Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-27713488-20181103233945/@comment-36170150-20190724163925

I definitely think Ulrissa has something unnatural about her apparent age, she speaks of the Fall of Givini not just as an event she witnessed, but one she could have prevented because she already had enough mastery over the Tower. Regardless of the circumstances I have a hard time picturing a scenario where she could have gained that much power while being any younger than a young adult.

If she was in her early 20s around the time the Fall of Givini happened, this means she would be at least in her late 60s, and she looks way too young for that, if she looked like an elder, Yarra wouldn't be fawning over her when the two of you first meet since Yarra doesn't seem to be attracted to people with an advanced elderly appearance (at least that was my impression when Yarra was weirded out by the old woman in the slums leering at the succubi back in chapter 3).

Speculating, I'd say either Ulrissa acquired extreme longevity through the Tower and all the Anak meant when he called her a mortal is that she refused to seek and acquire a shard (which are the only sources of true immortality we have found so far), or perphaps she was mentored from an early age by someone extremely knowledgeable about the Tower, perphaps Tanurak himself considering Ulrissa called him an old friend.

Either way I'd say that Tanurak is definitely ancestral enough to potentially be the creator of the orcs, remember the Anak told the Sage of Ghenalon that Tanurak is much older than him, both in terms of when he was born and how many years he has lived so definitely beyond a normal human lifespan.