the wheel of time - Average lifespan of non-channelers in Randland?

Do we get told the ages of enough characters in The Wheel of Time to make a guess to life expectancy?

I'm interested in characters we can assume to have normal life spans:

They are in the main land, not Seanchan or from beyond the Aiel waste

Are alive in the Third Age

Are not channelers or bonded to a channeler

Are human (sorry, no Ogiers)

If we don't have many ages, who are the oldest people we know that fit this criteria?

Books, The Companion, interviews and released notes are all acceptable sources.

Answer

Here's a useful resource to look at in answering your question. It looks like most of the ages are pulled from The Companion. You can't really assess average lifespan, but you can see how old non-channelers survive to as a loose upper bound.

Cenn Buie immediately leaps to mind, and he's listed at 68. Bair is also listed as being quite old.

Bair “had to be seventy or eighty” (Lord of Chaos, Courage To Strengthen). According to The Wheel of Time Companion, she was in her late nineties or more.

Lini (Elayne's nurse) is also listed at 75. Then of course Pedron Niall made to 89.

Based on the linked reference, at least, living to 60 certainly seems commonplace, into one's 70s does not seem unusual, and surviving to 90 seems within reach for non-channelers.

As for an average, I don't think you can get enough data. You might be able to interpolate based on the ages known, but many of those characters are still alive.

Below are some of the notable characters listed on that page, oldest first. If a range was provided, I narrowed it to the most reasonable estimate.

95 Bair

89 Pedron Niall

75+ Lini

75 Jain Charin Farstrider

70 Thom Merrilin

68 Cenn Buie

65 Astoril Damara

63 Brandelwyn al’Vere

63+ Mattin Stepaneos

63 King Paitar Nachiman

61 Gareth Bryne

60 Brys Noromaga'

60 Tam al’Thor

60 King Easar Togita

58+ Gerard Arganda

57 Elyas Machera

50 Haral Luhhan

48 Master Aldragoran

46 Bayle Domon

45 Abell Cauthon

45 Alsbet Luhan

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