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— Lorien, There are the old, and then there are the truly old. People usually die within a century or so. Cities and nations may last a few millennia, and we think them old, but the truly old are so much older. They were already old when all the nations we know were born, even those now.
They can speak of Ancient Athens and Babylon, for to them those ancient cities. They were there when brick was first laid on brick, over five thousand years ago. They may have watched the trilobites come, and go, with eyes older than the stars. They may even be older than time itself. Contemplating such immense spans of time is like looking into an abyss, an inducement to vertigo, for they are more than we can grasp. Oh, we can talk about them easily enough, just more big numbers, but. We all know what a second or a week feels like; a million years (or even ten thousand) is beyond all human experience.
It is from this incomprehension that this trope draws its power, when done right, an evocation of incomprehensible age that appeals to our sense of wonder. Naturally, a Time Abyss must experience all the years they claim. It doesn't count if they. While a Time Abyss is normally a person — perhaps not technically human, but a person nonetheless —, everything from cities to coins. Imagine an that has been sitting on the moon for three billion years. Think about all it has seen; the slow dance of the continents, the long march of evolution, the sudden flowering of civilization.
Think, and wonder. Geographical features can't qualify, though. We expect the hills to be old as dirt. We do not expect people, to be older than the hills. Five thousand years or so is a decent estimate of the minimum age needed to qualify for this trope, excluding any hypothetical, and yet, in, a Time Abyss will typically be far older than that. Geological time scales are usually involved.
In modern-day works of a religious bent , Adam and Eve (or Cain) are likely candidates, as the first ever living sapient creatures. Or major is often a time abyss, as are and Elves (depending on how, many aren't old enough to follow this trope). These characters may decide that there's because. May even oscillate between and bored eternity. Meta-trope of, where the being in question finds themselves the last survivor of their civilization, race, or even species long after their kind has become myth.
Being a Time Abyss will often lead to a work's creator wanting to engage in some to show just how much they remember. See for when a long time has passed between two events. The 2000 Year Old Man: as titled, he wouldn't be old enough to qualify, but he claims his oldest memories are of living as a caveman. And he says he met Moses. Many in all incarnations are millions of years old. Some individuals are older than the entire human species.
For an idea, in the cartoon, Optimus and Megatron had been battling each other for millions of years before arriving to Earth. There's also how Shockwave didn't change much during the four million years the Autobots and the Decepticons in the Ark were in stasis (well, except for being minus one hand). The Thirteen are considered old even by the standards of their species, including and The Fallen. The first creations of Primus, they were old before the war that's been going for millions of years got started. They don't even have faction insignias, since they pre-date their formations by eons (their toys notwithstanding).
In the Thirteen are said to have battled Unicron in ancient times. Unicron eventually became Earth by collecting debris as he drifted through space. In the canon novel Exodus, which takes place a few million years ago at most, Alpha Trion, one of the Thirteen, speaks to Optimus. In case you haven't figured it out that means Trion is at least five billion or so years old. Kup and Alpha Trion from; Alpha Trion was around when the Quintessons were driven from Cybertron — about twelve million years ago.
Kup could be anywhere from just as old to maybe 'only' ten million years old; he's certainly older than Optimus Prime, who is at least nine million years old. Alpha Trion, in other media, was retconned into being one of the Thirteen, although this. The Quintessons themselves, or at least the ones who were personally around before they lost Cybertron (e.g. The three-face who built the Transorganic energy-leech) also qualify.And that's not counting all the. Starscream is so good at that he betrayed time!
Starscream: My was destroyed, but miraculously my endured, thorough the depths of space, of time itself! —, 'Possession'. states that Transformers actually can die of old age. It just takes a little under a billion years for it to happen. In fact they're so long-lived that, for many years, Cybertronians believed themselves to be biologically immortal, expressly because they'd never actually seen someone die of old age. Another continuity ( Transformers Regeneration One) has the Transformers aging much faster after their universe is cut-off from Primus, the multiversal being that created the Transformers and influences every universe they appear in.
In, immense temporal units get thrown around casually, emphasizing just how long it is that they can live. For some examples, Ratchet, whose general demeanor is is middle aged, is millions of years old. Meanwhile, in a third season episode flashing back to Prowl's joining of Optimus Prime's team, Prowl claims to have spent a million years in meditation before they disturbed him, and shortly afterwards, Optimus casually refers to 50 or 60 years as being 'no time at all' before they can all head back to Cybertron.
