Lifespans and Cultural Age Markers?

While there have been very little indications of the racial lifespans and cultural markers in game, I figured I would ask about it here and see if Squeenix might give us the answers out of game.

Basically, what I'm looking for is the average and maximum lifespan for each race, and what their age mile markers are. So basically, something like this being answered for each race:

Childhood: Birth - ??
Teen Years: ?? - ???
Adulthood: ??? - ????
Elder Years: ???? - ?????

Hopefully, Squeenix will give us some clarification, since role players do use age and age markers quite a bit.

I have also been looking for an answer to this for quite some time now.

Detailed information about lifespans, ages and cultural age markers are very essential information to Roleplaying activities, especially in building our characters.
Hopefully someone can confirm this soon, if its not too much trouble.

Thank you.

It's been over a month, so I'm bumping this in hopes of having a Red Name reply to it!

There was a thread on the old 1.0 forum a while ago about this very subject, and if I remember rightly it was generally agreed that hyur have more or a less an average human lifespan, with roegadyn and elezen having much longer lifespans. But little is known for sure.

I think in regards to the lalafell they seem to be a lot like the tarutaru from FFXI, in that once they reach a certain age they just stop physically aging, at least, they still look like children even though they're actually elderly.

I cant remember who the NPC is but there's a Lalafell NPC who actually states that he's 50-something. He's grey haired with a moustache too, so Lalas definitely age at a relatively normal rate.

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Originally Posted by Lithera

I cant remember who the NPC is but there's a Lalafell NPC who actually states that he's 50-something. He's grey haired with a moustache too, so Lalas definitely age at a relatively normal rate.

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There's a lala npc in the BlM quest who spends 90 years in prison and is running around pretty spryly.

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Originally Posted by jomoru

There's a lala npc in the BlM quest who spends 90 years in prison and is running around pretty spryly.

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So they can live pretty long. I guess the only way to tell their age is by greying facial hair or if they tell us huh?

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Originally Posted by jomoru

There's a lala npc in the BlM quest who spends 90 years in prison and is running around pretty spryly.

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You can't quite count THAT NPC, though
He has very particularly special circumstances around him, specifically the reason why he is a Black Mage, that make his age... Unusual

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Originally Posted by Skies

You can't quite count THAT NPC, though
He has very particularly special circumstances around him, specifically the reason why he is a Black Mage, that make his age... Unusual

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I mean no one acts like its unsual that a lala was in there for 90 years for example.

I actually came to the forums to post a thread about this, but this thread will do and I can just make an addendum to the question.

How long do chocobos live?

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Originally Posted by Lithera

I cant remember who the NPC is but there's a Lalafell NPC who actually states that he's 50-something. He's grey haired with a moustache too, so Lalas definitely age at a relatively normal rate.

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Costa del Sol, he is an NPC flirting with a Female Miqo'te, and he states he's pleasured many women in his fifty and five years...

I'm doing the L30 CRP quest and it seems that the Elezen do not age as hyur.

Geva states an older gentleman came to the guild for a request. When I meet this older gentlemen, he doesn't look at that old to me and his son is going to join the Wood Wailers.

The name of the elezen is Camillain.

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Originally Posted by ShienSarvong

I actually came to the forums to post a thread about this, but this thread will do and I can just make an addendum to the question.

How long do chocobos live?

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You know, I'll totally take that addendum, because one of the quests kinda implies that they live pretty damn long for an animal. O.o

I'd love some answers to this too.

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Originally Posted by Chaotic_Darkfae

You know, I'll totally take that addendum, because one of the quests kinda implies that they live pretty damn long for an animal. O.o

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I named my chocobo "Bonchon" after one of my fav food franchises.. so, the answer, at least for mine, is "not too long"

I'm looking for an answer to this as well.
We have some ideas behind some races but knowing for sure would be great.

