meridian_rose

I have very specific ideas about how old Darken, Kahlan, Richard, and Cara are in relation to one another. My personal canon is that Darken is only 14 when he kills Panis, and thus about 38 or 39 in season 1, while Richard is 23-24, and Kahlan and Cara are both 25 or 26. (We do know that Kahlan was five when her mother died, and that she was rescued from her father 15 years before 'Bound' in season 2, so she must be about 26, anyway.)

Based on how he looks in Vengeance, and how it's supposedly been years since he and the queen have been unsuccessfully trying for a child, I usually think of Panis as about 30 when Darken is born and Zedd a little younger. Just based on our limited glances of them, I think Jeziah is a bit older than Darken and Giller either the same age or a bit younger.

As Pris said, there's Thaddicus, so we know Zedd must be in his sixties during the series, and not 100s of years old - although I wonder about Shota, I really do. (Except that she's still alive in 'Reckoning' with a Rada'Han around her neck - this doesn't actually make sense, as it's been 58 years since season 1, when Zedd was in his 60s we assume, and Shota looked about the same then as she did when Darken was born, so she has to be also about 60ish then, so she's what, 138 in 'Reckoning'? And still alive even without her magic? I have a theory to account for this, actually, about the way magic works, but I have to figure it out a bit more before trying to explain it.)