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Maxage affects rate of afflictions. Agarthans, long-lived Celestial Masters, Gygjas (if they are old, I don't remember), Crones who are old but have lots of Nature magic boosting their maxage... they all are less likely to get more afflictions. Philosophers probably have maxage 50, and are thus more likely to get afflictions that most mages given as contradictory examples in here, and Abysians are the nation that suffers the most AFAIK.

Death magic protects from afflictions. I'm not sure of the rate, but Death 4 or 5 probably makes the mage totally immune to old age, and only few Ktonian Necromancers got nasty afflictions in a game in which I had Death scale 2 or 3. It didn't last very long, and I DID get couple of diseases and few other afflictions, but it was a minor effect.