Aging, starvation, death & the Graveyard
Fenborn age in real time, and their life records remain after death.
Every registered Fenborn has a continuing life history. Age advances with time. Satiety continues to fall when the creature is not fed. Death ends living custody permanently, but it does not erase the creature’s Registry record.
Life stages
Fenborn pass through Juvenile, Adult, Mature, Senior and Elderly life stages. Species have different life-history classes, and individual lifespan varies within a species.
The Registry does not publish an exact date of death for a living creature. Once a creature reaches the end of its natural lifespan, natural decline can end its life at a safe lifecycle boundary. Natural death does not count as Keeper neglect.
From hungry to acutely malnourished
Satiety falls by one point every eight hours until it reaches 0. At 0 the creature is Starved and cannot take ordinary demanding work or enter sanctioned battle.
Forty-eight continuous hours at 0 Satiety begins Acute malnutrition. From then on, Health falls by 5% of maximum Health every eight hours until the creature is fed or dies. A healthy creature beginning fully fed therefore has roughly twelve days without food before prolonged starvation can become fatal.
Feeding after starvation
Feeding a starved creature above 0 Satiety stops further starvation damage. If Acute malnutrition has already begun, feeding stops the damage but does not make the creature immediately ready for demanding activity.
Acute malnutrition carries a 48-hour recovery period. During that recovery the creature remains restricted from demanding readiness. Underfed, Neglected, Starved and Acute malnutrition are separate warnings, so the creature record should show how far the problem has progressed.
What death changes
Death is permanent. A deceased creature leaves living custody and can no longer be fed, healed, rested, trained, transferred, worked or entered in battle. Losing an ordinary sanctioned bout does not itself kill a creature.
The same creature identity remains in the Registry Graveyard. Its name, species, Currents, provenance, battle record, public life history, last Keeper and recorded cause of death remain attached to the original record.
Natural and preventable death
Natural death carries no Keeper penalty. A preventable death recorded as neglect, including prolonged starvation in Keeper custody, remains attached to the creature’s history and to the responsible Keeper record.
The current Registry consequence for a preventable death is a loss of Civic Standing, increased Suspicion, and a seven-day pause on new sanctuary adoptions.