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[Daemul]

Ashley is 33 and Kaidan is 35.

 

I figured Aria to be around 600, but what do I know. Aethyta is around 1000 -- I figure she'd be concerned about Liara giving her a granddaughter.

??????

 

Ash is 27-28 in ME3

[GalacticWolf5]

Ashley was born on April 14 2158 and ME3 happens in 2186 so she's 28.

[Daemul]

Here are the ages, as of ME3, that I'm 100% certain of, since we get told the year they were born. I don't know about everyone else.

 

Javik-50000+

Liara-109

Hackett-52

Anderson-49

Thane-40

Miranda-36

Kaidan-35

Shepard-32(30 if you want to get technical about him not aging when he was dead)

Joker-31

Jacob-29

Ashley-28

Jack-25

Tali-25

Grunt-1

 

Kasumi is apparently 26, but I can't find a source for her birth year. I also remember being told James' age at one point, but I can't remember it. He's somewhere in his mid twenties though. 

[themikefest]

Samantha is about 26-27

[RanetheViking]

How could you not understand it like that? She pretty much tells you she's too old for you when you try flirting with her which is where she says she's over 1000 years old. It's when you start asking her about her life and asking her about romance

I admit it's been a while since I've tried the romance with Samara, but I always understood that it was her Code was the reason. That she had chose her path and that was who she had become and was content with being a Justicar. For better or worse. And as for the age thing, sure she might mention the difference, but I think Asari especially don't care about that sort of thing as, say, a human would.

 

Personally I always imagined that part of her unwillingness to start a new relationship might  have stemmed from the fact that, having three Ardat-Yakshi daughters, her original Bondmate probably dumped her like a lead balloon, given the stigma in the Asari society and that she didn't want to chance another relationship.. But that's just my own head 'canon' thing.

 

Anyway without finding a long vid this short one was the best I could find.

 

[Autoola]

Shepard-32(30 if you want to get technical about him not aging when he was dead)

I have to say it, sorry. But Shep isn´t dead for two years. It took 2 years to rebuild Shep. As they began with the heart (shown in the lazarus project video) - and having a heartbeat is a sign of being alive imo - Shep is dead just for a few days or weeks. (They don´t say exactly how long they need to find Shep on Alchera.) Shep is just unconscious during the 2 years.

[God]

Maybe somebody else has information I don't, but how old are the following characters?

Zaeed Massani (says 40, but unlikely to have started Blue Suns at age 15 and served in Alliance before that)
Mordin Solus (says 50. Bout 10 years over salarian lifespan. Seems more accurate that Zaeed and Mordin's ages were swapped erroneously)
Wrex
Garrus Vakarian (really surprised there's no mention of his age anywhere)

Any insight would be appreciated. Thanks.

 

I think the listed ages for many characters are screwy imo. Some of them don't really make sense.

 

Zaeed would have to be older than 40 for the type of person he is and what he's done.

 

Mordin is 50. You're right, I think that might have been a mix-up on the developers part.

 

Wrex is implied to be at least a century and a half.

 

Garrus, I believe, never has his age mentioned, though sans species when its mentioned outright (Asari, Krogan, Vorcha, Humans, and Salarians), we can assume that they have a somewhat similar lifespan to ours.

 

As for the actual ages of all the characters:

 

Shepard is 29 in ME1, and, after being dead for 2 years (in which significant change to his body via cybernetics and synthetic technology occurred), is likely biologically the same age in ME2 (and, similar to how I depict Miranda, may even have his biologically aging process slowed now due to his enhancements and augmentations).

 

Kaidan is 32 at the start of ME1, which makes sense.

 

Ashley is 25 in ME1, which again makes sense.

 

Garrus, I'd say is in his late 20's to early 30's as of ME1.

 

Wrex, as I said, is implied to be at least 150 years old.

 

Tali is in her early 20's if I remember right, I don't remember the exact age.

 

Liara is 105 (which is, in human terms, early-mid 20's for an Asari).

 

Miranda is 34-35 at the start of ME2 (or 32-33 in ME1), which doesn't really make sense with her biotic ability, especially with her manufactured nature (but then again, it is possible to have biotics develop post-natal, which is what happened to Shepard). Miranda being biologically enhanced to the point of human perfection however means her biological age might be significantly different from her chronological age. Given that her lifespan is considered half-a-lifespan longer than a normal human (150 in 2180's), she could easily live to be 200. I also believe that makes her biological age significantly younger, making her around 26-27 biologically as of ME2, as her rate of physical growth after puberty would be slowed to 2/3rd's the normal growth speed.

