Going by the book, Mal and Illidan would be around 20-30 years old in WotA. Like Aqua already quoted, He was "few decades" old.
yeah it says he looks much older than his few decades.the thing is WotA trilogy is canon and Lore0logy which was deleted 2-4 years ago claimed that Malfurion was indeed 5000 years old during WotA.so recent canon things should be consider and Loreology was much more recently than WotA.its hard to say,really.
Last edited by mmoc98df675b31; 2015-09-05 at 12:27 AM.
So if we look at a NON-canon timeline we get those numbers? Oh, my, a NON-canon timeline, I'm sure it's right
Seriously, I knew you'd give better sources than NON-canon timelines. By that aspect I could say Malfurion and Illidan were the first dark trolls that got transformed.
And yes, the trolls fought 16k years ago. But it isn't like night elves got to the Well then instantly numbered in the millions and wiped out trolls. It is much more likely that they got to the Well, transformed quite fast and then numbers started climbing but they were ignored for quite a while since nobody cared about a few thousand dark trolls. In 1000 years they could have been a million and started their war.
And sure, the book does say "a few decades" and such... but then it was clarified that it was 5000 years. Book had a mistake.
I gave canon source. The RPG book was just a note.
The dark trolls were transformed gradually over time. Once they were actually NElves, they quickly established a strong empire. They expanded out and displaced the trolls due to their superior arcane magic.
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
Perhaps, or the person misremembered what Loreology said. Or Loreology just went for the easy reference instead of digging through the novel for a single line.
or Knaak shouldnt make that as a huge retconn.anyway,we will know their true age in Warcraft Chronicles.
Since we are on WotA and Knaak right now, I want to derail the thread for a sec to ask a question about these books. It wouldn't be worth an own thread and is "only" a little bit OT.
So, how comes that neither Krasus nor Rhonin didn't recognize any Nightelve during their time travel? I mean, the third war just ended before they got into that time anomaly. At least Malfurion and Tyrande were some big names around that time, so Krasus and Rhonin should have at least heard of them, right? Still, as they got introduced during the books, there was no knowledge about any character.
Am I missing some obvious key element?
To further add confusion:
This came out after the WotA trilogy. So Malf had been alive for thousands of years before the WotA, discrediting the age in the novel. However, it seems they kept the reduced age gap between the twins and Tyrande.Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
"Millennia" is plural, they were thousands of years old during WotA. Since it fudges the numbers given in WC3, there's no way to know for certain how old any of them are. Considering the rough timetable of NElf emergence, they're probably 12-13K years old by now. My guess is that Tyrande's WC3 age (13K ish) is the closest to accurate, with the twins being changed to that.
Last edited by Aquamonkey; 2015-09-06 at 06:47 PM.
all Night Elves live extremely long,up to 5000 years I think.Tyrande,Malfurion and Illidan grew up millennia before the Great Sundering.they were most likely 2000 or 3000 years old during WotA,as Aquamonkey posted above which is canon.now since they are mortal(except Illidan,he lives forever since he is a demon)they are ageing but very slowly.