[quote=@Mortarion]
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Wasn't the bit about Altmer living for thousand years due to them prolonging their life through magic? The DUnmer able were to do so as well, I mean, one of Morrowind's NPCs was alive during the war with the Dwemer and that was a good hundred years ago in-universe. 
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I mean if you know your magic you can live thousands of years even as a clipped wing butterfly so I didn't include that. I thought Altmer lived biologically to be a few thousand years old, hence the comment.