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As mentioned, there are subsets of Aurelians without wings. No one's sure what caused those flocks to adapt without them, but it's well-accepted and loved. They have their own flocks and flocklands much like flighted Aurelians but are also known to either join with flighted flocks through familial adoption, or their equivalent of marriage, or alternatively have flighted Aurelians join their flocks for the same reasons. The flightless Aurelians are a little rarer, but in recent years the intermingling has become more common, and so there has been a bit of an increase in flightless Aurelians, and an insane, and unanimously agreed upon amount of accessibility put in place everywhere for flightless Aurelians to still be able to get places that would otherwise be easier to fly to.

* Between the ages of 12-14 years old is a completed reproductive maturation. But because there's still some brain development happening, they're still considered children and youths. The adults do their best to give education on such things so as to save a child the stress of accidentally ending up in an early parenthood situation. It's generally an extremely effective education, and so that problem is rare, thankfully.  

* Age 16-17 is about when the brain becomes fully developed. While they could consider this full adulthood, they don't. It doesn't feel right to consider a teenager an adult. Because while their brains might be fully developed by this point, they haven't had experience using it with such a capacity. This is social maturity. They are given a lot of extra leeway for the growing pains that come with learning how to be an adult, but it's very much like practice for cultural adulthood. So there is more responsibility given and expected of them as they learn to help keep things sustainable, and in turn, to help them learn how to go through life without too many problems.