Talk:Keefe and Sophie/@comment-2A02:C7D:4B01:3F00:107B:E8A4:919E:AAE2-20190803224745/@comment-2A02:C7D:4B01:3F00:107B:E8A4:919E:AAE2-20190803231846

EthanDaCyrokinetic said this on one of the discussions:

THEIR POPULATION--It was kinda unrealistic to make a species that never dies but keeps having kids. The only book I know of that succeeded in making a race like that is Eragon, but the elves are kinda...weird. The thing is, if there's a couple million elves, and fifty are born each year (Assuming that there are about 2 or 3 schools like Foxfire, with around 20 elves per Level), that would mean that the Elven race had only been around for about 20,000 years. However, in Nightfall, it does give us some details about the Elves being a "small, scattered race" so elves probably dies more often, and they probably had less children. Heck--the elves might not have been immortal at this point (they were probably originally immortal, but that's something that shouldn't be explored; it's just the mysterious origin story. And if the elves were always immortal, the first elves would know how they were created, which... doesn't make sense.  Anyways...) and so they probably only added like 5 elves to their population per year, which brings the elves' existance to around 110,000 years. This means that the VAST MAJORITY of elves are Ancients, but they make it seem like that's rare. I have a small idea that doesn't make a ton of sense, but it would kinda tie up the loose ends of the population issue--maybe a mass extinction a few thousand years ago that only a few survived? That would explain the lack of ancients, and the elves' small population. I don't know. Let me know if that makes sense.

I thought this was interesting but it kind of confuses me. I think I might have a look at the amounts of ancients we know of and try to work out the timeline, if I can.