<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=272850.msg13422107#msg13422107">Quote from: TheHangedMan on 13-08-2017, 18:14:03</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">@Andy That could actually work; Vara is young, right? But then again, Leofwine himself was conscripted and sent to war when he was about 16, so he's not really opposed to the idea of working with what most people might consider children, because it seems natural to him based on his own experiences. If you've got the skill, then that's what matters, yeah? <br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>I imagine Vara as being young for a wood elf, probably not older than 40.  As I remember, elves now reach physical maturity at the same rate as humans but don't reach mental and emotional maturity that quickly, so I'd say that she's about the equivalent of a 19 or 20 year old human in physical, mental, emotional, and any other ways that matter.<br/><br/>Elves that are a few hundred years old, though, will still do things like ask her where her parents are.  Elves don't consider other elves adults until about a century of life.<br/><br/>I figure it's a bit like how RL humans are adults by 18, but can't drink until they're 21, and can stay on their parents' health plans until they're 26.  You're an adult but you're not<em>REALLY</em>an<em>adult</em>, and a 200 year old elf dating a 50 year old elf is going to cause some issues that a 300 year old elf dating a 150 year old elf would not.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=272850.msg13422158#msg13422158">Quote from: Caitlin on 13-08-2017, 18:33:16</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote"> I like that idea, I had similar thoughts about it when I read that. It would make sense that Ares would at least know Olak and sailed with him several times. <br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Sold ^_^ With someone as stoic and wise as Olak vouching for both of them, I imagine they're both happily acquainted.<br/><br/>Maybe Olak sees both of them as people whose hearts are ultimately in the right place but have a roundabout time in finding the right course, especially after Ares realizes all the harm he's done and is trying to make amends.