(07-07-2015, 02:49 AM)Bazzar Nicklebottoms Wrote: Hey! I'm really worried about asking a bunch of stupid questions on the forum but here we go anyway!

I'm making my first RP character and I'm wondering how age works with different races, if any differently at all. I'm just really paranoid about messing something up with my first character so forgive my pointless newbie question >.<

Quote:Q: What are the age scales of every race? How long do they live and how long does it take them to become an adult?

Fernehalwes: Okay, yeah I asked about this and I was told that age-scale wise the five races biologically they can live about- they have the same lifespan as we do here on earth. They can live one hundred, one hundred and twenty biologically. The thing is, here we have modern medicine, we have jobs that don't take us on to the battlefield, we have food in refrigerators not sitting in a barrel. And so we can live that long, whereas, in Eorzea its a much harsher realm. I mean you've got raptors roaming the jungle. "I need to go out and pick an ogre pumpkin!" "Oh sorry, daddy got eaten by a raptor as he was picking our dinner pumpkin so it looks like we're having nothing for dinner tonight." And so daddy dies of raptor and children die of starvation because they couldn't get the pumpkin.

On top of that you have wars and people are fighting Ishgard, I wouldn't expect most people would live longer than like thirty years. That's the thing, so you get an average lifespan that is a lot shorter, y'know in the forties, fifties. I mean there was the one quest about, back in 1.0... there was the Lalafell that was put in the Oubliette in Ul'dah, and he was in there praying and because he was this zen thing and he focused and he slowed his breathing and he lived for hundreds of years or whatever. Other than that people aren't going to live that long.

That said, Elezen actually do have a longer lifespan than the other four races. And this also appears in the- when they go from child to puberty to adulthood. So which is why you'll see in the- in 1.0 there was a bunch of Elezen children that appeared in some of the quests and they appear again in 2.0, and they're still children. And you think well it's been five years why are they still children? It's because again that childhood for Elezen can last much longer. And they end up living longer as well. Um, but for the most part it's pretty much just the same as us, but with more... fatality.

(07-26-2015, 12:02 PM)Momo Wrote: As per the BLM quests, we find that actually Lalafell are one of the longest living races in Eorzea currently I think, so maybe the answer about Elezen was a little short-lived or jumping the gun on lore where it wasn't completely developed yet?

(07-26-2015, 12:11 PM)Sounsyy Wrote:

(07-26-2015, 12:02 PM)Momo Wrote: As per the BLM quests, we find that actually Lalafell are one of the longest living races in Eorzea currently I think, so maybe the answer about Elezen was a little short-lived or jumping the gun on lore where it wasn't completely developed yet?

Fernehalwes specifically addressed that Ququruka was an exception, not the rule.

By some combination of slowing his breathing, meditation, black magic, fasting, and reaching some spiritual "zen" Ququruka was able to extend his life well beyond what is normally capable by the Races of Man and was able to outlive a 100-year gaol sentence in the Oubliette in Ul'dah. However, he uses the last of his strength to free Barbatos and dies shortly thereafter.