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Elves/Kelari and Age
Topic Started: Apr 23 2012, 03:36 AM (807 Views)
Taraela
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So Rih and I were having a bit of a discussion today about Kelari aging. Because it's something of course both of us are/were working on for bio (I will kill whoever decided to gank that for "bathroom break", seriously) reasons.

So some sources/things we used when deciding for ourselves the ration of how many elven/Kelari years equate to human years was this line, from the quest reward, Nalthema:

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...as well as the note, "Age 12". The child's rough scrawl suggests this was written by someone just learning to write, a reminder of how slowly elves age.

So true to fantasy elves are aging slower, typical D&D, Tolkien, etc.

The issue is how much. Well a normal child typically starts really learning to read and write at 5-6ish? Or whatever age you go to kindergarten, I guess. For Sylver that would make it 12 Elf years for every Human year.

However making a guess can't be done on this just alone, from the same book:

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He says I read and write better than any other Kelari my age.

So we also know that Sylver is a bit advanced for his age, so 2:1 may not be correct. At this point it's looking for other sources and when talking with someone over at BoF, they said they saw somewhere that 300 seems to be the lifespan (again a rather typical one), and if you assume maybe Humans get lucky in this world and call it 100 (for old age, barring meeting your end on the end of a pointy sword), it would be about 3:1. That seems like a bit much--Sylver writing at 12, and other Kelari comparable at 18.

So as a sort of middle ground, Rih and I went with 2.5:1. So, you'd see an elf with comparable skills at 15, rather than 18.

Any other sources, thoughts, etc on this?

(PS--This really is another forum open for discussion and all)
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Vakturil
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That makes sense then.

I was just wondering if Sylver was a child prodigy or -for lack of a better term- blossomed when he came to study with Orphiel. Then again, the lead Defiant lore person from launch left Trion at some point, and the religious persecution quest in EI stinks of Guardian, so we might be left without any good answers for a while.

I might ask around on the lore forums though, just to see if anyone has seen something.
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Taraela
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Am I late at all in replying? Nooooo....

So since it was brought up in vent today, I thought I'd go back and visit this.

Re: Sylver:

He may not have been a Mozart-style prodigy, but I image he certainly had to be quite a bit ahead of his peers mentally at least--just because of what he eventually ends up creating--getting the the ascension process down. Although, I don't know. I napped through psychology when they talked about things like intelligence and all.

Yeah...maybe it is time to track down current lore people and kill ask them nicely about these things.
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