Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-4092092-20130801070333/@comment-3573184-20131020131621

-It differs depending on what type of lichdom you want. Most liches take a similar path, placing their souls into a container, also known as a phylactery ,making themselves immortal.

The dragon priests used a different form of lichdom where they would harvest power from their worshipers, transferring their servants lifeforce into them to prolong their life.

-If alchemy isn't magic, then why was it a magic skill in both Morrowind and Oblivion?

-Being able to possibly die during he process of making yourself immortal doesn't mean it cant make you immortal once its done.

-Its not vague, he specifically says the magic you learn will last you a lifetime, and if you are talented at magic, it will last you several.

-http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Ring_of_Hircine "Tharsten Heart-Fang, a great leader of the Skaal of Solstheim, possessed the Ring of Hircine for many generations in secret, unnaturally extending his life and youth."

There is solid proof, many people have done it via many different magical ways, and its been mentioned before.