Do Vrykul age the same way that humans do?

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I am thinking about roleplaying as a character that has the curse of flesh that was put on the Vrykul, which essentially makes the character a human. But all of that will not happen if those types of people age exactly like humans do. I am just wondering if Vrykul and the new curse of flesh humans have ever been mentioned in the lore when it comes to their age or if I must assume things.

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Hello!

To answer your question, I’m fairly certain there’s no specified lore on Vrykul aging. Hell, there’s barely specified lore on playable-races aging. That said, I’d assume it’s fair to say that vrykul and humans age at the same, or nearly the same, rate.

Uh… I will note that I’m a little confused as to your post.

So… The lore behind the origin of humans goes like this:

  1. The Titans came to Azeroth, saw it was infected by Old Gods.
  2. They created armies, among which were the iron vrykul.
  3. The Old Gods were imprisoned. Yogg Saron creates the Curse of Flesh.
  4. The Curse of Flesh infected many titanforged, including the iron vrykul.
  5. The iron vrykul turned into modern, fleshy vrykul.
  6. A few vrykul had mutant offspring that were smaller and weaker.
  7. Those offspring were exiled and became known as “humans”.

Of course, that all occurred thousands of years ago (fifteen thousand, IIRC). So, even by elven standards, there aren’t any “new” humans, and no vrykul would have recently become infected by the Curse of Flesh. They’d all be descendents of the original fleshy vrykul.

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Well, there’s also the fact that the Vrykul in Northrend were in a hibernation state for a very long time before they all woke up and started fighting against the Alliance and Horde.

I feel as though even outside of their hibernation state, Vrykul don’t age fast. They have forms that are closer to their magical origins and as such, even though they were cursed to be organic, they still age at half or even less of the rate that humans do…But at the price of no longer being able to bear non-cursed offspring.

So all the Vrykul that exist now, that’s it. Every Vrykul we kill we make their population that much smaller because when they reproduce, their offspring end up being human. That’s why taking the Lich King’s offer was so appealing to them, if they died with honor they would be raised again in and stay that way forever. But if they died weak deaths they’d end up your typical mindless undead.

That’s my take on it, anyway.

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Reminder that Drusts are Vrykul, and the one that teaches druidism to kultirans is a Drust, I assume he is pretty ancient, but not sure.

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Since they have similar origins to gnomes and dwarves, I would assume all three races have similar life spans.

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Exactly my thought