Age Differences In The Liveship Traders [LST Spoilers Alert]

[Jaythree]

On a slightly different note, (and because I wouldn't feel right posting anything that didn't have Kennit in it ), in Mad Ship, Kennit tells Etta, “I thought you would be with me for a time, until another attracted you…[Wintrow] is closer to your age than I am.”
While there’s never any evidence I’ve come across to agree with or dispute this, it’s not mentioned IIRC how old Kennit or Etta actually are. So either my mental picture of Kennit is younger than the Kennit in the book (which is definitely possible since I do tend to age down my favourite characters for some weird reason ), or my mental picture of Etta is older than she’s meant to be, because I never had either of them down as particularly old, but I definitely didn’t see Etta as being particularly close to Wintrow’s age, which is fourteen in Mad Ship IIRC. Am I the only one who got this feeling?

It's never directly stated but I think there's enough timeline clues to figure it out. My thoughts on it were always that Kennit is in his forties and Etta would be early to mid twenties. I don't have facts and figures to hand so this is just conjecture from memory.

Kennit was a member of Igrot's crew when he was, I assume, around Wintrow’s age and Paragon has been beached for at least a couple of decades, I think. Add in a few years for Paragon to actually make his way back to Bingtown and you've got Kennit comfortably in his "middle years" as Fitz would put it.
As for Etta I think the simple fact that she's working in a whorehouse means she's on the younger side of things. Her attitude and life history imply she's out of her teens at this point but if she was much older than 25 I think characters would make reference to it.

So the way I see it is that Etta is 7 to 10 years older than Wintrow and and Kennit is 20+ years older than her.