Skyrim: 5 Things They Never Told You About The Dwarves

Skyrim is a land home to all sorts of men and elves. From the hardy Nords to arrogant Altmer, the world of The Elder Scrolls 5 is a cosmopolitan one. However, quite possibly the most fascinating civilization to have ever existed in Skyrim, are the now long gone Dwemer. A mysterious, yet highly advanced society, the Dwemer, or "Deep Elves" were known to build incredibly sophisticated machines thousands of years ahead of their time and notably, preferred to live underground, constructing incredible subterranean metropolis' whose ruins we can still see today.
However, in one of the most inexplicable events in Elder Scrolls history, sometime towards the end of the first era, thousands of years prior to the events of The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim, the Dwemer all just vanished, without a trace. Now, all that remains are their underground ruins and still-humming machinery.
Mysterious, advanced and long-gone, there's a lot worth learning about these odd elves. So, today we'll be doing just that as we explore five incredibly fascinating yet little-known facts about them. I hope you enjoy five things you (probably) never knew about the Dwarves in The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim.

[@Marshmallowcookie]

"Not a single dwemer would be seen in tamriel ever again" Yagrum Bagarn: SNEAK 100

[@metetural9140]

Yagram Bagarn: I did a Darth Maul on yo ass

[@whiterunguard4144]

Who is Yagrum Bagarn?

[@sherrifdan8621]

@@whiterunguard4144 who is *you*?

[@theiconicprodigy1736]

Whiterun Guard the last living dwemer or so he says, you can meet him in Morrowind

[@metetural9140]

@@whiterunguard4144 Yagram Bagarn is the only living Dwemer on nirn

[@dustinpaulson1123]

"Not a single Dwemer would be seen in Nirn again..." *Morrowind intensifies...*

[@metetural9140]

*Yagran Bagarn intensifies*

[@metetural9140]

@@isaiahwilliams5988 hes either a troll or a bot

[@whenthemusicsover6028]

@Dustin Paulson I was thinking the same thing.

[@victorkane1154]

Original comment...

[@ToxicallyMasculinelol]

yeahhhh, whoops lol

[@Mullet-ZubazPants]

Aragorn : "You have my sword" Legolas : "And you have my bow" Gimli : "And my flying whale"

[@Noverian_]

I'm legolas in skyrim I only use daggers and bows and. I'm an elf XD

[@ChronoMoth]

@@Noverian_ ah yes the legendary elf dragonborn LEGOLAS

[@kalajel]

[happy whale noises in the distance]

[@Noverian_]

@@ChronoMoth LMFAO LEGENDARY DRAGONBORN LEGOLAS LOL

[@Noverian_]

@@kalajel *[happy orc noises in back round]*

[@BaronNate]

"Nobody tosses a dwarf!!!!" Giant looks at the dwarf, smiles, and prepares to start the Dwarven Space Program...…..

[@NameThatIsJust]

Underated

[@ravezon]

Well technically they didnt "toss" the dwarf. Its more like looney toon launch. Kinda like put the dwarf on one end of the plank and the giant smack their hammer on the other end of the plank and launch the dwarf upward. Thats how it seems to me when getting hit by the giant when they smash their hammer at me. Instead of getting splat on the ground(cause the hit came from above), the player get launch upward.

[@MegaRazorback]

"Toss me..." "What?" "Toss me, i can't make the jump!"That bit in LOTR still makes me chuckle to this day!

[@sdstin]

This deserves to be pinned.

[@robstewart8002]

@@MegaRazorback dont tell the elf

[@kylesteele9403]

At this point, Nate is just Hermaeus Mora incarnate.

[@arzen6494]

OMG YEEEES

[@BigBangAttack-mt6pz]

He probably is envious of Nate's knowledge

[@tinyguy1015]

Fr

[@marcusbergman6116]

More like Julianos. He gives, but does not demand in return, knowledge.

[@LordWeems]

Natemaeus Mora

[@Kat-eo8by]

The last time I was this early, Skyrim still belonged to the Nords

[@fallfromparadise]

so i heard uahahaha

[@totallynotmozziesaccount8506]

IT DOES YOU IMPERIAL MILKDRINKER

[@simbiant4]

last time I was this early I didn't have an arrow in my knee.

[@rainbowkitten5228]

This made me laugh too hard.

