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Racial Life Expectancies
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Post by
Slaman
Has anyone ever done any research or commented on the life expectancies of the respective races? I was just thinking about this the other day and couldn't find any solid facts from any of my available sources.
Gnomes-?
Humans- Assumed to be as in real life.
Dwarves - Considerably longer than humans, maybe the same idea as Tolkien's dwarves...(100-200 years?)
Night Elves - No longer immortal, but most are very old.
Draenei- ? Velen is friggin' old...
Orcs- About the same as humans? I would assume their recent changes have shortened whatever their expectancy previously was.
Tauren-?
Trolls-? Assuming they can be very old due to their natural resilience.
Blood elves- ? Addiction to magic makes them mortal? Only die naturally when away from magic?
and Undead....well....yeah....
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Gumballs
There is a chart somewhere with the life expectancys as well as height, weight, maturity age, etc. for all the playable races, as well as some non-playable.I have no clue where I got it from, but it took me forever to find, and it seems pretty accurate.
I copied it down somewhere, and if I can find it I will post the info.
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Adamsm
It's old and hasn't been updated for the Draenei Retcon.
But there you go.
Damn it Delt heh.
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First time I've ever won you. Let me commemorate, yes?
Heh, go ahead Delt, do your happy dance.
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Dwarfiesgosquish
Happy Dance? HAH! I was thinking about turning Orgrimmar into penguins and rallying my army of northern birds into Stormwind!
And then I'll do the happy dance.
A note about the Life Span page, there are a few contradictions about the list and written lore. As an example, it seems that High and Blood Elves live much more than what the list says.
Not to be a troll, but what northern birds are you speaking of, because penguins are antarctic southern birds.... To prove it I live in alaska... and I have never seen a penguin in my entire life...
Speaking of trolls... on your chart it says they live shorter lives than humans... I refuse to believe that because aren't the zandalar trolls like 700 (or older) years old
each?
lol posting code is 7d87t (7870 if you sound it out)
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Okay.... I'll admit it, I trolled, lol sorry about that... (Hey! Look! I'm doing it again...oops....)
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Rankkor
you live on brazil delt? o_O we're neigbours xD I Live right next to brazil, on Maracaibo (venezuela) near the border with colombia.
back on topic:
draenei don't really die, they can be considered inmortal, only killable when assasinated, but their natural life-spans are as of yet unlimited (velen is prolly 25k years old)
however the broken draenei, and the lost-ones draenei may have shorter lifespans.
trolls are ruled by their respective type, desert trolls have the shortest lifespans of all the troll tribes. and zandalar tribe it's more naturally ressilient to the decay of time.
humans and orcs live roughly about the same age.
orcs though do not wither as fast as humans do when they age, a human of 87 years old is a fairly weak man or woman, but an orc of 87 years old is still a force to be reckoned with, not as much as a younger orc, but still a good enough oponent on his own.
in other words, orcs live about the same as humans, but they don't wither so drastically when they get very old.
same for taurens, they live a little more than humans (warcraft 3 manual said something bout living about 110 years or 120) and like the orcs, they don't wither away when they age, still retaining huge physical strenght at the oldest ages (cairne is almost 100 years old and it's still a FORMIDABLE warrior)
night-elves are truly a mistery, I'm confused on them.
they used to be inmortal, (several night-elves have at least 10k years, such as tyrande, and shandris) but aparently they are not inmortal anymore, and will start to age like the rest of the races do.
however, how long do their lifespans go now that they age? is an enigma, furthermore, they grew a new world tree (wich for reasons unknown hasn't played any significant importance in the game, ragnaros doen't even care about it, and goes after hyjal instead) and the reason they made that tree was to regain their inmortality, but so far the question remains:
did they? is their inmortality restored? are they still mortal? if they are still mortal, how long would their life-spans be?
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Skreeran
According to the Warcraft 3 manual, Night Elves have huge lifespans even without their immortality, as Tyrande and Malfurion are listed as roughly 15,000 years old.
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