The Age of Races etc

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Right, i’ve been trying to figure this out for quite a while since i’ve came back to the game recently.

My TotalRP profile is pretty much complete bar one thing, her age. I’ve simply defined her as “middle-aged” but i’m a fan of numbers and like to add an actual number, however i’m not sure how Night Elf age works.

How old is old for an Elf? How young can an Elf be before they’re an adult? So many questions, Wowpedia says little bar “a few thousand years”.

So would it be easier to just put it under “human years” to make the answer a lot easier?

THOUGHTS

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As far as we know most playable races reach adulthood at a human rate (exceptions exist, such as orcs).

For an elf it would be anything between adulthood and several millennia.

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‘Human years’ and ‘Elf years’ are not a thing :stuck_out_tongue: There’s just ‘years’.

My own Nelf is in the 200-300 range, so she’s pretty young, although she’s been an ‘adult’ biologically for a long time.

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Thank you both for the quick responses! So, if my character is around 45-50, is it would be around several thousand years old? Or could you just briefly estimate?

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If your character is around 45-50 years, it’s 45-50 years.

Elves just stop aging after a certain point, and remain within their prime for hundreds (or thousands!) of years, while humans are in their prime for like 10-some years.

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We don’t really know when cultural adulthood is reached, tbh. But physical adulthood is probably roughly thde same as humans. A middle aged character is probably in the 1000+ years and old characters could be older than 10.000 years, considering their immortality not too long ago and the fact that they are still elves.
Though whatever you do, never use ‘human years’.

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Right! I’ll take all of this into consideration, i’m probably making the topic a bit too complicated for myself XD
Just wanted to be a bit accurate on my age listing, so the help is much appreicated.

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I think what Voliriel means is: when the character is physically comparable to a human at the age of 45-50, how many years old would they be?

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No idea, really. :confused:

With high/blood elves, it’d be easy, like around 2000 years or, but with night elves, we dont actually know how it works with the night elves.

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Doesn’t really apply, since elven bodies do not really age that much. Maybe when they reach the point where they are close to naturally dying, but a middle aged elf isn’t comparable to a middle aged human.

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In term of long lived races that’s almost impossible to determine due to lack of any info.

The Tauren reach that age at about 90+ in my opinion, since we saw that Cairne could easily match Garrosh and he was 100+ years old.

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Thought I read someone from blizzard say that Night Elves stop counting their age after a few thousand years.

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I think that still depends on the elf in question.

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Others got it.
Biologically the elves mature to adulthood same rate as humans. But in social circles compared to elves who have lived for 5000 - 10’000 years you’d likely still be seen but a sapling at a hundred years of age.

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Yep.

And for example with dwarves? Muradin was 223 years old during the Third War, which is why I think his, Magnis and Branns father was Madoran Bronzebeard from during the War of the Three Hammers, as that was around 230 years prior to the Dark Portal (So about 270 years ago now).

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Right!

I think i’m understand it now, you’re all very helpful.

I assumed that the Elves matured in the hundreds of years and not the same rate as Humans and now I see they DO rate the same age as Humans but sort of live on for longer, so they reach adulthood at 20 etc and just live for the thousands of years? I think that’s how it is, and now it’s much clearer :slight_smile:

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There is a dwarf with a dress in goldshire that told me he is 400 years old.

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Malfurion is described as a “young adult” when he was a “few decades” old (War of the Ancienst trilogy).

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And that wouldn’t be impossible, I don’t think, but he’d def be an elder.

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Cairne is a bit of a special case, as he was quite old yet was still one of the most powerful warriors on the planet.