How old are the races of Tamriel

[Chef]

Just wandering and i know its something that not much is know about but just wandering if anyone has good guesses below are my estimations for the average natural lifespans without war, dieseses, or other things that might kil them early also this is without magic that enhances lifespans
My Estimations :
Altmer - 250/300 Years
Dunmer - 300/350 years
Bosmer - 100 years
Orsimer (Orcs if someone dosnt know) - 70/85 years
Breton - 90/100
Imperial - 80 years
Nords - 80 years
Khajit - 45 years
Argonian - 45 years

[gnewna]

As far as I am aware, Altmer are significantly longer in lifespan than the other Mer, even without magical interference. They also have a greatly reduced level of fertility. Also I would imagine Argonians have a decent life span, being relatively disease resistant.

[Chef]

its strange because i always thought that aswell until recently i found some lore about the Dunmer that said they live incredibly old even for Mer

[Chef]

Also I would imagine Argonians have a decent life span, being relatively disease resistant. [/quote]

Good point

[Chef]

sorry i dont understand how to quote things

[gnewna]

If you hover your mouse over the top right corner of the comment (opposite the username/pic) you should see a little arrow and a little flag. Hit the arrow button and you get the fancy quote with the name and everything. Otherwise, do exactly what you did but don't forget to put the same (minus the / ) before the thing you're quoting to get the box/indentation without the other stuff. Like so (but with square brackets)

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becomes

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[ozzytudor]

Khajiit live around 45 years, yeah. But, they actually DO use cat years. So its roughly 200 years in their "perspective".

[Jonocat25]

One of the Barenziah books (I don't recall which one) states that mer in general, or atleast Dunmer can live upto 1000 years.

Take Neloth. He was one of the most experianced wizard-lords of House Telvanni during ES Morrowind, so I assume he was atleast over a century old at that point. And he's still around during Skyrim. It was 2 centuries bewteen Oblivion and Skyrim, and I don't know how long between Oblivion and Morrowind. So Neloth's a pretty old elf.

All told, I'm not sure that Bethesda's ever being consistant on how long the nonhuman races can live. I'm not even sure they've ever given any info on the lifespans of the Beastfolk.

[Chef]

yeah Neloth is very old, I beleive he is exceptional compared to average although an interesting comment he made puts something in perspective
Neloth is known to have called a 100 year old dunmer mage an infnat or something along those lines so perhaps 100 years old to Dunmer is young or Neloth is just old like in real life a 90 year old saying a 50 year old is "young"

[Chef]

also i think Neloth is around 750-800 but i could be wrong

[Chef]

Does anyone have any idea on the Breton's lifespan because theyre half Mer but i heard it makes them tainted so theyre easily killed

[Jonocat25]

TJ の投稿を引用：

Does anyone have any idea on the Breton's lifespan because theyre half Mer but i heard it makes them tainted so theyre easily killed

Bethesda seems to go with the concept of "the more magical, the longer lived", So I'd assume at least a normal human lifespan, provided nobody kills them.

[voehringer_nitron]

Jonocat25 の投稿を引用：

One of the Barenziah books (I don't recall which one) states that mer in general, or atleast Dunmer can live upto 1000 years.

Take Neloth. He was one of the most experianced wizard-lords of House Telvanni during ES Morrowind, so I assume he was atleast over a century old at that point. And he's still around during Skyrim. It was 2 centuries bewteen Oblivion and Skyrim, and I don't know how long between Oblivion and Morrowind. So Neloth's a pretty old elf.

All told, I'm not sure that Bethesda's ever being consistant on how long the nonhuman races can live. I'm not even sure they've ever given any info on the lifespans of the Beastfolk.

Neloth sends you on that quest to get the Robe of the Drake's Pride in Morrowind, saying it is the hands of a "mere child" who is 200 years old. Even if Telvanni mage lords live considerably longer (Divayth Fyr is 4,000, IIRC, which would mean he was born in the early First Era), 200 years is significant.

Morrowind and Oblivion were about 5 years apart, I think.

Nerevar, who was still a Chimer (a group of Aldmer who left to worship Daedra) ruled for about 3 centuries before the Battle of Red Mountain.

[Jonocat25]

voehringer_nitron の投稿を引用：

Jonocat25 の投稿を引用：

One of the Barenziah books (I don't recall which one) states that mer in general, or atleast Dunmer can live upto 1000 years.

Take Neloth. He was one of the most experianced wizard-lords of House Telvanni during ES Morrowind, so I assume he was atleast over a century old at that point. And he's still around during Skyrim. It was 2 centuries bewteen Oblivion and Skyrim, and I don't know how long between Oblivion and Morrowind. So Neloth's a pretty old elf.

All told, I'm not sure that Bethesda's ever being consistant on how long the nonhuman races can live. I'm not even sure they've ever given any info on the lifespans of the Beastfolk.

Neloth sends you on that quest to get the Robe of the Drake's Pride in Morrowind, saying it is the hands of a "mere child" who is 200 years old. Even if Telvanni mage lords live considerably longer (Divayth Fyr is 4,000, IIRC, which would mean he was born in the early First Era), 200 years is significant.

Morrowind and Oblivion were about 5 years apart, I think.

Nerevar, who was still a Chimer (a group of Aldmer who left to worship Daedra) ruled for about 3 centuries before the Battle of Red Mountain.

They must have been more than 5 years apart. During the interim, Jiub goes from criminal to Saint and hero of morrowind, then retires to Kvatch to write his memoirs in time to be killed during the Battle of Kvatch.

[voehringer_nitron]

UESP says Morrowind is set in 427, Oblivion is 433.