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Skaven adolescents; are there skaven teens?
Topic Started: 3rd January 2007 - 11:32 PM (537 Views)
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Do youthink there r skaven teens? I mean no races seem to have adolescents but you would think that there could be a really good potential for fluff (mmmm fried warpstone)
Couldn't you imagine army list and new unit potential? Not to mention the warlord or grey seer quotes (stupid kids)
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No races have adolescents, because they general dont fight. Thats the job of the men. And in some cases the women, with virtualy no clothes on! :P

Skaven are based around rats, so will grow quickly, as they live a short period of time and breed in such large numbers. So i'd say there will be very few skaven adolescents, in terms of demagraphic for the race, as those that dont get eaten, or die at birth grow up very, very quickly.

Thats just my take on it.
Plus why would we want units that were crapier than clanrats? We have slaves already. ^_^
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I think adolescents in the Skaven world mostly are called Clanrats or Nightrunners, and for the more unlucky: slaves
Maybe a few selcted offsprings from our great leaders recieve special training from birth though?
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Adolescents probably already exist in some parts of any armies, zombies of teenagers, teenage peasants, teenage gnoblars. Adolescents are just people who are not fully mature. They are not going to be a unit on their own because there is no age segregations ("Pensioner knights, to my left! Knights between the age of 20 to 30, to my right!").

There is an adolescent:adult segregation in our society thanks to censorship laws, school systems, drinking laws and all that stuff, but in warhammer this won't exist. It'll just be children who need to stay at home and be cared for, and anyone old enough to be proficient in combat.

With skaven, no they won't exist. The growth period simply isn't long enough, since skaven reach maturity in approximately 2 years from birth, and the average rat doesn't live much more than 5 years.
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In the real world rats, adolecence lasts for about a week or two.

If Skaven had them, I think natural selection would have made them dissapear a long time ago...
I mean, take a typical human adolecent, and put him in the Skaven enviroment. He won't last a day.

Besides, remember our own past, when we lived in unhealthy enviroments of doom, we had no time to be teens, we had to be men and (real) women very quikly.
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probably... you could make a youngesque skaven...

ps: not dead :D

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Well, if you don't act like you're told, you're pretty much dead. Teen or not. So apart from a period of more growth, I don't think there's any difference betweena teen and adult except experience and the body.
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My idea was for a unit that was like clanrats but had WS nad BS 2, same price through because they unit could ignore the first painc test they need to make (it won't hurt us! we're invincible!) also they would only cause panic in slave or other "teen" units (chlanrats and such think, stupid kids and ignore it)
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Might just change it from teenager to fresh clanrats. First time out :P
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i thought that the average life of a skaven was 20 years but i dont know where i heard that so i might be wrong but if it is 5 years how are rats like warlords and the such last so long like.... i forgot the name of the 5th edition special warlord character
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It's 20 years if you only count death by unprovoked diseases.

This excludes war under any kind.

Which means only lucky/awesome fighters and noble rats can reach that age ;)
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