Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-101.174.54.47-20130226060747/@comment-89.27.237.42-20171009163437

There is one in-game-book written by an Altmer (it's 'De Rerum Dirennis') and the author starts stating his age as 611. He sounds like someone who is old and doesn't expect to live much longer. And in 'The Real Barenziah' Barenziah being about 500 years old is considered middle aged. Of course the latter one is a novelisation and seems more to be about love affairs than about historical accuracy - but since a dunmer's lifespan is probably common knowledge in Tamriel there is no reason for this fact to be false. Of course this might still be due to magic, but the way her age was stated didn't sound like it was something special.