@kateprincessofbluewhales made this post about high fae aging and how the older high fae should look like they’re 40s-50s instead of 20-30 and I completely agree and I wanted it show this insane headcanon that I made charts for because I’m crazy lmao. I thought the high fae aging was so confusing and badly written but I really needed to understand it!
So how I think the High Fae age is this: the child grows at a steady rate that appears the same as how a human ages. So when they are one year old they look like they’re one, when they’re 5 they look like they’re 5, etc until we get to approx. when a high fae puberty starts. Mor got her bleeding late, she got it when she was 16, (as seen by the red dot I wrote her age wrong sorry). I headcanon the average age of puberty starts around 12-13 which is about the same as a human’s.
But when the high fae begins their development, this is when the age in appearance starts a logarithmic growth rate. It comes quickly in the beginning but begins to rapidly decrease as they age. Mor is 16 when she got her first bleeding so she might have appeared a little younger; Rhys (purple mark), was in his thirties when he was fighting in the Human War so he might have appeared 19 or 20.
This time in a high fae’s life is when their magic is developing, and it stops developing when they reach maturity, which is 80 years old. I put a teal mark for Tarquin, which works out because I always saw him to be 20 or in his early twenties. And at 80, their age in appearance evens out to a rate that is almost impossible to notice until you expand it out.
So that purple mark is Rhys’ age at ~500 years old. And I always pictured him to look like he’s in his late 20’s early 30’s so this steady growth matches up perfectly.
And this also works well with the idea that High fae children are rare. So they are rare because they’re hard to conceive and because they age rapidly compared to the immortal high fae life.
And if we expand this out further, this growth rate matches up with how I always see Beron, so I always pictured him middle-aged so approximately 50. And with this rate, he would be about 1,500 years old which I think is perfect because I headcanon that Beron was near the same age as Rhys’ father.
And if we expand this further, we can see Madja and how old I think she could be.
Madja is confusing to me and we know almost nothing about her. But Feyre describes her to be ancient looking: she’s got white hair, she has wrinkles, her hands are wrinkled and knobbly. So in my head, I pictured her looking like she’s about 80 or 90. And with this growth rate, she would be about 4,000 years old. Which makes sense to me.
We don’t know when High fae usually die. They’re immortal, but even this immortality has a limit. Amren said that she was immortal before in her previous form, and she says not immortal like the high fae but Immortal. So Madja might be in a high fae’s elderly stage. And also she’s pretty rare too we haven’t seen another eldery high fae because a high fae usually doesn’t have a safe life that allows them to live this long. They had the war, they have these very competitive lives, they love fighting in battles to the death.
So yeah, that was my very autistic explanation of my very specific headcanon for how the high fae age in ACOTAR lmao
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