Abodo Wrote:Another question, and this one is strictly about lore: you said Caden ages five years between the fall of Dalamud and ARR, but also gets thrown forward in time like the other Adventurers who were at the battle. How does that work?
I don't want to speak for Vareal, but this is one of those things that may be open to interpretation.
From the OP:
Vareal Wrote:Age: 18 (23 after he’s returned from the void, though didn’t age)
I think it's fair to say that most time-jumpers are keeping their age as it was in 1572 and not tacking on the 5 years.  I don't think there's really a right or wrong here.  If you determine a character's age to be the year of his/her birth subtracted from the present year, than tacking on the 5 years makes a certain sort of sense.  For myself - it makes more sense for the age to be kept as it was in 1572.  Being "untouched by time", those five years would not have happened for her.  As far as she knows (or most of the so-called "hollow ones"), no time at all will seem to have passed between entering this time rift and coming out of it.  So she'll be 32 going in.  For me it doesn't make a lot of sense for her to suddenly think she was 37 on coming out of it.  Various RPers will have different feelings about this though.  After learning of the 5-year gap, some time-skippers might prefer to remain true to the actual timeline and actually tack the 5 years on to their age.  It all depends on the character, I suppose.  Again, there's no right or wrong.
The important thing here is that the passage of time does not touch those who have entered the rift, so regardless of whether a character claims that he/she is +5 years or not, they would not show signs of that age, nor would they possess any experience, knowledge, etc. garnered during that time. Â I think there was a discussion about this several months back and we kind of looked upon it as sort of being similar to cryogenics or being put into stasis for 5 years.
EDIT: Looks like Vareal clarified as I was posting this but I'll leave it here for the sake of clarity. Sorry for any redundancy.
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