Elvish childhood

[Angelousss]

i was think about elves and how long are they children?
my fist thought was welll it must about the same as humans just drawn out. than i thought about this more. If i remember my add correctly your avg elf lives 1000 to 1200 years. whereas if we consider your avg human in the time period, when you cosider disease and the like proably about 60(i'm being generous because of spells)
well lets say you take a 100 yo elf, the comparative human is 6. 200 years, your 12. so 250 puts you right at the brink of child bearing age(about 15) now considering this do elves age at comparable rate to humans. I don't think they could. if it takes you 250 years to reach an acceptable child bearing age, it would be incredibly difficult to produce the next generation.
I think it proably takes an elf about 50 years to reach child bearing age possibly a little more or a little less but difenitely well under 100 years.

[Merlin Al'Thor]

right dude u just succeeded in giving me a headache. I mean how old are u? shouldn't u have other thoughts on your head like work, uni, studies,parents etc. etc. and always think to the future.

And as to your question itself i say who knows.

and oh yeah if this post doesn;t get deleted i'm goin to chuck one bloody tantrum, i've had lesser irrelavent posts deleted.

[Angelousss]

i'm 19 yes i proably have more important things to think about but i thought this was intresting(it kinda popped in out of nowhere) If it is deleted i will be angry i've seen plenty of other people post add questions not bg2 specefic, if the mods feel it should be moved that is thier decesion but i don't think it should be deleted

[Lord Starshadow]

According to the Book of Elves, Elves are children for 50-70 years (subgroup dependent). This leads into adolescence, which ends when the elf is 80-120 years old (subgroup dependent again). They don't reach full height until adolescence, so I'm thinking that they don't reach physical maturity (where procreation becomes possible) until after adolescense. That's all the info I can find at the moment... Hope this eases your mind a little.

[Dundee Slaytern]

Originally posted by Merlin Al'Thor: right dude u just succeeded in giving me a headache. I mean how old are u? shouldn't u have other thoughts on your head like work, uni, studies,parents etc. etc. and always think to the future. And as to your question itself i say who knows. and oh yeah if this post doesn;t get deleted i'm goin to chuck one bloody tantrum, i've had lesser irrelavent posts deleted.

Perhaps you would like to cite an example instead of being so bad-tempered about it? I see no reason as to why this thread should be removed, but if it gets heated up in here, it will be closed and all offenders will be prosecuted.

Cheers. [img]smile.gif[/img]

[Angelousss]

Originally posted by Lord Starshadow: According to the Book of Elves, Elves are children for 50-70 years (subgroup dependent). This leads into adolescence, which ends when the elf is 80-120 years old (subgroup dependent again). They don't reach full height until adolescence, so I'm thinking that they don't reach physical maturity (where procreation becomes possible) until after adolescense. That's all the info I can find at the moment... Hope this eases your mind a little.

so more or less i was about right in my assesment. I still think that's really long(could you imagine going to school for 35 or 40 years) but at least it seems possible. Either elves take schooling much less seriously than humans(considering they have 1000 years to learn things it would make some sense) or they learn much more(now imagine what you would know w/ 35 or 40 years of schooling)
Also they are more or less defenseless for about 50 to 70 years. Know wonder Sudenallessar is so well hidden.

[Lord Starshadow]

I don't really think that the Elves have schools. It's more of a community based teaching, where everyone helps the young ones learn various skills and such. Often times, they're learning many crafts during their adolescense, so they're often well-rounded. And I wouldn't say that they're defenseless. I believe that they learn swordsmanship in their early years, but I'd have to check. I don't feel like opening the book back up this late at night. [img]smile.gif[/img]

I understand your curiosity. I was the same way, that's why I got the book. [img]smile.gif[/img]

[Angelousss]

still a 6 yo wielding a sword(i'm assuming no armor) isn't going to scare a knight very much even as they begin adolosence a 12 yo wielding a sword will proably not have alot of power behind it, especially when you consider elves are generally not as strong anyway. the little guy would have a tough time cutting through plate mail

[Shaide]

I think The elves arent like the humans,'cause else they were humans.
you must think about it, if 10 elven years was like 1 human year, and a human lives 100 years, the elven lives around 1000 years....
Then the humans could get children with 13 years more or less, then the Elven would get it about 130 years, and the women have could get in pregnant about one month (I know it's about 28 days), the elven women could about ten....

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[Brennihelvete]

Originally posted by Angelousss: If i remember my add correctly your avg elf lives 1000 to 1200 years.

Elves are immortals and they live until the end of time unless they are killed.