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dieinnafire October 2 2007, 05:33:05 UTC
1) WHY AREN'T YOU ASLEEP
2) Methuselah lifespans confuse me. 300 is about the typical lifespan s'far as I knew, but Suleyman served for over 300 years. And if you compare him and that old man at Asta's house. ...LOOK AT THE MAN does he look like he's reaching the end of his life?
3) If Suleyman's 300 and Seth trusts Mirka so much more than Suleyman, how old is MIRKA? And I am of the opinion Mirka knows about the Night Lords. At least sort of about them.
4) if you wondered about the pills you could have asked me :/
5) yeniceri = on wiki
6) GO TO BED

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dieinnafire October 2 2007, 05:37:12 UTC
oh yeah. I knew I had a real point 6.

I don't get the Methuselah-Terran thing within the Empire. The way I see it, the Terran have their own section of the city, but do a lot of their businesses with the Methuselah. There are also Terran that serve the Methuselah? Which might be what that old man that serves Asta is. And like, that man that the autojaeger kill that Ion goes to find in the Terran section is, clearly, Terran. So the city's coexistance exists in that the Terran and Methuselah do business with each other and there's a peace in that, probably. There are probably Terran families that have served a Methuselah noble for geeeenerations.

--re: lifespans. What does a Methuselah who's about to die of old age look like. I have never seen an old-looking Methuselah. Is our lifespan 300 cause we all get killed around 300?

[/rambling]

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but_a_wolf October 2 2007, 06:49:33 UTC
If you're anything like Wraeththu, instead of growing old, you start fading.

I'm so going to hell.

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astalavampire October 2 2007, 09:54:56 UTC
I'm still wondering about the question of age, too. Because you have Radu and Ion's birthdates, and that has them at 18. But Asta refers to herself as one of "the young nobles," ostensibly putting herself in the same category as Radu and Ion. The novel says she looks like a girl just out of her teens, but gives no hint to her real age. (And the age of 50 that I have on my stats and permissions meme is the result of me misreading something. GG me.)

I WANT TO KNOW HOW OLD MY CHARACTER IS OKAY.

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papillondejade October 2 2007, 14:50:43 UTC
re: Methuselah/Terran:

This looks accurate to me? I mean, if you want true coexistence, you'd have Methuselah and Terran intermarrying. And even discounting all the problems that would raise? It's strictly taboo.

(... are ALL METHUSELAH considered nobles?!!??!)

re: lifespans:

I bet. Or possibly, uh, Suleyman uses a lot of makeup. ... possibly the ones who stay close to the courts all their lives live longer?

And. It's. Not so much that Mirka is older than Suleyman as that Mirka was entrusted with this information, was possibly raised much closer to the Empress, etc. Keeper of the Secret History might be a role belonging to the head of the Fortuna family, a house favored by the Empress, rather than just to Mirka's generation.

I would write more but I have to run to class iyaaaa. :(

also i went to bed at. 10:20. THAT IS PERFECTLY HEALTHY, THANK YOU.

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