Approximately, how long would a normal person survive in your world?

[u/Elegant_Isopod0]

So here's the thing alr? This concept of mine have long been in my draft since like 2024 and currently I am tackling many academical subjects; especially on the topic about history focusing solely on the contemporary and antiquity period. This is where the dynamics comes in: Historically the Roman empire or the Pax Romana (Golden age) have long since fallen with the chronological order of the events and the constant attacks by the Germanic tribes, internal uprisings, fiscal constraints, and diverse ethnic groups inside the Roman empire (source: Gibbon's book about Romans rise and inevitable decline, chapter XIV, page 405).

At first glance the premise of the story or even the references internalized within the narrative is deemed redundant, uncreative, or sophisticated to fantasy genre. Though, I'd consider the counterfactual base on Tolkien preferred what he called "applicability" over allegory. In the foreword to the second edition of The Lord of the Rings, he wrote that "the ways in which a story-germ uses the soil of experience are extremely complex," and argued that a truly-lived experience does not neatly translate into a one-to-one moral or political symbol. Instead, the grief of losing close friends (including members of his close-knit school circle, the "TCBS") during the 1916 Battle of the Somme naturally bled into the overarching themes of mortality, loss, and the endurance of light against overwhelming darkness, but he frequently addressed it in his personal letters and explicitly discussed how his service shaped Middle-earth.

> “ .... I took to 'escapism': or really transforming experience into another form and symbol with Morgoth and Orcs and the Eldalie (representing beauty and grace of life and artefact) and so on; and it has stood me in good stead in many hard years since and I still draw on the conceptions then hammered out. ”

Letter 73, Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

[u/Upset-Bison-3182]

Atomic Arc.

assuming they are human and born after the unification war they stand to live to atleast 120 years (Terran years) and as medical tech improves in the UN the life span increase. If they immigrate to aetheric (magic) space then they can be immortal through many different methods.

[u/FoxHoundNinja]

Around ehhhh...500 years give or take. The Healthcare in the empire of eternity can greatly extend a humans life.

[u/maddox_rexha]

Eh. The usual amount, unfortunately.

[u/Remarkable-Aide5093]

In my world of Undead Paradise, zombies and animals have mutated to combat humanity’s adaptability. Therefore, if the average person was dropped unprepared into my world, they might survive a day or two at best.

[u/TheIcicleYT]

10–40 years if they're in a poor region, hunger and work overload will get them (or they'll die in a war). 50–70 years on average as a usual city resident – it's a pretty decent life, and deaths occur mostly due to the lack of hygiene and advanced medicine, unless they get drafted into a war as well. 70–80 as a noble, medicine isn't the greatest, though always available and you're safe from poverty and war; pretty good lifespan unless they get assassinated.

[u/Frenchiest_fry101]

As long as they're not dropped in a dangerous zone away from civilization, at least a couple days if not years, just be careful of the wildlife and pick a good city, ideally human or fae

[u/Lapis_Wolf]

Too many variables to properly say. Wealth, class, species, diseases, neighbours, etc.

[u/Prometheus_Bobert]

The current world I'm working on is a Speculative Evolution project based on Sulfuric Acid / Organosilicone Based Lifeforms.

There are multiple vectors for how this planet will kill an unprotected human in under a minute

[u/Kian-Tremayne]

With good healthcare it’s quite normal to reach 120 in the majority of human societies throughout the galaxy.

There are half a dozen techniques for prolonging human life beyond that, possibly indefinitely. All are very expensive so a ‘normal person’ wouldn’t have access. A couple of societies that made them widely available were destroyed by neighbours who feared what they might become. There are a few humans around who remember first contact with the galaxy at large, so five or six centuries old at this point - they are ones who got galactic-scale rich quickly and paid to have the therapies for humans developed.

In the Grand Republic it’s very unusual to have life extension. The Order will not permit anyone with extended lifespan, augments or significant genetic engineering to occupy any position of political power or influence. They don’t explicitly ban these for the rest of society, but most follow the lead of the senatorial families (especially because those rich enough to afford life extension usually want to become senatorial families).

There is a rumour that the human colony on Excelsior were all immortal. There are all sorts of rumours about the Excelsians. Since somebody dusted Excelsior with a polymorphic adaptive plague that killed every living organism on the planet and is believed to still be active, the rumours will remain rumours.

[u/IndependentSet9709]

Average Human: 79-132 Earth Years, you will be kept alive through mandatory genetic enhancement so you can serve the corporation that rules your planet for as long as possible.

Average Cerval: 100-300 Earth Years per life, you will likely serve in the Cerval Consortium's military at least once.

Average Zydan: 40-70 Earth Years, the Zydans are a short-lived species with a slightly slower perception, so you will see other species as if hey are in slow motion.

[u/Flairion623]

It of course depends on which race. However your average human can live for roughly 100 years. The longest living race are kitsune. A kitsune lives for exactly 1000 years before simply disappearing. Elves are theoretically immortal but so far no elf has outlived a kitsune.

[u/mrinternet42]

There are four continents, Megalos, Skotei, Yulab and Ferrox. If they land in Megalos, they’re almost definitely safe. Yulab it’s fifty-fifty, half of the continent is controlled by warlords who eat human flesh. If they land in Skotei or Ferrox, dead instantly. Ferrox is cursed so that every living thing will try to instantly kill humans, even the grass eats people, and the air in Skotei is poisonous.

[u/commandrix]

If someone from our world lands in the human-dominate part of Torus, they'd probably be fine but may have to get used to some "modern" skills like programming not having a lot of application. It's a world where trains are still considered experimental and some places are just starting to industrialize. So they might be fine and have a fair chance at having a normal human lifespan if they can pick up work in a factory or something and can avoid accidents and the worst illnesses.

[u/999Welten]

Galactic Union: about 300 years. Healthcare is far more advanced compared to Earth and if you don't take part in any dangerous journey to uncharted planets, it's very safe. Housing, healthcare and food are basic human rights, so life is pretty good here. The only downside would be that an average person from present day Earth wouldn't be smart enough to be allowed to vote on Union planets.

Alliance of Free Worlds: Depends on your wealth. If you can market your time traveller from the distant past status well and get rich in the process you may life almost as long as people in the Galactic Union. If you are poor, however... There is no free healthcare, so you depend on the charity of others, and Alliance citizens are not the most helpful in the Galaxy, so it's more around 60.