 

Jacob is implied to be in his late 20's or early 30's. Which makes sense.

 

As mentioned Mordin's age is inconsistent with Salarian ages, but not altogether impossible given his nature as a scientist whose focus is on genetics. Still, it is likely that his age was a mix-up with Zaeed (which would be much more in-line with his nature as an experienced soldier and mercenary).

 

Zaeed, if the mix-up is true, would be in his late 40's to early 50's in ME2.

 

Jack is in her early-mid 20's in ME2. 24 I think, if I remember right.

 

Grunt is, in chronological terms, an infant/toddler, though he is born into the body of a slightly post-pubescent Krogan adolescent.

 

Kasumi would be around mid-late 20's to early 30's in ME2.

 

Thane is in his late 30's to early 40's if I remember right.

 

Samara is 'nearly 1000', she isn't however stated to be in the matriarch stage of life yet, so she may still be a few centuries off of 1000.

 

Legion, as a synthetic being, has no concept of aging. There's no telling how old the intelligences in it really are. Some are implied to have been in existence since the Geth/Quarian War. The platform itself has no specified age either.

 

James is in his early to mid 20's in ME3

 

EDI is 3 years old, though, like Legion, doesn't have a conventional concept of aging as a synthetic being.

 

Javik is quite obviously the oldest being in the group, being over 50,000 years old (though with minimal to no biological aging due to being in cryostatis the entire time). Since we have no concept of Prothean lifespans (and Javik's nature is significantly alien enough to make cultural/physical estimation impossible), there's no way to tell how old he is biologically. Given his rank, abilities, and status among the Protheans though, I think we could estimate that he's reached a stage of his life in middle adulthood, akin to a man in his mid 40's to early 50's.

[Larry-3]

I read somewhere a long time ago that Samara is about 750 years of age.

[Display Name Owner]

I vaguely remember it being said that Mordin being 50 years old was meant to be in 'Salarian years', if you want to put it that way. As in, he's the equivalent of 50 years of age by the Salarian's standards, but actually like 30 or something. I don't remember if a dev actually said that on the boards, or if it was just how people on the boards rationalised it. If it's the former I'd say it was definitely trying to cover for a slip up. If any of what I just said is true, honestly I might be remembering something that never actually happened. Having said that, I'm pretty sure I remember it being corrected to 30 years.

[KrrKs]

Zaeed's age and story are strange, timing wise.

The wiki says he founded the Blue Suns sometime in 2160 - 3 years after the Relay 314 incident. Assumed age: Late 20s.

So he should be at least in his late 40s, more likely in his mid 50s, by 2186/87.

 

Spoiler

Fun fact: His first weapon -the Avenger Jessie- is a Volus copy of the human first contact war Lancer, so he must have picked that thing up sometime after Shanxi.

Yet he claims that Jessie is likely older than Cmdr. Shepard, who was born in 2154. (Source: N7HQ Codex, wiki)

 

And Wrex is past 700 (confirmed in Citadel DLC, post-party line).

[MegaIllusiveMan]

The Last Four Digits is the Year the Character was Born

 

Making Aria More than 1000 Years old.

[Fixers0]

Shepard really should be a lot younger in my opion, that way it would be easier to justify his/her character; Shepard for one is extremely layman back in the first game, he or she never visited the Citadel before and are completely unkown to workings of galactic politics and cultures, yet he/she is quite known among the Alliance public. Likewise all those fantatstic deeds shepard commited happended at least half a decade before his nomination as a spectre. Ideally Shepard would be somewhere around 23-24 years old rather than being 29, however this would also make it neccesary to fiddle with ages of other characters as well, amon other details like rank and history.

 

A long time ago I was fan of a re-imagined version of ME that had Jenkins being the most experiance marine aboard the normandy and prime spectre candiate until his tragic end on Eden prime, Shepard would be in middle as a rising star and Kaidan would be the youngest being an unexperianced but powerfull biotic, who'd just recently recieved his officer commission.

[MegaIllusiveMan]

I'm not Putting the Age of some Characters, because simply Mass Effect 3 passes 6 months after ME2, but reason is, we don't know which Month it is, so the characters could have 1 year more, one year less. Just do the math 

 

Shepard was born in April 11, 2154

 

Ashley was born in April 14, 2158

 

According to Patrick Weekes, Garrus is 2-4 Years younger than Shepard

 

Kaidan was born in 2151

 

Tali was born in 2161

 

Liara was born in 2077

 

Anderson was born in London(IKR ) on June 8, 2137

 

Joker was born in 2155

 

Saren was born 2139

 

Matriarch Benezia seems to be almost Thousand years old, because of Matriarch Status + the skin coloring(Just my guess...) Also, because she is a well-known name.

