Riko shows up with Kiryn in the anniversary. It’s been 15 (???) years since Mop, and he’s still alive.
Lorewalker Cho says: The hozen are quite lively indeed. A short-lived race, few hozen survive past their 20th birthday. Their leaders are all 14 or 15. How mature were you at 14 years old? Mediate on that!
This is where we get Hozen life spans from. Riko should be near death.
Can we just say that Cho is wrong or something? I want Riko to stay around!
We could just say the average is so low due to, um…questionable decision making skills.
Thats half of their relationship. Kiryn spends half her time hozen proofing the house and constantly stopping him from accidentally killing himself.
That sounds super adorable actually and I love thinking it’s true 
I think this is based on real life monkey life ages. Those that live long only do so because they live in captivity. Monkeys don’t live long lives usually do to competition, bad decisions, predation and so on. Hozen living to at most 20 years would be on par with their less than intelligent life choices. Humans before industrialization were considered old by the time they hit their 30s and while some could live to 100 most drop dead in their 40-50s and very few reached 60+ unless they came from upper class families.
So I suspect Hozen may have the potential with the right circumstances to reach 50 or more. Assuming they don’t end up hurting themselves like goblins who are extremely rare to find in old age. As most die very young and rarely live into their 40s let alone 50s. Not because of their natural lifespan, but their lifestyle choices.
MoP was set 10 years before DF, we don’t entirely know how long after DF TWW takes place but probably not that long which would make Riko quite old, but not quite near death yet.
Cho saves few, not all.
That’s still more than twice that of Ocampa. The short lifespans make the Hozen general behavior more world consistent.
Maybe he can become an undead? There is a hozen skeleton model. 
Humans before industrialization were considered old by the time they hit their 30s and while some could live to 100 most drop dead in their 40-50s and very few reached 60+ unless they came from upper class families.
This isn’t true and I wish people would stop repeating it. When infant mortality is removed human life span has remained mostly constient. 30 years old has never been considered ‘old’. If you reached adult hood you were most likely to continue on living until old age. Getting to adulthood was the hard part though. Most of your sibling would likely die before they reached 18.
The major advancements in life expentenicy all revolve around early life care, both for the mother and child. This means greater nutrition for children, anti-biotics for children, safer living conditions and safer births.
You’re my favorite poster ever.
It depends on your lifestyle, if your life is hard and you are consistently malnourished, you won’t age in the same way as someone living in much better conditions.
wukong wasn’t that mature yet he was still a king and did a pretty decnt job
Long enough for Anduin to start needing shaves.
I’m sorry this comment makes a bit uncomfortable somehow. Lol.
Cho is the omniscient narrator. He’s never wrong.
Speaking of Jim Cummings, Runas was in Violet Hold as far as I know. I’ve yet to find his body. Fingers crossed, maybe one of the eighteen primordial omega cosmic juice buffets down there can cure him.