Character Starting Ages

**So you want to play a 16 year old fae, I say go back and smoke the pipeweed some more...**

What follows is a fairly concise explanation regarding the starting ages of characters on Ashirion. This includes none human races, child characters and the like. Please remember that player characters on Ashirion of the longer lived species, will not be permitted to have an age of more than 300 to 800 years, race being taken into account and the utmost limit is 1000 years old. Any older could be detrimental both to our theme as it stands and also to the player who would have an awful lot of history to absorb.

**Half elves, wolvren, felin, foxlin, cattan**

All these races age at the same age as humans do til adulthood, then they all have approximately the same lifespan. Some half elves may take more after their elvish parent in this regard and many wolvren due to their violent life style regard 35 or so a good age. The same penalties regarding less points for youngsters would apply. Foxlin and half elves really have no specialist requirements so, I'm not going to bother with them in detail;) However consider the following carefully:

**Cattan**How the hell would an underage cattan have survived considering what happened to their homeland aka it is NO MORE! Therefore as Cattan is a closed species and virtually extinct, there will be no young cattan on grid aside from the kit of Captain Nae'rran and Captain Aneesah.

**Wolvren** App only species. A young wolvren away from the pack is..rare..very rare, so rare that in fact, there will be no child or teen wolvren approved.

**Felin** Very family orientated, also all live in Ch'marr forest nowadays, with a few felin wandering back and too from Ruatha. A felin kit away from its family is again very rare. Any concept would have to be vetted by me (Hellion) personally. In advance, explainations such as lost, orphaned (which has already been used) or slavery will not be considered acceptable.

And now for the others. Elves, Shakari, Eldrin, Dwarves and Fae.

Consider the difficulty in tabulating every single age range and the mind boggles so much one thinks of reasons to avoid it as over complicated! So I am avoiding doing it by saying simply it over complicates a simple system to the point of stupidity;)

**Elves**The minimum age I will consider for an elf to begin play at is 60ish. Like the infamous Sithen! This would make them a late teen in elf years and liable to being treated as such by older elves, although probably not by humans etc..I mean they are still old enough to be their grandparents!

**Dwarves** Again late teen equivalent, 50ish or so. There is one exception to this rule. If you meet him ,you will know about it;) But there will be no more.

**Fae** An app only race. To pass through the mirror requires a level of maturity therefore NO child or teen fae will be approved.

**Shakari** An app only race. No children or teen shakari will be considered. Their society is not one that permits their youth to run around unsupervised.

**Eldrin ** An app only race. (See shakari)

These are guidelines, I have no wish or inclination to impose a strict, this is my characters starting age upon people in chargen. This is merely so that people will have a clearer indication of what is currently acceptable within the theme.

Hellion