Refugees (Spoilers)

[MikkoAkure]

120 there about and most people are never gonna make it to that age. This is a medieval world and they live in a place where the forest can delete you if you step on the wrong mushroom.

People in our world like Plato and Theophrastus reached their 80s 1000 years before the medieval period so it's not out of the realm of possibility. In-universe, there's a Lalafell running around who is 132 years old. The Padjal who RUN the country that was attacked live into their hundreds. Magic can do some crazy things.

[SannaR]

E-Sumi-Yan is at least 600 years old. I do think that's more of a Padjali thing though. At the end of EW he gives an age of 300, but in this year's Hatchingtide he states that what we call happy bunnies had a different name back when he was younger and that even in his 600 years they've been fairly rare. Except when you spam certain fates in Eureka.

[thegreatonemal]

People in our world like Plato and Theophrastus reached their 80s 1000 years before the medieval period so it's not out of the realm of possibility. In-universe, there's a Lalafell running around who is 132 years old. The Padjal who RUN the country that was attacked live into their hundreds. Magic can do some crazy things.

The devs have already said that most don't due to the world they live in.

[MikkoAkure]

The devs have already said that most don't due to the world they live in.

Most is not the same as all. Most Greeks didn't live to be that age either, but some did.

In the line that you're quoting from me I also say that there's a Lalafell who is much older than the "typical" expiration date. His age is confirmed in the Eorzea Encyclopedia as 132 but he's a race that's "supposed" to have a limit of 100 but he's not infirm or anything. He does happen to be a mage, which most certainly helps. I'm pretty sure most Eorzean peasants aren't mages so that probably skews the average.

And again, the Padjal lead Gridania and we know of at least one who would have been alive back during the Autumn War. E-Sumi-Yan stopped counting after 100 and people think he's at least 230. He would certainly have been involved in those events. Besides, even if there was no one from back then who was still alive, resentment doesn't last just a single generation, just ask the Garleans who are still pissed off over lands lost 600 years ago. And again, there was a whole faction that supported the guy in the bard quests and an NPC said there was grumbling about Ala Mhigo being liberated.

[thegreatonemal]

Most is not the same as all. Most Greeks didn't live to be that age either, but some did.

In the line that you're quoting from me I also say that there's a Lalafell who is much older than the "typical" expiration date. His age is confirmed in the Eorzea Encyclopedia as 132 but he's a race that's "supposed" to have a limit of 100 but he's not infirm or anything. He does happen to be a mage, which most certainly helps. I'm pretty sure most Eorzean peasants aren't mages so that probably skews the average.

And again, the Padjal lead Gridania and we know of at least one who would have been alive back during the Autumn War. E-Sumi-Yan stopped counting after 100 and people think he's at least 230. He would certainly have been involved in those events. Besides, even if there was no one from back then who was still alive, resentment doesn't last just a single generation, just ask the Garleans who are still pissed off over lands lost 600 years ago. And again, there was a whole faction that supported the guy in the bard quests and an NPC said there was grumbling about Ala Mhigo being liberated.

I never said all. There's no need to look at a group of people who kept the wrongs done to them close to their hearts for 800 years. Again outside of that small faction who tried to do something with their grudge, most people don't seen to really care about it. Not to the point where lots of people are grumbling about it 100 years later.

[Kakurady]

E-Sumi-Yan is at least 600 years old. I do think that's more of a Padjali thing though. At the end of EW he gives an age of 300, but in this year's Hatchingtide he states that what we call happy bunnies had a different name back when he was younger and that even in his 600 years they've been fairly rare. Except when you spam certain fates in Eureka.

He never mentioned his age in the English, Japanese, or French version of the seasonal quest. As an aside, he said it was rare for him to see a Happy Bunny in the Twelveswood.

E-Sumi-Yan: Your efforts are sincerely appreciated. These seasonal celebrations bring so much joy to the children─and myself, I confess.
E-Sumi-Yan: Still, I must say...it's been years since I've seen a traveler rabbit in the flesh. I never would have expected to encounter one here.
E-Sumi-Yan: What's that? That nomenclature is unfamiliar to you? Ah, in the North they are known more...colloquially...as “happy bunnies,” are they not? They're said to usher in smiles and good fortune...
E-Sumi-Yan: Before that─yes, since much older times─they were known as “traveler rabbits.” They have a habit of showing up at your side unannounced, then vanishing off somewhere before you know it. I recall seeing one in the Twelveswood when I was but a child.
E-Sumi-Yan: Ah, but forgive me... You have other places you must be. We can talk another time─pray relax and enjoy the festivities when your work is done.