FWIW, somebody asked this over on FB and my (of course very helpful) answer was...
I really avoid definitively saying how old children who live in books are. This is partly because some people will have their enjoyment of the story Utterly Spoiled because they "know" definitively what a 6, 9, 12, 16 year old "acts like." I'm sorry for that, but I'm sorrier because some of them will feel compelled to tell me I don't know what I'm talking about :)
Also, because we have not only different planets, with different rotations and year lengths (and while the Standard Year is "standard," it's not a Terran year), but cultures with very different expectations with regard to age, the question, "how old?" tends to get meaningless pretty quick.
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Re: Syl Vor's age?
Date: 2012-10-27 09:26 pm (UTC)I really avoid definitively saying how old children who live in books are. This is partly because some people will have their enjoyment of the story Utterly Spoiled because they "know" definitively what a 6, 9, 12, 16 year old "acts like." I'm sorry for that, but I'm sorrier because some of them will feel compelled to tell me I don't know what I'm talking about :)
Also, because we have not only different planets, with different rotations and year lengths (and while the Standard Year is "standard," it's not a Terran year), but cultures with very different expectations with regard to age, the question, "how old?" tends to get meaningless pretty quick.