Editing Bone Dragon and Ghost Dragon (section)

== Special Ability: Aging ==
Ghost dragons have the special ability ''aging'', which has a 20% chance to occur after they have attacked a creature stack and before the stack has a chance to [[Retaliation|retaliate]]. It lowers the maximum [[health]] of every creature in the target stack down to 50% (rounded up). The effect lasts for 3 combat rounds, and can only be removed with [[cure]] or [[dispel]]. Additionally, [[non-living]] creatures are immune to aging.

When ghost dragons successfully age a stack, any health lost before being aged remains lost. However, the aging cannot reduce health to 0. For example, a ghost dragon attacks one angel and deals 60 points melee damage before the aging occurs. The angel will have 40 health left, which is the result of the calculation

{{Math|200÷2-60<nowiki> = </nowiki>40}}

If the ghost dragon had dealt 130 damage, the angel would have had 1 health left, which would have been the result of two calculations:

First: {{Math|200-130<nowiki> = </nowiki>70}}

Second: {{Math|Max(70- (200- 100),1)<nowiki> = </nowiki>1}}

200 is the previous maximum health and 100 is the maximum health after aging. 70 health remains after the first calculation (the usual damage calculation).

If cure with a power to heal of 30 is used, the angel would have had 131 health left. The following calculation shows the ensuing result:

First: {{Math|1+30<nowiki> = </nowiki>31}}

Second: {{Math|Min(200,31 + (200- 100))<nowiki> = </nowiki>131}}

200 is the previous maximum health and 100 is the maximum health after being aged. Also, 31 health remains after the first calculation (the usual damage calculation).

''Aging'' has a multiplicative effect with the [[wyvern monarch]]s' [[poisonous]] ability. This means that a creature's health could potentially be reduced to a fourth of its maximum.

Even though [[Peasant]]s are not immune to aging, it has no effect on them unless health-boosting artifact is equipped. They have 1 HP, which means that after being decreased to 0.5 and rounded up, it remains 1 HP.

'''Creatures immune to aging:'''
*{{cn|Black Dragon}}s
{{non-living}}