How does Growth scale affect old age?

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Originally Posted by 13lackGu4rd

to answer your question, growth has no direct effect on old age. what growth does is reduce the chance of your commanders getting afflictions caused by old age. death magic has the same effect(so death mages are more resistant to old age than other mages) and fire magic has the opposite effect(as in higher chance of old age related afflictions).

I think you are slightly wrong about fire magic here. Fire magic directly decreases your maxage, it will cause your mages to get more afflictions simply because they grow old faster. But I don't think fire magic in itself affects the chance of afflictions the way death magic does. Nature has the opposite effect of fire, it increases maxage. So for example a F2N2 mage will have no affect on age at all, while a D2F2 mage will have decreased maxage and be relatively older, but also a lower chance of afflictions from the death magic.