[Dragaera] Thoughts on age and experience on Dragaera

[Steve Rapaport]

Just thinking aloud here.  Yes I know it's just a story and I should chill.
But this is bugging me.

I've never had trouble with the concept of humans being genetically altered
to live longer or be taller.  Seems
quite possible.  I could see 2000-3000 year lifespans.

I could even see (with more difficulty) the possibility of children
physically aging slower, though 200 years to maturity is a real stretch.

But I can't see them being genetically how Dragaerans children could be so
SLOW to learn.  Mental maturity is a product of intelligence and experience,
mostly.  If their intelligence is roughly human, then how can it take them
20 times as long to learn the same stuff?

I'm not sure how long Savn was an apprentice to Master Wag, for example, but
given his age and experience and intelligence, he appears to have picked up
a year or two's worth of stuff.   But he's 90 years old, and he likely
started his apprenticeship 10-15 years ago, right?

Would a human teenager who worked for a doctor 10-15 years have trouble
reinflating a lung, or setting bones?  No, he's be a 30-year-old by then and
have seen it all.  Yet Savn manages these things apparently for the first
time, and is pretty darn pleased with himself for getting them right.

And 70-year-old Dragaeran children form street gangs and beat people up.

This just doesn't work for me.  If they're about human intelligence, then
even if their bodies form slowly, they should be learning (both
intellectually and socially), at a roughly human pace.  If not, then Vlad
really *does* have an advantage on Dragaera.
-- 
\Steve