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** Half-orcs have a shorter lifespan because their non-human parents, orcs, have a shorter lifespan. Indeed, most of the "evil" "brute" races tend to have a slightly shorter lifespan, ranging from dying in their 60s to dying in their 40s.
** Early D&D editions give gnolls a life expectancy of 35 years.
** One of the domains in the [[Ravenloft]] setting's Burning Peaks cluster was inhabited by humans who aged at twice the speed of regular humans, the better to keep its tyrannical darklord's armies stocked with fresh troops.
* In ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'', Eldar are virtually immortal (one of their recently deceased leaders was alive and active at the time of the Great Crusade, 10,000 years ago), and Orks only grow stronger as they age; thus, they have the ''potential'' for immortality (but due to their violent natures, they seldom live long). On the flip side, tau and kroot have natural less-than-human life expectancies. Humans themselves, due to things such as gene treatment, cybernetics and the odd effects Warp travel has on aging, have the potential to live for several centuries-- or at least, [[Fantastic Caste System|Haves do]]. Space marines, being [[Super Soldier]] humans, also have the potential to live for centuries (or even forever, as none has ever died of old age). Chaos Marines, due to the power gained by being card-carrying members of the [[Legions of Hell]] and living in a [[Negative Space Wedgie]], live for thousands or tens of thousands of years, and the Necrons have been around since before the dinosaurs went extinct.
** Being skeletons [[Recycled in Space|in SPACE]], the Necrons don't really count for this, but their Star Gods, the C'tan, who have lived for ''billions'' of years, do.
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