Hey, guys!
I was thinking the other day…(it was actually a night)
So, if the Night Elves lost their immortality after the events of Mount Hyjal on WC 3, does that mean that from WC3 and on all Night Elves are basically 1 year old, in terms of their maximum lifespan?
And if that’s so, how much is their current lifespan?
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You clearly don’t know how biology works.
The elves would reach maturity and then stop ageing.
Their current lifespan would be closer to the other elves, but seeing as we don’t have that great of information on it, it’s up for Blizzard to retcon it again.
I didn’t know that immortality was something biology related 
All Night Elves stop aging around their twenties.
Tyrande herself notes she has been twenty-five ten thousand times.
However, Elves, even without immortality (see Blood Elves and High Elves) are very long-lived. Therefore, they will not age like humans.
In fact, Tyrande and Malfurion, or any Night Elf for that reason, does not appear particularly aged after all the years since the Third War.
We can assume it’s similar to that of the Blood/High Elves, that would be near four-thousand years.
That is, if we ignore Lorash Sunbeam, which is something I would suggest everyone to do.
Hope this gave some clarification, if you’ve got any more questions about lifespans, wowpedia usually has the answers on its dedicated lifespan page!
Here’s the link:
https://wow.gamepedia.com/Life_spans
Basically Night Elves and Nightborne have picked up where they left off. The years they “Cheated” have not caught up with them, or Tyrande, Malfurion and others would be dust by now, but they have picked up aging from where they stopped.
Night Elves have started to die of old age and sickness, and the lore states that -all- Elven races (Note this predated Void Elves, who likely have a shorter lifespan due to intaking a power of entropy and decay) all have a similar lifespan. “Several Thousand Years” So basically more than two, less than ten.
All Elves now have the same lifespan (with the as yet unaddressed caveats of Void Elves mutation)
The Gamepedia information is out of date sadly, as it does not address current changes, or indeed, many of the allied races.
So yeah, less than ten thousand years, more than 4,000 it seems, going by Alleria. Probably somewhere inbetween.
However the emphasis on this is that people like Tyrande and Malfurion have carried on ageing, so, normally from the point when they became immortal, they are not all suddenly crumbling away, however -elderly- Night Elves, are now starting to face decrepitude, sickness and death of old age.
Unnecessary comment. You could simply give your answer.
Anyways…
Ironic, because I have actually studied Evolutionary Biology, so perhaps my question was not clear to you.
I asked about their maximum Lifespan in terms of Azerothian years/time, not about their Biological Age/Maturity. Thus, back to my question, by “1 year old, in terms of their maximum lifespan” I did not mean 1 year old Biologically wise; but 1 year old in terms of being the starting point for their new finite Lifespan, time wise.
Hence, if their Biological Maturity during their immortality period “froze” at around 25 for thousands of years (as others who replied suggested); now that they are not immortal anymore, is their Biological Age 25, Year number 1 for their new Lifespan? And if that’s so, at what rate does their “frozen” Biological Maturity begin to progress (if it does at all)?
Hope that cleared things out for you.
In any case, thank you all for your answers and insight! We presume then, that their new mortal Lifespan extends to a few thousands of years, just like their other Elf cousins.
Then I misunderstood your point, so I apologise.
I was under the impression that you were meaning 1 year of age biologically.
Well, no, we already knew that you would live to a mature age because those who existed before the tree would have to get to a similar age.
My guess would be using trolls as a metric for prior to the tree, but after the tree you should just take them as continuing from whence they paused with immortality.
But to work out their maximum lifespan, we need to look at closest living relatives (Not Nightborne because their lore is sketchy AF)
If we look at the High/Blood Elves, once they left Kalimdor they would have been far from the tree and gotten none of it’s benefits.
Anestarian Sunstrider was almost 3k years of age before he was Scourged and reddit says that there were 3 other kings before him.
So the general approximation for them is a 3.5k lifespan.
That would be your best logical answer, the average lifespan of an elf without immortality would likely be 3.5k years.
All is well, my friend.
Thanks for your answer above. It was actually very insightful!
Regarding Tyrande, she was young girl, when she became immortal. After she have lost immortality she became old very fast.
In the rulers stories, told that Shandris is her only(adopted) and probably the last child, because of her old ages…
Oh nice! I was not aware of this information. Thanks!
Elven lifespan usually ends when they meet good ol’ Othmar or one of his Enforcer boys.
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