User blog comment:Jack Pistol/Immortal Dovahkiin?/@comment-3543563-20121002040043/@comment-1080767-20121005002047

Perhaps immortality in the sense provided in the Elder Scrolls is not entirely corporeal. Perhaps your consciousness and sentience is not contained in your brain when you are immortal, but rather, as an intangible soul or divine essence - a fragment of the energy of a god. And then, perhaps your 'energy', upon the completion of one's life, might even return to the weakened Aedra, and so once the intelligent races of Nirn die off, the Aedra will again become as powerful as the Daedra.