I thought you were probably that long-lived. Not that you look a day over thirty though, obviously. Mages, in my sphere, can live to six or seven hundred if they're careful.

[ Istredd is genuinely curious about all the ways in which certain types are the same. Humans, elves, he wonders about angels too, if Lucifer and his brothers have other world counterparts. A question for another day.

He smiles wryly.]

I'm still just shy of a century so considered young.

[ It is often what Stregobor says when Istredd's annoying him. At five hundred or so years, his youthful former protege can be very irritating in his 'naivete.' ]

I'm not sure if it's frustrating or relief that conflict will never end no matter what sphere or race.