Old mages and Blood Nations

[Quitti]

True. Vans spring to mind, though they are maxage 1000...

[FAJ]

You can get to rejuvenate faster than boots (at least in CBM afaik). I sometimes will use rejuvenate on a Warlock with good picks if construction6 will take longer to get to than the next winter. It is fairly situational though.

[thejeff]

He stays 70, but gets no afflictions from old age.

[FAJ]

They may have caught diseases from some other means.

After many many games with Abysia, I have found the correlation between BoY and not catching diseases to be convincing enough to count on them as reliable.

[Edi]

There are so many mechanisms for getting disease that it's not funny. If you got toad rained, that's 5% disease chance right there for every occurrence. Sites, certain units in province, getting hit in combat (even a regular affliction from a battle may be disease) etc, all are possible culprits. I've never gotten any midwinter afflictions for any mage wearing BoY.

[Stretch]

I had a Vanjarl get stuck with an amulet of lycanthropy and eventually become a 500 year old skinshifter. Massive old age penalties, but he lasted 12+ months with no afflictions!