IDW Kup, mostly seen in, was already old when he was sent back in time to the beginning of the Dead Universe. Having taken back to the present before returning to the normal universe none the worse for wear, he is almost definitely older than the universe itself. villain was born in ancient Egypt and in various cartoons/comics boasts about things like how 20th/21st century superpowers/technology are no closer to besting him than Babylonian fire sticks were. from is implied to be this. Although he doesn't give an exact date, he does drop a mention that he's been around since ancient times.
The Millennium Earl from is implied to be thousands of years old. He fought an as of yet unnamed hero wielding the Heart of Innocence during the Great Flood. He's the First of the Noah, and the only one who never reincarnated; moreover, while this made fans speculate that he was the biblical Noah, it's been recently implied that he's actually Adam. The Kais.
The youngest-looking of them is over five million years old and has not aged visibly in that time. Old Kai is roughly seventy-five million years old, according to. The wizard Babidi, considering his father was killed five million years ago. Unlike the Kais though, Babidi does look quite old. states that Beerus was the one who sealed Old Kai in the sword 75 million years ago. As mentor of successive gods of destruction, Whis is probably a lot older than this.
Majin Buu, the of the Buu saga(and Babidi's / ) came into being five million years ago. Or rather, that's what people believe. Buu has actually existed since time immemorial. While Bibidi (Babidi's father) thought he had created Buu, he actually only summoned him., the true in, is old enough to remember the universe before the Big Bang. He states that the silence was peaceful and that the cacophony of life is abhorrent to him. His entire goal is and return to that nothingness.: Zoalords Archanfel and Waferdanos were born before the last Ice Age, making them at least three million years old. The aliens who created them had been tampering with life on Earth pretty much since it first appeared, a billion or so years ago.
The Pillar Men from are an ancient race of vampiric superbeings, stated to have been around since before the dawn of mankind. Ajimu Najimi of is orders of magnitude older than the universe.
Apparently it was quite boring before the Big Bang. Garterbelt is one in, being forced to relive all of Earth's history since the dinosaurs by God. The Observer of Time in: Pluralitas Concentio.
Ayato becomes the Observer at the end of the movie. It isn't clear how old is in (or how long she's ), but. The Choushin from. For an uncounted period of time they searched for a being greater than themselves. It's unknown how long they existed like that, assuming time even applies to that state, but they eventually created the entire multiverse of space and time and have been around ever since. And if that doesn't mean anything to you, then one of them created a physical body to exist in which she is still alive and kicking over twenty thousand years later. In, the Light of Ruin was a that has literally been around for eons.
The living ruins under the town in. Older than sentient life, they exist to cause an of madness and destruction. The story is just one cycle of their purpose. The Kiltgangs in are so incredibly old that Teppei notes how weird an ordinary day (and life) on Earth feels. Then there's also the problem that anyone the Designer's Children kiss will be confronted via a telepathic kiss with memories worth eons upon eons of aggressive space warrior lifestyle.
Dragons in are mentioned to have lifespans on the magnitude of billions of years. Mammoth Mogul from is an immortal, and at least twelve thousand years old. The Life Entity is the oldest being in existence. It triggered the birth of life in the first place. Nekron, the cosmic void's response to life, is the second oldest being in existence. The being known as Relic is even older than the Life Entity, since he is the only remaining member of the LightSmiths, who were the first discoverers and users of the emotional spectrum, doing things even the Guardians couldn't even imagine.
Relic is from the previous universe before the current DC universe the Life Entity created.: The Guardians of The Universe, source of 's power. They were among the first sentient races to evolve, and are several billion years old - as individuals, that is, not just as a species.
Additionally the other races that share ancestry with the Guardians, like the Zamorrans and the Controllers. Enemies of the Guardians, such as Larfleeze, Atrocitus, and the older Manhunters, also have ages in the billions.
The Emotional Spectrum entities, born from the emotions of sentient life, are similarly old. Each one is stated to be the first living thing ever to experience the emotion of which they are an embodiment.
foe and the other Many-Angled Ones were some of the first creatures to ever exist in the multiverse. has quite a few long-lived characters which have been around since the humans were still in their stone age (with later stories taking place in a medievalish period), but ignoring those that got there by skipping millennia still leaves some examples: Two-Edge must be pushing twenty thousand years, was a legend in two troll kingdoms that have since crumbled, and had more or less secretly significant influence on the technological advancement of humankind. His mother, Winnowill saw her tribe of elves go from wild forest dwellers to civilised, was cut off from them and watched/played with humans for some ten thousand years. She was venerated as a goddess by two entirely separate human peoples. Timmain spent most of her time as a wolf, but probably still counts.
