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Message: <blockquote data-quote="steeldragons" data-source="post: 6146283" data-attributes="member: 92511">I have always worked (since 1e despite the "racial age table") under the assumption that elves mature, essentially, the same as humans. Interesting to hear 4e actually put this on paper..finally. Perhaps a little slower...but basically en par maybe 20-25...but once they his that level of "adulthood" and physical appearance/development, that's when the elvin "genes" kick in and they stay looking like that, at least until 200 or so."Aging" (if at all, I've fluctuated on that through the years) maybe 1 year (in appearance only, mind!) per fifty[ish]. My elves last a looooot longer than the books say. To see an elf that actually appears old (wrinkles, grey/wiry hairs, stooped posture/decreased mobility), would need to be thousands of years old...a great rarity, nearly unheard of, even among elves (I have a single npc like this in the entire world).In that respect, the childhood and teenaged development could be seen as the same as humans. I always see them more as...I dunno how to explain, "hyper-developed"? Their minds' mature and contain information, recall memories, hand-eye coordination (of course),...all mental faculties are just better, clearer, faster, than humans.So your 15 y.o. elf is learning history (thousands of years worth in perfect detail), multiple languages, the identification of every leaf, grass, tree and flower, every animal in their wood, every branch, bough, stream and ditch in their home wood, the sounds of the winds and trees, the names of all the stars and moons and their movements, archery and swordplay (if they're a pc, likely) and/or magic use (if its a MU pc)...Then of course there are the "fun"/cultural elf things, like songs/singing, instruments/musical composition, how to hunt, how to dance, feasting, riding deer or wolves and chatting with owls and squirrels...There's plenty for elves to learn about in their first 20 or so years...or, if you prefer, to have them learn over the course of 100 or 200.</blockquote>

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