Playable kids in FFXIV

[Penthea]

ITT: 16 year olds are children

Unless he has somehow managed to stay 16 since ARR, Alphinaud is older than that now.

[LyraKuroneko]

Unless he has somehow managed to stay 16 since ARR, Alphinaud is older than that now.

It has apparently been said that since ARR, only 6month have passed. Dunno wether true or not.

But anyway 16 is adult in Sharlayan.


edit : Seems pple don't read pages in between, so I'm reposting a later answer. It's about the "actual" time that have passed.

here

[Penthea]

It has apparently been said that since ARR, only 6month have passed. Dunno wether true or not.

But anyway 16 is adult in Sharlayan.

6 Months? What?

It has taken 6 months to do two expansions worth of things?

I love the story but god if this is true this is so stupid.

[Duskane]

6 Months? What?

It has taken 6 months to do two expansions worth of things?

I love the story but god if this is true this is so stupid.

its true no huge amount of time has happened
the twins are still 16

[RyuDragnier]

its true no huge amount of time has happened
the twins are still 16

Yeah no, I'm not accepting that.

If we include boat travel and walking distance between areas since the start of 2.1, it's been longer than 6 months. If anything, I'd say up until now, it has been 2-4 years in game time since the start of ARR.

For SB, if we take the rebuilding of Doma as an example, just from our weekly allotted limit for donations, it has been at least 3-4 months since the end of 4.0 to the end of 4.55. Add in the logical several months of sea travel from Limsa to Kugane, as well as the logical time frames needed for storyline events to occur during 4.0 outside of the boat trip, and we're looking at probably a full year for the storyline of SB, from 4.0 to 4.55.

[Enla]

Yeah no, I'm not accepting that.

If we include boat travel and walking distance between areas since the start of 2.1, it's been longer than 6 months. If anything, I'd say up until now, it has been 2-4 years in game time since the start of ARR.

For SB, if we take the rebuilding of Doma as an example, just from our weekly allotted limit for donations, it has been at least 3-4 months since the end of 4.0 to the end of 4.55. Add in the logical several months of sea travel from Limsa to Kugane, as well as the logical time frames needed for storyline events to occur during 4.0 outside of the boat trip, and we're looking at probably a full year for the storyline of SB, from 4.0 to 4.55.

SE has always been finnicky with their timescape. The only definitive times we've been given were at the start of ARR and everything since then has been up to interpretation with no official word. Occasionally we get a few bones on how long travel might take, like how riding full tilt from Gridania to Horizon on a chocobo without stopping takes a day, but other than that we have nothing. I'm personally in the 'it's been years' camp, but without SE providing an actual concrete timeline it's unlikely we'll ever know for sure.

[Iscah]

Yeah no, I'm not accepting that.

If we include boat travel and walking distance between areas since the start of 2.1, it's been longer than 6 months. If anything, I'd say up until now, it has been 2-4 years in game time since the start of ARR.

The amount of time that has "logically passed" is irrelevant. The story is in a 'time bubble'. For official timekeeping purposes, time in the game never progresses.

It's not that the story has taken place in a short amount of time, but that you'll never see the passage of that time reflected within the game. Characters don't get older, seasons don't pass, the world doesn't move on and change unless the immediate story causes it to do so.

[Jeeqbit]

Yeah no, I'm not accepting that.

SE won't ever say how much time has passed, but they do want you to imagine how much has passed.

If we include...

Trying to calculate and imagine for yourself is exactly what they want you to do.

As long as the timeframe you think has passed makes sense to you, go with it.

[Mirassou]

6 Months? What?

It has taken 6 months to do two expansions worth of things?

I love the story but god if this is true this is so stupid.

Why is it stupid?

Time is of the essence, after all, when you're saving the world(s)!

[Iscah]

It has apparently been said that since ARR, only 6month have passed. Dunno wether true or not.

"No time" has passed at all. The whole game operates in a weird time bubble where no matter how much happens and how much time clearly passes between events, the calendar does not progress.

It will always be "five years since the Calamity" even if you could prove from dialogue or events that several years must have passed since the beginning of ARR.