[@raymondhamill8421]

Last time I was this early the Snow Elves had eyes

[@erebys21]

"Hey bro, let's go beat some snow elves." "Hold on, gotta refuel my flying whale." "Rich bastard. I drive a sphere." "Poor bastard. Snow whales are where it's at."

[@DrMoonAtNight]

Joanna Bowman hey it’s been 2 months you still wheezing?

[@DrMoonAtNight]

Joanna Bowman get well soon

[@tristank8076]

@@joannabowman6058 it's been 10 months. Still wheezing?

[@ap6480]

Those were not flying whales, nate himself says in a later video it wouldn't make sense for the developers to not use the flying whale model at sovngard

[@bernd_das_brot6911]

@@joannabowman6058 you still weezing?

[@azazeltheundyingdamienkali5700]

*Unused Summon Dwarven Sphere Spell:* "[exists]" *Aetherial Staff:* "I'm gonna restart this man's whole career."

[@thalmoragent9344]

Wait, what do you mean? You can enhance it?

[@NiquelBones]

@@thalmoragent9344 enhance what

[@thalmoragent9344]

@@NiquelBones The Staff. he said he could "restart" it's career, unless that means more people will simply use the spell instead of the Staff now that they know it exists?

[@NiquelBones]

@@thalmoragent9344 what? homie its just a meme youre looking way to deep at it lmao

[@thalmoragent9344]

@@NiquelBones I know but I don't understand what he's trying to say, is he saying the Staff isn't that good since people can just use the Dwarven Sphere spell now?

[@jamesd8169]

11:05 can you imagine minding your own business, taking a shower or something, when all of a sudden some mage summons you to kill a rat?

[@dragonballzgt1989]

a dramora in a robe with ducky slippers and a hairnet. just think of that every time you summon something. or you summon one right off the pooper

[@justinbates4037]

@@dragonballzgt1989 thank you for putting that beautiful image in my head

[@dethmaul]

It's like that observation someone had about zombie movies. You never see nekkid zombies. Why not? SURELY there are people that sleep naked and are attacked and turned. If it's a dawn of the dead remake chaos sudden turning scenario, you could be turned during sex, in the shower, sleeping, hell even just have the majority of your clothes ripped off in the struggle.

[@Keleigh3000]

That made my morning.

[@SeiichirouUta]

Reminds me of the conjuration master quest in Skyrim. That dremora sure is pissed because you interrupted his afternoon walk.

[@woebegone_kenobi]

I'd prefer a game where we wake up in a prison cell or cage of sorts. You look around and _immediately_ recognize the architecture.. Dwemer "Ahh awake friend?" A pointy-eared man with a glowing red eye turns to you from the cell next to yours. "Didnt know if you'd ever come around after how much they roughed you up". The cell begins to rattle and then ascend, far above the red-eyed man's. "Oh and just in time too, judgment awaits". The wet, dripping stone room the cell was in before completely transforms to reveal an enormous golden gilded city, bustling with citizens. Giant Gears and cogs shift and crank on each building, while steam pours out of every exposed pipe. Unlike ruins we've seen before, this city and it's technology appears clean and kept. Then suddenly, black. As quickly as you were exposed to the wonderous world around you it disappears and you're brought back inside. This time at the top of a _very_ regal tower located in the center of the city. The cage's gate slides open and before you sits a Dwemer man on a pearl-white throne. He strokes his long, golden ring crested beard as he looks you up and down. "So traveler, tell me... _how exactly did you find us_

[@alanr2504]

I wanna turn this into a story. And a mod. And a show. And a book! 😂I love the little story!:)

[@Fallen_Angel_]

I actually love this idea. Also I got chills just reading that. That sounds like such a great game in itself... maybe... ES6? Ah, who am I kidding. The great Tod Howard would never.😓

[@gabekliemann8539]

@bethesda hire this man

[@moonchild4789]

You have a talent for writing friend, I'd play that!!

[@darthlazurus4382]

This deserves to be written. Do you hear me Kenobi? You better get this written before someone steals your idea. I warn you of this as I MYSELF want to steal your idea!

[@onceuponadime978]

"Not a single dwemner was ever seen again" that's not entirely true. There is 1 left as of the events of es 3. He has the coprus and lives beneath red mountain. He's half fat man thing half spider automaton, and no he doesn't know what happened to his brethren

[@larsulveland2690]

Yes, and he did explicitly mention having been on another plane at the time, being late for the whole disappearance, missing the last train to...

