To the best of my knowledge, age, like alignment and a few billion other
features I could mention, is currently a kludged together balance/annoyance
feature. It is not anything approaching what it would be in real life. Most if
not all of aging is based off of the strain of being revived from death. As
such is more strongly influenced by how often you do eq than by how many
winters have chilled your bones. Probably most everyone thinks this should be
changed to something more rewarding and interesting. I suspect that the
majority of players and the majority of wizards actually have very similar
wish lists, but I can assure you the balance and coding issues with most of
the items on them are too hellish to implement before we are all pushing
ancient. Ah crap, I tried to be witty again.