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* 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 the biological age of 66 (but the chronological age of 166, counting the time he spent frozen), 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.

** Dwarfs do not have wizards; they can only sense the Winds of Magic in the most rudimentary ways and their bodies cannot conduct it at all. They do, however, have Runesmiths; dwarfs trained in creating runic circuits in stone and steel that they can pour magical energy into to create permanent magical items. Provided they're not killed in battle or by expermentation into novel runes, Runesmiths have dramatically expanded lifespans compared to normal dwarfs, though mostly this is believed to be because old Runelords are simply so stubborn and perpetually overworked they ''refuse'' to die while there's work yet to be done. However, non-Runesmiths like Snorri Whitebeard and Gotrek Starbreaker are also known to have lived more than a thousand years despite Dwarfs normally only making three or four hundred. While still younger than Runesmiths have been known to live to-Kragg the Grim is almost two thousand years old-it's still a potential indication that any Dwarf can vastly extend their lifespan if they are stubborn enough.

* Inverted by [[OrderVersusChaos chaos]] mages in ''Literature/TheSagaOfRecluce''--unless a mage is extremely careful with chaos energy, it will degrade their bodies more quickly than normal, leading them to age and die sooner than non-mages (unless they BodySurf out, as some eventually learn to do; their new bodies go even faster). Order mages, on the other hand, do tend to live longer. The few mages who understand both have a technique to [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld stop aging entirely]], so long as they don't screw around with pure chaos.

* The Druids in Terry Brooks' ''Literature/{{Shannara}}'' series discovered a magical technique called the Druid-sleep that allowed them to live much longer than normal men, with the price that they had to spend much of that time inert, in a suspended state between life and death. [[spoiler: Allanon explains to a young woman looking for her father it also makes them infertile]]. The plot of the first book, ''Literature/{{The Sword of Shannara|Trilogy}}'', was touched off by the efforts of one Druid, Brona, to find a better way of extending their lifespans; he [[spoiler:failed]]. Simultaneously inverted, as Allanon reveals to Wil at the end of the second book, ''[[Literature/TheSwordOfShannaraTrilogy Elfstones of Shannara]]'', that all the magic he used in the war against the demons had physically aged him many years in the space of a few weeks, with his previously entirely black hair having turned all white.

* Merklynn from ''WesternAnimation/{{Visionaries}}''. He was a prominent figure during the first Age of Magic...which was over a thousand years ago as the series begins.

** Dwarfs do not have wizards; they can only sense the Winds of Magic in the most rudimentary ways and their bodies cannot conduct it at all. They do, however, have Runesmiths; dwarfs trained in creating runic circuits in stone and steel that they can pour magical energy into to create permanent magical items. Provided they're not killed in battle or by expermentation into novel runes, Runesmiths have dramatically expanded lifespans compared to normal dwarfs, though mostly this is believed to be because old Runelords are simply so stubborn and perpetually overworked they ''refuse'' to die while there's work yet to be done.

* Oliver Haddo from ''ComicBook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'' does this by [[BodySurf Body Surfing]]. He'll train an apprentice mage and the last part of the training is a FreakyFridayFlip where he'll take the apprentice's body and leave them in his old dying one.

* ''Literature/SweetAndBitterMagic'': Some of the witches have lived from one to three hundred years, which is not presented as usual.

* Thulsa Doom from ''Film/ConanTheBarbarian1982'' is a SorcerousOverlord who claims to have been watching humanity for a thousand years. We don't know if this is true or something he says to impress his followers.
* Vigo The Carpathian from ''Film/GhostbustersII'':
** He 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.
** In the earlier script, he'd never died and just lived to modern day using fake names. Though he did intend to die and transfer his soul into a baby.