How old are our characters supposed to be?

Well, I think we can guess that for the 6 core races (the Vanilla to Cata races) and pandaren at least, regardless of when you actually made them, were probably born roughly 20 or so years ago, since most of the core races are only just starting out on their journey. Granted, I don’t know the exact aging rate of each race, so I might be lowballing some of them

As for the allied races, some of them can follow that same train of thought, like the Dark Irons or Zandalari, but others like the Nightborne or the Dracthyr are more unclear.

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Okay but, you’re paying me to do this math…

You are approximately 1,250,000 years old… so happy 1.2 mill birthday!

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Would now be a bad time to say I’m 27 and still look 18? IC wise I don’t look a day over 25k.

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Chronologically, this character is still mid-20s. But that’s because the original Horde force-aged children into adulthood, so I skipped childhood and youth to become an adult Warsong scout. Most of those 20-something years of life were the 20 years of WoW.

OTOH, my Forsaken Priest alt would be ancient, since he was already an old-ish parish priest in Tirisfal Glades when he was Scourged.

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From Danuser about the timeskip

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i am an elf.
age really doesnt show much for a long long time.

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This toon is 45 and counting. I hit the wall a few years ago. :sunglasses:

I have killed GODS.

What do I care about canonical age?

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“its been 84 years”

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I’ve always imagined my guy to be around 28 - 30.

Old enough to be mature and have his life together, but young enough to still deal with all the BS The Alliance throws at him every year.

me and my husband, literally, if one have hair

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some of mine are almost 20

How old are our characters supposed to be?

NPCs keep calling me “Geritol”…so however old that is.

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I think Mrs. Elgrippa cares greatly…now back to the gym! She’s waiting there to eviscerate you about being so lax on your SQUATS!

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I will continue to take my anger about the canon three-year timeskip that they did NOTHING with in the story to my grave :rage:

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I’ve always rolled with our characters being young adults, minimum being recruitment age, when we first rolled them in which ever expac you started playing. Older for Hero Classes since we had a life beforehand.

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Why you gotta come at my rogue Benjaminbutton like that

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This actually makes sense as most would die young so they’d be starting out young as well.

Orcs and humans both would be considered old by age 35, 40 they’d be considered veteran and anything older than that would be considered ancient because of the war culture.

Humans have a slightly better chance at living longer than any orc does, though but now things have changed so Idk if orcs will become longer lived now.
Would be good if they did.

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:rofl:

Sorry, I forgot people reset their age when they change jobs.
In this case my DK is 3 years old and I’m 2 months old.