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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hopeless" data-source="post: 8216790" data-attributes="member: 36349">I've been wondering about the age difference too, but whilst others have been looking at it that they age normally my view is they don't age normally.For example my wood elf cleric I went with the view that they age 7.5 times more slowly than a human does thus when my back story mentions her venturing into the Prime Material World that's connected to her Feywild Refuge when she's 98 years old in human equivalent terms she's a little over 13 years old.Yes she learns quite a bit of stuff, but she isn't adventuring she's growing up and part of that is dealing with the world she's trying to adapt to.BY 112 years of age she has been married for a couple of years and giving birth to a child of her own albeit looking like she's barely 15 six years later she's fleeing back into her Refuge with her 6 year old half elven son (who is growing up normally as unlike him his mother's formative years was spent within the Feywild where time doesn't work like it does outside anyway!)She eventually returns to that world as she doesn't want her son ending up like her and rebuilds her life assuming a new identity as Vall the Herbalist.Her son grows up and leaves home to join the military eventually mustering out and settling down to marry and raise a family of his own.His mother now more firmly engrossed with her clerical duties is building her business which has blossomed because of her access to the Feywild however limited in scope she is able to regain her confidence after the failure of her marriage and her ex's new wife's family tried to kill both of them because they didn't believe she was perfectly happy to divorce her idiot of a husband.She is almost 136 when her son sends for her and she attends his marriage and remains to witness the birth of her grandson as she manages to persuade her ex to fulfil the divorce his new wife's family threw a fit over.She helps a Dawnfather acolyte leave the order joining the Everlight shrine after she's harassed by one of the Dawnfather Cleric's.When her friend and her husband are ambushed and killed she helps her son become the mentor of her late friend's son the soon to be Paladin Gabriel Flynn.When my campaign opened Vall was only 2nd level because the game I ran her in started off with her at 2nd had it been first level I would have done the same in the campaign I started but in both she was 148 years old and had just witnessed her son killed in front of her twice and tried to thwart her son's killers ending up being banished to another world because she was born in the Feywild.I suspect anybody else can do a similar story for their character although I know of one who tried to manipulate his character's downtime to explain all the remarkable new gear he would then possess despite it not being part of the regular game when we ran that campaign must be 15 to 20 years ago...Sorry for the longwinded prose the above reply got me thinking and that's always a potential problem!</blockquote>

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