How much time has gone by...

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Thank you for thinking of coming to us to ask, and (going by the POSTS: 1 next to the OP) welcome! Feel free to come here with any questions you may have; we try to be a tad more cordial and welcoming on the curve (though perhaps a tad more snarky to make up for it).

The thing with the twins is a recurring topic, in and of itself. Admittedly, I usually see people debating it in a Are Leveilleur Lewds OK? context, which highlights certain factors of the debate and renders others all but moot - especially the one about how Elezen have extended puberty in the first place.

Damielliot, for example, didn't visibly age a day between the years 1562 and 1572 of the Sixth Astral Era, but is a grown man in Year 1 of the Seventh Astral Era. Arguably, Alphinaud and Alisaie could be 16 at the beginning of A Realm Reborn and still not visibly look like adults even if the game world had progressed several years.