Draenei Age

[Hinbane]

Looking on CoTH's stance on Draenei age, I think that it should be changed to something along the lines of :

(Doesn't need to be exactly like this :P)
Age
Young : 1 - 13
Adolescent : 14 - 18
Young Adult : 19 - 5,000
Middle Aged : 5,000 - 15,000
Old Age : 15,000 - 40,000
Venerable : 40,000 +

My understanding is that the majority of the current Draenei population was born on Draenor, which means at most the majority of them are roughly within 250 years of age. If we went by the current model that CoTH takes, then these PCs and NPCs would still be children.

It seems that Draenei age through their youth at the same rate other races do, and then slow down once reaching maturity.

[Moose]

>It seems that Draenei age through their youth at the same rate other races do, and then slow down once reaching maturity.

Canon proof?

[Hexproof]

The lore is rather sketchy on this at best, the closest thing I've ever seen was a vague reference to a draenei "teenager" being hundreds of years old in the novel Rise of the Horde, and even that was just a guess made by Durotan.

Never heard anything about Draenei maturing at the same rate as most of the other races.

[BountyHunter]

Pretty much the only thing I have heard about Draenei and age is that they're actually immortal and don't weaken with age. This would mean they they continue to be an adult for god knows how long until they see it fit to die.

[Hinbane]

I'm only going off of Timeline speculation as my back-up with this. Though the mention of a teenage Draenei being hundreds of years old seems to be the only hard evidence I've heard of how younger Draenei age slowly, in order for the vast majority of the Draenei race to be mature at the time of The Burning Crusade, they would have needed to have aged within 250 to something resembling adulthood.

[Hinbane]

Pretty much the only thing I have heard about Draenei and age is that they're actually immortal and don't weaken with age. This would mean they they continue to be an adult for god knows how long until they see it fit to die.

It's evident by Velen's appearance that Draenei do at least change.

[Kaghuros]

I remember a quest with a little girl draenei (Maybe the orphan's day one?) where it's implied that she's way older than you could possibly be. I'd need to do some looking to figure out which one it was though, sadly. :/ This also means I may be remembering it very wrong.

[Monolith]

I remember a quest with a little girl draenei (Maybe the orphan's day one?) where it's implied that she's way older than you could possibly be. I'd need to do some looking to figure out which one it was though, sadly. :/ This also means I may be remembering it very wrong.

"Daww, such a cute little girl! And how old are you?"
"Over nine thousand years ol-"
"WHAT NINE THOUSAND"

[Hinbane]

I remember a quest with a little girl draenei (Maybe the orphan's day one?) where it's implied that she's way older than you could possibly be. I'd need to do some looking to figure out which one it was though, sadly. :/ This also means I may be remembering it very wrong.

Is this her: http://www.wowpedia.org/Draenei_Orphan

If so - I couldn't find anything in the Quest Description text that implied an unnatural age, unless I missed something. The questions she asks, however, imply as much ignorance as a normal child. Maybe I'm only projecting my own agenda here but it seems that this would require her to be the same age as most of the other children in the Warcraft universe.

[Terant]

Eh. The reason for the Draenei Orphan acting like a normal child is... Blizzard. They're full of contradictions, and that's just a stupid retail event type thing. Honestly, I would trust Rise of the Horde a lot more than a world event quest.

[Hinbane]

Eh. The reason for the Draenei Orphan acting like a normal child is... Blizzard. They're full of contradictions, and that's just a stupid retail event type thing. Honestly, I would trust Rise of the Horde a lot more than a world event quest.

Good point. I guess I'd always just assumed that it was the norm that immortal-like characters aged through their childhood and teenage years at a normal rate, and then flattened out when they reached maturity.

Characters like Med'an, I suppose, are the only ones that really support my view. The mention in Rise of the Horde however seems to imply otherwise.

[Nostra]

Isn't Med'an supposed to be as old as Thrall though? I remember reading it somewhere, not 100% sure of how accurate that is though.

Though it would explain why he's so uber with magic and such, yeah? Wandering around with that Meryl guy for 20-30 years.

[Hexproof]

Med'an is also half-orc, or rather one quarter Orc, one half Human, and one quarter Draenei, and it seems that Draenei/Orc crossbreeds keep their Orcish rate of growth.

Edit: He's also "half Medivh"... which would explain why he's so strong.

So Med'an really isn't a good basis for Draenei growth at all...

[Hinbane]

Ah, yes, I'd forgotten that Med'an was also half-human. Quite the mut he is :P.
I'll drop my case, since it seems that most of the indirect evidence is against me on this.

It's just hard for me to conceive of Draenei, or any immortal race for that matter, remaining as children at such a tremendously long age. They'd have to know so much about life the time they're half-way through childhood, that I'd wonder if we could even consider them as children at all.