You can read about the shabti race at this link.
I am going to play a shabti. One of their racial properties is that they are immortal (not unkillable, but ageless). However, the listing for this notes that if they suffer from magical aging or some kind of forced aging, they can be aged "as normal."
The problem is that what is normal is not listed. They are classified as outsiders, and all other outsiders (aasimar, ifrit, oread, tiefling) share the same aging scale: 150 years (middle age), 200 years (old), 250 years (venerable). However, shabti are also listed as having human (but ideal, like an aasimar) anatomy. So maybe they should have the human aging scale?
I also ask because I'm trying to enter this as a custom race in the sCoreForge spreadsheet, and it requires me to select another race as the base for the aging scale. So what do you all think makes the most sense?
Is the author of the race around? The race is from the Mummy's Mask Adventure Path (part 6, Pyramid of the Sky Pharaoh). I think F. Wesley Schneider is responsible for it.
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I think it mean that if they are subject to something that add n years to their actual age there is no effect as the haven't a new age bracket every X years.
If they are subject to something that put them in a specific age bracket (like Sands of time that say: "You temporarily age the target, immediately advancing it to the next age category) they get the effects of the new age category.