The Complete Guide to Immortality in the Elder Scrolls Lore

In our latest Elder Scrolls video we explore the many paths to immortality in the elder scrolls universe.

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is an open world action role-playing video game developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks. It is the fifth main installment in The Elder Scrolls series and was released worldwide on November 11, 2011. The game's main story revolves around the player character and their quest to defeat Alduin the World-Eater, a dragon who is prophesied to destroy the world. The videogame is set two hundred years after the events of Oblivion, and takes place in the fictional province of Skyrim.

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[Priceluked]

in the words of Savos Aren "What you learn here will last a lifetime, several, if you are talented."

[ideaaddict]

There is of course the powerful mortals of tamriel that ascend to become.... essential NPCs

[rytyr]

I love that CHIM is realizing you're playing a video game and deciding to either quit it and go outside or mod the hell out of it and become whatever you want.

[Lordradost]

Gorgeous Sheogorathian quote there:
"Let me be clear. Inhabitants of the shivering Isles are affected by time, but we are not *subject* to it. We are *subjects* of Lord Sheogorath, who *subjects* us to whatever *subject* he is in the mood to *subjugate* . Because time is *subjective* ."

[lell]

I like how most "immortals" in fantasy universes usually dont make it past a couple thousand years because some adventurer comes around and kills them for loot.

[sanemaniac]

Fudgemuppet: "Learn how to become immortal!"
Me: "Have you heard the Tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Wise?"

[CyberController-]

Azura: You can't break your oath to never use the Heart Of Lorkhan!
Tribunal: Hehehehe, tools go slam!

[COctagons]

There is another way: Should you be physically, mentally, ideologically and magically suited to doing so, and be somehow privy to the secrets of the transformation, you could perhaps become an *Ideal Master.* Whether you would ever be allowed to learn their necromantic secrets, or would have to figure them out yourself would be up to the capricious crystals, but should you attain their knowledge, and be able to put it to use, then you too could become immortal.

[totallynotarobot]

If there's one thing that the elder scrolls universe has always done really well in my opinion is the lore surrounding it's own cosmology and astronomy.
Most other fantasy universes usually keep at least some of our own universe's laws regarding how outer space, stars and planets work. The inky blackness between celestial bodies is often still a vacuum of empty space and stars are often still balls of plasma.

However when you start to learn about anything you see in the sky in an elder scrolls game, every single scrap and remnant of real world knowledge pretty much gets thrown away and replaced it with myth and magic.

[wiibrockster]

Would anybody else love to have the option to become a Lich in TES 6? Imagine having a questline involving gathering the nessacary items and creating a phylateracy.

[pastlife]

So, to achieve Chim is essentially the realisation that you are a character in a video game created by Todd Howard.

Huh. The apotheosis of Todd. Trippy.

[drnumbnuts]

Mai’q knows the secrets of immortality, but Mai’q does not tell.

[suwybjv]

I would just like to point out that elves can naturally live 600+ years, as written in some books in the games written by Barenziah herself. It's also to be noted that the 200-300 years mentioned by some of the devs was meant as in elves often die by that time from disease or wars, not of old age. So technically 200 years is young for a dark elf

[n.a.nameless]

Knight-Paladin Gelebor is a mystery. <detect living> and <detect dead> spells and effects don't have any effect on him. May as well be a rock, even chickens show up under spell effects, but not him.

[mysigt_]

This type of lore is my guilty pleasure.

[solinvictus]

Okay now that I'm early I have a chance to say this, I flipping love your videos, and every one of them makes TES 1000× better, thanks for doing this!

[paxtonhayes]

ayoo on behalf of the ninjas, i gotta say y’all have kept the elder scrolls alive for so long. you are a pillar of this community and there’s a reason why you have such a strong subscriber base. when the ES6 comes out, remember us when you blow up again 😉

[wiibrockster]

Imagine looking like a rotting corpse and hanging out in ruins


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[scientic]

Ahh, the story of Ani and Padme and how their story birthed a Sith.

[hyperbros]

"weather or not Jyggalag is defeated, grey march ends with a mortal mantling Sheogorath"
Actually in a ESO loremasters interview Haskil implies that when a hero attempts to mantle Sheogorath and fails to stop the grey march (which was every single case until champion of cyrodiil), that he becomes Haskil, or more accurately Haskil is the vestige of he who tried to mantle Sheogorath.
When grey march ended Jyggalag simply became Sheogorath once more, they shared body/animus until shivering isles expansion.