#// scott n sparklez my special lil starborne ^-^ they need 2 b special always

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starborne worldbuilding - some thoughts on age

 some thoughts i had about how long starborne live, and different life-stages they go through & what each lifestage generally consists of. had these thoughts written down in my notes for awhile so may as well put em here.

starborne can live for a very long time, and culturally theres a great emphasis on reincarnation and rebirth. their main line of beliefs is “we are connected to every other thing”

• the first stage, is called “zinsyr”. it’s when starborne are considered children, and it’s the shortest stage. starborne generally don’t have any color yet - usually their star features are greyscale, most commonly white.

•  the next stage is called “zinfei”. it’s equivalent would be teenager to young adult. at the beginning of this stage, starborne start showing whatever color their star features are. these colors are based on a combination of their parents colors and how powerful their powers are.

for example: a blue and a yellow starborne could have a child who is blue, yellow, or green; two blue starborne will generally have a child who is blue; etc. 

exceptions: purple starborne, because of how powerful they are, generally won’t appear unless both parents have very strong powers. pure red starborne are rarer for a similar reason - even within the royal family, pure red starborne are uncommon. 

• the final stage, called “zyrfei”, is the longest and is equivalent to being an adult. starborne in this stage will start showing secondary features, if possible. examples of this include dragon-type starborne ( feirkyzir ) having larger horns with a small star floating between them. 

age chart of starborne i’ve drawn / ones who currently exist in the version of starborne that exists in my head:

[ID: a timeline depicting headshots of scott and sparklez above it, and the main protagonists of mianite below it, as starborne. end ID]

all of them are zinfei still, though they’re fairly close in age. firez is the oldest, and he’s only slightly over halfway through this stage. 

wag is the youngest, and scott isn’t that much older than he is. of the mianite heroes, tucker’s the oldest. tom (wizard) is close to sparklez’ age, and tom (zombie) is the third youngest.