There’s another question you overlooked, Michelle. As a Sphinx, your aging pattern.
Do Sphinxes age at a roughly human rate in their early years, then does their aging slow right down, till real old age where it speeds up again to human norm?
Or do Sphinxes age at a steady, though slower than human rate?
Sphinxes are a super magical mythical species, their lifespan is probably a few hundred years to be honest.
In fact the only recorded sphinx death happened due to suicide. RIP Phix.
Not true. In some myths I have read Sphinxs live as long as humans, and in others they live as long as a thousand years, but one said that they live forever. I like to think that Sphinxs only live as long as humans. But that is my personal opinion.
Jocasta was complaining that living as humans would give them “a more human lifespan” [Illumination 3, page 40], so it has to be longer. Though I guess humans then lived shorter lives than they do now. Still, I would expect sphinxes to live much longer than an average human. At least for those where it isn’t “19 and a bit, because dragon”.
To me, that point always felt as though it was because humans had a far shorter lifespan than Sphinxes.
Since Michelle seems to now have ALL the sphinx magic, being the last of her kind, she is probably neigh immortal if only due to all the magic in her veins.
Immortal maybe. Invulnerable no.
*Grabs Greg and SHOVES him to Michelle*
Please calm her. She is still young and only have to deal with a world changing crisis, so take her mind of the aging thing.
*Places Jim, Merial, and Lorne in a room together*
You three start planing the party.
I just realised something.
It gets worse, Michelle.
The only being in the LA who might have an idea as to how long Sphinxes can live for, is Ravi.
And you already know, first hand, how difficult it is to get an accurate, straight answer, out of Ravi.
damn.
:(
Or a sympathetic answer for that matter.
Yeah, at best you get something like :
“Oh, of course you people die! What a beautiful gift nature has given you! Often I’ve felt envious of the the temporary species, to truly go into the unknown like that is really becoming impossible for someone as old as I am.
How long do sphinxes live, you say? Well, I don’t quite remember, I haven’t really kept in touch with sphinxes, and they are so much more interesting when they’re alive! But I’m quite positive it was at least a century, or perhaps a little less? Unless it was more, but I’m sure it couldn’t have been any more than five or six hundred years…Of course, a yaksha doesn’t really perceive time on such a short span.
And it is quite hard to keep up with those who die, you know you shouldn’t blame them, but they still hurt you when they die, surely you understand, maybe you’ve had a cat or a dog (it is my understanding that these have shorter livespans than humans, correct?). In the end, it’s always seemed a bit irresponsible to me. To just allow oneself to drop everything, and sometimes in the most inconvenient situations! You’d think by now a species with such powerful magic as yours would have found a solution! But NO, of course you all prefer dying and leaving the older ones deal with the mess you leave behind.[Please imagine the next fifteen minutes of rant, as it hurts me too much to write them]”
Poor Michelle! Even tough living for hundreds of years would not be bad…
Her family’s been dying off early, haven’t they? Brain hemorrhage or such? I forget.
Her dad did, but we don’t know about the rest of her ancestors. Doesn’t really matter though. Being in human form permanently gives you a human lifespan, so that says nothing about how old Michelle can become.
We know Michael died in his early 30s, when Michelle was 7 years old, so she would have been born when Michael was in his mid to late 20s.
We know Michael’s parents died before Michelle was born, but no idea how long before.
But with how marriages and births family patterns were in the late 1950s/early 1960s, when Michael would have been born, we can guess at their possible age, when they died, somewhere in their mid 40s in the early 1980s at the latest. Michael would have been in his early 30s in the early to mid 1990s, (the 1991 Ann Arbor photo fridge magnet) so he would have been born in the early 1960s, when his parents were in their early 20s.
Michael and the parent of his who had the Sphinx heritage, were both unturned. Because of how things were in Illumination there was no real info as to what the lifespan of a born fullform Sphinx would be under Medallion Magic.
