In my setting the gods put a soft cap on mortal age limits. That being said there are two or three species with substantially LOWER lifespans. "Adults" are generally immature and do not produce any art or technological advancement, though due to lack of isolated societies, their tech level is never really left behind. They have frequent wars, but these wars end quickly, as it is not too long before everybody who remembers why there was a conflict is alive. For this reason they sometimes feel a sort of existential dread towards humans and elves, who can hold murderous grudges for 5 generations goblin or kobold generations, only compounding the threat of their generally larger stature.
Aging
Jace Roberts
Brayden Smith
in the setting I'm currently running a weird hybrid species of pseudo-elf-humans was made because some elf woman adopted a bunch of human orphans and didn't want them to die so fast so she did some bizarre magic which gave them extended life spans at the cost of them being physically and mentally children for about a third of it. So they're stuck as kids for about two hundred years or so.
Also she's now a lich-demi-goddess queen thing who regularly harasses other Elvish and human kingdoms for not accepting "her children". The actual people themselves are actually fighting for survival at this point because the BBEG wants to use their children as batteries for his evil ritual.
Two of my players still want to bone her despite repeatedly being told the hot elf babe appearance is just an illusion.
Cameron Jackson
Whats she look like without her illusions?
Juan Parker
A brittle skeleton with the bound shadows of her past assassins and a curse filled miasma that eats through metal holding her together.
Ethan Barnes
By what retarded logic are they not aging any slower or faster than humans?
James Diaz
Yeah, I had a great arc involving one.
i'm also running an aboleth demilich behind the scenes in my current game
James Perez
Common fucking sense? The elf and the goblin experience time at the same rate you do. They do not age any faster or slower.
Hunter Scott
Oh so you're one of those smartass retards?
Nathan Morales
Everything you just said is completely unfounded. The relationship between humans and dogs or wolves is due to the difference in intelligence, not in lifespan. If wolves lived for fifty, a hundred, or two hundred years they'd still only be animals.
Caleb Ward
Aging is not the simple passage of time you idiot.
Here I'll let wikipedia explain it to you.
en.wikipedia.org
>In humans, ageing represents the accumulation of changes in a human being over time,[1] encompassing physical, psychological, and social changes.
>The causes of ageing are uncertain