On 11/10/05, J C <greyw01f at hotmail.com> 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? Dragaeran lifespans don't map exactly to human lifespans. One of the books remarks that Dragaerans don't age visibly until they are very old (2000+). Furthermore, Taltos makes it appear that very young Dragaerans (3 or less?) grow at approximately the same age as Easterners, and IIRC 20-year-old Dragaerans resemble 5-year-old Easterners, and 60-year-old Dragaerans are like 10- or 12-year-olds. Thereafter the curve seems to slow a bit. FHYA has a remark about Aliera's remarkable youthfulness at age 500, like someone in their first or second century still; I get the sense of someone saying that a 28-year-old still looks 18. Perhaps Dragaeran aging is logarithmic? I propose a wild guess: the apparent physical age of a Dragaeran at age N is that of a human of age 2*((N/2)^0.5). That is, age 100 is about 14, 120 is about 15 1/2, 200 is 20, 500 is 31, 800 is 40, and 3000 is 77. For a wild guess, it matches surprisingly well with my preconceptions. Max Wilson -- Be pretty if you are, Be witty if you can, But be cheerful if it kills you.