How old is Ryne???? (Slight 5.2 Spoilers)

[Cilia]

Given she's approximately the same height as the Leveilleur twins, who I always estimated to be 14, my guess was Ryne was about the same age; her naivete from having no real life experiences did not help.

That said if ancillary material puts the twins at 16, I'm willing to put her at the same age.

[Brightamethyst]

though look at F'lhaminn who is supposed to be much older than she appears to be.

That's probably mostly about 2.0 character model limitations and there not being much in the way of 'old' Miqo'te models and faces.

[Eloah]

This confused me too, for a bit, since I always thought she was 14, max. But with this/these recent revelations, as well as something from the Halloween event a while back, it makes sense that she is at least 16.

First off, in Japan, 16 is a legal age, so nothing is "wrong" per se. But the reason this age makes a but more sense is taking into account her in game model. She uses the female midlanders skeletons model. This is proven by not only her in game emotes but her glamour from the Halloween event in 2019.

In game, the older teens use the adult models, so this fits with Ryne as well. The main reason why I think so many people were "confused" about her age was because of her height, as I think she is shorter than the shortest female midlanders; if someone can confirm this it would be nice. But anyways, that leads me to believe, she's just naturally short. Which, given the "stasis" her body had been going through until recently, it makes sense why her physical body would be "underdeveloped" compared to other individuals.

[SannaR]

That's probably mostly about 2.0 character model limitations and there not being much in the way of 'old' Miqo'te models and faces.

I think that's probably true, but there's many other npcs that don't look as old as they probably should. Like in a lot of races you go from baby face to 20 something to like 50 to oh we'll just give them white hair to show that they're 50+. They have done better with some like Gaius actually looks as old as you'd think he is. I'd have to swear Ryne got the padjal face treatment in that even though most padjal look like they're tweleve we know the only one that's actually near that age is Gatty.

[YianKutku]

Given she's approximately the same height as the Leveilleur twins, who I always estimated to be 14, my guess was Ryne was about the same age; her naivete from having no real life experiences did not help.

That said if ancillary material puts the twins at 16, I'm willing to put her at the same age.

One issue is that the Leveilleur twins are Elezen, which are stated to reach their growth spurt (and puberty) later than other races, like Hyur/Hume. Which Ryne is.

So my assumption was that Ryne is younger than 16, because she's Hume, but "looks" about the same age as the Elezen twins. Personally I don't think she's that much younger; maybe 15, and I wouldn't be surprised if she's just a short 16.

Speaking of short, it's kind of amusing that Ryne and Gaia are roughly the same height in cutscenes, but Ryne is wearing flat-soled sandals (well, sandal-boots), and Gaia has these ridiculous heels that add like ten centimeters to her height. So if Ryne is a short 16, Gaia might be a tiny 16.

(The truth is that FFXIV handles high heels by chopping off part of the model's feet and painting heels in their place.)

[xxvaynxx]

I think that's probably true, but there's many other npcs that don't look as old as they probably should. Like in a lot of races you go from baby face to 20 something to like 50 to oh we'll just give them white hair to show that they're 50+. They have done better with some like Gaius actually looks as old as you'd think he is. I'd have to swear Ryne got the padjal face treatment in that even though most padjal look like they're tweleve we know the only one that's actually near that age is Gatty.

Not related to then topic but miqo'tes skin don't age as they get old. It was stated in the lore book that they don't know why other race skin age as they get old.
So a 50 year old miqote will still look like she or he is in their 20's while a hyur will look like a old man.

[Wyssahtyn]

Not related to then topic but miqo'tes skin don't age as they get old. It was stated in the lore book that they don't know why other race skin age as they get old.
So a 50 year old miqote will still look like she or he is in their 20's while a hyur will look like a old man.

Please provide a specific citation for your claim.

[Iscah]

though look at F'lhaminn who is supposed to be much older than she appears to be.

That's probably mostly about 2.0 character model limitations and there not being much in the way of 'old' Miqo'te models and faces.

Actually she's only 37 according to he lorebook profile, so if anything she's younger than I assumed she was due to having grey hair and glasses.

I think she is shorter than the shortest female midlanders; if someone can confirm this it would be nice.

I have a zero-height Midlander. IIRC, Ryne is shorter, but not by much. I checked - the top of Ryne's head is about even with Aurelie's chin.

I don't have screenshots on hand, but here is one with Alisaie.

One issue is that the Leveilleur twins are Elezen, which are stated to reach their growth spurt (and puberty) later than other races, like Hyur/Hume. Which Ryne is.

So my assumption was that Ryne is younger than 16, because she's Hume, but "looks" about the same age as the Elezen twins.

That's my best guess too.

If you do the maths, Elezen age 10-20% slower than the other races so (16 x 5/6 = 13.3) to (16 x 9/10 = 14.4) as an approximation of their "equivalent to Hyuran" physical age.

Please provide a specific citation for your claim.

It's probably on the same page that tells us their lifespan is much shorter than the other races.

(i.e. only there according to unreferenced Internet sources.)

Also easily disproved unless it was somehow a gender-specific trait because male Miqo'te certainly do visibly age.

[RyuDragnier]

The twins have been sixteen for 6 years so technically they are 22?

If we go by reasonable time between events happening (expansions happen immediately after the x.55 patch), it's probably closer to 4 years. So they're 20, I'd say. Really wish SE would come up with a canon timeframe instead of leaving it to us to guess.

[Rannie]

The last canon mention of a time frame is in the summary of new game + for stormblood part 1 and 2 where it specifically says that it was 20 years since Garlemald took over Ala Mhigo and 25 years for Doma which still brings it to the same year of 1577 or 5 years after Dalamud's fall.