Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-101.174.54.47-20130226060747/@comment-2602:306:3B2F:A1D0:3089:11C5:701:802D-20170814054115

Elves in the Elder Scrolls can live up to around 300 naturally, but that's considered very very old for elves. With magic, they could live for thousands of years like Divayth Fyr or Mannamarco or indefinitely if they find some way, such as becoming a Lich. Since Altmer and Dunmer tend to use magic since they're naturally gifted with it, they usually live for much longer than the natural elf lifespan. Bosmer, Altmer, and Dunmer have 200 - 300 year lifespans, but I don't know about Orsimer. They could live for that long as well, being elves, but they also might live only about as long as the races of man. I looked around, but couldn't find anything mentioning how long they live. Since there's an "Old Orc" in Skyrim who asks you to kill him because he's getting too old and he looks to be in his 40s or 50s, Orcs might just live as long as men. Or it could just be how they wanted him to look. As for Elves in general, they usually can live hundreds of years longer than men. Sometimes two hundred years, sometimes indefinitely. It depends on the fantasy universe. An elf in the Elder Scrolls usually doesn't live to see 300 because of disease, battle, etc., but they can live that long.