 

Samara is almost 1000 years old too.

 

Morinth was born sometimes in the 1700s

 

Thane was born in 2146

 

Dr.Amanda Kenson seems to be 50-55...

 

Wilson on his lates thirties

 

Illusive Man seems to be almost 60. (Remember, it's mentioned in-book that due to technology advances, people could appear younger than they are. Example, in Mass Effect: Evolution, he seems to be 25, maybe even 30.)

 

Kelly Chambers seems to be 26 yeas old. Maybe 28.

 

David(Overlord VI) seems to be 25 or so. Maybe a bit younger

 

I'd put Tela Vasir in 700 or 650.

 

James early 30s, late 20s?? In Mass Effect Homeworld, is said that he joins the Systems Alliance Marines in 2176

 

Javik is old as hell.

 

I'd put between 45-50 for Bailey.

 

Dianna Allers: 30

 

Adams seems to be mid 40s

 

Ann Bryson was born in 2158

 

Kenneth late 20s, Gabby too.

 

Cortez seems to be mid 30s

 

Eve IDK, maybe 700?

 

Hackett was born in 2134.

 

Kirrahe early 30s

 

Samantha late 20s, early 30s

 

Brooks is definetly late 20s, early 30s (See Mass Effect Foundation 1)  This is Maya Brooks in 2161 CE

 

It is said that Kai Leng enlisted in the Alliance Military on November 14,2172 with age of 16, with Faked Credentials... So, maybe he's 2 years, maybe one year younger

 

Udina is in the early 60s

 

Zaeed appears to be in the mid 50s.

 

Mordin was born Sometime in the 2150s. (If earlier, I would say that Salarians over the age of 40 are a rarity, but not impossible to exist)

 

Miranda was "Born" in 2150.

 

Kasumi is in the early 30s

 

Jacob was born in 2157

 

Jack was born in 2161

 

Grunt was created in 2185

 

Chakwas is earlier 50s

 

Jenkins mid 25

 

Wrex is a bit hard, it says that for three centuries he worked as a gun for hire, and he seems to be a Respected Clan Leader and a powertful Biotic, I would say he's 700, 750 or so. (Past 700 as Gladiatorium Said)

[fhs33721]

Shepard really should be a lot younger in my opion, that way it would be easier to justify his/her character; Shepard for one is extremely layman back in the first game, he or she never visited the Citadel before and are completely unkown to workings of galactic politics and cultures, yet he/she is quite known among the Alliance public.

It's entirely believeable for a 30-something professional human soldier to not know much about about intergalactic politics and having never seen the citadel. What you are  saying is like suggesting it makes no sense for an 36 year old USA soldier to be well known in the military without ever having seen paris and not knowing anything in detail about the political system in the European union.

[God]

Shepard really should be a lot younger in my opion, that way it would be easier to justify his/her character; Shepard for one is extremely layman back in the first game, he or she never visited the Citadel before and are completely unkown to workings of galactic politics and cultures, yet he/she is quite known among the Alliance public. Likewise all those fantatstic deeds shepard commited happended at least half a decade before his nomination as a spectre. Ideally Shepard would be somewhere around 23-24 years old rather than being 29, however this would also make it neccesary to fiddle with ages of other characters as well, amon other details like rank and history.

 

A long time ago I was fan of a re-imagined version of ME that had Jenkins being the most experiance marine aboard the normandy and prime spectre candiate until his tragic end on Eden prime, Shepard would be in middle as a rising star and Kaidan would be the youngest being an unexperianced but powerfull biotic, who'd just recently recieved his officer commission.

 

I disagree. Shepard can be a person who simply never got the opportunity to go to the Citadel. I wouldn't say that Shepard is unknown to the intricacies of politics or cultures. He's not really an unknown in the circles of the galactic power base; he's established pretty early on to be an important person whose visit has been logged. Plus, the deeds Shepard did, while spectacular on their own, are not the only thing Shepard did. Just the only things we're aware of. He's a decorated veteran Special Forces Officer with at least some ability and history of serving in leadership roles on a starship, seeing as he's the Executive Officer of the Normandy in ME1 (and is well regarded by the crew). He's easily an ideal candidate for Spectre. 