When the immortal shapeshifting aliens that were the ancestors of elves were stranded on the World of Two Moons, she had lived through their space flight, which was long enough for the marmot and butterfly like animals they brought along to evolve into sentient humanoids. Before that, she was the last of her kind who remembered that they used to breed - which the immortals had given up due to overpopulation of their planet.
In, Frau Totenkinder was originally a tribal shaman in the Paleolithic era.: All indications are that Mr. Immortal is destined to be Galactus's equivalent in the next universe. His power is being completely incapable of dying (or rather, of staying dead). Not even the most powerful of omnipotent beings could, meaning that he will be this trope, whether he likes it or not. predate the creation of the universe and want to escape it. Also, another survivor of a previous Creation, possibly the same one as the Jin En Mok, possibly not.
Lucifer ruled hell for 10 billion years - which means every single angel and lilim is older than this. The is full of this. Is the sole survivor of the universe existing before the Big Bang. Each member of the Elders of the Universe is the last survivor of a forgotten race from billions of years ago who fanatically pursues a personal obsession such as collecting, gaming or fighting.
The Proemials were born as the Universe was created, the Elder Gods emerged before life first appeared on Earth, the Eternals are a million years old (created by the even more ancient Celestials), the various Gods are thousands to tens of thousands of years old, the Master of the World is forty thousand years old, the Neanderthal Cole witnessed the sinking of Lemuria twenty thousand years ago, the mutant Selene is seventeen thousand years old, and Black Axe is almost fifteen thousand. Perhaps the most extreme non-cosmic example of the Marvel Universe is He is a sentient bacteria who lives on Earth since the beginning of life on the planet, making him over 3 billion years old. The of the Fourth World and their predecessors, the Old Gods, who predate the DC universe. Walker from. He's at least old enough to have been part of a clan of missing links, and his DNA has continued to mutate and evolve over time so that he fits right in today. Perhaps fortunately, perhaps unfortunately, maybe about a hundred years. Things towards the beginning of that span start fading and getting blurry, and eventually are replaced with new memories.
Occasionally a catalyst can give him flashes of some long dormant memories, though. The world of is implied to have a handful of inhabitants that inspire one of the quotes on the quotations page. For the most part, we are, somewhere. We do meet one or two of them, though. The Endless, Lucifer, and any other angel are said to be ten billion years old, the figure used as the age of the universe. Though information revealed later in the comic seems to contradict this somewhat: only Destiny is anywhere near the age of the universe, whereas the rest of them only came into existence when lifeforms complex enough to experience the concept they embody first evolved (then again, lifeforms that qualify include and, pushing things much earlier than might be expected). The angels and other mythical beings exist in a strange Schroedinger-esque state of being as old as time itself and — or put another way, they were already ancient when they came into existence.
Thessaly, a human being (as opposed to cosmic spiritual entity) and powerful witch, sounds Neolithic when she describes her age in A Game of You. Brief Lives starts one chapter with a rough count of the number of humans and human-like beings on Earth who remember mammoths, Atlantis (the first one), dinosaurs, and were around before the Earth formed. Then it follows a 15,000-year old lawyer on his way to work, until he's crushed by a pile of falling bricks. Endless Nights shows all the Endless around and established when the Earth was still cooling and lifeless, and the green energy of the Guardians of Oa was just a budding research project. So, at least four billion years old. Wendel's Mound was a theatre before Shakespeare's race came to Britain. Dream: 'Before the humans.'
. introduces beings even older than The Endless: their parents Time (Chronos) and Night (Nyx).
DC's Time Trapper is this. One possible past is Superboy Prime. All the incarnations show the Time Trapper was born at least during the 30th-31st century, but survived to operate at the end of time itself. Knuckles the Echidna and Chaos in was alive during the great war between the Echindnas and the Drakons which happened over eight thousand years ago. is one of these, though you'd never know it just by looking at him. He began life as a caveman, and became immortal when exposed to.
It was revealed in: Revelations that Savage is Cain. In an episode of, it was shown that he was still kicking thirty thousand years after the end of the world, which, incidentally, he caused.
