Thanks for the additional info, it fits well with the Gloranthan fiction I am writing and definitely expands my own thoughts on the subject.
Is life expectancy a little longer for humans do to the shorter length of years? I know there are a lot of factors here, but is the baseline a few year higher than what you would think because Gloranthan years are shorter?
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> YGWV
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> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Christopher Graves <chrphrgrv_at_...>wrote:
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> > I'm sure this has been done already somewhere but I believe I would have a
> > hard time tracking this down so I will just ask.
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> Wise move. This has never been stated in print by me.
> Congratulations!! :)
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> > How long (in weeks) is standard human gestation.
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> One year.
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> > Does this vary between cultures.
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> No, not significantly.
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> > I'm guessing almost one full Gloranthan year give or take a couple weeks
> > keeping the logic of the full 40 week term of Terran babies.
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> Bingo!!
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> > I need to know for certain! lol
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> Now you know.
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> OK: a couple of other things:
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> Short gestation: Great spiritual energy shortens gestation.
> If a child of Ernalda and Orlanth could be conceived and born today, it
> would grow to full maturity in a day and a night.
> Individuals who are mighty with power engender children who mature more
> quickly, both in womb and out.
> Children born shortly before a fertility festival where intercourse is usual
> are considered to be especially blessed, it being assumed that they were
> conceived on the deity's day when mother and father were flowing with
> magical juices.
> Children born shortly before a festival that requires chaste behavior are
> considered to have difficulty with the source of that violated energy.
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> Longer gestation:
> The mother or child or both are in the grips of some foreign power that is
> delaying nature.
> Children born of very extended pregnancies tend to have significant powers
> of darkness or water.
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> One exception is know: that of the 100 year pregnancy, the child of which
> was born a wise old man who lived forever afterward.
> The GL attempted to reproduce this act, but every child born of the
> experiments was a monster in for or soul.
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> --
> Greg Stafford
> Game Designer
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