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The final two entries of the timeline (pg 13) address Florin Kindler.
4713: The mists rise once more, and the Black Coach invites a woman named Janquill Kindler and her young daughter to return to Bastardhall. She and her husband refuse, then send their daughter Florin into hiding. Janquill and her husband die soon thereafter, but Florin escapes the Bastardhall Curse.
4726: Current year. After spending 12 years in a Caliphas orphanage, Florin spends her first year as an adult researching Bastardhall and makes an astonishing discovery. [...]Eager to travel to Bastardhall to investigate the site for clues, Florin engages the services of a group of adventurers and travels northeast, but as she and the adventurers approach, Bastardhall claims them all.
Florin's "first year as an adult" is the current year, 4726. The age of majority for humans is, what, 16? 18? Using 1e's vital statistics chart, she could even be 15. While it makes sense for her to have been sent to an orphanage for her own safety at 3-6 years old, she could have just as easily been sent to the orphanage while as old as 14, which, adding the 12 years in the orphanage, would make her 26 at AP start. Basically, anything below even 20 seems extremely young to be leading an expedition like this. It also confuses the timeline established in the player's guide. The Blooded by the Dead background says the PC "may have first met Florin in the orphanage,", and the Trusted Rival background says the PC could be a "scholastic rival, a professional rival, or even a romantic rival." These all seem extremely unlikely unless the PCs are also all very young, not to mention the implications of the last part.
I'll be changing Florin's age to 26 for my own game. One of my players recommended I make a post here in case it was a mistake or a misunderstanding.
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Spoilering things just in case...
4708: Florin is born (coincidence that this is the same year that we started Pathifnder with Rise of the Runelords? Maybe! Maybe NOT!)
4713: The Black Coach rides out and targets Janquill Kindler. Janquill refuses the invitation. She sends Florin secretly off to the orphanage at the age of 5, hoping she and her husband can do something to escape the curse and then reunite with their daughter. Things do not work out as they hope. Florin spends the next 12 years in an orphange.
4725: Florin leaves the orphanage and spends the year researching Bastardhall.
4726: After spending her first year outside of the orphanage (aka as an adult), Florin organizes the expedition to Bastardhall.
Thus, Florin is 19 years old when the campaign begins.
A PC who first met her in the orphanage is likely about the same age as her, give or take a few years.
A PC who is a rival need only have had that relationship with her for several months, having begun that rivalry soon after she left the orphanage.
If a PC is much older than that, they could have been a teacher or someone else associated with the orphanage, or maybe that player needs to choose another background or adjust their character's age.
If 19 years old seems too young, feel free to change her age as you did, but I don't think 19 is too young to gather up some allies/adventurers to go off on a quest to find your missing parents. I mean... Joan of Arc was leading armies at age 17. Cleopatra was 18 years old when she started ruling Egypt. Kobe Bryant was 17 years old when he was drafted into the NBA. Kane Parsons was 19 years old when he started directing the Backrooms movie.
And a LOT of RPG PCs started out at about that age and hit 20th level before they reached 20 years old! :-P
TL; DR: Florin is 19 years old at the start of the adventure, but feel free to change her age if ya want!