Quote Originally Posted by Cleretic View Post
I unfortunately can't cite the miqo'te lifespan thing, it's just something I heard in RP from a friend who generally has their facts straight RE: miqo'te lore. I kinda take their word on that and move on, because my interests are elsewhere.
I've heard the miqo'te thing over and over in RP and no one can point to where they got it from in-game and just reference another RPer or a discord. That's one of those "facts" that people often cite that has no actual reference in-game or in any interview or supplementary material but continuously gets passed along and repeated. Same with "mixed-race children are their mom's race", which was invented to explain why someone's half-elezen character looks like a 100% hyur.

Koji had said in an interview from 2014 that 4 of the 5 original races have the same lifespan as we do on Earth except for elezen, and that also explains why it takes a little longer for elezen to reach their adult height. Eorzea is a rough place though so we're still working with medieval period life expectancy for the average person. He said he doesn't expect the average person to live longer than 30s, 40s, or 50s.


Back on topic, I don't think the whole "rejoining of the soul" is very well explained in the game and it's painfully obvious it was tacked onto the plot after the fact. Every rejoining doesn't increase your lifespan or else we would have heard about it in records or after the most recent calamity or from the story that leads into the 8UC. You would think that a group of people plus G'raha would have made a comment about any sort of change within them after experiencing 2 calamities but we don't hear of it. We would also have known about it from G'raha and all of the Scions on the First since the people on the First are just 1/14th, but again nothing. But at the same time it's a bit weird that as soon as all the rejoinings are complete, we'd all be "whole" 20ft-tall Ancients again at the same power level. A part of me wonders if it's not that simple and that a lot of that idea is Ascian propaganda fed to Varis in order for him to do what they wanted him to do.