 

23-24 is rather young for an experienced veteran officer. Too young in fact. I'm 25, an actively serving Veteran, an officer (O-3 (Captain), United States Army), and I would never be considered for many of the posts I want for at least another 3 or 4 years because I lack significant command experience, rank, and technical service. Almost all Special Forces Officers today are at least senior Captains who have almost a decade of service behind them. Any others are either prior-enlisted Officers who had careers as NCO's before commissioning, or are VERY High-Speed Lieutenant's with a LOT of connections who are only just graduating from SF candidacy school and only now entering their real SF training. 

 

So yeah, your age change isn't realistic at all.

[Pasquale1234]

One thing that bugs me about the ages in ME is that they didn't seem to scale human aging at all.

In ME1, we learn the current life expectancy for humans is ~ 150 years. I would have expected that to be appropriately scaled, e.g., the retirement age raised to ~ 100, and the aging process throughout those 150 years to be scaled accordingly.

Anderson is < 50, but looks older than that by today's standards, and makes comments about his twilight years in the now. If earlier life stages aren't lengthened at all, then humans must be spending several decades as serious geriatric cases. 

They did appropriate scaling for other species with very long lifespans. For example, a 100 year old asari is considered to be 'barely more than a child' and another left home at 40, which is very young for an asari. I didn't take that to mean that they mature *that* much slower than humans, only that each stage of their lives is that much longer than ours.

[Fixers0]

I disagree. Shepard can be a person who simply never got the opportunity to go to the Citadel. I wouldn't say that Shepard is unknown to the intricacies of politics or cultures. He's not really an unknown in the circles of the galactic power base; he's established pretty early on to be an important person whose visit has been logged. Plus, the deeds Shepard did, while spectacular on their own, are not the only thing Shepard did. Just the only things we're aware of. He's a decorated veteran Special Forces Officer with at least some ability and history of serving in leadership roles on a starship, seeing as he's the Executive Officer of the Normandy in ME1 (and is well regarded by the crew). He's easily an ideal candidate for Spectre. 

 

 

 

You can't deny there is a certain amount of conflict between Shepard's supposed reputation and experiance  and all the basic questions that he or she asks throughout the earlier parts of the game, these are obviously neccesary from a gaming perspective as the player is completely new to the universe, but they make shepard look rather uninformed, especially a Spacer who has been inside the military all his life and enjoyed at least high school education.  

 

 

 23-24 is rather young for an experienced veteran officer. Too young in fact. I'm 25, an actively serving Veteran, an officer (O-3 (Captain), United States Army), and I would never be considered for many of the posts I want for at least another 3 or 4 years because I lack significant command experience, rank, and technical service. Almost all Special Forces Officers today are at least senior Captains who have almost a decade of service behind them. Any others are either prior-enlisted Officers who had careers as NCO's before commissioning, or are VERY High-Speed Lieutenant's with a LOT of connections who are only just graduating from SF candidacy school and only now entering their real SF training. 

 

Hence, my full proposal for Shepard is complete character and narrative overhaul. The new Shepard  lacks the experiance and veterancy of the current Shepard, He's only a 1st lieutenant  but is seen by many in the alliance as a rising star, he's previous actions are less prolific than before, but  they are still examples of courage, skill and all those values the Alliance stands for. Jenkins becomes the "old" Shepard and combines the established War Hero and Ruthless backgrounds to become the ultimate model marine and the perfect spectre cadidate. he's experianced and well regarded throughout the military until he meets sudden and very violent death on Eden Prime. the Alliance is in shock because of the death of their favoured spectre candidate and Anderson pulls some strings to get Shepard into the position instead.  

 

The main goal here is to have Shepard be much lower on the foodchain at the start of the game, it generally makes it easier for people to get immersed in the character that way, especially when we're in a large and alien sci-fi universe. There will be other changers as well, notably Shepard will not become a Spectre until about 1/3 of the story.

[Pasquale1234]

You can't deny there is a certain amount of conflict between Shepard's supposed reputation and experiance  and all the basic questions that he or she asks throughout the earlier parts of the game, these are obviously neccesary from a gaming perspective as the player is completely new to the universe, but they make shepard look rather uninformed, especially a Spacer who has been inside the military all his life and enjoyed at least high school education.

I don't disagree with your point - a lot of background questions are OOC for a character who lives in that world.

They are probably necessary, though, since you can't count on players to read the codex. The other option is to have NPCs deliver more exposition - but that, too, is problematic as it can feel that the NPCs are talking down to the PC, telling them things they should already know. And a lot of people would not want to sit through it anyway, especially on re-play.

