Getting rid of a disease ?

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Originally Posted by chrispedersen

I wasn't suggesting that the mechanism only worked sometimes.
I was saying that sometimes it is not feasible to empower in nature (or other appropriate) to make the commander not old.

If a commander has n1, and is 3 years over the age limit, 30 nature gems to allow a valuable arch mage to be healed may be something to consider.

If the mage is 574 years old, and old age started at 500 you are probably not going to empower him = ).

In that last situation it would certainly fix it, since nature magic increases old age threshold by 50% of original maxage. So if old age normally started at 500, empowering 1 level of nature would push it to 750. IF it already did have 1 nature and maxage with that was e.g. 450 (with base maxage at 300), empowering to N2 would push maxage to 600 and it would still not be old.

The aging mechanics are listed quite thoroughly in the FAQ.

The healing afflictions section does need a slight reworking, which I'll get around to doing soon.

EDIT: FAQ updated