How do magi actually die?

[YR7]

@ezzelino

As has been pointed out Warping 10 does not guarantee Final Twilight.

This is one of the great advantages of Hermetic "warping" vs. many of the hedge wizard traditions, where a character goes insane/transforms into a monster/is carried off by a powerful mystical being etc. when hitting Warping 10.

While technically correct, the book strongly implies that 10 is the practical maximum:

@page 32

A typical magus also gains an average of 2 Warping Points [...] per year, so there are very few magi much more than 120 years out of apprenticeship.

I have always considered that, in practice, some mishap or another will send a character to Final Twilight shortly after he reaches Warping 10.

A longevity ritual provides half the warping, on average. I consider botches during laboratory experiments or spell-casting to be the major source for the other half.