[@Oyasumi05]

@@larsulveland2690 Hogwarts?

[@shitfacejohnson4085]

@@larsulveland2690 Narnia?

[@liammaps2700]

“Spider automation” The only guy I can think of is darth maul from Star Wars. Yes I’m a huge fan and yes I also love Star Trek.

[@megasocky]

Yoo that means we may see a regular form yagrum in ESO's latest dlc since theyre going to blackreach. Yagrum did say he tried to look for what happened to the dwemer before he got corprus

[@pigcow7744]

The “Conjure Dwarven Sphere” spell isn’t entirely cut. The Dawnguard DLC adds the Aertherium forge, which can create a staff that summons a dwarven sphere if you complete the quest that goes along with it. So, the theory based on conjuration still holds up.

[@wallamazoo01]

Doesn't this somehow imply that the Aertherium Staff just opens up a portal to a pocket realm with seemingly infinite Dwarven Spheres?

[@thalmoragent9344]

@@wallamazoo01 Maybe the Dwemer really did ascend and make their own Realm/Plane of existence, and you're grabbing some Dwarven Sphere they made?

[@lordotiro5177]

A dwemer engineer making a list of spheres and spider constructs, then began noticing a dramatic drop of units, and began finding destroyed machinery. One day there were a unit of ten and the next day there's only two left in that unit

[@user-wr6dj4ib9o]

bullshit this spell is complitely canon you can get it in morrowind

[@PixelOverload]

​@@wallamazoo01 or just yoinking them from some local Dwemer ruins...

[@AruHiseki]

theres probably nothing left to be found out about skyrim... nate: whales can fly... ok maybe one more thing. nate: the dwarves used to domesticate them. ok forget what i said... nate: but wait theres more... ok i get it!

[@kayleescruggs6888]

Just as soon as you think there is nothing new to be found or Nirn, Nate releases another video.

[@Cap_The_Captain]

Pretty much all the dwemer machines drop "dwarvern oil" so perhaps much like real life these whales were used to make oil to power the constructs

[@bitingapotato3277]

According to the Last Living Dwarf, cozy in his corner of the Corprusarium, "Lord Kagrenac, the foremost arcane philosopher and magecrafter of my era, devised tools to shape mythopoeic forces, intending to transcend the limits of Dwemer mortality. However, in reviewing his formulae, some logicians argued that side effects were unpredictable, and errors might be catastrophic. I think Kagrenac might have succeeded in granting our race eternal life, with unforeseen consequences -- such as wholesale displacement to an Outer Realm. Or he may have erred, and utterly destroyed our race." Or maybe it's both at once until someone opens the lid of the universe to check on them.

[@NickKzig]

Technically ceasing to exist does cause you to transcend mortality... Can't die if you don't exist lol

[@mrFox45150]

ah yes Schrödingers dwarves

[@megasocky]

Falion claims hes seen dwemers during his travels into other realms, so it implies they exist somewhere in oblivion

[@tonysmith3232]

@@mrFox45150 glad I'm not the only one that got that.

[@immortal5383]

How did this guy survive the event, is that explained?

[@zedorda1337]

A dwarf is a human-shaped entity that dwells in mountains and in the earth, and is variously associated with wisdom, smithing, mining, and crafting. The concept of dwarf having any connection to size is a very modern idea. So by the original meaning the Dwemer fit just fine.

[@chrisestabrooks8197]

Also in every fantasy media super technologically advanced like in WoW they have rifles and mortars and Elder Scrolls have giant robots and auto moving spheres like titanfall 2 and warhammer fantasy FUCKIN HELICPPTERS!

[@ianharrison5758]

@@chrisestabrooks8197 they also made a comeback to 40k lore recently and holy shit they’re overpowered. They got full AI and shit from the dark age of technology, and literally no one knows that but them.

[@TenzinBeifongIII]

@@ianharrison5758 leagues of Votann ftw

[@houdinijrgaming9896]

Yeah, but the literal definition of dwarf is a member of a species that is significantly smaller than average.

