note, the human gods and titans may also qualify.
• Halo:
  • The two monitors we see in the original trilogy, 343 Guilty Spark and 2401 Penitent Tangent, were both built around the same time as the Halo rings themselves, which was over 100,000 years ago. Penitent Tangent was captured, and we don't see much of him, but we clearly see that the years have turned Guilty Spark into a narcissistic nutcase. Mendicant Bias, another AI made by the Forerunners, betrayed its masters and sided with the Flood, much to its remorse; by the time the games takes place 100,000 years later, it is broken and fragmented, only appearing in certain terminals the player can activate and read in Halo 3.
  • The Gravemind. It was around long before any of the above-mentioned AIs, and fought against the original Forerunners. The Forerunner Saga reveals that it's millions of years old, since all Graveminds past and present share the same consciousness (that of the Flood Hive Mind), with the Primordial Gravemind having been the last Precursor, the race responsible for the existence of humans, Forerunners, and every other sentient race seen so far.
  • The Precursors have been established to be millions of years old, but Halo: Silentium shattered all expectations: They have existed for over a Hundred. Billion. Years. Somehow, they are several times older than this universe.
  • The Didact is 10,000 years old at the time of the Forerunner-Flood War, while his wife, the Librarian, is 11,000 and eternally young. Forerunners as a race usually live to be thousands of years old, thanks to the incredibly useful armor every one of them wears. In fact, their highly advanced interstellar civilization itself managed to thrive for over ten million years.
• Honkai Impact 3rd has Fu Hua. Random dorm chatter reveals that she knows the original writers of ancient Chinese texts and "The Forgotten" event reveals that she was among those who helped establish ancient China. She is in fact over 50,000 years old, being one of the only survivors of an earlier advanced civilization that was wiped out by the previous awakening of the last Herrscher.
• Some of the characters of Hours (2020) are implied to be extremely old.
  • The second boss, "Bloxxerman", has the title of "Builder of the Realm", which implies that he existed even before the realm of HOURS even existed.
  • One of the Hosts, the Witness may be this based off of his scrapped description, calling him "Memories from the Beginning of the Realm", imping that he is as old as the world.
• I Was a Teenage Exocolonist: Vertumna, the planet on which colony is settling, once had a native sentient species. Said species exploited the planet until it could no longer sustain it and its survivors left on a spaceship, with one last set of orders for the Gardeners, the array of AIs in charge of producing food and managing what little nature there was left: to please restore and maintain the planet's ecosystem. That was 20,000 years before the humans even showed up. The Gardeners whose priority is to continue protecting the ecosystem are attacking the human colony on a regular basis because they see humans as an invasive species that will ruin thousands of years of hard work because of their inability to think beyond the next hundred years. Meanwhile, the Gardener who is trying to figure out a way to keep humans around considers that even if humans do end up repeating the errors of the native sentient species, the Gardeners can simply fix things again, as they already managed to do so before.
• Aurelion Sol, the Star Forger from League of Legends is THE oldest being in Runeterra's universe. His lore confirmed as such: The being now known as Aurelion Sol was already ancient by the time stellar debris first coalesced into worlds. Born in the first breath of creation, he roamed the vast nothingness, seeking to fill a canvas of incalculable breadth with marvels whose twinkling spectra brought him considerable delight and pride.
• While many of the more powerful vampires in the Legacy of Kain series measure their lifespan in millennia, the crowning glory has to go to the Elder God that helpfully resurrects and guides Raziel on his Roaring Rampage of Revenge in the Soul Reaver branch of the games. Considering that the Vampires and the humans fought for untold thousands of years, then Kain won the war and destroyed the Pillars of Nosgoth, and then the Vampires ruled for thousands of years after that before the first Soul Reaver game, it's something of a shock to realize that this tentacle-and-eyeball-laden entity has been guiding souls across the Wheel of Fate to their resurrections and/or final rest for all of it and longer. Until you find out in Defiance that it was all a big lie and he was eating said souls; he's pissed at the vampires because their souls are delicious but, being quasi-immortal, he can't eat them any more!
• A few Winglies in The Legend of Dragoon are stated as having been alive during the Dragon Campaign, which ended over 11,000 years ago. Likewise the Divine Dragon and every surviving Virage is from that era as well. Lastly, Rose actually fought in the Dragon Campaign and has been spending the centuries since then hunting down and killing the Moon Child.
• The Legend of Zelda:
  • By the time of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Ganon(dorf) is an Ancient Evil that is so old his origins have faded to myth, rising time and time again due to Demise's curse.
