Did people in Tamriel really live for about thousands of years?
According to this question, NPC's from Morrowind and Oblivion are moved to Skyrim. Since Morrowind takes place in 3E 427, Oblivion takes place in 3E 433, and Skyrim takes place in 4E 201; these people might have lived for a hundred or even a thousand years, since a person in real life's life spam is a maximum of 100 years old [rare chance older than that]. Could people in the Elder Scrolls times really live about a hundred or thousand years old, or did the gods let them live for this much years?
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Let's go by the list:
- Dervenin: Is a servant of an insane god, lifespan extensions aren't unreasonable.
- Neloth: Is a mer (elf), there's no confirmed information about an elfs lifespan, but it's long so this is unsurprising.
- Karstaag: I wouldn't call a ghost living.
- Sheogorath: Is a Deadric prince, Deadra are immortal.
- Carius: Ressurected by a necromancer, not really alive.
- Uderfrykte: Is a troll, which might live longer, but it's not the same creature. They're just references to previous versions.
- Sinderion: Is a skeleton
- M'aiq the Liar: Is an easter egg, extraordinary lifespan for an easter egg (they're usually eaten much faster!)
- Ulfgar: Is an immortal nord, already 500 years old in bloodmoon.
- Jiub: Ghost.
- Barbas: Deadric familiar, also immortal.
- Lucien Lachance: Another ghost.
- Shadowmere: Is some kind of evil, immortal horse. In the lore, so not surprising the immortal horse lives.
- Nelacar: Mer, they live a really long time.
- Etienne, Fallaise, Isobel: They've become hag ravens, which also grant an extended livespan.
- Night Mother: She was a ghost in Oblivion and a corpse in Skyrim, not alive either.
So yeah, except for an easter egg, gods, elfs and dead people, humans lived a mostly normal lifespan as far as I can tell.
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