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Post by Talleia on Mar 16, 2009 20:12:34 GMT -5
Sorry to pop in here, seeing as I'm not going to be any help at all, but, honestly, I never thought about that...good thing to bring up Kaolla!
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Post by bryan on Apr 1, 2009 1:53:59 GMT -5
When I first started playing I had similar questions, and after some studying, reading and finding a huge host of inconclusive info my solution was pretty simple - to sidestep the whole thing altogether. Given the Dranei’s use of technology and magic, and its mix, I simply presumed that with their losses of population and dire condition, desperation would rule.
(This is heavily implied by mo0st of the quests they do in the Azuremyst starting zone)
So, I took a creative leap, and decided all my Dranel characters were clones – Railei and Bajhoul are cloned sisters. Easy enough, I just gave them the same face and skin color and horns. Questions of aging were thus avoided, as they were decanted from their incubation chambers as of BC release. This made their age moot – they didn’t age, because they were made that way,.
It’s not the only answer, by all means, but it works, and if folk like it, feel free to do the same. Given how wide open the lore is on such matters, there’s all sorts of ways of answering the question IC, this being only one.
I’ve also seen ( from other players ) the following explanations used, including some of the ones previously posted here –
The Character was caught in a time vortex, back on Dranor. He was chronologically 5000, but appeared around 30
The character simply didn’t age.
The character was in suspended animation.
The character had been kidnapped by Twilight Cultists and had been repeatedly tortured, for decades, and was finally reincarnated as a first level (and was working his way up the level ladder. He’d formerly been a crystals systems technician before capture which was how he justified his jewel crafting and engineering. ( I liked that one)
The player just plain couldn’t manage the accent in type/chat, so his MRP read that he was originally human male who had been subjected to a horrendous transporter accident thanks to Scooty when he was sent to Gnomeregan and had exchanged bodies with a Dranei female ( played by one of his guildies) and now never aged at all. ( need I point out that it was also funny as hell to RP with these two?)
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