Category: Cyrelian

I am pretty sure that the Thalmor Justiciars weren’t born knowing how to order everyone around…

This was the first story that I posted and a fair number of the pictures are not taken with ENB. I also learned a fair amount about formatting and cropping as I went along.

I’ve taken a number of liberties with Skyrim lore along the way, but one of the considerations that I had to deal with was the subject of mer age.  Humans in Skyrim live the lifespan that we’d expect for us– unless they are mages or something else is going on. Mythic kings were reputed to live a long time. And humans have the same phases of life that we’d expect.

Mer are different, and it’s hard to piece together just how different, because the source material conflicts. We know that mer, particularly Altmer or Dunmer mages, can live a very long time. Even absent being mages, the lifespan for Altmer is said to be 100-200 years. That’s.. rather a large variance.  And then we here about various Altmer persons who live much longer than that, with no indication that they are mages.

Given all of that, and given that I really don’t see Altmer as the permissive-parenting type, I came up with .. 38. Cyrelian is 38 at the time of his arrival in Skyrim, which means that he is old enough to make his own important life decisions, sign contracts, get married, and so on… at least from a legal perspective.  His actually doing so would prompt an immediate family meeting, I am sure.