What is the average life span, you think? I think, that if we take inferences from the Middle-Ages, it would be around 20-30.

Howerver, mix magic and universal 'cure disease' potions, then we can see maybe increasing that 40 years, or so I believe.

What do you think?

How old was Hannibal Traven? or The Emporer? or Elves?

Most people in the middle ages lived much longer than that. The average is only lower beacause of the huge number of child deaths.


See this thread:

http://www.gamesas.com/bgsforums/index.php?showtopic=1018485&st=0

The life spans vary between races and between games. In Morrowind it was stated many times that the Telvanni wizards are hundreds years old and Dyvaith Fyr is about 4000 years old and in good shape, on the other hand, the Orcs and I think Nors have somewhat low lifespan due to some curse or some such. If magic plays any role, then the Altmers will sure have much longer life span. The question stands about the Breons since they are descendants of the Altmer and Nords.

I think its around 50 or something though Urial had 86 or something

Look in the lore sections, there are plenty of articles you can search for about the lifespan of the people of Tamriel. But, as a quick note, it's like this (discounting magic too)

Altmer > Dunmer > Bosmer > Humans > Orcs.

The lifespan of the beast races, or maybe just argonians, hasn't been very well explained or presented at all, so there is only guessing. Humans on average live to be ~70 - 100 if they had the means to make care of themselves. An elf's lifespan increases pretty drastically when you add in magic and well being into the equation. So, a mer that is poor is likely going to live around 100. A mer that is rich, healthy, and a good mage, it can go to 1000 or more (see Dyviath Fyr)

I do believe I remember mention of some men expecting to live past 100 and longer. And that was without magic. Perhaps someone has the source for that?

http://www.imperial-library.info/interviews/alvur.shtml
"Well, I'm fifty, done my twenty years in the Service, and I'm in the prime of life. I expect another fifty good years, and then I'll be old, and slow, chatting with gaffers around the hearth for another twenty, thirty years. I've known mer still mind-sharp in their late hundreds, and heard of folk 200 and older. My family usually makes it to 120-130, providing we don't get sick or poked in the eye."

I can make some guesses about the beast races, but they're just guesses. Argonians, if the evidence that they're cold-blooded is to be believed (and if cold-blood physiology is similar to the real world) could live hundreds of years. Khajiit, we just don't know, because I think many of them die of "other than natural causes", drug addiction, or foul play. But they have common ancestry with the Bosmer and may be physiologically similar enough that their lifespans are similar.

Thanks, for some reason I thought it was an imperial soldier, because I remembered that service part.

Shouldn't we multiply Khajiit's life span times 9? Kitties have nine lives.

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Not my Kitty

ha, i know what you mean. but i think definately over 100 years for a average life in tamriel i mean divayth ur is ancient

middle aged, but with dark powers I'll live forever

that is correct, it depends a lot on race. One of the problems trying to draw comparisons to the Middle-Ages in this area encounters is that the Middle Ages didn't have elves, or magic, for that matter. Access to restoration magic, I'd expect, can do a lot to increase one's chances of living to an old age, if nothing else, it can be used to cure diseases and poisoning and heal wounds, thus reducing your chance of dying of such things, and though this could just be due to Bethesda not wanting to make the games too dark and gritty, one does get the impression that the general condition of living for most citizens of Tamriel is better than it would have been for the common peasantry in the Middle Ages.

Lifestyle must also be taken into account, of course, I'd expect the Ashlanders, for example, to have a lower average lifespan than settled Dunmer living a middle-class lifestyle, due to more exposure to the elements and such, as well as greater danger of being killed by causes other than old age. Whereas in Cyrodiil, the people of the Imperial City probably have a higher life expectancy than those living in Bravil, except maybe the Waterfront. But of course, the effects that different living conditions and life styles could have on the average life expectancy of people would also play a part in the real world.

I'm really not sure if you could jsut put all the humans into the same cathegory. I mean, I would expect the bretons to have longer life span due to their altmer origin, while the nords had that curse sort of thing on them. I know it was relieved and transfered to the orcs, but I'm not sure if the transition left something behind or not. Also I would think (and this is an opinon only, not based on anything from the lore) that magic can make the life span of any race longer, not jsut for the elves

I was lazy

I recall a topic similar to this where bretons were thought to live longer than other human races, and orcs, but also aged the fasted due to their mixture of mer and man.

If I recall they claimed it was like combining water and oil, and so there were problems. Although this was disputed, so don't take it seriously.

And about the Nords, yeah there was some deception that led to a curse being put on them, but one of their gods (Shor?) removed it, and I believe it was completely removed.

Though their lifespan may be shorter, but this may be due to the lifestyles they live.