New "grown up" faces for the new expansion please.

[Lumivyory]

Note that we don't know how much time has passed during the events of ARR, HW, SB, and the events on the Source in ShB.

I've heard that Yoshi said that all the events in ARR, HW, SB and ShB happened within the same year. So not that much time actually passed on the Source.

(I don't have an actual info source unfortunately so can't confirm for sure.)

[Granyala]

Could we maybe have some more grown looking faces for male Miqo'te and male Midlander Hyur? That would be nice.
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Well it is an asian game.
So ... umm well..



I see this adequately reflected in game.

I've heard that Yoshi said that all the events in ARR, HW, SB and ShB happened within the same year. So not that much time actually passed on the Source.

That makes absolutely -0- sense. There is no way all these events would fit into a single year.

I think they'll probably handle time progression similar to WoW, with the addons basically displaying real time.

[TheMightyMollusk]

Gimme proper beards for all races and I'm happy

Glorious bunny beards.

[Gameovers]

Well it is an asian game.
So ... umm well..



I see this adequately reflected in game.


That makes absolutely -0- sense. There is no way all these events would fit into a single year.

I think they'll probably handle time progression similar to WoW, with the addons basically displaying real time.

It could happen in one year. honestly these events wouldn't make too much sense if you added more years to them. anything more than 2 is an eye rasier I think.

[Granyala]

It could happen in one year. honestly these events wouldn't make too much sense if you added more years to them. anything more than 2 is an eye rasier I think.

Not at all.
Do you think the restoration of Doma and Ishgard...
Establishing the Crystal Braves and training personnel, troop movements and liberation work of Doma / Ala Mhigo, research into Allagan technology on numerous occasions, political negotiations regarding Ishgards joining the city states and ending the dragon war / change of political structure... do you honestly believe these kind of things happen in a few weeks or months?

Even if the expansions are displayed in real time, considering what happens behind the scenes (most stuff the player never sees on screen but are necessary preparations/aftermath) would be pushing it quite hard.

[Duskane]

I wouldn't mind if they added more faces like some of the NPC ones and Male miqote has a older face
its the one Chai uses
id play elezen if i could look similar to Aymeric id deal with the walk cycle

[Tlamila]

Re: story time
yeah it makes absolutely no sense but they keep saying it's only been 1 year.
Even though, as per another current thread, even if you only count all the ship travels to and from Doma of the npcs, that makes even just SB multiple years long.
Their time bubble is pretty ridicolous but they insist on it.
Imho if you count all that's going on it's been like 10 years or so. Count also all the time in between patches where npcs tell you to take time off and rest, that should count too.

Miqo apparently "stop aging" once they reach their 20's, which is why even F'lhaminn looks so young (except males when they're Nuhn I guess? too much snu snu for a lifetime lol).

Not just when Nuhn, if you look at the RDM dude (I'm really bad at names) he also looks very old.
And I think M'nago's mother looks oldish? I can't recall for sure about that one though, so I might be wrong.

[Lumivyory]

That makes absolutely -0- sense. There is no way all these events would fit into a single year.

Maybe it doesn't but that's how things are officially. Which explains why NPCs don't really age.

To allow everyone that joins the game, regardless of when they do, to experience the full story, there simply has to be a stoppage of time. Okay, not really a stoppage, but more of a time bubble in which a span of about a year is contained. This is why that for the duration of 1.0, Eorzea was in a perpetual 1572.

We can still speculate on how long it could have been I suppose but I doubt there would be an official info on that since to them it's still 1577.

[Iscah]

As for Thancred, remember that he spent 5 years on the first, rather the 1 the twins spent there, so that's how he aged more, plus something something about not being able to rely on aether to keep looking younger. But yeah, I also agree he suddenly looks much older than he should be.

Time spent in the First is irrelevant to their physical ages because they're not in their bodies, which remain in the Source and subject to the normal flow of time in the story.

They age 1/10th to 1/5th slower.
That quote was pulled from the Encyclopaedia Eorzea, which I literally pulled out to check before making my post.
At the most generous (1/5th slower) this means that when a Hyur is 50, a Elezen born the same day will effectively be 40.
Someone aging 1/5th slower than another will make next to no difference at Alisae and Alphinaud's age.

1/5th slower puts them at about age 13 instead of 16.

Also if you're checking from the lorebook, it also specifically states that they hit their growth spurt around age 20.

Getting back to the topic at hand, you're looking at age from a human standpoint. You can easily make a hyur who bridges the gap between the young adult and senior faces. As for the other races, F'lhaminn is 37 and uses a face that players have access to so it seems like female miqo'te don't age the same way humans do, or she learned some alchemical tricks from her boyfriend.

I don't see a reason to assume that (and especially that Miqo'te age strangely) just because she looks young. Just because you can interpret the faces as being under 20 doesn't mean that you can't accept the character being older than that. 37 isn't so old that someone can't still be young-looking.

The funny thing is that many of the ages are...let's say, protected by lore, even if the time bubble wasn't there:

Alphy and Alie are Elezen, they age much slower cuz they live like hundreds of years or something.
Miqo apparently "stop aging" once they reach their 20's, which is why even F'lhaminn looks so young (except males when they're Nuhn I guess? too much snu snu for a lifetime lol).
Thancred is an archon, and because of his tattoo thingy he had prolonged youth, and personally, because he ditched the scruffy SB look he actually looks younger now.

You've been misinformed.

The thread has already covered that Elezen only live slightly longer than other races, not "hundreds of years". And there's no real reason to assume that Miqo'te stop aging, outside of reading too much into character models and possibly the statement from Y'shtola's profile saying her age is "ever stopped at 23" which seems to be a fancy way of saying "she looks young" - particularly in conjunction with the suggestion that the Archons have a spell for keeping themselves looking younger. She's probably around the same age as Thancred.

Thancred's "aging" coincided with both the loss of his magic ability and several months stranded in the wilderness.

I've heard that Yoshi said that all the events in ARR, HW, SB and ShB happened within the same year. So not that much time actually passed on the Source.

That's just the time bubble logic. If you count up all the things that happen, really they can't possibly happen in a year - but the writers have made it a rule that they are not "counting time" or allowing it to move forward. By the calendar, all the events have happened in one incredibly long year that just keeps stretching out to fit more time.

It's always five years since the Calamity. The twins are always aged 16 and will never get to maturity.

[Granyala]

It's always five years since the Calamity. The twins are always aged 16 and will never get to maturity.

Which is just lazy design on their part because heaven forbid that a game in 2021 displays lasting changes in the game world.