[@houdinijrgaming9896]

@@JudasRose yeah, but how does that say my definition is wrong? Dwarfism is present in most if not all species. I wasn't referring to fantasy

[@ethanzaleski4841]

THEORY: Dwarven oil is FLYING WHALE OIL!!!!!!

[@Gatzlocke]

Haha ya! That's a good theory!

[@danstrikker6465]

That actually makes sense

[@evthespineconfiscator8652]

Very likely

[@DarkFizo]

"Dwemer were lauched tens of thousads years into the future". TES 40k

[@BrosWithHeads]

C Y B E R S C R O L L S 2 0 7 7

[@Tylenial]

@@BrosWithHeads Starfield?

[@Bjorn308]

Bring back The Squats!

[@RM97800]

Skyllaris

[@ChargeQM]

@@Bjorn308 S Q U A T S

[@JVIT_TV]

Would love to see the “snow whales!” Imagine if they are what really blocked out the sun in the Vampire DLC haha

[@feliciab5019]

The Sea of Spirits mod adds them(or just one that I’ve noticed so far) into the game among other creatures. :3

[@JVIT_TV]

Felicia B that is so cool! I’m gonna have to build another PC to experience this haha. Currently enjoying Skyrim through this channel. Thanks for the tip :)!

[@kylethomas9130]

@@feliciab5019 I thought they were normal whales, I know many fan sites attributed the whale bones in Skyrim and Sovengard to vanilla whales.

[@KingKon]

Like your mother

[@PregnantFrog]

JVIT ur snow mom probably does

[@CurtisAlexandermusic]

The dwemer time travel theory could hold water actually... since that is what happened to Alduin originally. He was sent forward in time by the ancient Nords using an elder scroll. In the future, when Skyrim takes place, We as the dragonborn are supposed to use an elder scroll at the Throat of the World at a spot called the "time wound". So time travel is a possibility for the Dwemer since the Dragonborn does it in game. Not only that, but the Dragonborn actually obtains the elderscroll by accessing a Dwemer machine.

[@peterbakai5614]

Smart comment

[@CloaksCosplays]

“Nooooo you cant just reshape every other race in Skyrim and make your own artificial plane of oblivion with brass and steam you can’t just make your own power it comes from the aedra and daedra!!!!” “Haha Heart of Lorkan go brrrrr”

[@christophercarter637]

I shouldn't have laughed at this but I did

[@thalmoragent9344]

@Unkwon Malaysian Guy Yep, that he did, and that's why the Altmer hate him

[@heresthadude1080]

Well, Lorkhan is often counted among the Aedra; though he does originate purely from Sithis (who originated from Padomay, Chaos), he did stay behind and his spirit powered Mundus, the same thing that happened to the other Aedra.

[@thalmoragent9344]

@@heresthadude1080 Yeah, although even the Nords recognize Shor as a dead God, he does technically count as an Aedra... but that depends, did he originally give up/sacrifice any of his power, or was he keeping his in secret, only to then have his heart torn out and in that instance, he lost much of his power due to that instead?

[@thalmoragent9344]

@sarcastic minecrafter So the Dragonborn is a Shezzarine?

[@opusfluke2354]

You missed the greatest mystery of them all, Nate: WHY, IN THE NAME OF OBLIVION, DID THE DWEMER PUT SO MANY TRAPS EVERYWHERE?!" One thing's for sure, you never got old Dwemer. Once they hit middle age and needed to get up in the night to pee it was *swish!* and Uncle Unpronouncable was sliced and roasted all over the floor.

[@leegaul2161]

Kind of like making a noise in a bandit occupied fort and they come running through the corridors at you just to die to their own traps of spiked walls and poison arrows.

[@meeapeea]

It has been discussed and theorized, that the dwemer society were just that sadistic. Especially Blackreach, where the player can find a stage surrounded by chairs and the stage is trapped with spinning blades. You can find more than couple places like this in almost every dwemer ruin. And knowing what they did to the snow elves, I wouldn't put it behind them!

[@tyranitararmaldo]

@@meeapeea not a far-fetched theory considering their design roots...

[@josephstalin2774]

Don't forget that the dwemer were at war with the nords so might as well put traps :DDD

[@cuerbear]

Uncle Unpronounceable killed me lmao

[@marychocolatefairy]

Nate: notices whale bones in Kagrenzel. Me: Never even *found* Kagrenzel.

[@mrs.hatfield1451]

It is North of Riften.

