(This question is directed at a Dragonborn that would be a Nord/Imperial)
Hello all,
Recently a thought popped into my head - Since the dovahkiin has the soul of a dragon, does that mean a longer life span? Something along the lines of an Altmer/Dunmer's life span maybe?
But if that's true, would the physical body of the Dragonborn be affected, if its only the soul that is that of a dragons?
Well, gaining dragon souls doesn't increase your Health, Magicka, or Stamina in-game, nor does it boots their regeneration rates. The mechanics of the Elder Scrolls games tend to mirror the lore surrounding them (for example, the removal of Mysticism from Skyrim mirrors how the school of magic was, between Oblivion and Skyrim, consolidated into several other schools of magic).
As for lifespans, aging isn't really a mechanic in TES games and indeed the particular effects of aging on many races (the mer in particular) are ambiguous, so it's unknown if being a Dragonborn would have some effect on that. I think that without proof one way or the other it's safer to assume that Dragonborn are no more long-lived than any other member of their particular race.
Of course, that doesn't stop you from roleplaying something different, or writing fanfiction that says otherwise (as Armathyx has done, for example).
Well said, Christopher.
Though the all powerful, mighty, hero that is the Dovahkiin, ageing like everybody else doesn't seem very exciting, nor storybook. But I suppose if I was the Dragonborn, and all my companions aged while I didn't, it would be a bit depressing. I can't imagine what the Altmer have to go through in their lifetime.
Your forgetting a certain Dragonborn who was Nord and has lived for thousands of years: Miraak. Though I'm not really sure if him living super long has anything to do with Herma Mora. As far as I know it is said that Herma saved Miraak when he was about to die but it has never once been stated that Herma had been keeping him alive. Although Herma's Realm may have possibly effected Miraak's aging process but truth be told I really dont know.
That's a good theory. I remember fighting him on the Summit of Apocrypha, feeling frustrated that Miraak was using Dragon souls to rejuvenate himself, bringing him back from the brink of death. I wouldn't be surprised if Miraak knew some secrets of the Dragon souls, or how to harness them to slow down the ageing process. Possibly, Mora even gave away the information.
To be honest, the only special thing the dragonborn can do is absorb dragon's souls. Anyone can kill a dragon. The dragonborn doesn't really have an advantage against anything everybody already has an advantage over. The dragonborn only has a few advantages against normal things besides dragons, like his shouts.
I'm trying to find the source for you but I'm pretty sure it's stated that time passes differently in Oblivion, the specific rates are probably up to the Deadric Prince of that realm.
I'm certain that in 4E201Sheogorath mentions npc's you encounter in the Shivering Isles which you meet as the CoC in 3E 433.
In truth I wasn't researching just remembering. Badly. The npc I was thinking Sheo was talking about wasn't in fact in SI. I was thinking of Shelden who definitely is not Stanley the Talking Grapefruit.
However, now I'm researching.
Sheogorath in SI says Time. Time is an artificial construct. An arbitrary system based on the i:dea that events occur in a linear direction at all times. Always forward, never back. Is the concept of time correct? Is time relevant? It matters not.
Dyus in SI says: Time and place are nothing. Constructs of a feeble mortal mind attempting to categorize and understand the world around it.
It's worth noting that we're never entirely sure if Dyus' immortality comes from being a daedric being or if he was once a mortal man. Further dialogue seems to suggest the latter which implies the Prince has full control of everything in his realm. Instead, he has confined me to this place and forbidden me to die.
The future, it seems, is beyond the predictions of a even a Prince seeing as how the CoC's success was never guaranteed by anybody in SI.
Phil, If what you said about the the Oblivion realm's time being different, which in turn slowed Miraak's aging... wouldn't hundreds or even thousands of years pass while you were in Herma's realm? I mean if his realm is why Miraak has lived so long, wouldn't the time change effect the PC? According to your theory if I went to Herma's realm for a "Minute" for all I know 30 years could have passed in Nirn.