Kenneth Gorelick <pulmon at mac.com> wrote: >To: J C <greyw01f at hotmail.com> >CC: dragaera at dragaera.info >Subject: Re: Soul destroying - Issola Spoiler >Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 17:08:35 -0500 > > >On Nov 10, 2005, at 5:00 PM, J C wrote: > >>I think that, given that Dragaerans get married at roughly 150 years of >>age, they have a relatively short fertility period. Else, you could have >>a elder brother over 1000 years your senior. >> >>Savn and his sister are very close in age--probably less than a century, >>I think around 2 or 3 score of years apart. Very close, in other words, >>considering a 2500 year life span. >> >>What do you guys think? >> >>Jon >> >> >Maybe they are "Teckla twins". IIRC Savn is 10-20 years older than his sister (He's 90 and she's 80, or something like that). I think that it's a bit like with humans, i e you CAN get one child at 15 and one at 45, but most people get their kids with 2 or 3 years apart. It's a thing of convenience.