Savage's arch-nemesis, the. Or maybe not; originally, every time he died, he reincarnated as a baby. Thanks to some scientific experimentation on his current incarnation, he now straight-up resurrects - and survives in this incarnation up through the future of.:. Namor has been imprisoned for over 9000 years. The worst this did to him was to cause a bit of muscular atrophy, like astronauts suffer from. Likewise the Super-Skrull, the oldest living Skrull, is over a billion years old.
The setting of qualifies, simply because they don't know how old their civilization is. Oh, they have time travel technology, and they have fixed dates for historical events at around our present and beyond - they just don't know what date it is RIGHT NOW. At some point, the ridiculously advanced society simply lost track of what date it was; they currently tell time by counting the amount of years from the historical events of their own history. The two main antagonists of are (in the popular origin story that she was Adam's first wife before Eve was created) and a named Malus. So both of the bad guys have been around for as long as the human species has existed, or longer.
The one-shot story Strange Visitor depicts a Superman in a universe where he started fighting crime, but grew. By 2013, he's stronger than his mainline counterpart and has barely aged. But he finds, as the story goes on, that he's truly, and by the end of the story, he's literally survived to the heat-death of the universe. Even moreso, that he can hold back the heat-death of the universe, which he does so for billions of years, until the last life in the universe (the god Anu) dies. Even through all this, though, he still remembers to save a group of astronauts that were lost in time in 1939.
'THIS MEANS NOTHING TO ME. I SHALL BE LAST. THERE WILL BE ONLY DESERT. AS IT WAS IN THE BEGINNING I, CHAOS, WILL RULE.' . In the, due to absorbing the Dog and Horse Talismans, Jade has, and has been trapped in the Shadow Realm so long that she was already ancient by the time Egypt started the Shadow games thousands of years ago!. Spirits in are functionally immortal; Ammit the Devourer (yes, ) and the One-Eyed Black Cat, two demons of unknown origins, still remember the Egyptian gods of old, and it is theorized some of the bedsheet ghosts in the Mansion are millenia-old ghosts who have, by now, completely forgotten their mortal life, and may have been Neanderthals for all we know.
will eventually turn every Looper into one of these. Subjectively, anyway. In, casually mentions that she and her sister Celestia are more than four hundred million years old. Pinkie Pie, wonders how she'll ever fit that many candles on her birthday cake. cranks this when mentions her true age.which is a bit upwards of four billion years old.
Pony fanfiction in general likes to dwell on the princesses' staggering, incomprehensible age. Because they have the perspective to know it'll all blow over in a few decades. In the, the Concepts (including which Celestia, Luna, and Discord) are this if they didn't. Celestia reveals at one point she was present for the Big Bang, meaning she's at least 13 billion years old — and she's one of the younger Concepts. That also doesn't take into account the fact time doesn't exist as we know it in the spirit world and they are likely far older than that. If only her physical body is taken into account, she's still several thousand years old The are even older, predating time itself.
And have seen the birth and death of the universe several times. In fact, Fauna Luster is the birth of the universe and Entropy is its death. Tirek and the Moochick are both so old that they predate ponies as a sapient species.: the Nightmare is old enough that it cannot even remember if it was male or female. In ('Elpis', Greek for 'hope'), Celestia is not just older than the universe—she is so incomprehensibly, unfathomably old that she has lived through the birth and death of countless universes.
Every single time the universe comes to an end, she is forced to re-experience her memories of every single universe that had ever existed up to that point, and then is given a choice: to end the universe for good, or to 'try again' and start the universe over from nothing. And every single time, she chooses to restart the universe, hoping that she can prevent this time. Over, and over, and over.
In, along with the canon Alpha Trion, Jetfire/Skyfire is also that old. It's heavily implied that he was the consort of one of the original Primes. In, the roots of wizardry come from an ancient, powerfully magical civilization that existed on Earth about seventy thousand years ago. They created a race of to serve as shock troops in war, and, predictably enough,. Those shapeshifters later became the Amerai, and the clan heads are still almost all original created Amerai, rather than newer born. From, claims to be over 400,000 years old, and that the alien force she, are even older.
The Originals of have lived for twelve thousand years. The Eternal War of has raged between the Angels and Demons for five hundred trillion years. Maledict and Allysion are even older than that; they helped create the entire universe several times over. in has been estimated to be 1.68 decillion years old (That's 33 zeroes. Or to put it another way, he's lived through roughly a billion billion universes). Near the end, Shinji realizes one of the is even older than he is.: Many of the older Legendary Pokemon have been around for millions of years. A century in a Soul Dew doesn't really bother Father Latios as much as missing out on raising his children.
