(08-08-2013, 12:08 PM)Yeldir Melfusor Wrote: Something that has been driving me up the wall, in terms of trying to write Yeldir, is the issue of lifespan. Do we have any canonical leads regarding the general longetivity of the Elezen? If they're proper Tolkien knockoffs, we can just pick anything between fifteen and a billion and be content with that.Â
Yet I'm hesitant to define Yeldir's age without knowing how old he shouldn't be.
This has been frustrating to me as well because we've dabbled with a few background characters who were duskwight and who were elderly. Â I'm working on the assumption that they live a bit longer than the average hyur, but not as long as lalafell, since that's what the lore seems to have implied so far (there are other discussion threads about this if you search the RPC forums for 'lifespan' perhaps - here are two such threads:
http://ffxiv-roleplayers.com/showthread.php?tid=2263
http://ffxiv-roleplayers.com/showthread.php?tid=2239
For my own backstory, one such character died at the age of 104 and for my purposes that was considered old. Â Eva's father died at 58 and that was considered middle-aged. Â There is an old woman originally from her clan that she's speaking with now who is the aunt of the clan's Elder, and we just haven't given her a specific age yet. Â This is all kind of in the fog and if they ever do announce anything I'm prepared to make whatever adjustments I have to.
I know this hasn't been much help and I'm sorry for that, but in the absense of any sort of official lore, I'm kind of operating on the assumption that an average elezen might live to be between 90-100 years.
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