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<blockquote data-quote="jester47" data-source="post: 736215" data-attributes="member: 2238">Another thought on elf achievement:Time is relative.Remember when you were a kid and a year seemed like a very long time?&nbsp; Does a year seem all that long now?&nbsp; Chances are probably not.&nbsp; Why?&nbsp; Because one year of your life if you are 30 is 1/30 of your memories.&nbsp; So, if an elf is 300 years old then one year is 1/300th of his experience.So lets set up a comparison...A 15 year old human percieves 1 day as 1/5340th of its memory.&nbsp; An elf aged 110 will percieve 7.3 days as 1/5340th of its memory.&nbsp; So imagine the weeks feeling like days, and you have the experience of an elf.A good view on &quot;significance in memory&quot; is to take these two and compare them at the Venerable age using years.A venerable human percieves a year as 1/70th of his memory.A venerable elf percieves 5 years in the same light.&nbsp; Time gets faster for the elves as they age, and memories that might have seemed significant in their youth dwindle in thier relation to what they have learned since then. For the dragons, eventually years pass like hours....Aaron.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jester47, post: 736215, member: 2238"] Another thought on elf achievement: Time is relative. Remember when you were a kid and a year seemed like a very long time? Does a year seem all that long now? Chances are probably not. Why? Because one year of your life if you are 30 is 1/30 of your memories. So, if an elf is 300 years old then one year is 1/300th of his experience. So lets set up a comparison... A 15 year old human percieves 1 day as 1/5340th of its memory. An elf aged 110 will percieve 7.3 days as 1/5340th of its memory. So imagine the weeks feeling like days, and you have the experience of an elf. A good view on "significance in memory" is to take these two and compare them at the Venerable age using years. A venerable human percieves a year as 1/70th of his memory. A venerable elf percieves 5 years in the same light. Time gets faster for the elves as they age, and memories that might have seemed significant in their youth dwindle in thier relation to what they have learned since then. For the dragons, eventually years pass like hours.... Aaron. [/QUOTE]

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