The infant Lugia encountered in the Whirl Islands is alone older than human history. The fic features Kishar, a female demon who, along with her friends, imprisoned Trigon in another dimension two hundred million years ago. The friends made a, while she remained guarding the prison. In the end, she got bored and created humanity to have some company. Toward the end of the story, Kishar summons Death (to discuss the repercussions of a certain difficult choice made) and casually mentions it's been nearly a billion years since she last did that. has the personifications of some of the world's oldest cities, such as Jerusalem or Athens. Older still are the beings Cities consider to be the first of their kind, immortals of mysterious origin who reside in Africa and witnessed the birth of the first creatures we would recognize as human.
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And older, possibly, than them are the that sleep in the depths of the earth, one of which once said,. In:., creations and servants of themselves, are stated to have existed for a millennium., the of Annuvin, who died several centuries ago, is revealed to have existed centuries (possibly millennia) before that through various means. In the universe, Doctor Strange admits that, between his longevity and constant time travel, he doesn't remember how old he is. He stopped counting at 100,000, and roughly estimates he's about five times that. Walter: Every ten or eleven thousand years or so, I make a terrible mistake. The creature that possesses the body of Grant Grant in claims to have been around for a billion years, which is likely considering that it travels from planet to planet via meteorite, a mode of transportation that takes tens of millions of years at minimum.
John from is just about fourteen thousand years old, according to his own count. The nameless monster from, played by Robert John Burke, gives a speech about how he was there 'When you were young', referring to life on Earth itself, in which he mentions that the period of time before we evolved into fish (i.e. The Precambrian era) was very boring for him. The Djinn in uses the most extreme variation, noting that his kind is older than time itself, possibly unintentionally created by God, and stuck in the void between worlds.
Godzilla is suggested in the prequel comic to have survived the Permian Extinction and shifted between dormancy and active hunting across two hundred fifty million years, appearing at various points throughout human history. The MUTOs eggs laid dormant in a massive skeleton for millions of years. Malekith and the Dark Elves from, who have waited in hibernation for thousands of years since losing the war against the Asgardians.
Their race has existed since before the universe, and Malekith seems to remember the time before the light. In, the late Abrasax Matriarch was over 91 thousand years old when she died. Of the 'younger' generation Kalique recently passed the 14 millennia mark and she's the middle child. In, the Witch Queen claims to remember the times before mankind. Depending on which hominid you consider to be human already, her lifespan could be measured in millions of years.: Unlike other werewolves, Stirba can restore her youth.
She is very nearly ten thousand years old. Taken in the Russian dub, where she predates humanity. Dwellers in are old enough, and patient enough, to have populated the entire galaxy. Without faster than light drives. Individuals are explicitly said to be billions of years old, which means that dwellers are essentially a first-generation society. The Chee are androids who came to Earth before human civilization and have since lived through most of human history. Erek, the one we see most often, casually mentions that he helped build the pyramids, among other things.
(Though he just helped haul stones, an interesting subversion of the theory.). The Ellimist, who was already millions of years old when Earth was just beginning to form. Circus of the Damned, the third novel, features a vampire named Mr. Oliver who claimed to be 'older than time' which she took as hollow boasting until she realized he wasn't a human vampire, but a Homo erectus vampire. Due to the, he went down far more easily than many enemies since then, making him rather disappointing in retrospect.:.
The spacecraft Rama in. However, the sequels show that Rama is actually much newer than it seems, or at least undergoes maintenance fairly often. In, Diaspar has survived a billion years.
wrote the Athanor duology, where the title character of the first book, Changer, was literally one of the first two life forms on the planet, even before there were continents. Any and all demon-like entities in. For example, Bartimaeus used to be best friends with Ptolemy, and at that point, he was about 3000 years old.
The Disciples of Aldur and Torak in 's and Malloreon. Polgara is the youngest coming in at a 'mere' three thousand years old when the series begins. Belgarath himself is the oldest at seven thousand and shows no signs of dying any time soon. They don't generally act it, but they can be very casual in mentioning events that happened centuries previously in ways that other characters find disconcerting. The Belgarath the Sorcerer really hammers it home when you realise that he's almost as old as human civilization itself. The term is used explicitly in the tenth book of by Glen Cook, as Blade ponders the perspective of the demon Shivetya, who is nearly as old as the plain of glittering stone between worlds and who may be as old as (or older than) the gods themselves.
