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pdqsport:
--- Quote from: Exitao on November 20, 2009, 12:33:56 PM ---No, Tavi did not age at a regular rate. His mother stunted his growth through her furies.
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Yes he aged just as anyone else did. His growth was stunted. Not his age.
:)
Exitao:
--- Quote from: pdqsport on November 21, 2009, 08:23:13 AM ---Yes he aged just as anyone else did. His growth was stunted. Not his age.
:)
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<exasperated sigh> How do you judge age? In the young we judge it through growth. As we get older, by signs of ageing. Do you see where I'm going with this?
For all we know, Carna could have shorter years and with fatality rates and the effects of water crafting... well, all I'm saying is that it may be roughly contemporary, but trying to use our years/dates as a timeline is not worth the effort.
Quantus:
--- Quote from: URIELa.k.aWATCHMAN on November 20, 2009, 05:16:05 PM ---Now that we are at the end of this series i hope to crap that tavi pulls some kick ass fury asswhippins. I think we can assume that by the cover. All of the other covers dipict(sp?) a certain scene that happens real close to the cover art. I wonder what that woman was at the end of book 5 she told tavi that his grandfather called her alera. Ehern saw her when they were in ceres when he walked to the top of the wall and stopped at the top o the stairs and overheard Gauis. Is she a great fury?? is that how they pass there fury to the next in the fam? or some kind of bond with a great fury?
if tavi manifests a fury could kitai use it like he could??
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Answers to this and more can be found in the sample chapters currently available on the Main site, though I warn you they will only lead to more questions :)
--- Quote from: Exitao on November 21, 2009, 09:27:06 PM ---<exasperated sigh> How do you judge age? In the young we judge it through growth. As we get older, by signs of ageing. Do you see where I'm going with this?
For all we know, Carna could have shorter years and with fatality rates and the effects of water crafting... well, all I'm saying is that it may be roughly contemporary, but trying to use our years/dates as a timeline is not worth the effort.
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Just because the accuracy cannot be confirmed doesnt mean it cant be fun to try. Especially when talking on a board whose primary function is wild speculation. Its what we dooo :D
pdqsport:
--- Quote from: Exitao on November 21, 2009, 09:27:06 PM ---<exasperated sigh> How do you judge age? In the young we judge it through growth. As we get older, by signs of ageing. Do you see where I'm going with this?
For all we know, Carna could have shorter years and with fatality rates and the effects of water crafting... well, all I'm saying is that it may be roughly contemporary, but trying to use our years/dates as a timeline is not worth the effort.
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His birth date was "X". Today is "Y". "Age" is a measure of TIME from "X" to "Y". Nothing that his mother did to spike his bathwater changes either "X" or "Y". Thus "Age" is not stunted. His development was stunted, yes. Growth and development may be (in some ways) interchangable. Growth and age are not.
You might find the use of time as inaccurate to judge a person's "age". I do not.
Exitao:
--- Quote from: pdqsport on November 22, 2009, 08:50:24 AM ---His birth date was "X". Today is "Y". "Age" is a measure of TIME from "X" to "Y". Nothing that his mother did to spike his bathwater changes either "X" or "Y". Thus "Age" is not stunted. His development was stunted, yes. Growth and development may be (in some ways) interchangable. Growth and age are not.
You might find the use of time as inaccurate to judge a person's "age". I do not.
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Look, a larger world with the same rotational speed will have more "time" in a day. Even if they can divide it all evenly into 24 hours of 60 mins of 50 seconds each, those seconds would be longer. Then again, they could be shorter.
Some can go for the orbit of the planet around its sun. Years can be longer or shorter.
The variables you suggest are more variable than you want to comprehend. The measurement of time is subjective.
18 years of Terran time is measured by 18 rotations around Sol. Which is not the same as 18 years of Martian time, which holds a different orbit:
--- Quote ---The solar day (or sol) on Mars is only slightly longer than an Earth day: 24 hours, 39 minutes, and 35.244 seconds. A Martian year is equal to 1.8809 Earth years, or 1 year, 320 days, and 18.2 hours.
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A one year old Martian would be different from a one year old Terran... And we know nothing about Carna, but I will point out that probability tells us that it is extremely unlikely that Carna will have exactly the same orbit around its sun as our planet does ours.
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