Michelle was born human and was Turned Sphinx, so the known figures might not even apply to her.
And Ravi would only know how old born fullform Sphinxes can become
I say just roll with the years as they pass, try to get hasbro to bring back beast wars by the modern era, and keep starring in a webcomic. It’ll all turn out okay.
Perhaps this question could be made to Jocasta… but since Michelle got the sphinxes’ knowledge she could answer that.
Hey, at least you and Merial (ageless Nixie) have something to talk about!
Pretty sure nixies have a relatively human lifespan. It’s the Knokks, the male gender of the nixie/knokk pairs that are immortal, with the caveat that after 60, they go through a rapid retrograde dementia, becoming violently aggressive, and even cannabilistic.
My god, Michelle has entered an endless loop of stress.
Do Pygmy Griffons have Medallions? Or do they need more than one or something?
You don’t have to keep asking this question, haha. I got it the first time! It’ll go into the list if I wish to answer it!
Hey Kory have you ever gone to a convention in midform ( costume wise of course) before? Just curious.
Relax, Michelle. If there’s a mythical creature with a natural lifespan SHORTER than that of a human, I have yet to hear about it. Maybe there’s a Mayfly Totem out there somewhere, but I doubt it.
The dark secret of immensely long lifespans is that your chance of dying stupidly, like tripping and falling down a manhole, or having a piano drop on you, approaches unity.
Both some Mayan tribes and some ancient Egyptians entertained the notion that the Sun *DIES* when it sets and gets reborn the next morning, so, *technically* … ;-)
Ayy, that’s my birthday too! I’m 21 as of yesterday. Happy birthday Michelle. c:
Oh dear… would a birthday cupcake make you feel better?
What do members of longer-lived races do once they exceed a normal human lifespan? Do they get fake identification with a new birthdate, “retire” to avalons, or something else entirely?
Waiiiiit wait wait wait, MICHELLE AND I SHARE A BIRTHDAY?!?!?!?! what’s up with that, birthday buddies! o/
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There’s another question you overlooked, Michelle. As a Sphinx, your aging pattern.
Do Sphinxes age at a roughly human rate in their early years, then does their aging slow right down, till real old age where it speeds up again to human norm?
Or do Sphinxes age at a steady, though slower than human rate?
Sphinxes are a super magical mythical species, their lifespan is probably a few hundred years to be honest.
In fact the only recorded sphinx death happened due to suicide. RIP Phix.
Not true. In some myths I have read Sphinxs live as long as humans, and in others they live as long as a thousand years, but one said that they live forever. I like to think that Sphinxs only live as long as humans. But that is my personal opinion.
Jocasta was complaining that living as humans would give them “a more human lifespan” [Illumination 3, page 40], so it has to be longer. Though I guess humans then lived shorter lives than they do now. Still, I would expect sphinxes to live much longer than an average human. At least for those where it isn’t “19 and a bit, because dragon”.
To me, that point always felt as though it was because humans had a far shorter lifespan than Sphinxes.
Since Michelle seems to now have ALL the sphinx magic, being the last of her kind, she is probably neigh immortal if only due to all the magic in her veins.
Immortal maybe. Invulnerable no.
*Grabs Greg and SHOVES him to Michelle*
Please calm her. She is still young and only have to deal with a world changing crisis, so take her mind of the aging thing.
*Places Jim, Merial, and Lorne in a room together*
You three start planing the party.
I just realised something.
It gets worse, Michelle.
The only being in the LA who might have an idea as to how long Sphinxes can live for, is Ravi.
And you already know, first hand, how difficult it is to get an accurate, straight answer, out of Ravi.
damn.
:(
Or a sympathetic answer for that matter.
Yeah, at best you get something like :
“Oh, of course you people die! What a beautiful gift nature has given you! Often I’ve felt envious of the the temporary species, to truly go into the unknown like that is really becoming impossible for someone as old as I am.