If the gods can be said to have properly existed. Saetan, Andulvar, Mephis, Prothvar, Hekatah, and Cassandra from the series, all remember a cataclysmic war fifty thousand years ago, Cassandra more so than rest, as she is from a short-lived race among the Blood, meaning her natural lifespan should have been one fifty, at best, compared to the five thousand of the long lived races, never mind Geoffrey, Draca or Lorn, the first being from an ancient race long, long forgotten even fifty thousand years ago, the latter two being dragons who created the Blood in the first place. In, High Wizard Aemon (around five thousand) and Emperor Alwellyn of the elves (over six). In fact, Alwellyn is only the second Emperor the elves have ever had. in Rob Thurman's series casually mentions his encounters with famous historical and mythological figures, from Freud to Bacchus. He also mentions being around since before humans came out of the caves. Although he never comes out and says it, it is surmised that he is hundreds of thousands of years old.
has Alera, basically the of the country, who remembers the last few ice ages. 'I have seen thousands of millions of years, Octavian.' . In, Qfwfq recalls memories from before the Big Bang. Days of Solomon Gursky begins with a normal human discovering the secret of living on after death via nanites as a result of a tiny choice he makes. He ultimately lives until the end of the universe as an increasingly powerful post-human but regrets having lost his wife. At the end of the universe he and other galaxy-sized super-beings use the collapse of reality to create new simulations of the universe, letting him outlive his own universe.
However, the new universe is one in which he makes the opposite choice and doesn't discover immortality. The Flowing Queen from the not only happens to be one of the old gods, who walked the Earth long before ancient Egypt, but also is stated to be older than any form of life in a sea. The Salaxalan ghost in.
He has been around literally since the beginning of life on Earth, which means that he literally spent two billion years surrounded by mud and 'slimy things with legs'. The time has driven him. A little bonkers. In, Anghammarad is a nineteen-thousand-year-old golem who finds work as a post officer. He expects to wait for the next universe (golems believe time goes in circles), so he will be able to deliver that one message he couldn't. As he says about 'big green things with teeth'.
Quite appropriately, he is given the position of 'Extremely Senior Postman'. And he/it's a comparative newcomer compared to the Golems of Um in, none of whom are less than twenty thousand years old (they don't speak the same common language, and that's at least twenty thousand years old), and some may be as much as sixty thousand years old.
In, the first Bogeyman reminisces about the days before men had fire and metal, when the continents were different. Anybody who lives in his realm will never die, simply. 'You don't die here. You just get old. Listening to the laughter.'
. Similarly, the Elf king in dreams not just of such a time in the past that he witnessed personally and ruled over, but of the time to come when such will happen. The of Time is described as old, not for humans, but old like darkness and stars. And then, of course, there is, who was there when the first lifeform died, and whose job it will be, at the end of the universe, to metaphorically put all the chairs on the tables and turn out the lights. Then there's his boss, Azrael, the Death of Universes, who can think on the answer to a question for long enough that a star can be born, live, die, and collapse into a black hole, and whose body parts are most easily measured in terms of the speed of light. According to, Death won't just be there to metaphorically 'close up shop' but he'll be there when the next universe starts up.
At first glance, he is merely middle-aged or elderly. It quickly becomes apparent that he has some kind of personal knowledge of the past six thousand years of his country's history. At the end of the novel, it's shown that he is, more or less, a living.
In one sense, that means he's as old as ETERNITY, but he only experiences it six thousand years at a time. In, the Luggage spends so many millennia buried under the soils of XXXX that a layer of opal forms on its surface. While this could be a case of sleeping through the Time Abyss, it's awake and bored enough to be even more pissed than normal when someone finally digs it up. Similarly, in, the Luggage gets stuck in the earth on our world for a couple of geological periods. The Great A'tuin and the four elephants who stand on his back.
How many millennia have they watched the play of stars and felt the feet of mortals walking upon their backs?. The dragons introduced in 's can live to be thousands of years old and can remember clearly enough to calculate their ages by counting sunrises backwards. Furthermore, they also inherit the memories of their ancestors, although those memories tend to fade over a large number of generations as they're spread over a progressively larger number of descendants. Dolittle encounters Mudface, the turtle who was a passenger on Noah's Ark. In a posthumously published volume, Dr.
