How old are our characters supposed to be?

The day/night cycle is still there, but unlike games like FFXIV where the cycle is accelerated, WoW’s is still on a 24hr timer and it’s tied to your realm’s region (with the exception of Oceanic, which I think follows PST for some reason). So if you play on a realm in your time zone and play mostly during the same time of day each session, you’ll probably never notice the cycle because it will always be day/night/dawn/dusk for you unless you happen to be playing long enough in the middle of a transition.

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Of course.

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That’s up to you. That’s part of the RP in the MMORPG acronym

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The implication of the dialogue choices I made on my Draenei in Shadowlands suggests she was with the group that fled Argus.

This paladin has been around since vanilla which based on the WoW timeline I can find would suggest she’s in her mid-30s assuming she was 18-20 when vanilla started.

Though you can headcanon whatever you want, really.

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As old as you want them to be, in RP terms.

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I always imagined this character starting out way back in classic as a fresh 18-yr old adventurer (like me!).  So twenty years, plus the five-year gap between Shadowlands and Dragonflight would make her… in her early forties at least?  From what I understand of the timeline for WoW.

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I am Eternal!!!

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UnOfficially speaking, if anduin was a small child for vanilla, and is now in his 30s(?) we are all at least 40-50 since we weren’t child size in vanilla

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My panda was gifted immortality by the bronze flight and has been around since pre-sundering.

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Please don’t ask my age… it’s somewhere between the birth of the universe and the dark portal’s first opening…

I am infinitely over 29…only hint you’re getting.

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From what I can find, Anduin was mid-20s in Dragonflight and the wiki suggests that TWW is only 1 year later.

Apparently sitting around in Silithus just makes you look older.

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Alleria is my dream.

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So if Anduin was 10 in vanilla, and let’s just say 25 in tww. Does that mean that Everything that’s happened in Azeroth was all over 10 years?? That little kid had a worse childhood than Gohan.

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I’m not admitting to being a day over 29.

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If we go by the timeline on the wiki it’s 15 years between vanilla and dragonflight but yeah, it’s a pretty rough childhood.

It also suggests he was 13 when Cataclysm happened.

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This dog is sixty-five years old.
She might crumple if she took her human form while in armor.

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Is that in dog years?

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Oooo I know, let’s play a fun little game, guess my age, 1 to 1 million and goooooo!

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I only make Draenei and Elves so all my characters are ancient.

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Human.
In dog she’d probably be like two-hundred or something.

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