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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Edena_of_Neith" data-source="post: 3589878" data-attributes="member: 2020">The elves of old Delrune spent 2 years as infants, 3 years as toddlers, 15 more years as children, 80 years as adolescents, 900 years as young adults, 500 years as mature (30 to 40 human equivalent), 250 years in 'middle age', and 250 years as old, before the Call of Arvandor set in around 2,000 years of age.  The oldest elves lived to about 2,500, the youngest 1,800.  The elves married for life, typically.  If one's mate was lost, the other elf very often faded away to Arvandor, or remained in sad shape.  Extremely rarely, a second mate was found.  Divorce simply did not occur.  Average children per couple was 2 in an entire lifetime.  More than 3 was almost unheard of.  Gestation time was 2 years.  The elves of old Delrune had the need to eat like humans.  But magic (there was a lot of low level magic in Delrune, just not any high level magic) supplied their staple foods, making Delrune heavily self sufficient foodwise.  Specialty foods based on grain crops, sugar, spices, and other exotic food and drink were obtained through trade, especially through Calrune.  Few elves ate any sort of meat.  Those few generally ate fish.</blockquote>