Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-179.201.236.220-20130721175723/@comment-9887604-20130722050305

According to Zenimax online, 200 years is old, 300 is very old. However the community tends to disagree with this lump sum number that seems to be added in artificially.

The Mer of ES can potentially live a very long time, some examples are King Orgnum, Barenziah, Divath Fyr, Mannimarco, Vanus Galerion to name a few. There is actually a story of one of the Aedra, Jeffre I believe, teaching the Altmer to take shorter strides when they walk thus lengthening their life by hundreds of years.


 * Dunmer are documented as being the oldest living individuals of all the Mer races.
 * Altmer would be next, they are the most similar to the patron race of the Aldmer.
 * The Falmer were considered to be fairly similar to the Altmer, with a civilization that rivaled Alinor. Knight Paladin Gelebor is several thousand years old, however this could be attributed to some gift of Auriel(Akatosh) rather then racial propensity.
 * The Bosmer, according to elven creation myth, mixed bloodlines with the men sometime in the past so one could imagine that this shortened their lifespans somewhat.
 * The Orsimer are a race unto themselves, their lifespans are generally shorter then even the races of men. Whether this has to do with their generally violent lifestyles or some remnant of the devastation of their patron deity Trinimac I am not sure.
 * The Maomer possibly live very long lifes as well, however the only long lived Maomer we know of is King Orgnum and he was actually an Aldmer.

Anyway this is a pretty general overview of the lifespans of the Mer, hopefully it can give you a little better grasp of the ages of the different races.