The Elder Scrolls

[Linako 2.0]

 

[Watcher]

1. A moment ago - Luna:
   
   

 

[Ronald Gaygun]

Question. Is there like a record/estimate of average lifespans of the different races out there? I mean in the beginning of Oblivion the Emperor says he's in his 60s/70s/whatever, and he looks like your average 60/70/whatever-year-old human. But then you look at Skyrim and in the Dragonborn DLC there's that guy in the mushroom/tree-house thingy who was in Morrowind and he looks about as old as he was 200+ years ago.

 

[exball]

Question. Is there like a record/estimate of average lifespans of the different races out there? I mean in the beginning of Oblivion the Emperor says he's in his 60s/70s/whatever, and he looks like your average 60/70/whatever-year-old human. But then you look at Skyrim and in the Dragonborn DLC there's that guy in the mushroom/tree-house thingy who was in Morrowind and he looks about as old as he was 200+ years ago.

Human races typically have a 70-80 lifespan and elves are stated to have around a 200-300 year lifespan but usually die way before that from violence or disease. I don't think anything is said about beast races lifespans.

 

[RP 520]

Human races typically have a 70-80 lifespan and elves are stated to have around a 200-300 year lifespan but usually die way before that from violence or disease. I don't think anything is said about beast races lifespans.

The Mer/elf races can prolong their lives through the use of magic. In Morrowind there are the mage-lords who are 300+ and Divayth Fyr is around 4,000 years old. He's also a bit reclusive and slightly crazy due to his age.

 

[The_Hissing_Vigilant]

Arena and Daggerfall: Barley have the patence for the bugginess. Played them on DOS box.

Morrowind: First elder scrolla game I ever played. All High school its all I basically did. Lots to explore......but danm! Those cliff racers. Still a fun game to mod.

Oblivion: Great, sperged over it for two yesrs,but dumbed down compaired to Morrowind.

Skyrim: Loved it. The first time I have sern betheseda do an actual good job on the characters faces. I mean, I love bethseda but their asthetics reagardig faces always sucked. Now they dont look like fat 13-year-old boys.
Love how I can duel wield. The dragon idea was cool. The graphics and gameplay much better than Oblivion. Fun game, but my only issue was too dumbed down. Great for at night after work when uou dont want to think much.

 

[Linako 2.0]

Great for at night after work when you don''t want to think much.

And then you start thinking of the lore.

 

[c-no]

And then you start thinking of the lore.

Then you look into the lore made by Michael Kirkbride. Then you read the in-game books, whether in the game or on the wiki. (Then, if you read one of the Barenziah books, you'd be surprised at what it has. It would make The Lusty Argonian Maid tame in comparison.)

 

[exball]

Then you look into the lore made by Michael Kirkbride. Then you read the in-game books, whether in the game or on the wiki. (Then, if you read one of the Barenziah books, you'd be surprised at what it has. It would make The Lusty Argonian Maid tame in comparison.)

Best book, very informative that kajiits have spiked dicks.

 

[c-no]

Best book, very informative that kajiits have spiked dicks.

Indeed though the Temple did order for that scene to be censored. At least it is more informative than what Crassius Curio had written.

 

[The_Hissing_Vigilant]

Pillowbook....anyone remember that?

Their is an actual Morrowin mod for that one. In lore, its their eqivilant to the Kuma Satra.

I still sometimes play Morrowind because of the mods. Its runs well on my netbook with a virtual disc drive. My new pc is coming in a few days so I can gets mods for that and the Fallout games that my netbook cannot take.

 

[Watcher]

 

[exball]

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[Dalish]

Human races typically have a 70-80 lifespan and elves are stated to have around a 200-300 year lifespan but usually die way before that from violence or disease. I don't think anything is said about beast races lifespans.

Except for the Snow Elves, who can apparently live for fucking ever. Even outside of the mystical Chantry properties, the Falmer began decaying somewhere around 1E 700.

 

[Overcast]

Okay, might as well give my thoughts.

I used to absolutely love Oblivion. Back then, I never really played a game that had a large open world that allowed you to ignore the main story and just do what you want. So that game kinda blew my mind at the time. I also initially liked Skyrim for a bit.

