Elder-blooded

There's some things you'll need to know about being a Child of an Elder. First of all, you'll stop aging around the age of forty. This is due to the second thing you'll need to know, which is a much longer lifetime than you expected to live. In my experience, this is what is the hardest to come to terms with for you mortals, and I understand - outliving your loved ones isn't exactly great.

— Jannalor the Elder

Sometimes you meet an individual who hasn't seemed to age for decades, still looking just the same as they did when you first met them. Most likely this is just a trick of your memory, telling you that they've always looked like this. Yet, in some rare cases there might be a different reason. They might have actually stopped aging. There are several reasons in the world to not age, and all of them are rare. One of them is by having the blood of the Elders.

These are the Elder-blooded, descendants of one of the five Elders who inhabit Shireon.

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A Long Life

The only certain perk of being Elder-blooded is a prolonged life. The aging process is halted around the age of forty, until it begins again at its normal speed when their new lifetime nears its end. When they notice they've started aging again know they have about half a century left of their lives.

This might be unnerving for someone who have lived for almost a millennium already, and some go through a small personal crisis when they realize their time is coming to an end. Others might welcome the end, since they've lost so many friends and family through the years, and they're simply worn out by life.

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Strength of the Blood

How many generations the Elder-blooded is from the Elder they're descendants of determine how long they will live, and the likelihood of having other genetic perks. In Humans, half-bloods might live until they're almost or just a thousand years old, quarter-bloods until they're about four or five hundred, half-quarter-blooded until they're about a hundred and fifty, and anyone further out will barely notice any difference in their lifespan.

There haven't been any known cases of non-Human Elder-blooded. There have been long philosophical discussions about how being Elder-blooded would affect the lifespan of an Enari Elf, for example, and the theories are divided. If years are added, they would live to about two thousand years of age. If the lifespan is multiplied, however, an Enari Elf Half-blood Elder-blooded could risk living for ten thousand years.

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The Elders and their Offspring

Kalsad

Kalsad never hid his sons from the world, but usually showed great pride in his male offspring. Until their fifteenth birthday, when he killed them off before they became a threat to his position. His daughters are usually well-hidden and seldom spoken of.

Jannalor

Jannalor will often talk about his children, but never in a way that might identify them. He is rumored to have several living children, and has probably outlived several more.

Vehagan

Vehagan is the one that speaks the loudest about how the Elders shouldn't have children with mortals, yet there is something about how he acts in certain situations that points to at least one child.

Vinior

Nobody knows whether Vinior has any children or not.

Zira

Zira might be the least unlikely Elder to have any unknown children, since she would have to carry them to term herself - which is hard to do without anyone noticing. Still, one can never be too sure, and she has been known to be nowhere to be seen for months at a time.

Type

Supernatural

Cycle

Chronic, Congenital

Rarity

Extremely Rare

Commonly Known Elder-blooded

The brothers Bagdar and Tosmond Laubrok are both known to be half-bloods, as it's public knowledge that they're sons of Kalsad.

Suspected Elder-blooded

Everything stated here is based on rumors, and should be taken with a grain of salt. Still, there might be some truth in it.

Ilmonar & Tagas Irevos

King Ilmonar Irevos of Kupria, as well as his twin brother Tagas are both very likely Elder-blooded. They are almost ninety years old, and barely looks half that age.

Thrannan Eralor

The Loremaster Thrannan Eralor is also about that age, and looks like he's around forty.

Galeran Saegar

Nobody really knows how old Galeran Saegar is, but some people say he's been around for a century without getting older. How much truth there is in this is unknown, but he's definitely older than he looks.

Rota

The Valkheri Rota seems to have been around for quite some while, and the rumors say she's the daughter of Kalsad.

Descendants

The descendants of the suspected Elder-blooded are, of course, also suspected themselves. This includes Valindra Eralor, who is the daughter of Thrannan, as well as several individuals from House Irevos including Ellarian, Farona, Renestrae, Almithara and Keishara.