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[DanielH]

The number has not been mentioned in this continuity before: search

[futurevision]

Ooh, that would be a neat way to wrap her in. Her published works, but her actual self in the Arda-next-door.

[Alicorn]

The number is just where Loki and Cam happened to be right then.

[jalapeno_dude]

Oh, we're fertile till we're twenty, usually

Is this a typo or is their developmental cycle very different than human (since this plus five or six kids every two years implies they become fertile at eight or ten)?

[Shoal]

their years are much longer than ours. in the thread with the more naïve quendi they were comparing valian years to their own and it wasn't the usual ten.

[DanielH]

I *think* it’s four of theres to one of ours? Given some of the things they said about seasons.

[Alicorn]

Yeah, one Amenta year is four Earth/Endorë/"regular" years and a season is one Earth/etc. years. They grow up about like humans but have a longer young adulthood and live to be fortyish of their years.

[jalapeno_dude]

Oh, okay. I'd been reading "baby every two years" as "constantly having children" but it sounds like instead I should just be reading it as "almost every household has a child at any given time."

[Alicorn]

You should read it as "you have another kid when your youngest is like 8 Earth years". This also means they have significant generational overlap - unrestrained circumstances, you have a kid when you're 5 and your first grandchild appears when you're 10 and planning your fourth kid to show up next year.

[pedromvilar]

I'm kinda confused by what purples' thing is.