Arref picks up on an old post of Ginger's about age and immortal characters.
Relative age is an important thing.
And the older people get, the smaller that overall difference, a dynamic which should play into immortal characters.
To give a RL example.
Suppose a 30 year old marries a 20 year old. At the time its a fairly large difference, percentage wise. The 30 year old has lived 150% of the lifetime of the younger of the pair.
If they stay married 50 years, at age 80, the younger is age 70, and the difference drops to 114%.
So, too, for immortals, except even more extreme.
IMC, Random is fairly young, and he had Martin at a young age. There are PCs older than Random in SB. (Although I definitely need to revise and change my timeline somewhat, there are lacunae).
But the point is, in 500 years, Random and Martin will practically be brothers, rather than father and son, as far as their relationship is concerned, since both of them will be relatively the same age.
So too, Benedict is incredibly old and respected, having lived at least a millenium more than the nearest royal to him in the family tree.
So the way people look at each other definitely changes over time-although some things will never change. On the one hand, Benedict is always going to be the Eldest (even if he technically isn't anymore...) On the other hand, the older of the cousins are treated a lot like young elders, and that trend will continue.
Posted by Jvstin at December 10, 2003 11:38 AM