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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ivocaliban" data-source="post: 3870767" data-attributes="member: 17596">Yes. Humans have a concept of their lifespan and live with that knowledge constantly. With the first fifteen years spent maturing and the last ten or fifteen spent in decline, that leaves a lucky human with half a century to accomplish their life's work. An elf on the other hand spends about half a century just growing up. They have centuries to do what needs doing and there's really no need to rush.The real question here is the perception of time, however. To a human who lives around seventy-five years we perceive that as a lifetime. To an elf, it's a childhood. There's no reason to believe that an elf sees his lifespan of centuries as exceedingly long. It's only long in comparison to humans and other relatively short-lived races. For humans, centuries seem like massive amounts of time, but whose to say if humans lived five times longer than they do that they'd be in such a rush to the top?I would argue that perhaps elves view years the way humans view months. So for an elf twelve years might feel like one year for a human. Races may perceive their lifespan (and perhaps time itself) differently based on how much they're allotted. It would explain why short-lived races like orcs are often so active (they have a literal deadline to keep) while long-lived races like elves seem like they're so detached from and/or aloof in regards to current events.</blockquote>