  • The mummified monks in the shrines that Link finds all over the world in Breath of the Wild are all 10,000 years old, including Maz Koshia.
  • In Tears of the Kingdom, after some Time Travel to Hyrule's founding, princess Zelda takes The Slow Path back to the present in the form of the immortal Light Dragon, roaming Hyrule's skies for untold millenia. Perhaps fortunately for her, she does not remember much of it when Rauru and Link restore her to normal.
  • Likewise, the Sage of Spirit Minaru stores her spirit in Zelda's Purah pad just before her body dies to a gloom infection. The pad is then entrusted to a sentient construct to be delivered to Link millenia later.
  • It's never stated how old exactly the Deku Tree is, but his huge size and the fact that he barely changed in a hundred years hints that he is centuries if not millenia old.
• Sentient A.I. Durandal from Marathon plans to survive the collapse of the universe and witness the big bang that creates the next one. He lives to the end, but chooses to stay.
• Mass Effect
  • The true age of the Reapers is not known, but even the absolute minimum figures given are staggeringly high. Mass Effect establishes they are part of a cycle that occurs every 50,000 years, Mass Effect 2 pushes that back to at least 37 million years (or rather, the lucky shot that killed a Reaper eventually impacted a planet 37 million years ago), and Mass Effect 3 confirms the existence of a Reaper corpse over a billion years old.
  • The end of Mass Effect 3 reveals the Catalyst, an AI housed in the core of the Citadel. It was what masterminded the creation of the Reapers, so it at least as old as the oldest of them, probably more so; it describes itself as being created "eons ago," which if it is taken literally, means it is at least two billion years old.
  • In the "Control" Ending, Shepard becomes a Time Abyss. "Eternal. Infinite. Immortal."
  • The Prothean VI Vigil has been around for at least 50,000 years, most of those spent entirely alone. In Mass Effect 2, Shepard is informed that Vigil has shut itself down and all attempts to reactivate it have failed.
  • The Thorian saw the rise and fall of the the Protheans more than 50,000 years ago, and is thought to be more than 100,000 years old.
  • The Leviathans are the best example in the series, being the race that created the Catalyst. The one the player meets describes itself as the progeny of the survivors of the first harvest. Their lifespan is unknown but that is still a long time for a single species to remain unchanged.
• Mother:
  • EarthBound (1994): If its name is taken completely literally, the third sanctuary boss Trillionage Sprout is 72 times older than the universe itself!
  • In Mother 3, Porky is this, due to having achieved immortality through repeated abuse of Time Travel. When you meet him, he's bedridden due to his insane age, and utterly bored with all of creation, but underneath that he's still the spoiled brat he always was. He says that even he doesn't know how old he is anymore. Might be 1,000 years, might be 10,000. Who knows? Truly exemplified in the ending, where he traps himself in the Absolutely Safe Capsule. You can't hurt him... Nothing can. Not even age. Forever and ever.
    • And he loves it.
• Owing to the the fact that NieR: Automata is set 8,545 years after the end of NieR, Devola, Popola and Emil qualify because they're around for the events of both games. Somewhat. Devola and Popola are not actually the same ones from the first game but they are of the same line and were also overseeing Project Gestalt elsewhere. And Emil is a clone who nonetheless has been fighting the machine lifeforms for as long as he can remember.
• Games from Nippon Ichi often have characters with ages in the thousands, if not higher; some highlights:
  • Marjoly from Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure has her age listed in the World of Disgaea artbook as 1,509, putting her at the same age as Flonne. Likely justified through Wizards Live Longer, as is her rival Akujo, who kicks off Rhapsody's sequel with her 1,000th birthday.
  • Disgaea: Hour of Darkness has Seraph Lamington at 9,147 years old. You wouldn't know it by looking at him.
  • Makai Kingdom has Badass Freakin' Overlord Zetta's age listed as somewhere within the range of 30,000 years old. Dragon Overlord Babylon is stated to be even older, having ruled the entire universe eons ago. One potential ending can have Pram rule the cosmos for tens of billions of years with no end in sight.
  • Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories: While little is actively known about Overlord Zenon, it is implied that Zenon existed for over 1 million years prior to the story's events.
• Planescape: Torment's Player Character The Nameless One would have become this if only he wasn't cursed to forget everything upon each death. He has been around for millennia but has only the scraps he can recover during the game to prove it. His scars are another story altogether. Incidentally, the person who gave him that immortality is still around. As is the Big Bad, The Nameless One's mortality, who cannot die while he does and does remember everything The Nameless One has ever forgotten.
