Lifespan

Lifespans in this game world are NOT what they are in the book, and most standard methods of gathering immortality in the book will buy you at most an extra fifty or one hundred years in this world. Here's a helpful table. Note that I call Orcs what the book calls half-orcs.

Notes and Comments
In more or less the order I think of them.

Relevant to People in General
 * 1) The elven age of societally-perceived maturity is younger proportional to lifespan than it is for the others, not because elves age at a different rate proportional to lifespan but because by sheer force of experience an elf at 25 can compete with a human at 16 just fine in knowledge and often technique-based competence if not physical or emotional maturity. They're expected to be able to support themselves at that age, though they're not encouraged to go out and start looking to get married until they're a decade or so older. >_>
 * 2) Actually, that brings up a great point just in general. The age of maturity is the age at which it's acceptable to assume you're capable of providing for your own livelihood and around the age of physical maturity, not the age of emotional maturity like it's closer to in our society.
 * 3) There tend to be societal pressures for mixed kids to be adults closer to whatever age is adulthood for the majority race in an area than the age listed here, because kids grow up together. This can be unhealthy in several directions, and sometimes leads to the equally unhealthy attempt to counter this by not exposing one's children to children of other species.

Esoteric History/Mythology Nonsense
 * 1) Elven myths suggest actual immortality was a thing for a period of time, back when "the spines of Racna had not yet risen"? It's unclear what and when that period was (the Spines of Racna are some kind of mountain range though), and whether the immortality was true immortality or just much longer lifespans, but some elves (maybe all elves) had it at one point. Myths vary regarding how/why this was a thing, but the gist of most of them tends to be that it came too close to the state of the gods, so the gods eventually got pissed off and destroyed anyone who held immortality with war and disease until the elven people as a whole gave it up. This is sometimes credited with the divisions between elven sub-races, though there are pretty much no credible historians who believe that.