How long do sphinxes live, you say? Well, I don’t quite remember, I haven’t really kept in touch with sphinxes, and they are so much more interesting when they’re alive! But I’m quite positive it was at least a century, or perhaps a little less? Unless it was more, but I’m sure it couldn’t have been any more than five or six hundred years…Of course, a yaksha doesn’t really perceive time on such a short span.
And it is quite hard to keep up with those who die, you know you shouldn’t blame them, but they still hurt you when they die, surely you understand, maybe you’ve had a cat or a dog (it is my understanding that these have shorter livespans than humans, correct?). In the end, it’s always seemed a bit irresponsible to me. To just allow oneself to drop everything, and sometimes in the most inconvenient situations! You’d think by now a species with such powerful magic as yours would have found a solution! But NO, of course you all prefer dying and leaving the older ones deal with the mess you leave behind.[Please imagine the next fifteen minutes of rant, as it hurts me too much to write them]”
Poor Michelle! Even tough living for hundreds of years would not be bad…
Her family’s been dying off early, haven’t they? Brain hemorrhage or such? I forget.
Her dad did, but we don’t know about the rest of her ancestors. Doesn’t really matter though. Being in human form permanently gives you a human lifespan, so that says nothing about how old Michelle can become.
We know Michael died in his early 30s, when Michelle was 7 years old, so she would have been born when Michael was in his mid to late 20s.
We know Michael’s parents died before Michelle was born, but no idea how long before.
But with how marriages and births family patterns were in the late 1950s/early 1960s, when Michael would have been born, we can guess at their possible age, when they died, somewhere in their mid 40s in the early 1980s at the latest. Michael would have been in his early 30s in the early to mid 1990s, (the 1991 Ann Arbor photo fridge magnet) so he would have been born in the early 1960s, when his parents were in their early 20s.
Michael and the parent of his who had the Sphinx heritage, were both unturned. Because of how things were in Illumination there was no real info as to what the lifespan of a born fullform Sphinx would be under Medallion Magic.
Michelle was born human and was Turned Sphinx, so the known figures might not even apply to her.
And Ravi would only know how old born fullform Sphinxes can become
I say just roll with the years as they pass, try to get hasbro to bring back beast wars by the modern era, and keep starring in a webcomic. It’ll all turn out okay.
Perhaps this question could be made to Jocasta… but since Michelle got the sphinxes’ knowledge she could answer that.
Hey, at least you and Merial (ageless Nixie) have something to talk about!
Pretty sure nixies have a relatively human lifespan. It’s the Knokks, the male gender of the nixie/knokk pairs that are immortal, with the caveat that after 60, they go through a rapid retrograde dementia, becoming violently aggressive, and even cannabilistic.
My god, Michelle has entered an endless loop of stress.
Do Pygmy Griffons have Medallions? Or do they need more than one or something?
You don’t have to keep asking this question, haha. I got it the first time! It’ll go into the list if I wish to answer it!
Hey Kory have you ever gone to a convention in midform ( costume wise of course) before? Just curious.
Relax, Michelle. If there’s a mythical creature with a natural lifespan SHORTER than that of a human, I have yet to hear about it. Maybe there’s a Mayfly Totem out there somewhere, but I doubt it.
The dark secret of immensely long lifespans is that your chance of dying stupidly, like tripping and falling down a manhole, or having a piano drop on you, approaches unity.
Both some Mayan tribes and some ancient Egyptians entertained the notion that the Sun *DIES* when it sets and gets reborn the next morning, so, *technically* … ;-)
Ayy, that’s my birthday too! I’m 21 as of yesterday. Happy birthday Michelle. c:
Oh dear… would a birthday cupcake make you feel better?
What do members of longer-lived races do once they exceed a normal human lifespan? Do they get fake identification with a new birthdate, “retire” to avalons, or something else entirely?
Waiiiiit wait wait wait, MICHELLE AND I SHARE A BIRTHDAY?!?!?!?! what’s up with that, birthday buddies! o/