• Pokémon
  • Arceus is heavily implied to be the creator of the Pokémon universe, if not at least the God of Pokemon as it is the original Pokémon that came before all others. A special event in HeartGold and SoulSilver, where Arceus offers the player a choice of three legendary Pokémon (Dialga, Palkia, or Giratina), gives a glimpse of the sheer enormousness of what it has lived through.
  • Dialga, Palkia and Giratina themselves are an example. Dialga's Pokédex entry even states that time itself started to flow when it was born. By extension, the Lake trio (Uxie, Mespirit and Azelf) are also as old.
  • Mew is believed to be the ancestor of all Pokémon, though this probably doesn't apply to the above.
  • Wartortle is said to live 10,000 years. Though not as extreme as Arceus, that's still a long time.
  • Heatran might also be extremely ancient, as it was apparently born from lava that pooled at around the same time that the earth was first formed.
  • It is noted in the Pokédex that Rayquaza has lived in the ozone layer for several hundred million years because it gets its energy from water particles and sunlight in the ozone layer, meaning that it doesn't ever need to go down on solid ground to survive. It is for this reason that its existence went into legend as it hardly ever left the sky. For perspective the reign of the dinosaurs was approximately 200 hundred million years on this Earth, Rayquaza is at the very least slightly over 3 times older than the existence of the dinosaurs.
  • Kyogre and Groudon are mentioned as having produced entire seas and continents. If this is talking about the entire Earth, then they are at least 4 billion years old, but if it is talking about the region of Hoenn then it could be at least a few million years. In Emerald, the elders who have the orbs that are said to control Kyogre and Groudon don't ever specifically call those two or even Rayquaza by name, only claiming them to be super-ancient Pokémon, which is putting it lightly.
  • Xerneas and Yveltal from X and Y are at least 3000 years old when the Great Offscreen War happened. How long they were in existence before that is unknown, but they're said to be the embodiments of Life and Death in the Pokéverse.
  • Genesect's Pokédex entry states that it existed 300 million years ago.
  • Eternatus is said to have arrived in Galar from space inside a meteor 20,000 years ago, with it likely being far older than that.
  • Since Zacian and Zamazenta are said to have subdued Eternatus when it caused the Darkest Day in Galar, they're also at least 20,000 years old, long enough for many people to forget they had even existed at all.
• Primal Rage: All of the Virtuous and Destructive Gods are at least a million years old.
• The Princess, The Stray Cat, and Matters Of The Heart: Due to how much quicker time flows in the Netherworld (1,000 years can pass in the Netherworld in the span of a few days on Earth), the Matriarch and the Netherworld sisters are more than likely tens of thousands of years old if not more. In the sequel, Euracia says that she's 10,000 years old, and is likely not kidding!
• Marduk from Sacrifice makes the claim of Time Abyss during his final appearance. His innate purpose, apparently, is to destroy all 'unworthy' aspects of creation (and he doesn't seem fussed about collateral damage), which would make him as old as existence itself.
• Seedship: The ship itself can become this in a long-running game, with some dialogue mentioning the ship's "small nuclear power plant has lasted far longer than the civilization that created it."
• The Secret World:
  • Khalid, the mysterious hermit roaming the dunes of Egypt, claims to be one of the original members of the Four-And-Sixty — a group which predates the Big Three (all of which are several thousand years old).
  • Another hermit mage, namely Cucuvea, is believed by the Illuminati to be one of the oldest living creatures in the entire world. True, they haven't been able to pinpoint her precise age, but it's up there alright. It's hinted that she's actually a sister to Lilith herself, and has been tracking her down through all the previous Ages of the Earth.
  • Yet another mysterious hermit, the nature spirit Mosul, claims to be older than the mountains of Transylvania.
  • The infamous Humanoid Abomination Lilith has been around since the Host first created the Earth: she was one of the very first humans in existence, created some of the planet's most terrifying monsters, was responsible for a massive number of atrocities throughout history, and has lived through every single Age of the world. In other worlds, she's lived through three consecutive reboots of the universe — which could put her age well into the billions.
  • Naturally, this label applies to the Host and their creations, including the Jinn and Gaia... and of course, the Dreamers who might very well predate the universe and all its Ages, having been used to create it in the first place.
• Singular Stone has the Guardians protecting the titular Stone at least since 2 million years ago except the newly born Rin and Len. Much of their time were spent inside their crystal form, though it's implied they're still retained their awareness during that times.
• Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time reveals that Clockwerk, the Big Bad of the first game is much older than supposedly 3200 years old, having existed during the Ice Age. He also somehow was able construct his metal body around that time, too.
• Sonic Unleashed has Dark Gaia and Light Gaia AKA Chip who are the same age as the Earth and have lived through multiple cycles of destroying and rebuilding the planet. In fact, Chip himself claims they have existed since "the beginning of time."
• Star Control:
  • The second game has the Slylandro, gasbag aliens who live on a gas giant, both as a race and individually. They're the only ones in the entire game that ever met the Precursors, whose teachings they still use, and the one you personally speak to remembers when the Ur-Quan were still brown, rather than split into green and black, as they used to visit often back then. This split, that also caused both of them to become slavemasters and genocidal (respectively), happened over 20000 years ago.
  • Star Control: Origins has Jeff, the "god" of the Mowlings. He is an automated artificially intelligent probe sent to the Milky Way from the Triangulum Galaxy, though since his creators are long since dead and gone he's not sure what his original purpose was. He finds it amusing that you refer to the Precursors as such (they lived around 200,000 years ago), and mentions having been around long enough to witness the galaxy complete several rotations, which means he's at least several hundreds of millions of years old.
• StarCraft:
  • The Zerg Overmind can legitimately claim to be ancient, but has some demerit points on his Time Abyss license since being killed off. Silly Dark Templar with the ability to kill off parts of the Zerg Hive Mind. (Of course, he got some of those points removed since it was revealed he intended to die).
  • Samir Duran, in Brood War, certainly hints that he has existed probably as long as the Overmind and possibly longer still.
    • In Heart of the Swarm it turned out that he is actually an ancient shapeshifter known as Narud who served Amon, the Overmind's creator. Legacy of the Void shows that he is a Xel'naga, and thus older than the universe.
  • Starcraft II Heart Of The Swarm introduces the Primal Zerg in general and Zurvan/The Ancient One in particular (Zurvan being older than the Overmind).
• Sunrider: Space whales are stated to live for millions of years. When the crew encounters a pod of them during an optional mission in Sunrider 4: The Captain's Return, Sola marvels at the thought that these ancient creatures have lived through the rise and fall of the Holy Ryuvian Empire, which itself is older than recorded human history.
• Strongly implied to be the case for Rosalina, from Super Mario Bros. While she's explicitly at least centuries old, the ending to Super Mario Galaxy has her reveal that she's overseen the death and rebirth of the universe many times in the past, meaning she is likely at least tens of billions of years old.
• A throwaway line in Stray says that the game takes place almost seven million years after humans died out, with the addendum that that's how long it took for robots to spontaneously develop sentience.
• The Supreme God Sol for the Super Robot Wars Z saga "reboots" the universe for every 12,000 years. Although the one that appears in the Grand Finale is a mere copy of the original, it's implied the cosmic cycle of destruction and rebirth has occurred at least 10,000 times.
• Ratatosk and the Centurions in Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World are implied to be somewhere around 10,000 years old (the age of the original World Tree of which Ratatosk is the spirit).
• Touhou Project:
  • The franchise usually settles with "merely" Really 700 Years Old characters, but there are a handful which are truly ancient. Most notable is Eirin, who routinely claims to be infinitely old (relative to everyone else anyway) and was a mentor to some of the gods who took part in the Creation Myth of Japan. Her age is most likely measured in millions of years.
  • Suwako Moriya may look like a little girl donning an unusual hat and a cute dress covered with funny frog prints, but she is actually a native god who is 2300 years old at least, predating even Shinto's presence in her region. And for an even deeper look into the abyss we have the Mishaguji, the serpentine curse and fertility gods that ruled the Suwa region before Suwako arrived and subdued them. Though their exact age and origins are unknown, it is believed that worship of Mishaguji began at some point during the Middle to Late Joumon period, so probably about 3000-5000 years ago.
  • Yuuka Kazami is an implied example as well. She is stated to be one of the most powerful youkai in Gensoukyou by sheer virtue of being one of, if not its outright oldest resident. In Phantasmagoria of Flower View, several characters are confronted by the local judge of the dead who warns them about the sins that may end up getting them sent to hell once they die. Yuuka's sin is determined to be that she has lived too long... To put that warning into perspective; the only other people who are known to get on the Celestial Bureaucracy's bad side for living too long are hermits who have eluded death for approximately ten times their original life expectancy (that's to say, they've been around for a millenia). By contrast, youkai in general are The Ageless by nature, with a few of them having lived for well over a thousand years without getting into conflict with the Ministry of Right and Wrong... No matter how old Yuuka may be, she's likely not just merely "old", she's ancient.
