I’m asking because I was thinking of writing a backstory for my human character just for fun. My human character is supposed to be a veteran sergeant who enlisted shortly before the old horde fought Stormwind, he was 15 during that war, so according to the timeline, how old would he be during the events of WoW?
The timeline on Wowpedia puts it at like ~30 years ago. No idea how accurate that is, though.
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About 34 years from the start of WC1 and the opening of the Dark Portal up through to now in SL.
Here’s a pretty accurate timeline, at least the best we can manage.
….idk but now i got to thinking…just how OLD would our actual characters be by now? Many of the ones like the humans etc., saw anduin literally grow up from a young child, to now a king. And those characters were adults then. Often somewhere probably in their 30s/late 20s.
Most player characters should canonically probably be retired by now from war.
Man why does random stuff like that have to pop in my head. Now ill be thinking about it all night…
/shrug
Seems like half the available races live a lot longer than the average human lifespan anyway. But it’s only been something around 10-12 years canonically since the start of WoW.
So Thrall is in his mid thirties?
WoW is happening in real time.
It varies by race. A lot of them different kinds of lifespans. Some live for centuries or thousands of years. But it’s really just RP freedom to how old you actually want to make yours and when you want them to have been born.
For humans you could RP as a teenager fresh on the scene if you wanted to or a 70 year old veteran, you don’t have to have canon been there participating in every expansion. It’s easy to disregard the game’s mechanics for your own story. Endless possibilities.
Asana here for example is 30 years old. I had her born at right about the start of the Second War.
Take Jhon J Keeshan as example. He’s a veteran of all three wars, which would likely place him at almost his sixties…I wonder what’s his secret to keep that look.