Quote Originally Posted by StormChase View Post
We also got a slightly better idea of Y'shtola's age now. She left Matoya when she was seventeen, and the Exodus was about fifteen years ago, so she'd have been Thancred's age in A Realm Reborn.
It's good to see new data supporting this one.

If you calculated the age she went into Matoya's care and how long she studied under Matoya, my math said she would be between 31 and 33 as of ARR. I split the difference and said 32 - same as Thancred - because it was the cleanest mathematically and I thought that was the funniest option. (Why "forever 23"? She just swapped the numbers.) Also I have a running gag quasi-headcanon that Thancred and Y'shtola dated for one summer in 1561 and it went nuclear bad and everyone knows but no one talks about it, so for them to have "graduated in the same class" makes it funnier for selfish reasons, too.