Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25121612-20130804234437/@comment-83.109.229.138-20140721180552

Let's be real now people.

Neloth is one of the biggest a-holes in the whole game, both Morrowind and Skyrim(Dragonborn), you simply can't kill someone like him, even if you wanted too. He probably just used a potion, a spell or something and made it look like he "died" and then he came back after the coast was clear.

Also if you check the Skyrim wiki of him, it says he managed to survive the assassintanion, which, in my opnion, tells you he survived the attack, it doesn't mean he wasn't attacked. But rather he avoided dying. And don't forget he IS considered one of the most powerful wizards in morrowind, so he probably had an ace up his sleeve.

For me personally it also explains his obsession with the heart stones when I visit him on Solstheim more that 200 years later.