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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yora" data-source="post: 5797562" data-attributes="member: 6670763">I follow a different approach. I can barely remember what was two months ago. I know the facts, but they are just as much "active memories" as things I've read or seen in movies. 10 years ago in school, that could have been the life of an entirely different person. So when you're a 500 year old elf, all that matters to the person you are now are the last 50. Everything before that is a past lifetime.If you live more than a century, and so does everyone else you know, it is impossible to maintain some sort of social stability. When you are 100 you meet a new friend who is 300, but as elves, there's no difference between you. But he will have died at age 500 when you are still just 300 years old. And if you live 5 to 10 times as long as a human, that means you will experience 5 to 10 times as many situations in which you could be fatally injured, fall in battle, or succumb to disease. Which would mean an elf has only 10 to 20% the chance to live long enough to die from old age than humans do. So it is relatively save to say that by the time you're 500 years old, pretty much everyone you knew in the first 100 years of your life is dead. And think about it if you want to marry:Fat chance finding someone whose age is within plus/minus 10 years of your own. And then she is eaten by a wolf 4 years later. Your children were killed by orcs at age 400, some of your grandchildren fell of a really high tree at age 300, and so on.The only way to stay sane is to let the past be the past, and start anew over and over.</blockquote>

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