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    Quote Originally Posted by thegreatonemal View Post
    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.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MikkoAkure View Post
    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.
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    Quote Originally Posted by thegreatonemal View Post
    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.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MikkoAkure View Post
    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.
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