Button!

[sythyry]

razzek did a tremendously cute button of Sythyry,  160 years young and ready for zir next adventure.

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Re: Wow!

[zhaleskra.livejournal.com]

Zi Ri Age Math (my own interpretation, which I get the feeling Bard likes)
Zi Ri view
0-40: Infant
41-100: Toddler
101-200: Child
201-300: Juvenile
301+: Adult

Everybody Else's view
0-3: Infant/Baby/Toddler
4-10 or 11: Child
Intervening year: Adolescent
11 or 12+: Adult (this is when Zi Ri stop being affected by aging)

Re: Wow!

[ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com]

Hmm ... what are the physiological markers? That is, babies of most species are born with similarly morphed features, a trait called neoteny. They have large heads in proportion to their bodies, large facial features close together, more rounded shape in the body, etc. Those features gradually change to the adult form during childhood and adolescence. How long does it take a Zi Ri to reach morphological adulthood?

Re: Wow!

[zhaleskra.livejournal.com]

11 or 12 years, they are fully developed after their year of adolescence. As for the shape progress, I cannot say. Having seen their reproductive process both stated as actively painful and referred to as "the seven agonies", it does give me some ideas. Choosing 3 as the infant-toddler stages was simply based on the normal toilet training age I heard when I was young, and as a World Tree year is only 2/3 as long as ours, a three-year-old World Tree would be about on par with a two-year old in our world. My other cutoff dates were chosen based on the story in the Zi Ri section of "The People" in the rulebook and one of the other parts of that section that I cannot recall the header for at this time.

Re: Wow!

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

I'd phrase it somewhat differently. Nobody thinks that Sythyry (in book 1) was a toddler or a child in the usual usage of those terms. And the following years and stages are approximate. Some Zi Ri will be judged in other ways. Sythyry at 160 might be considered a "Beginner", or, perhaps, a "Plebe" or even a "Tenderfoot".

0-3: Infant/Baby/Toddler
4-11: Child
12: Adolescent
13-100: Fledgling
101-200: Neophyte
201-300: Novice
301+: Adult

Re: Wow!

[zhaleskra.livejournal.com]

I like this breakdown too. Mostly because it suggests an exact age for a Zi Ri's physical and mental adulthood that fits with the importance of the number 3 on the World Tree.