Zarya wrote:There’s a short and a Deinar tozon. The latter are close to Earth years. Since I’m lazy I prefer to think of those.
350+ or perhaps 10 more seemed a good “ballpark” age. Can change it when necessary, it’d be nice though if she could serve as the diral’s patron for a reasonable period.
Sounds reasonable. She has regrets on her own and would dearly like to see a diral faring better than her own did, preferably even
making a diral fare better than her own did, especially after Nelonial's FUBAR, many Mizol would gladly murder for the chance to see their abilities in action, much less having a guiding hand in their development, and, last but not least, the diral would need some retraining in the Mizol way of doing things... and she did have garnered a modicum of trust with them.
So yes, I'd say that she may be advanced in age enough to take one or two steps back on particularly taxing tasks, but playing the part of a mentor for the diral might be still within her capabilities for the time being, and something she actually may be willing to take on.
Zarya wrote:And thinking about the age of the diral initiates, my working hypothesis is that in terms of development they’re all teenagers. As far as their escapades go, things in NF have developed far more “All Audiences” than in Beacons.
"Teenager" is a very rough description. Even if we limit it to the time of puberty, start to end, it could be about anything from 12-13 to 18 human years - and we all know that there is a vast difference between those two. Given what is to be read in
Loroi rites of passage I'd tend towards 15-16 human years, maybe a little older - I think I've placed a hint on their apparent maturity in one of the early scenes, when Natan got a good look at the Loroi at a whole. This puts them at roughly the same developmental stage - since Natan himself is about 15 years, after having spent two years alone - and given his background, already past the age where kids were expected to take on adult responsibilities in the family household.
So I'd gather all of them have a pretty good idea of 'what goes where' - after all, at the end of their diral phase and their final gathering they gain their first male encounter rights - but so far just Argent was forward enough to follow through with it, once the opportunity presented itself.
Loroi take the saying "they grow up so fast" to a whole new level.