January 15th, 2019. Focus: Concept Art & World Building

I haven't set possible life spans for creatures. So I'll be doing that today. As well as going through the systems for the race's ages.

So since I've already done the work I figured I'd explain the races first, then do the creatures.

I already explained aging for the fae...

-age to appearance
               -are born at the size of a toddler (around 2)
               -at 10 appear 6
               -at 20 appear 8
               -at 30 appear 10
               -at 40 appear 12
               -at 50 appear 14
               -at 100 appear 20
               -at 500 appear 25
               -at 1000 appear 30
               -at 2000 appear 35
               -at 3000 appear 40
               -at 4000 appear 45
               -at 5000 appear 50
               -at 6000 appear 60

Fae wings start to deteriorate at around 5000, losing the ability to reproduce with their wings.  Most fae will reproduce or die in battle before they reach 2000. At most they can live to about 6000 so that's where I set the cap. I wanted fae to be able to live longer than elves, though their culture encourages dying before their prime ends. I felt like it would work well if they aged faster in their early years then it slowed in later years. This similar to humans who in their younger years are developing quickly then it slows with age. However with fae it's at a much more extreme point.

The elves have a shorter life span than the fae.

-at 5 appear 5
-at 15 appear 10
-at 100 appear 20
-at 500 appear 25
-at 1000 appear 30
-at 1500 appear 35
-at 1750 appear 40
-at 2000 appear 45
-at 2250 appear 50
-at 2500 appear 55
-at 2750 appear 60
-at 3000 appear 65

Elves can feel when they are reaching the end of their lives.  Living to around 3000 years old before crumbling to dust. Some die sooner than this though, but all elves feel their death approaching within 50 years before it occurring. My friend was actually the one who made this choice, so I can't really say the reasoning behind it.

Vampires have the longest life span out of all the races. Living to around 10000 years at most. Vampires age at a high rate at first, it almost stops, then begins to accelerate again.

-at 5 appear 7

-at 10 appear 14

-at 15 appear 21

-at 30 appear 24

-at 60 appear 25

-at 100 appear 26

-at 500 appear 28

-at 1000 appear 30

-at 5000 appear 34

-at 6000 appear 35

-at 7000 appear 40

-at 8000 appear 50

-at 9000 appear 75

-at 10000 appear 100

Revenants have life spans closer to humans than vampires. I did this because revenants were humans turned by vampires, so they would be incomplete. They have a life span of about 250 years. There appearance locked to how they looked before being changed. Any human younger than 10 won't survive the change to a revenant.

Humans would have the same rate of aging they have in real life. Though due to the influence of magic they live to about 120. 

Onto the life spans of the worlds creatures...

-animals with heightened features
-Camazotz
-spirits
             -daemons                          -aethrials
             -wraiths
-dragons, wyverns
-golems
-regular animals
-elementals

Regular animals and heightened animals have the same life span of real animals.

Camazotz live about 300 years.

Spirits won't die as long as the have an energy source. In the case of wraiths they have to feed off souls. Aethrials will live as long as they are near their element. And daemons could survive as long as they have a vessel to possess. With out a vessel they have a few days before they fade without one.

Dragons live for about 8000 years, in mythology they had amazing longevity, I always liked that part of the myths.

Wyverns don't live quite as long as dragons, dying at around 4500 years. 

Golems can live as long as their creators do. Once their creators are gone though they don't function anymore. This is because of the signature that life magic leaves. A different source of magic can't activate a golem once this signature is left.

Elementals, due to their link with magic live to about 5000 years old. 

So that's the end of todays post.