[@ryanalving3785]

To be fair, that ruin is like waaay up in the Eastern mountains north of Riften. It's pretty tricky to find if you don't know it's there already.

[@Spootington]

Comments of this format fill me with so much rage. Rage and sadness.

[@AbyssalLord]

@@Spootington Sounds like you might need to see a psychiatrist!

[@zacharyrollick6169]

I actually entered it through the exit by wall jumping with my werewolf form in the cave. Then I got curious and wanted to find the real entrance. Edit: Two weeks later I remember why I did this. A Dawnguard fetch quest wanted me to get something from Kagrenzel, but the quest marker sent me through the back instead of the entrance. Stupid bug.

[@gregtheflyingwhale6480]

1:47 Now I know why GOJIRA made an album with Flying Whales

[@kaminax3456]

NOW I CAN SEE THE WHALES

[@choliver1433]

LOOMING OUT OF THE DAAARRRKK

[@gregtheflyingwhale6480]

@@choliver1433 LIKE ARROWS IN THE SKYYYYY

[@austinsmith6052]

I CAN'T BELIEVE MY EYEEEEESSSSSS, BUT IT'S TRUEEEEEEEEEE.

[@sproggs]

I noticed that there is a depiction of a flying whale above Ysgramor's sarcophagus. It clearly shows Mer traveling via longboat from Atmora, with a flying whale in their path and above them. Perhaps this suggests that they originally emigrated from Atmora in search of the creatures as a food and goods resource? I found this interesting!

[@psychocuda]

Guard: "Flying whales? Man's been hitting the skooma, I say."

[@benthistlewood631]

psychocuda (Gojira intensifies)

[@darthcannabris5406]

Dwemer were Gojira fans (canon)

[@Noverian_]

Lol

[@crc_mircea]

@@benthistlewood631 i was looking for a gojira related comment since i heard him say flying whales hahahhha

[@liammaps2700]

I don’t drink skooma but I do have voices in my head. I should probably get that checked

[@jupiterloverofrain8175]

Dragonborn, "Last time I was this early-" Guard, "Let me guess, someone stole your sweetroll?"

[@jaqaunjones9746]

Dragonborn: no i shot an arrow in your knee

[@jeeg2031]

Jaqaun Jones guard: Wha- OH GOD

[@alexanderheaphy1321]

Uncle Iroh how's zuko and the avatar gang? God dam i miss that show. Even though it was on nickelodeon it was quite informative about life and had very inspiring quotes

[@alexanderheaphy1321]

Definitely wasn't a typical kids show

[@jupiterloverofrain8175]

Ah, they are good. We just had tea awhile ago... Zuko still compares it to "hot leaf juice"

[@DaveC2729]

Yes, we know what happened to the Dwemer. It was addressed in Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, where we discovered that the king of the dwarves was trying to get God powers for his people from the Heart of Lorkhan, which used to be under Red Mountain. He tried to tap into the Heart using the hammer Sunder and the blade Keening (which is in Skyrim), but he did it wrong and all the dwarves (or almost all; there were apparently a couple of exceptions who were wandering far enough away to avoid it, including one that we discover suffering from Corprus in Morrowind) burned to ash in an instant.

[@SaltyMole]

We don’t know if they managed to be gods or not, they could have just being transformed to gods in another dimension, for instance reanimated corpses are burned to ashes and still can be sent to sovngard

[@hash8169]

That’s what happened, but where did they go next? Could they reappear? Those are the unanswered mysteries

[@rickisnothome]

iirc there was a theory in game that they wanted to make a god of their own as they didnt really worship aedra or daedra and by striking the heart of lorkhan they became their new gods skin 😬

[@samvimes9510]

2:55 _"it's easy to miss the fact these things ever even existed"_ What? The bridge in Sovengarde is a giant whale skeleton.

[@doomerbear937]

Wait what?

[@DBT1007]

It's still easy to miss these fact. Your comment is invalid. Not all people realized that skeleton is a whale skeleton.

[@13vatra]

@@DBT1007 I didn't really think about it, I assumed it was a dragon due to them being so integral to the plot of Skyrim.

