Shattered Kingdoms

I'm curious how aging works for the longer lived races. Do they mature at about the same rate as humans then age slowly or do they grow up slowly also? The first makes more sense to me but I can't see anything about it in help files or anything.

Help Age tells you the age limits starting age to venerable and when your "age ticks" happen. As an elf you age in years at the same rate as everyone else, but you will have more years between your age ticks. The interesting side point is that not all long lives races have a long time between starting age and their first age tick.

Sorry if what i asked wansn't very clear. I'll try to explain better what i meant. Deep elves start at about one hundred years old and humans start at sixteen i think. I'm curious if they both look like teenagers at those ages. Are a six year old elf and a one year old human baby the same size? I was wondering basically if the rate diffrent races grow up is proportonal to their lifespan or it it's something completly seperate. I hope that makes more sense.

I've understood the living process of elves exactly as you described it. An elf is considered to be young at ages around 100 while a human is young around ages of 10 to 20. Thus, your comparision would fit there.

-S

I RPed my elf's 90's (before creation) as teenage-like years. I would think that a six-year old elf is probably not a baby, though.

I think they age physically the same, so that a 1 year old elf is a baby like a 1 year old human, but a 100 year old elf looks like a 16 year old human. An extended youth if you will.

I don't know about here but from what I have read in novels and whatnot, Bryan is right. They develop physically at the same rate as humans, but it takes them longer to be what is called mature.

In either forums or help files, I've read that the starting age is when that race is considered "mature".

Similar to cultures, for example in native american tribes you would be a man around your early teen because you had to go out and help the men hunt. Currently in the US the legal drinking and (arguably) maturing age is 21, but in other countries the legal drinking age is what? (you greeks/aussies/europeans/canadians help me) lower I think, somewhere I heard france you could drink at fourteen, not sure though.

Likewise, in sk, a griffon, being closely rp'ed as pseudo-wild creatures (living in tribes, nesting, etc), just like a wild lion, would be an 'adult' at early ages. On the other hand, an elf, who will live to be 275, is seen as an immature/not-yet-ready-for-the-real-world until 101.

Why? Griffons need to learn to hunt and eat. Elves need to learn about nature, their past, why delves are the devil, and such things.
With short life spans, a griffon would talk about his three past generation in five minutes, an elf would take fifty years.

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