Length of one turn

[MagisterCultuum]

I don't think Charadon is still alive. He was the Dovielo leader at the end of the Age of Ice and continued to lead them in the early years of the Age of Rebirth. I believe it has been stated that Charadon died a century or two before the Doviello's other leader, Malaha, was even born.



Shorter life expectancies almost always are explained by higher infant/child mortality, or the death of men in war and women in childbirth. If you survived these, it wasn't rare to live as long as you would today. There were many prominent people in Ancient and Medieval times who lived into their seventies, eighties, or even nineties (and of course many biblical or legendary figures who are claimed to have lived far longer).

For some reason it seems appropriate to mention now that my Dad turns 69 next Thursday (which reminds me that I have a project do this Thursday and a checkpoint of another project next Thursday. Why am i on here instead of working on it?)

 

[Ur_Vile_Wedge]

Well, if you don't count the roughly 50% or so of people who died within the first month, the "average" life expectency for pre-renaissance man was almost 50. But if you compare it to say, elephants, who live on average for almost 70 years if they die of natural causes, and are *much* bigger than humans, we don't do too bad.

 

[Nikis-Knight]

Well, I don't know about that. Short life expectancy doesn't mean people are old or wise at thirty; it means there are a few 60 year olds balanced out by a lot of dead babies, by and large.
I think for Charadon the easiest explanation is that it's a different person under the wolf headress than it was then; otherwise, I guess his life may be extended by their god.

edit: wow, scooped on both counts