It's not like I spend all my time in the game collecting and collating all the readables and item descriptions.
Perhaps it's from my console playing habits, I definitely try to collect everything (at least that's relevant to the plots I'm interested in) to get a full perspective of the game world. I talk to every NPC at least twice every time I enter a map because you never know when the progress triggered new dialogue...
Borisin in general aren't capable of living up to 700 years.
I saw the video mentioned the Borisin live up to 300-500 years (no citation), but that just makes it sound like they live just an itty-bitty longer than Foxians. But the argument about Mara only setting in at 800-1000 years still feels a bit speculative rather than factual.
Even if the mara thing is factual, it raises questions about the lore miHoyo already put out about Foxian longevity being the result of suppressed senescence. Because, again, if Foxians aren't aging and mara isn't an issue until 800+ years, then what's limiting them to a lifespan of 200-400 years? (This is why I think miHoyo fucked themselves over trying to give a "science-based" explanation for longevity instead of going with magic. In a world that already has gods, they really should've leaned harder into science-fantasy rather than hard sci-fi tropes.)
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Date: 2024-08-10 03:31 (UTC)Perhaps it's from my console playing habits, I definitely try to collect everything (at least that's relevant to the plots I'm interested in) to get a full perspective of the game world. I talk to every NPC at least twice every time I enter a map because you never know when the progress triggered new dialogue...
I saw the video mentioned the Borisin live up to 300-500 years (no citation), but that just makes it sound like they live just an itty-bitty longer than Foxians. But the argument about Mara only setting in at 800-1000 years still feels a bit speculative rather than factual.
Even if the mara thing is factual, it raises questions about the lore miHoyo already put out about Foxian longevity being the result of suppressed senescence. Because, again, if Foxians aren't aging and mara isn't an issue until 800+ years, then what's limiting them to a lifespan of 200-400 years? (This is why I think miHoyo fucked themselves over trying to give a "science-based" explanation for longevity instead of going with magic. In a world that already has gods, they really should've leaned harder into science-fantasy rather than hard sci-fi tropes.)