Getting that information by asking questions is the method that gives the player the most control.

[Iakus]

Wrex is almost certainly over a thousand.

 

THe process to develop biotics in krogan has a high casualty rate, and they stopped after the genophage, since they couldn't replace their numbers like they used to.  There are no young biotics among the krogan anymore.

[God]

You can't deny there is a certain amount of conflict between Shepard's supposed reputation and experiance  and all the basic questions that he or she asks throughout the earlier parts of the game, these are obviously neccesary from a gaming perspective as the player is completely new to the universe, but they make shepard look rather uninformed, especially a Spacer who has been inside the military all his life and enjoyed at least high school education.

 

 

 

There really isn't, seeing as a lot of the stuff we learn about is from a human only perspective up to that point (and they aren't likely to go too in-depth over alien politcal and cultural systems since the vast majority of humans seem to stay on Earth and never bother leaving, thus never really being exposed to aliens other than ones that may visit from time to time.) And even for within the military, it's largely possible that most of the operations taking place were limited to pirates, outlaws, terrorists, and various human bandits (with a few aliens here and there), all of which would probably be inside human space. 

 

Also, BW does a semi-decent job making Shepard seem like he knows things prior to the idea or topic being introduced to the characters. Such as in ME2, you have the option remarking on the Collectors, either stating ignorance to their existence (which would be justified) or stating that he thought that they kept to themselves. Or in ME1, you basically remark upon things such as 'I thought the....' and 'Aren't the....'. As well, the NPC's take a clever way of delivering exposition to the player without making them look like their talking down to them, thus being able to inform the player about lore of the universe without making it seem that Shepard himself doesn't know anything. They use talk that basically runs as 'as you know, blah blah blah etc.' 

 

Hence, my full proposal for Shepard is complete character and narrative overhaul. The new Shepard  lacks the experiance and veterancy of the current Shepard, He's only a 1st lieutenant  but is seen by many in the alliance as a rising star, he's previous actions are less prolific than before, but  they are still examples of courage, skill and all those values the Alliance stands for. Jenkins becomes the "old" Shepard and combines the established War Hero and Ruthless backgrounds to become the ultimate model marine and the perfect spectre cadidate. he's experianced and well regarded throughout the military until he meets sudden and very violent death on Eden Prime. the Alliance is in shock because of the death of their favoured spectre candidate and Anderson pulls some strings to get Shepard into the position instead.  

 

The main goal here is to have Shepard be much lower on the foodchain at the start of the game, it generally makes it easier for people to get immersed in the character that way, especially when we're in a large and alien sci-fi universe. There will be other changers as well, notably Shepard will not become a Spectre until about 1/3 of the story.

 

 

 

I can't say that I agree with this. I rather disagree strongly with it. 

 

I prefer having my Shepard be the 'already risen, but rising higher than ever before' star of the military that is established and given a strong background. It makes me get into the story easier. 

 

I suppose I'm glad your version isn't more than a fan-made alternate reality. 

[Larry-3]

In 2150 Miranda Lawson is born, and in 2160 Kasumi Goto is born... I wonder age they would be in Mass Effect 3? I remember it takes place in the 2180s.

[Han Shot First]

In 2150 Miranda Lawson is born, and in 2160 Kasumi Goto is born... I wonder age they would be in Mass Effect 3? I remember it takes place in the 2180s.

 

ME3 is set during 2186. That would make Kasumi about 26 years old, and Miranda 36. ME1 is set 3 years prior, in 2183. The events of ME2 after the Lazarus Project occur in 2185.

[Larry-3]

ME3 is set during 2186. That would make Kasumi about 26 years old, and Miranda 36. ME1 is set 3 years prior, in 2183. The events of ME2 after the Lazarus Project occur in 2185.

Thank you, Han Shot First. I will admit that Miranda and Kasumi are older than I originally thought.

[shodiswe]

I think the Catalyst is roughly a billion years old. 1 000 000 000 years old +- 100 000 000.....

IT's kind off a character right?

[God]

Miranda's age doesn't add up to her biotic ability, which I think is an oversight. She would have to be at least a year or two younger for that to line up. 

 

Granted, she may be like a biotic Shepard, where she developed biotics at some point in her life after exposure to element zero. But it doesn't seem to add up, since it's implied that she was designed to be biotic.

 

That's something I believe is an oversight.

 

As well, as I said already, due to her genetically enhanced nature, I think Miranda's chronological age and biological age are not the same.