Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20130727192403/@comment-7472785-20130807052014

True that, Angren, but actually that was not my point.

I asked 'What is the basis of any age guess in here?'

I'm curious to know whether in any of the interviews something concrete has been said, which would give us a reference.

From the story itself we only know that Ruby is two years younger than Yang - IF she hasn't been 'brought forward' before and/or Yang didn't have any 'delay' in her education - so actually, we don't even know THAT...

We tend to seek parallels with our school system and the time we get from lower to higher education. This however is misleading - at 1. in different countries that time is at varying ages due to different school systems and even differing age when formal education starts  (But 18 +/- 1 is probably as good a bet as any for the average). At 2. any of the characters history could have had an impact on the flow of her education - like, is Weiss slightly younger because home schooled and such ahead of her age? Is Blake slightly older for having lived 'in the wild' and having come to education and to reading books only somewhat later in life than 'normal'?

So as long as any of the craetors has not stated a clear age, all we can assume is a certain range of age and age relative to each other. That's why I shay away from, and question, any concrete numbers.