The old humans are a fictional human species from Ian Irvine's arc of novels, The Three Worlds Cycle. Ian Irvine (born 1950 is an Australian Fantasy /eco- thriller author and marine scientist. The Three Worlds Cycle is a series of novels written by author Ian Irvine.
The old humans are the original species of Santhenar (where the action in The View from the Mirror and The Well of Echoes takes place) and are the only species that are not long lived. Santhenar is one of three fictional planets in Ian Irvine 's The Three Worlds Cycle. The View from the Mirror is the first quartet in Ian Irvine 's The Three Worlds Cycle series The Well of Echoes is a quartet of novels written by Ian Irvine and is the second arc of The Three Worlds Cycle series It is rarer among them to have great talents for the Art, though a lot of people among them have minor talents. The other species think of them as primitive. Old humans are the most human-like species of the four in the Three Worlds series.