[@emilygonzales7834]

I always thought it was a giant dragon, such as Akatosh's mortal form or something

[@say_hello_sarah9792]

That's a whale skeleton?? I always thought it was a dragon but never really paid attention

[@phontex]

I have a theory about the telepathy. I believe that "apparition" we see during the quest "Under Saarthal" was likely how the telepathy worked. Time stops somewhere between the seconds, the speaker astral projects a phantom of themselves to speak to the intended individual, disappears, time restarts and no one is any the wiser that you have just had a full conversation with someone they never even knew was there in the first place. This is supported by the fact that it was a Psijic Monk that performed this.

[@jackrabbitgee6641]

I'd have to disagree in doors of oblivion it says something like the way you control your summons is through that ability and the cost of stopping time even for just communication would be way more than for a normal summons

[@xaytana]

Except in Unfathomable Depths, which is a Dwemer-related quest, we see apparitions from a different time, essentially repeating their steps. Time doesn't stop, there's no astral projection, no telepathy, etc. What we see is that the Dwemer are literally breaking dimensional constraints, in this case time, arguably space as well to make the apparitions physical, to lead you to the pedestal to return the lexicon, of which you're then granted knowledge in some way. This aligns with the theories that the disappearance of the Dwemer is related to them jumping to another plane of existence and/or jumping to a different time. Essentially they became interdimensional beings that can manipulate at least time. What you're talking about, the Psijic, operates on an entirely different mechanic. Obviously they can manipulate things as well, but in a different way to how the Dwemer are doing it.

[@MrDUneven]

Maybe reason why dwemer didn't leave much of written language to us to study was because they prefered to communicate using that method and saved their memories and thoughts on lexicons and learned using those. Instead of scribing magical symbols on paper to record their thoughts and someone else who knows the magic could see those thoughts they had conversations or saw visions with these ghost like projetions, be it either with living who were actively communicating or with ideas in lexicons. The "ghosts" in Unfathomable Deapths were probably memories shown by the lexicon that Dragonborn was carrying. Dwemer were elves afther all, they were probably stonger in magic than men, so having magical solution shaping their society wouldn't be out of possibilites.

[@jonc5467]

Came here to say something similar. There could also have been 'levels' or ranks of skill where low levels of skill just imply a running conversation between minds, while a high ability in the skill could impart the apparitions or even the time stop like effect. Either way, we experience this multiple times in the Mage's Guild quest lines.

[@yahoihoi6322]

Maybe they had walkie talkies considering they are all about robot stuff

[@alexmichalski1362]

They better add Nate as a character in ES6 that has millions of dialogue telling facts about the world.

[@mr.provision]

He'll be the one narrating those loading screen facts

[@vladyvhv9579]

The voice of the new Maiq The Liar.

[@anigma7696]

12:06 The dwemer that Falion saw in oblivion was probably a nod to Yagrum Bagarn, as Yagrum Bagarn was in oblivion when his race disappeared.

[@duplicitouscanadian3073]

That would still mean he'd have to be a few thousand years old, at the very least.

[@Raz.C]

re - 1:05 "Not a single Dwemer would ever be seen in Nirn again." That's not entirely true. In Morrowind you get to meet the Last Dwemer. You can talk to him about the disappearance and everything.

[@colinchildress1251]

10:20 Interesting how it gives the same time-travel kinda effect you see at the Throat of the World when you use the Elder Scroll to go back in time. Maybe you're pulling a sphere from the past?

[@TakumisBizarreRacingAdventure]

Hmmm, interesting 🤔

[@waldowaggins1330]

Or the future. They blinded an entire race, and considering Alduin went forward in time that wouldn’t be a leap

[@quentin9676]

The dwemer would have to be one of the strangest mystery in all of the Elder Scrolls games.

[@metetural9140]

@Dr. Krieger Well the mystery has basically been revealed. In several books and Yagram Bagarn (the last living dwemer) himself has come to a conclusion what I think is canon. I'll let you research it yourself

[@krimzrill4301]

@@metetural9140 Can you tell me what happened to the dwemer?

