Birth year[]
Regarding birth year: Laudine's appearance in Tevinter Nights takes place post-Tresspasser (9:44 or later). If she is "in her late twenties" at that time, she cannot have been born any earlier than 9:15 (44 - 29 = 15). It is also possible she was born a few years later, hence the lack of specificity.
I also prefer giving a birth year instead of a current age because the Perpetual Present Tense rule says there is no solid definition of "current".
70.32.0.70 (talk) 03:04, March 21, 2020 (UTC)
- I don't think saying "sometime in or after 9:15" when that birth year can be off by several years is particularly useful. Only putting Genitivi Dies in the End as a source with no further explanation is also misleading, because it makes it sound like a date is given in the story when the're no concrete dates given anywhere in the book. So the only accurate way to represent her age would be to say "after 9:15," but at point it's so vague as to be useless. In general, we don't add estimates for the characters' birth years unless we can narrow it down to a year or two, see for example Cassandra Pentaghast. I suggest adding a time marker to Philliam's description of her instead, something like "During their expedition into the Silent Plains, Philliam describes her as etc." --Evamitchelle (talk) 03:20, March 21, 2020 (UTC)
- This trivia note seems to be the best solution for what we have at the moment.
11:01, March 23, 2020 (UTC)