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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ThrorII" data-source="post: 8684227" data-attributes="member: 31647">On the topic of whether a 700 (5e) or 1200 (1e) lifespan culture  would be conservative or progressive, I think it is important to note that humans, being short lived, tend to look on 'improving' on what our ancestors did or changing the culture from our ancestors. There might be a different perspective when your 'ancestor' has been working his craft or making policy for 800 years, and is still alive......If you become an adult at 100, and are expected to live for seven or ten CENTURIES, it is very possible that individual years are inconsequential and decades or generations are more in line with time keeping (Tolkien's elves tracked 144 year cycles). An elven generation is 100-200 years. So in our human terms, 1 generation back (25 years, or 1997) could be the equivalent of 200 years for the elves (or 1822 for us....). They would seem unchanging to us.</blockquote>