[@metetural9140]

@@krimzrill4301 well one theory what probably is the truth is that Kagrenac (famous Dwemer builder) was making a numidium (a giant Dwemer automatron what the Dwemer basically worshiped) called Akulakhan but this Numidium was different from the other. Instead of using a bunch of soul gems to power it, they used the heart of Lorkhan. Lorkhan was a god who used himself to create Nirn. The theory says that when the Chimer (the Dunmer before they were cursed) found out they were outraged and attacked Red Mountain and the Dwemer. Then, right before the Chimer got to Kagrenac he put the heart in place of the Akulakhan and... poof. In an instance all fighting stopped, the Chimer were confused... the Dwemer had just disappeared in front of their eyes. Indoril Neravar (who led the fight, and was the leader or Resdayn, aka proto-morrowind) declared it a victory. Some more about the Heart and the Chimer. Some believe Nerevar succumbed to his wounds after defeat King Dumac of the Dwemer. Though there are two other theories. One being that after "defeating" the Dwemer, Neravar and his most trusted commander Voryn Dagoth found the heart and Kagrenac's tools: Keening, Sunder and Wraithguard. After this Neravar told Voryn to stay and protect the tools and heart whilst he would go talk to his Advisors. After he talked to his Advisors which agreed to leave the tools alone and make a vow to Azura, he (and this is the "official" account from the Tribunal temple) returned to Red Mountain to retrieve the tools from Voryn, but Voryn Dagoth had been driven mad by the power of the heart of Lorkhan in Neravar's absence and refused to give him the tools, Nerevar fought Dagoth but was cut down, but was able to survive until his Advisors found him, he made them swear to never use the tools. Unfortunately, Almalexia, Vivec and Sotha Sil ended up using the tools to turn themselves into gods and formed the Tribunal temple. Azura was enraged by their deception of her and Nerevar and cursed the Chimer to "turn their eyes to fire and their skin to ash" turning them into the Dunmer. This ironically didn't affect the three gods excluding Vivec who's body is half gold half grey. The other theory is the one from the Ashlanders, AKA the tribal people of Morrowind. This one says that instead of his wounds or Dagoth killing Neravar, it was his Advisors: Almalexia, Vivec and Sotha Sil. In this account, Nerevar made them swear to never use the tools, and they obeyed, but secretly conspired to murder Nerevar so that they might gain power. When attempting to summon Azura, Nerevar was foiled; Almalexia used poisoned candles and Sotha Sil used poisoned robes and Vivec used poisoned invocations. Nerevar was killed. Azura did the same thing of cursing the Chimer. But when the three turned up to Red Mountain, Dagoth questioned them asking where Neravar was and that he wouldn't give them the tools until Neravar showed up. Due to this they attacked Dagoth and bested him, after this they took the tools and made themselves gods and made themselves the controllers of Morrowind. But what they did not know was that Dagoth wasn't dead, with his last amounts of strength he crawled to the heart and became a god, though with that amount of power he went mad and swore to destroy the tribunal.

[@writer5790]

@@metetural9140 though I largely beleive in that theory, I also beleive that as the dwarves used the heart of lorkan the user gained chim and because of the telepathic link in the race they all experianced the gaining of chim. While this doesn't explain yagrum I like this theory because it leaves less complicated loose ends in my opinon.

[@serjoerickii3262]

Mete Tural What do you mean what you think is canon? You mean to be true?

[@buttercat2718]

I remember hearing a theory somewhere about how giants and the nords from atmora were related in some way. Maybe the first nords to come were taller than the dwarves. It would also explain why Ysgramor needed a battle-axe, which is a two-handed weapon, and a shield. He wouldn't need both because its not possible in the game to use them at the same time.

[@baneblackguard584]

Giants do look like they are Mer. so perhaps they are an elder variant of Aldmer from Altmora (Atmora)

[@leonardg3159]

Dwemer translates to deep elves. I think its a simple mistranslation. In german, deep and low are the same word, tief. I think Dwemer was originally translated as Short Elf, or something similar

[@dragonmaster613]

You just explained what Tiefling means in D&D! Thank you.

[@tausiftaha12]

Short elf Vs high elves make it happen modders!

[@montanus777]

but german 'tief' nevers means something like 'short'.

[@owenroherty397]

The dwemer claimed to be powerful, but they don't have curved swords, like those warriors from hammerfall

[@insaincaldo]

I don't know why Nords seem so fascinated by curved blades. They know their ancestors used curved blades for burial rights.

[@nialpollitt3410]

@Chris East crappy Bethesda writing, that's why.

[@insaincaldo]

@@nialpollitt3410 Not really, since I'm the one being stupid. It's not like embalming tools are anything like scimitars.

