A thought I had: How old are the characters?

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@Torantolis

Lobsters (certain lobsters, if I’m not wrong) are capable of living for extraordinary periods of time because they can perfectly replicate that portion of their DNA; they’ll only usually die during their molting stage because it is too costly to them.

yea, my sisters fiancee caught a huge one 2 years ago, made news around the world. Was just after a hurricane hit the island.

Fishermen in Bermuda catch 14lb lobster

They said it was well over a 100 years old.

@Torantolis

I think it makes a lot of sense to say that the elf-children are as capable/more capable than a human child of the same age and just stay in their prime for 600-odd years at which point they begin to deteriorate. I imagine it would be a slow process, but over the next 200-300 years they get slowly weaker.

I dunno about that. As they seem to get stronger with age, I guess it could just be they are more experienced. But elves don’t seem to get old and die, they seem to die from boredom once they’ve lost the will to live or have nothing else they want to do.