As time went on though, I played games that I personally feel did everything those two games did but better. The Fallout series, The Souls games, ect. (Fallout had a more interesting and engaging world and lore and the Souls games had more interesting takes on the fantasy genre.)

It didn't help that Oblivion hasn't really aged that well in my eyes. Although I guess even back then, I thought the character models looked a little quirky.

I also didn't really like how you could potentially be the leader of all the guilds. Considering how fundamentally different they are. That's just a personal gripe.

And Skyrim was a bit worse when it came to the whole guild aspect. There were like... what? Five or six quests in the Mage's Guild and I only had apprentice level magic as leader of the guild. What the sense make? At least put up stat requirements or something.

 

[Luna]

Human races typically have a 70-80 lifespan and elves are stated to have around a 200-300 year lifespan but usually die way before that from violence or disease. I don't think anything is said about beast races lifespans.

Katisha's face briefly wore the wistful look humans got when contemplating the thousand year life span that elves were entitled to by nature. True, few ever actually lived that long, as disease and violence took a toll, but they could.

It's a thousand years
TW:Barbed penis

Except for the Snow Elves, who can apparently live for fucking ever. Even outside of the mystical Chantry properties, the Falmer began decaying somewhere around 1E 700.

The betrayed have formed their own subterranean civilization, they're implied to be getting married and having children still. That's part of the reason they don't feel any kinship towards the non-corrupted snow elves, because at this point the snow elves and falmer are as distantly related as the falmer and altmer.

 

[Dalish]

The betrayed have formed their own subterranean civilization, they're implied to be getting married and having children still. That's part of the reason they don't feel any kinship towards the non-corrupted snow elves, because at this point the snow elves and falmer are as distantly related as the falmer and altmer.

Definitely, but Gelebor implies that the Falmer could eventually re-emerge as Snow/Ice elves. What that means exactly is... not really known. What we DO know is Gelebor is ~4000 years old; does that imply that Mer races should really be living that long?

 

[Luna]

Definitely, but Gelebor implies that the Falmer could eventually re-emerge as Snow/Ice elves. What that means exactly is... not really known.

Well, interpretation is that without the corrupting influence of Vyrthur or the Dwemer they could regain their rationality and return to worshiping Auri-El, he does say that he doesn't believe that dwemer toxins were wholly responsible for their transformation, nor that they could be completely "cured".

What we DO know is Gelebor is ~4000 years old; does that imply that Mer races should really be living that long?

He was granted a longer life by Auri-El so that he could guard the Chantry, same reason why the other paladins were resurrected as ghosts.

 

[Dalish]

Well, interpretation is that without the corrupting influence of Vyrthur or the Dwemer they could regain their rationality and return to worshiping auri-el, he does say that he doesn't believe that dwemer toxins were wholly responsible for their transformation, nor that they could be completely "cured".

He was granted a longer life by Auri-El so that he could guard the Chantry, same reason why the other paladins were resurrected as ghosts.

He also thinks there are other conclaves of Snow Elves elsewhere. Dawnguard sort of threw a wrench into a lot of the ~mythos~. Mer races can live up to 1000 years, but Gelebor seems somewhat certain that others had escaped. Why would all of them, even outside of the Chantry, necessarily live for so long? Those other groups could be able to reproduce, sure, but... the whole thing is dumb and it's even dumber to get super into it before this turns into a canon raging thread.

 

[Luna]

He also thinks there are other conclaves of Snow Elves elsewhere. Dawnguard sort of threw a wrench into a lot of the ~mythos~. Mer races can live up to 1000 years, but Gelebor seems somewhat certain that others had escaped. Why would all of them, even outside of the Chantry, necessarily live for so long? Those other groups could be able to reproduce, sure, but... the whole thing is dumb and it's even dumber to get super into it before this turns into a canon raging thread.

There's other small self-sufficient enclaves in the lore though, and if Snow Elves live about a thousand years (which if they're hiding because they're scared for their lives they most likely are) then it's only been about four to five generations since their fall. It's also possible that given that people believed Falmer blood would grant lifespans of thousands of years that they were longer lived than other mer and it passed into local folklore. Falmer were known to be particularly adept at magic, considered to rival even to the Altmer. For the most part the pre-corruption Falmer are a mystery as far as the lore is concerned.