Dolittle and the Secret Lake, we eventually get to hear the Mudface's story of the Great Flood which is alluded to, but not presented, in the earlier volume. The eponymous villain of the spin-off novel (written by ) has prolonged his life through dark magic for thousands of years, and can recall living through events that are now dismissed as superstitious myths. (And when he finally dies, his last thought is the realization that, despite this, his entire lifespan is still only an eyeblink in time.). In the series, Sethra Lavode: a vampire sorceress at least a quarter-million years old, with enough power to make gods nervous. Nicodemus and Tessa are two humans who act as hosts to.
Tessa was sold as a slave in ancient Egypt, before she met Nicodemus (who was already immortal and old at that point) and he gave her a coin containing her Fallen Angel. Nicodemus's precise age is unknown, as he makes a point to destroy the church's records of him every few centuries, but he wears the rope Judas used to hang himself around his neck as a tie. The angels that inhabit them are even older. At one point, Lasciel mocks the idea of Harry trying to change her mind, pointing out that if she hasn't in the thousands of years since she fell, he certainly isn't going to make a difference. Additionally, she boasts of living through 'infinite thousands' of years, which might as well be true if the of the series is the actual creator of the universe.
implies that predates the ice age. Cold Days gives the creation of as around seventy-five thousand years ago ( ), and it can be assumed that Demonreach came into being then or shortly (relatively) thereafter. The is a textbook example. Humanity doesn't know how old he is, because they haven't had a written language that long. is comfortably older than human civilization (Mother Winter is even older).
The construct Archive (not its hosts, who expire) is also somewhere in the region of five millennia old. Then there are the various gods who are at least as old as their religions - so some of them will qualify. We also have the Old Ones, ancient who have been banished from the world in ancient times - but are probably far older than that. In short, The Dresden Files is full of examples.
J'osui C'reln Reyr, the 'Creature Doomed to Live' in novel The Sailor on the Seas of Fate, who disobeyed Arioch and was condemned to live until he returned, ten thousand years later. Turtle in An Exaltation of Larks. Turtle is essentially a time traveler from the end of the universe where entropy has reached maximum and the underlying fabric of reality begins to break down - meaning he is at least a trillion years old. When the protagonist conjures up a number for his age (one hundred billion), Mr. Turtle simply laughs. Damon Julian of is old even by vampire standards.
It's impossible to say exactly how old, because he was born before vampires had language. At one point, his rival Joshua York argues that Damon isn't really evil, because deep down, part of him is still just a wild animal that can't imagine survival without killing weaker animals. The universe features numerous characters that are tens or hundreds of thousands of years old - the vast majority of humanity are.
Quee Lee, a recurring character, was originally born on Earth eons ago - and was one of the first people to receive the immortality treatments and emergency genes. The short story Alone features a sentient robot which has been walking the hull of the for so long that it no longer remembers its name, function, or origin. The short story 'Grotto of the Dancing Deer' by has an immortal human who was at least twenty-thousand years old.
He tells an archeologist friend that he has learned to survive by 'being on the fringes, always an observer, never a participant.' . Luthe's teacher Goriolo in 's 'could almost remember when the moon was hung in the sky.'
The heroine's late mother studied with Luthe. For calibration, Luthe remembers the previous active Great Dragon, 'one hundred generations ago'. Several beings and even races in Andrey Livadny's have lost count at several billion years old. While this may put them in the category, they are still around. One novel in particular deals with an living in the magnetic fields of a gas giant that members of a call God. A scientist contacts the being and finds out that it is the oldest being in the galaxy and, possibly, the universe.
The mindless Forerunners that were originally thought to be the oldest lifeforms in the universe were, in fact, this being's creations meant to carry it from its dying homeworld to other gas giants. The Forerunners also had rudimentary DNA, and many of them ended up dying on planets.
Starting biological life. So, yes, this being is God in this sense. Others, while younger, include the Evolgs, a race of, and the Emulotti, whom the Evolgs helped to escape a race of known as the Shvergs.
All this happened billions of years ago, and still-functional Emulotti/Evolg machinery has been found. This kinda puts the other, better known races, who have been around only three million years ago, into the category of 'just happened.' . Marvin the Paranoid Android in. In he ends up thirty-seven times older than the universe due to incautious use of time travel.
It starts when he's stuck on a planet from circa 1980 through the end of time.