  • In the licensed fanmade game Touhou LostWord, a version of Youmu who goes by the Mysterious Sword Master has lived through thousands of years along with many Groundhog Day Loops as she vows to protect Yuyuko.
• Water Womb World centers around a Catholic researcher who's searching for evidence of the Garden of Eden at the bottom of the sea. While there, they discover an apparently-modern fish that seems to date back to the Jurassic period, making it hundreds of millions of years old. The next fish they find similarly predates "multiple geologic periods", and the protagonist speculates (even in their addled state) it might have been one of the first living creatures on Earth, period.
• Asgard the golem from Wild ARMs 3 gets sent back in time with a extremely simple learning program and comes back via The Slow Path having developed sentience in the meantime.
• World of Warcraft
  • Loken, a Titan-appointed guardian evokes this trope by explaining that he has held watch over Azeroth for countless millennia and seen the rise and fall of civilisations, the birth and extinction of entire species.
  • Nordrassil, the World Tree, is at least ten thousand years old. So are some dragons and various godlike entities. Many night elves are as well, wether they experience all that time in the physical world or the Emerald Dream, but generally don't have the gravitas you'd expect.
  • Many Draenei remember their homeworld Argus, from where they fled over 25,000 years ago. Since it's implied that they spent much of their trip through the Nether in suspended animation, their exact age is hard to guess...but it's known that they lived on several worlds before ending up in Azeroth, so it'll still add to a very long time. Velen, their leader, is the only one that really looks old, so it could be that he spent less time in suspended animation, or that he was old even when they lived on Argus. The Lords of the Burning Legion, being originally members of the same race, are the same age too (and they've been active for the whole 25 millennia, too).
  • Many Titan-constructed facilities can be found around Azeroth. Depending on the source the Titans either created Azeroth or shaped it into a life-supporting planet. In either case, the buildings are tends of thousands of years old at the very least, possibly several million years old. Some are very intact and still guarded by the Titan's constructs.
  • The Old Gods, who supposedly inhabited Azeroth before the Titans came along.
  • The Dragon Aspects aren't quite as old as the planet, though they aren't far from it. Nozdormu, however, lords over all of time. Until something "happens", he can also see every possible route time MIGHT take. At one point, he became trapped in time ('how long' is hard to say given the nature of the thing). Every moment of time. At once. Including all the infinite alternate routes. When Thrall finds him, he is awestruck to see his entire life at once played out with a different memory on a different single scale of the dragon's massive form.
  • Xarantaur the Witness definitely fits the spirit of this trope, if not the letter. He was a historian from before the Sundering who, at the moment of his death, was taken up by the Guardians of Time and given immortality so that he might witness (hence the name) and record all of Azerothian history. Among his duties is comparing his own records against the records of society around him, so he'll know if someone has been messing up the timestream (again.)
  • The Eternal Ones from the Shadowlands such as the Arbitor and the Jailer are supposedly even older than the Titans, making them one of the oldest creatures in existence.
• Xenogears
  • Deus is a superweapon that crashed on the planet the game takes place on 10,000 years ago. It's been trying to repair itself ever since, and created the people of the world to serve as spare parts.
  • Miang serves as Deus' physical avatar, and has been manipulating every civilization since the beginning to serve Deus' needs, although she survives through BodySurfing.
  • Emperor Cain and the Gazel Ministry were the first humans created after the crash 10,000 years ago. Cain still has his body, but the Ministry uploaded their minds into a computer centuries ago.
  • Fei and Elly themselves have been continuously reincarnated since the crash. Late in the game, Fei finally regains all the memories from his previous lives.
  • And topping all of them is the Wave Existence. It created the universe. BY ACCIDENT.
• Xenosaga
  • Wilhelm is exactly as old as the universe, as it is his job to rewind it to the beginning, along with himself, in order to prevent its eventual dissolution. Rather like a cosmic version of a Windows reinstall. By contrast, U-DO is claimed to have 'observed' multiple cycles of Wilhelm+ universe, but being in a different time stream, it's not clear whether it really qualifies as 'older'.
  • It is implied that chaos was around during the birth of Christianity, and quite possibly even before that. Xenosaga is a bit over 5000 years into the future.

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