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[EIVIE]

Basically the title.

I didn't meet yet a mage who didn't died in a battle, so I don't know if they can live longer than normal folks.

[fhs33721]

Basically the title.

I didn't meet yet a mage who didn't died in a battle, so I don't know if they can live longer than normal folks.

You only met mages who died in a battle? I am fairly certain that most mages you meet during the course of the games are in fact still alive and not some sort of undead.

And unless they use some sort of blood magic, I don't think mages can live longer than normal humans.

[Ashagar]

Well think of it like this, human mages before the rebellion generally lived in circles in conditions and luxuries better than even many of the nobility much less the commoners with access to the best medical care in the world. Dalish mages don't live in filthy cities like human and elven city dwellers and also have access healing magic. In both cases their living conditions and medical likely insure they live longer much as humans and elves who live in the countryside have a longer life expectancy than people living in the cities.

[LightningPoodle]

Dying in battle isn't really a good way to judge overall life span. Anyone can die in war. It's the one thing that is guaranteed with it. Doesn't matter who you are, nobility or commoner, soldier or civilian.

But, it is likely they live a few years longer than the average Joe. They don't live in squalor, and get three hot meals a day, and have the safety of the circle walls and the Templars watching over them (this goes for circle mages. As for apostates, they'd live just as long as anyone else).

[nightscrawl]

But, it is likely they live a few years longer than the average Joe. They don't live in squalor, and get three hot meals a day, and have the safety of the circle walls and the Templars watching over them (this goes for circle mages. As for apostates, they'd live just as long as anyone else).

Pretty much. Circle mages had an advantage in this area because they had better living conditions than your average Thedosian. There is nothing in the lore to suggest that, given equal circumstances, mages would live longer simply because they are mages.

[Gervaise]

The other way a mage might live longer is through extending their life through magic.  I believe this is what Avernus did and I think there was a Magister who did the same but was ultimately killed by treachery.    Then there was Zathrian whose life was extended because it was tied to his curse and the Lady of the Forest.   That was a link with a spirit and most of the other examples of longevity seem to be tied to spirits in some way.    Since mages have a closer connection with the Fade and spirits than non-mages, technically this means that this option may only be open to them.

[Wulfram]

Staying young too long is probably something that'd get the Templars investigating you in the Circles