lifespans of the TES universe*minor spoilers*

[oriphur]

About a week ago a thought came into my mind. What are the lifespans of the races of tamriel? This never dawned on me until i found sinderions journal and it said he met this sarethi dark elf lady who lives in the rift whom i conveniently met before hand. This meeting happened in 4E 58 i think so that gave me the thought of just how long elves live. I know the men races live the same lifespan as their realworld counterparts but what about the elves and beast races? do elves live for about 150 years or what. Please enlighten me because i am curious

[A-Mac]

Publicado originalmente por SinisterSlay:

If oblivion is only 200 years before Skyrim. Wouldn't elven Oblivion characters still be alive?

yes

[Doctor_Wiki]

The other thing that needs to be considered is the calendars of the races. I am willing to bet the calandar of the races are differnet and in fact the one that is used in the game is that of the more human based races.

Perhaps instead of a calandar year what the orcs in game are refereing to is a cycle of a longer duration that the orcs aptly name a year.

Just a thought though.

[Maloy20]

Heres what I know:
Dark Elf commoners can live up to 1000 respectfully. Nobles and wizards can live for much longer.
Snow Elves can last for thousands of years without showing much age from what Dawnguard revealed. Although I believe that the Falmer don't live near as long because of the conditions they dwell within.
High Elves live longer then Dark Elves from what I HEAR.
Orcs live around the same as humans I think(age is also a lot more visible then other elven races as well as them being a divergent race from the main elves)
Wood Elves can live several centuries I think.

[neilbert1]

Some, yes. I've heard that on Solstheim in the Dragonborn expansion that there are a few Dunmer characters there who were in Elder Scrolls Morrowind.
Speaking of Dragonborn, I just got this month's issue of Game Informer, and they gave the 360 Dragonborn a rating of 8.5 out of 10. The only bad point Game Informer mentioned was the Dragonriding, which they said that the "animations skip and look unfinished", and "the dragon-riding mechanic is a disaster." Hopefully the PC version will be fixed, but I doubt it.

[Vargorm]

:-O i would love to see some morrowind characters again! like Divayth Fyr!
Chimer became Dunmer, not Orsimer. And yeah the Orcs worshipped Trinimac, who was cursed by Boethiah to because Malacath. I assume that they probably changed the Orcs from whatever they once were but I have yet to find much on that in the in-game books.

like Maloy20 said i'm pretty sure elf wizards and nobles live much longer than usual. lol there is a House Telvanni quest where you convince a dark elf to rejoin the Telvanni council and he's like meh i guess i can do that for the next century or two. i think it works the same way with Orcs. Though you still find Orcs living in traditional Orc enclaves you do find the occasional Orc mage who has assimilated into Imperial culture and adopted the lifestyle of a mage. At the least that means they have a basic comprehension of healing spells, so presumably they can sustain their health longer. And like many other people said these Orcs don't go out seeking an honorable death.

Elves are descended from the Divines, or Aedra as they call them (one of the things that separates Divines/Aedra from Daedra is that Divines don't live forever, so they live on through their offspring. This is in Gods and Worship). I think this is why elves in general are better skilled with magic than men. And why Bretons who are interbred are better with magic than Nords or Imperials. High Elves claim direct descendance from the Divines. BTW this is also why the Thalmor outlawed Talos-worship. Because Talos was born a man but his soul was fused with a powerful mage and Wulfarth and became a Divine).
So I think High Elves live the longest because they have the purest Aedra blood and thus the greatest magical power. But like some of you said, there's not a very definitive answer.
I'm still curious about the Snow Elves and Falmer. It's possible the Falmer (or betrayed ones as the snow elf in DG calls them) might have shorter lifespans because they were poisoned(or cursed?) by the Dwemer. I think the poison robbed them of their minds and the life underground altered their physicality. But did that alteration occur through evolution over generations? or are the Falmer the Dragonborn fights the same beings that were originally betrayed by the Dwemer in the 2nd era? or maybe 1st era i don't remember. Kinda like Smeagol becoming Gollum?

[YouRackDisciprine]

DIdn't really give this topic much thought, but then I read the books on Barenziah (a Dunmer). Apparently she lived from when Tiber Septim was busy forming the Empire, up till the events of TES:Arena and slightly after.

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Wood Elves can live several centuries I think.

So... the Adoring Fan could be alive? Oh s***.