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In D&D, the standard assumption is that elves mature just as fast as humans, but they are culturally treated as children until around hundred or just a bit higher. But I’ve started developing a campaign setting where elves really are the equivalent of kids until that age, and all the implications of that. One of which is that, if humans attended school alongside elven kids, they’re going to lose their reputation of mystique and wisdom— they’re going to be viewed as kinda slow and dimwitted, as the humans graduate through the grades and the elevens get held back a decade or so.
Imagine having that smart-arse teenager be that annoying for like, a few decades.
Or just... the emotionality that comes with hormones. Although one would imagine since elves do end up being more wise and whatnot, that they sort of start gathering more wisdom even though it's slower to start with. As in, they'd be horny like a teenager for a decade or two, but they'd learn to somewhat manage it after the first five years.
Reminds me of the humans in this HFY
https://old.reddit.com/r/HFY/comments/3aukx7/oc_the_slow_people/
I read that and then imagined it was a lecture by some sort of an insect, likely an ant-type, wearing a monocle and a top hat.