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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kigmatzomat" data-source="post: 9845622" data-attributes="member: 9254">Seriously?  5e half elves live 180 years and elves live to 750.So let's take a set of half-siblings: human (Mike), half-elf(Hank) and elf (Evan) born in the year 1300AD.  All the human parents are 25yro (born 1275AD) the elven parents are a roughly human equivalent (heq25) of 150yro (born 1150AD).[Spoiler]<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">1320AD  Mike (human) and Hank (half-elf) are adults with jobs. Evan (elf) is roughly fully grown but is effectively a "tween" who will live with relatives for another 80 years.  Human parents (45yro) are getting to middle age, elven parents are effectively unchanged at heq27/170yro.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">1330 Hank (heq25) may be watching Evan (heq13ish) and Mike's young kids.  Mike (30) looks older than the heq28 elven aunts/uncles.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">1350 Hank's human parent, as well as  Mike's parents, are all geriatric (75+ yro).  The elven parents (heq30) look younger than Hank (heq35) and Mike is 50.  Evan (heq15ish) is still 50 years from his adult name, is likely caring for his human aunt/uncle along with an assortment of Hank and Mike's kids and possibly grandkids.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">1380 The human parents are dead, Mike is elderly, Hank is middle age (heq50) but looks younger than some of Mike's kids, Evan is heq18 and his parents are heq33.</li> </ul>*1300 Mike probably didn't live this long.  Hank (heq60) helps Mike's kids (<75yro) to their seats to watch Uncle Evan (heq20) at his Naming Ceremony.  Evan's parents (heq35) look younger than some of Mike's great-grandchildren and there is likely one of Mike's great-great-grandkids.  Hank has half-elven greatgrandkids in attendance.  Evan has attended dozens of funerals for his extended human family.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">1375 Evan(heq25) is expecting his first child.  Hank (heq97) is holding on to see his elven niece/nephew.  One of Mike's great-great-great-great-grandchildren might be present to witness the birth of their 8th cousin.  Evan's parents (heq45) look about the same age as Hank's half-elven great-great-grandkids.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">1900 Evan's parents, who were born in the age of Charlemagne,  lived to see steam trains.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">2026  Evan (heq98) is equivalent to where Hank was in 1375.  He was born in the age of cannons, lived through the ages of steam,  combustion, flight, nuclear power, and computers.</li> </ul>[/spoiler]In summary <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Human Mike will spend his whole life watching a single generation of elves almost reach adulthood.  He will see his half-elven relative seem a bit younger through middle age, but Mike will rapidly gray and die even as the half-elf is middle aged.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">half-elf Hank is barely likely to see the birth of elven relatives' offspring.  He will see four generations of human relatives grow old and die.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Elf Evan knows his half-elven relatives will see no more than 2 generations of elves when he could elven great- or great-great-grandchildren.  Evan will see several dozen human generations.  His lifespan will exceed most human empires.  Even if he never leaves the village he was born, the human language he spoke at birth will likely be unintelligible to humans in the same village when he dies.</li> </ul></blockquote>

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