On Nov 10, 2005, at 5:14 PM, Martin Wohlert wrote: > 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. > > Except that 10-20 years in a 2000 year life span is more like 6-12 > MONTHS in a 100 year life span. hence, the concept that the parents > had no contraception and became pregnant immediately when it was > "conceivable"