This heavily ties in with my interest to create an aged character!
There's speculation that size of creature related to heartbeat and bpm gives a close indication to age constraints.
I always think Lalafell have extended lifespans, but at the same time I'm always led to believe they're limited to something like 60 years average.

Roe's with their impressive stature I expect somewhere averaging around 100-120.
Elves can live for stupid long.

I'd say Cats die roughly 5-10~ years sooner than Hyur.

Maybe with the advancements of modern medicine, thanks to magic, we just all live forever now.
This may further explain how very few NPCs died during the calamity. We're all simply immortal beings.

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Originally Posted by Canadane

Maybe with the advancements of modern medicine, thanks to magic, we just all live forever now.
This may further explain how very few NPCs died during the calamity. We're all simply immortal beings.

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Except that if you talk to anybody, a LOT of people died during the Calamity.

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Originally Posted by jomoru

There's a lala npc in the BlM quest who spends 90 years in prison and is running around pretty spryly.

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The storyline of that quest specifically mentions his age being special and the resolution of the quest further shows why.

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Originally Posted by Canadane

Maybe with the advancements of modern medicine, thanks to magic, we just all live forever now.
This may further explain how very few NPCs died during the calamity. We're all simply immortal beings.

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Well, there is at least one race who are stated specifically as being ageless - ala, the pad'jal. But they're not really a proper race at all as they're born normally as hyur and then are turned into pad'jal when 'chosen' by the elementals, preventing them from aging beyond late childhood. But even they're not truly immortal, they don't age sure, but they can still die through accident or illness - the Tam Tara Deepcroft clearly has pad'jali tombs within, and the WHM Job quest actually deals with recovering the ashes of a long dead pad'jal.

Other races however are stated as being clearly mortal (and in fact, the player themselves, despite being 'special' due to the Echo, still is mentioned as being mortal) - there are graveyards in the game, and in fact the death toll during the Calamity was extremely high, so much so it actually caused problems for the city states in that they quickly ran out of burial space for the deceased, hence it forced unusual means of dealing with the problem (the Church of Saint Adama Landama near Camp Drybone had to expand it's graveyard beyond it's borders just to cope with the demand, and Gridania actually resorted to reopening the formerly sealed Tam Tara Deepcroft for use as a place of internment for those lost in the Calamity).

So yes, the five races are definitely mortal.

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Originally Posted by Enkidoh

So yes, the five races are definitely mortal.

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And there's the reference we have that is the "Answers" song, from the first deep notes until the final word.

Necro-Magick!
We have some cultural age markers for Miqo'te, I guess.
https://scontent-lax1-1.xx.fbcdn.net...62073575_o.jpg
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.n...37736788_o.jpg
It seems they grow into their tail (quite slowly?), judging by this Miqo'te child.

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Originally Posted by Kyan

Necro-Magick!
We have some cultural age markers for Miqo'te, I guess.
https://scontent-lax1-1.xx.fbcdn.net...62073575_o.jpg
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.n...37736788_o.jpg
It seems they grow into their tail (quite slowly?), judging by this Miqo'te child.

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I literally just noticed her right before you posted this. I wonder if that is the case, or if she's half-Miqo'te and half something else? I'd love to see some Mod give us more info on the little girl.

It's possible she's a halfie we also had the girl we meet in the main story in Ishgard who is half Elezen and half Hyur I'm guessing. There has been evidence before that mixed race couples exist in the world lore but that was the first I can recall they showed a mixed race person. Or maybe Miqo doesn't get a tail growing long until they hit puberty and that would be the time they can start hunting?

The second Miqo'te Girl (a targetable NPC called Miqo'te Girl) appears in Mor Dhona after completing the Doman kids' quests. She has brown hair, wears a different outfit, and also has a stubby tail.

While it's a bit of a leap, I choose to envision that all old Au Ra ladies are something like this:

http://i.imgur.com/18A0ub5.jpg

I would say that, exept hyurs and roegardyns. All races have a long lifespan. Specialy elezens.