Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-27713488-20181103233945/@comment-31763506-20190724152336

I think Ockham's Razor (to the extent that it applies in a spec thread about a fantasy fictional universe) argues against bringing in the assumption that Ulrissa has had an multi-century lifespan. It's literally an ad hoc assumption tossed in to rescue the hypothesis of Tanurak being old enough to have been around centuries prior. There's some evidence against it, in that none of the specific events she described in her own past (the 2nd Arclent War and the Fall of Givini) happened much more than 40 years prior to her first appearance. There's no evidence for it. Also, we know that Riala's longevity is drawn from her divine shard, there's no evidence that Ulrissa has access to one.

Without more evidence to show that she is a whole lot older, the simpler theory that she's a normal human with a normal lifespan has the upper hand.