Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-2165692-20170105155506

About the title, I am not talking about only the 10 playable ones, for there are a lot more.

I will however still start out with them

So how old can each race get?

From what I can gather the Altmer are undobtedly the eldest, reaching to thousands of years old.

for Dunmer, we know Neloth is among the eldest of them and has been alive since Arena to Skyrim and most likely beyond. While he doesn't appear in Arena and Daggerfall, he must have been alive as he seemed to be old already in Morrowind.

I would suspect Bosmer to not grow to the same age, as the oldest races seem magic-centered. But they are still elves and thus seem like they would life for a long time,

We got one more elven race on the first list, the Orsimer. I have no clue, almost all of them go to their own death at a specific age, but we have exceptions. The female alchemists in the strongholds and of course Urag in the college of Winterhold. Who seem quite old. But how old?

Moving slighlty futher away from Elves but not entirely, there are the bretons. I ahve heard they have a short lifespan but that seems unlikely as they are descended from Altmer and Nords. Their altmer blood should keep them alive for ages, and Tolfdir is a breton who seems to be around 80 years or so, he walked to Saarthal and back just fine at his age. Then we have Octieve San, apparently and old Breton, his daughter looks like she's in her 60's.

Now for the pure human races

Imperial, Redguards and Nords, I cannot imagine they be far away from normal humans of our world. I haven't seen many old humans in the games. And most of the people I search, who seem to be Nord or Imperial at first glance turn out to be Bretons. My guess or their age would be a maximum of 50 or 60. Humans become about 70 years on average in richer countries, due to medical technology and what we eat. Before that, it was about 30-40 years. In TES we got magic and alchemy which seemingly has the ability to replace Medicine, but the food seems to be the same as it was then, though I have yet to see foods like Chips, Chocolate and the like, so I would put the life expectancy at 60 or so. Due to certain medical technologies being non-existant in TES.

As the last races of the first list, Khajiit and Argonian, both descended from the same race as the elves as far as I know, so their lifespan is probably higher than humans. Argonians are largely based on Crocodiles and Alligators, which in some cases can live beyond 70 years. So give them intelligence and that will skyrocket, put them with the elves. As for Khajiit, based on big cats, like tigers and the like, be they housecats, tigers, lions or whatever, they rarely live past 20, but even so, they are intelligent beings so I would say they get slightly older than humans with their elven ancestry.

Now for the second list.

Now there's a bunch of races here:

Atmoran, now they became the nords, so probably somewhere close to them

Ket Keptu, I don't know anything but I guess they are close to humans, lived in Hammerfell

Kothringi, another human race. This time from Black marsh

Nede, the Imperials of the first era if I remember correctly

Orma, much like the Kothringi, men who lived in Black Marsh

Aldmer, Altmer from long ago. I imagine their lifespan to be long

Ayleid, I imagine this race to be one of the races with the longest lifespans on nirn ever.

Chimer, unturned Dunmer. I don't know what Azura's curse did but if it shortened their lifepsan, then the chimer had a great one.

Dwemer, these are the ones I believe would have the longest lifespan of every single race on Nirn, even Ayleids.

Falmer, the betrayed. I cannot imagine them to be able to live for long, but everytime they fire a bow they defy te laws of nature so eh.

Maormer, Elf. Hard to say, probably long.

Sinistral Elf, Elf. Hard to say, probably long.

Snow Elf, Gelebor stuck around since before Ysgramor's time, He might be the oldest living being on Nirn.

Imga, Gorilla's live to about 35 years, and the Imga aren't the sharpest tools in the shed so, I guess 40 or 50?

Lilmothiit, foxes in captivity can live for 15 years, but they are related to the Khajiit so probably not to far off.

Sload, slugs tend to live a maximum of 5 years, yet sload have been known to get so fat that they collapse under their own weight, Hard to tell.

Giant, let's skip this one

Akaviri, more humans, the Asians of the elder scrolls.

Ka Po' Tun, these are a tiger race, so their lifespan is likely close to what I set for the Khajiit

Kamal, without the lifespan of the giants, I have no basis to go off.

Tang Mo, monkeys live shorter than apes, likely less than the Imga.

Tsaesci, large snakes live 30-40 years in catpivity, since they eat humans they have to be large, I'd say ca 60-70. 