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Tami Seven:
--- Quote from: Priscellie on July 11, 2016, 05:53:22 PM ---I did so yesterday. :D
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Always one step ahead of me, and everyone else. :)
Serack:
--- Quote from: Priscellie on July 10, 2016, 04:11:17 PM ---It certainly gives us a tidy age range! While we don't yet know exactly how old she was when her mother died, that WoJ makes me believe she was no older than her early teens, so she was likely born sometime between 1797 and 1810. What most interests me is that this means she and Luccio are close to the same age. :D
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Chronologically, but Margret is likely to have spent some time in the fast lane like Rashid, and thus younger than the years that have passed since she was born.
Retrosteve:
--- Quote from: Tami Seven on July 11, 2016, 02:26:19 PM ---Might be worth adding to the timeline, along with the Luccio Entry, "Circa 1800" a mention of Margaret's Birth.
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I'm a newbie here, so please treat me gently. Apologies if this isn't the right place to bring this up.
We've had several tidbits stating how wizards live a long time but don't stay young and pretty as they do so. Harry, at 38, already notices that he looks older than Thomas. From the way Harry describes the older wizards and their ages, it looks like they age near-normally up to about age 40-50, then slow down their aging drastically afterward, stretching their decrepitude for another 2-3 centuries.
Luccio mentions that she hasn't had menses or felt much sexual desire for over a century.
By that measure, her contemporary Margaret LeFay at 100 should have gone through menopause about 40-50 years ago, and should not be giving birth, right? She might be a perfectly-healthy woman of apparent age around 65.
If this is right, it doesn't fit with her bearing Thomas and Harry when she does. Is there any way she could have been born a few decades later?
knnn:
--- Quote from: Retrosteve on July 13, 2016, 11:40:06 PM ---If this is right, it doesn't fit with her bearing Thomas and Harry when she does. Is there any way she could have been born a few decades later?
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Hey Retrosteve, welcome to the forums.
Regarding the of Maggie Sr., we have a WoJ (Word of Jim) that Maggie "cheated" (i.e. spent time in the NN where the timeflow is slower), so her biological age might well have been much less.
Second Aristh:
--- Quote from: Retrosteve on July 13, 2016, 11:40:06 PM ---I'm a newbie here, so please treat me gently. Apologies if this isn't the right place to bring this up.
We've had several tidbits stating how wizards live a long time but don't stay young and pretty as they do so. Harry, at 38, already notices that he looks older than Thomas. From the way Harry describes the older wizards and their ages, it looks like they age near-normally up to about age 40-50, then slow down their aging drastically afterward, stretching their decrepitude for another 2-3 centuries.
Luccio mentions that she hasn't had menses or felt much sexual desire for over a century.
By that measure, her contemporary Margaret LeFay at 100 should have gone through menopause about 40-50 years ago, and should not be giving birth, right? She might be a perfectly-healthy woman of apparent age around 65.
If this is right, it doesn't fit with her bearing Thomas and Harry when she does. Is there any way she could have been born a few decades later?
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Welcome to the forums Retrosteve. Usually discussions like this happens in the DF Spoilers section here. The Reference Collection is generally kept as somewhere for people to look up facts and archived theories for use in the spoilers section discussions.
That being said, in the DV it's important to make the distinction between date of birth and age. With her extensive travels in the NN where time flows inconsistently, Maggie Sr.'s biological age is distinct from the time lapsed on Earth since her birth.
Edit: Oops, knn beat me to it.
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