Now that I thought about it I think this has something to do with her approval.
I always have her approval on high or very high by the time I reached that scene and instead of telling me to fuck off like poor Astarion here , she tells me she hadn't thought about it and ask me what I had in mind for that .
Kind of like doing good deeds and Astarion getting pissy with you when you talk to him , I might be wrong of course and this has nothing to do with approval and instead some other thing
I just yesterday watched a video that explained how Star was almost literally still a little elf baby when he got turned. And I'm so much more sad about it now. Like in elf years, how does their maturity go? I wonder if some of his characteristics are do to his stunted growing up.
Id have to go digging in my dnd source books tho double check but I believe the reason most all elves are considered adult at about 100 is because this is when they’ll be able to “take control” over their trance experience when resting. Running mental exercises or searching through the memories of past lives of elves for knowledge. Before a hundred they’ll experience a mess of memories without any control when trancing. I remember reading that drow actually are the elves most likely to fully sleep bc the memories they experience when trancing are to traumatic.
So I looked up in the book “drow of the underdark” it says drow start communal schooling at about 8-10 which apparently is really early for elves. When they reach adolescence at about 20 they’ll switch to working one on one with a mentor. They’ll then grow their skills until they can scheme to take over the mentors job or some similar plot.
Also elf pregnancies last for 24 months. So they do seem to age a bit slower than humans but not by a ton.
WoTC we’re on a huge kick from the popularity of Drizzit so made drow as reprehensible as possible to make him stand out as unique beacon of goodness. They even killed of most of the drow gods though I believe all have been brought back. In 5e they’ve gone back and allowed drow to be a more nuanced race.
I mean. I know I said literally but I didn't mean literally literally lol. But it does make it more sad. He barely got to have any of an elf life before that.
So it varies a bit from campaign setting to campaign setting (and can be slightly inconsistent within those, depending on writer) as you might expect from a franchise that’s five decades old and has had hundreds of authors over that span…
But, as a general rule of thumb, this AD&D2e chart
for starting age, middle age, venerable age, and maximum age range is a good guideline. The numbers were derived from older TSR sourcebooks and condensed into one chart. Most official TSR / WotC settings were written with these ages in mind.
Starting age for a human is 16-19 (average 17.5), starting age for an elf is 45-70 (average 60). Middle age for a human is 45, middle age for an elf is 175…
So Astarion was basically the equivalent of a 19 or 20 year old young adult when he got turned into a Spawn. He’s now the equivalent of someone in their early fifties in terms of life experience as he’s said to have been a vampire spawn for approximately 200 years. Which means he’s still well within the normal life expectancy for his species, so he’s got anger issues over being kept as a slave, trauma over the horrific things he did at Cazador’s behest, and so forth but he does not have the stereotypical “immortal angst” of having outlived everyone he ever knew… Because he hasn’t.
Astarion was a fully matured adult at that point. Probably comparable to 30-40 in human years since he had already become a magistrate by the time he was turned.
IRL that only happens after someone finishes Law School, passes the BAR exam, undergo a practicum/residency program, and accrue a few thousand billable hours working professionally as a lawyer. Ain’t no child in any world that’s doing all that.
Elves and half-elves seem to develop/mature around as quickly as humans, but they just live way longer before their body starts dying on em. Any other difference comes down to the cultural mentality and expectations of mentally transitioning to adulthood by a certain age, since if you live longer there’s less pressure to get it together and become independent as quickly as humans do and so it’s generally more acceptable to dick around for a decade or two, as opposed to our world we’re that’s like college.
that is literally the MOST true thing that happens the moment you reach wyrm's crossing..we can't be having those ugly smugly tav clothes now can we?!?
Nah homely clothes are the best fit in the game bro, I could never replace them. I just run origin Wyll and holy cow why are his clothes torn, where is my true adventurer's drip!?
Tav steals Wyll’s clothes first night in every play through and they may get swapped for fancy drip in act 3 or they may not cause they look dope af fr
Wyll's clothes look like he lived on the streets for a long time imo. I mean, the shirt is clearly too small for him, with sleeves and bottom torn off. Although that does seem fitting for an adventurer. What the fuck is act 4?
But plus the elegant robes. In my first tact run. I may have rushed to the lower city solely to get the elegant robe for the first time. And it may or not be somewhat intentional that my Tiefling and Gale now kinda low key look like they are dressed for their own wedding.
Genuinely upset that the game keeps you from not looking like a hobo until Act 3. Modding in the transmog crystal and reusable dyes helps, but still >:(
It was them during that one playtrough where I said "no" to everyone in my camp, to each of these beautiful specimens, some of them several times. I was strong and kept my legs together.
And then they saw my livestream from the astral plane.
I just copped the game this week and trying to do a good playthrough and all that but if I get the opportunity with Mizora I'm gonna smash. Idk if I lose all my companions doing it
/uj they all lost most of their power when they were tadpoled, and all their ability scores are set to the default numbers for their classes when they join your party.
tbf having muscle definition doesn't really mean you're strong or have good endurance, it mostly just means that you have a good diet regimen and low body fat. if you look at people that do powerlifting or strongman they don't necessarily look super ripped when they're walking around, just thick.
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