I THINK they have normal lifespans, and age normally, am I correct?

Barenziah knew Tiber Septim.

A worker dunmer lives about a normal life. Dunmer don't age well under stress.

Merchants and the like live a bit longer, as they take better care of themselves.

Nobles live for hundreds of years thanks in part to their pampered life style.

A certain telvanni is in his 4000's.

So in other words a Dunmer slave who is say ... 27, would be in the condition of a 41 year old?

More like he'd be in the condition of a 27 year old slave.

I mean, would he appear to be about 10 or so years older?

Essentially, would 10 years of slavery and the stress associated with it, cause him to age faster or something.
( This is for Dagon's Hell, the New RP, so possible death and torture should be accounted into stress )

well he's a slave, he ain't going to look all that pretty. A slave would look older if they've been doing field work or something equally harsh.

What about mining?

i'd imagine he doesn't look all that pretty. A slave miner would probably have a more weathered look, and a shorter life expectancy. Maybe... early to mid thirties for appearence? He's probably been whipped too, and that causes some NASTY scarring if its bad enough. Just google images of American slavery.

Alright.
Just looking for a general age he should look.

I found information calling Middle Age 55, Old 100, and Venerable 160, where Humans would likely be 40ish, 60 - 80, and Venerable would be 80 - 90 something.

Also, Heightwise i am unsure.
In Oblivion some are easily 6'3, while my most recent character, a Dunmer, is shorter than almost all Males of every race but Bosmer.

I am going to kill you for using that damned D&D wiki. (edit: that is to say, that they are worse then UESP when it comes to lore) I've been trying to help them out with getting some stuff right, but damn a lot of that's game mechanics for a D&Dized Tamriel.

edit: height-wise, their not too tall, not too short. mid to upper fives-lower six would be a good height for an average dunmer.

Alright.

I just googled, and it came up.

http://www.imperial-library.info/interviews/alvur.shtml

I was looking for that article. Cut a few years off that 120-130 estimate, and you got a slave life expectancy.

Remember that this interview is Pre-Morrowind lore, and some of it's outdated. The description for Sky Lamps, for instance, more closely resembles that of a Netch, even though it was made clear later that Sky Lamp is another name for a Cliffracer.

Also, the Dunmer mentions that Glass is "more than just a tad stronger then Ebony" and yet if your Morrowind character has both Light and Heavy armor at 100 skill level, a full set of glass with tower shield affords you 355 armor rating, whereas a full suit of Ebony armor with tower shield affords you 420 points of armor rating.

In Oblivion, if you have both skills at 100, Glass maxes you out at 50 and Ebony at 60.

So in either case, Ebony is more than just a little stronger than Glass as an armor type, if heavier and more cumbersome. All Ebony weapons in both games are stronger than Glass weapons of the same type, as well.

So judging from these two outdated bits of information we might possibly infer that the age of Dunmer as described is off as well, but we can't be sure.

edit: It's possible he was referring to Glass being much mightier because per square unit of weight it's actually much, much stronger than Ebony. The full suit of Glass is less than half the weight of the full suit of Ebony. Also, theoretically, heavier variations of Glass armor exist, which are Glass all the way through and not just some Glass on top of chain and cloth, which would theoretically be much stronger than Ebony or even rival Daedric, but this form of Glass armor doesn't seem to exist in the game world.

If Dunmer are simply changed Altmer, then they must be able to live for hundreds of years, even the lower classes. An environment like that of Morrowind would take off about a hundred years, but even so three hundred years should easily be reached by a Dunmer.

Varel Morvayn in Oblivion was in his 50s, and he only expected to last another 10 years. He was only a blacksmith though.

Where does it say he's in his fifties? He says that he's been in Anvil for about fifty years, but doesn't say when he was born. Most Dunmer in Cyrodiil are recent immigrants, so he probably hasn't been in Anvil since he was born.

Agree'd with Gallowglass,he's just ben there for 50 years.

It's not that simple at all. Orcs are changed Aldmer and they have the shortest lifespans of all races considered people on Tamriel.

I alwys thought there ought to be daedra-infused glass armour. I mean, if ebony can be spirit-infused to create Daedric Armour, why not glass for light (or medium) Daedric Armour



The Altmer are positively obsessed about keeping stasis, including a long life, though. They rever Phynaster, a cultrue hro, as god, because he taught them to live longer through a different way of walking. The Dunmer dont have such a culture.



Actually, orcs are even changed Altmer, which of course only reinforces your point.

I was under the impression the people who became Orcs were Aldmer, not Altmer. Which of course were genetically identical but not culturally.

Aldmer and Altmer are not the same people. Altmer are just one of the Aldmer peoples - there are also Ayleids, Falmar, Maomer and possibly Bosmer (though some sources also state theyre descendant of the Altmer, and not directly of the Aldmer). And the Orsimer split off the Altmer - it were the followers of Trinimac in Altmer society, who tried to prevent the Proto-Chimer exodus. Trinimac became Malacath, and his worshippers the Orcs.