Lore Book Revelations

[Alisa180]

Deviating a bit here, but did the lore touch upon why Alphinaud and Alisaie are so much shorter than other Elezen despite being 17 in ARR?

Do Elezen just have one hell of a growth spurt in their early 20s?

I'm especially confused as we see Honoroit and Saulette working as servants despite using the same models as regular children, and Emanellain (spelling?) is clearly a young man but adult height...

First: The twins are 16, not seventeen.

From Tumblr:



To answer your question: Yes, according to the lorebook they do have a big growth spurt around 20.

A good rule of thumb when dealing with the 'physical' age of Elezen is to either take their known age and divide it by .8, or take a 'physical age' and multiply it by 1.2 to find out what age they actually reach that point (in comparison to other races/humans). According to a lore panel, they can live to about 120, compared to 100 for the other races, so they age about 20% slower.

Honoroit is 14, so 14*.8=11.2. His 'physical age' (relative to other races) is actually 11, hence why he has the 'child' model. Emanellain is around 26 by deduction, 26*.8= 20.8. At a 'physical age' of twenty, he's long reached his adult height.

As for the twins, 16*.8=12.8, which I usually round up to thirteen. That's why they still look like 13-year olds despite being sixteen. In 'Elezen years', they actually ARE thirteen!

Assuming they mature at roughly the same 'physical age' as humans, most boys stop growing around age 16 or 17, sometimes later. If we multiply that by 1.2, we can get how old Elezen reach physical maturity. 16*1.2=19.2, 17*1.2=20.4. That's right in the 'around twenty' ballpark described by the lorebook.

Finally, Hraesvelger says Elezen 'lose their youthful vigor' at 'two score and ten', which is 50 years for those who don't know what a 'score' is. 50*.8=40.

...Er, yeah, I did very thorough analysis of Elezen growth and age a while back. ...It was for fan fiction, alright? You have to know these things if you want to write young Elezen characters any older or younger then they are in at the time of FFXIV, because of their slower growth pattern.

As an aside, that picture of Hauchefant in Vows Unbroken is from when he was twelve, not seventeen.