[@insaincaldo]

@I boop ur nose Rather that then Khajiit

[@sv3546]

@I boop ur nose manly man

[@sparkslegends7482]

Emperor Crabs - Extinct Snow Whales - Extinct I would like to fight both of these enemies or ride them.

[@christopherparks2987]

Or fight one while riding the other.

[@baneblackguard584]

lots of others did too... that's why they're extinct... 8P

[@catsareyes6446]

Being able to summon someone from the Winterhold College sounds amazing until you realize he fights everything barehanded and not with spells.

[@S.C.P-049]

Least they have the courage to fight barehanded and not just vanish upon seeing the enemy you summoned them to help fight.

[@blodekont5458]

8:19 Look at the ears.. Giants are also a race of Elves

[@daddyaizen4307]

Giamer

[@patricklastin5624]

Blode Kont Tallmer

[@Henrex2000]

Bigmer

[@TemplarTate]

Bigfolk

[@teamblastoisegaming8015]

Yeah they’re called, Bigmer

[@japlisantoni6098]

"Not a single dwemer would ever be seen in Nirn again" *sad Yagrum Bagarn noises

[@drackoth56]

Except the one in morrowind XD

[@wisemankugelmemicus1701]

@@drackoth56 Yeah. Yagrum Bagarn.

[@ButteryGoodnessINC]

Yagrum would like to notify his lawyer Divith Fyr (I think that's how you spell it).

[@intrepidferret6704]

Wouldn't he already be making sad noises

[@damienburroughs2119]

@@ButteryGoodnessINC Divayth Fyr, but you were close enough.

[@runforestrun3556]

You know...This is why I love this gamr so much. It's been 9years and we are still talking about this game. New theories are coming up New mysteries are revealing New places are being found Modders are still making mods for this game. Man I love this game

[@Noverian_]

The game will never get old

[@theher0br1n36]

The purpose of Kagrenzel, or what that place is all about, seems pretty obvious to me: The Dwemer were building a new city there. They choose a location, obviously from above the ground, then build a base around that location, and then started digging. Possibly using tonal manipulation (thats what that orb might be anyways). That hole would later become a Dwemer lift, once they had reached the depth they wanted. They used the whales to get up and down the hole, before the lift could be built. But alas, while they were worinking and the wales where in there, they vanished. Leaving the future city unfinished and the whales trapped, with no way to escape.

[@danjegou5434]

If we refer to "The Doors of Oblivion" and the fact the Psijic Order misteriously disappears and reappears periodically in the First and Second Era, we could argue that at some point, the Psijic Order might have been rebuilt by the Dwemer from somewhere else in space and/or time. This doesn't have a lot to stand on, except for the fact that both these folks are the only known capable of telepathy (except for the Daedra, that is). We can also notice the way Quaranir appears to the Dragonborn in TESV : Skyrim. It does not look like conjuration magic, maybe some other form of teleportation, relying on technology rather than magic ? Let me end with this : if the statement that the Dwemer actually were transported all the way to the Ninth era where technology has gone all crazy is true, then that would explain why they know that the Eye of Magnus was at the heart of something major to come. Maybe we'll find out someday that the Psijic Order and the Dwemer are the same, from different points in space and/or time. This needs confirmation from someone with a lot more knowledge on the matter than I do though.

[@holidarckmaster]

In ESO you can join the Psijic Order, they're living on some other realm that you can enter too.

[@DanielSan1776]

That’s a good name I approve

[@The_Lone_Outlaw]

Every time I hear of “The Calling” I just picture a bunch of dwarves talking on cellphones. Meanwhile everyone else is amazed by this weird magic. They named it “The Calling”

[@vizerbas]

Nate: conjuration, a concept i could talk about it all day. me: please do

[@JustCallMeCrow]

My favorite theory about the disappearance of the dwarves is that right before the end, Chief Tonal Architect Kegrenac struck the Heart of Lorkhan with Sunder and Keening to complete his great work. When he did so he learned the true nature of their world, that nothing is real and that they dont actually exist. Due to the dwemers telepathic connection with each other, Kagrenac transmitted this truth to every dwarf on Mundus and they all zero-summed because their logical thinking minds couldnt grasp the idea that they werent real.

[@dronz3881]

What about Yagrum Bagarn ?

[@AmungerKing]

​@@dronz3881 I don't know if you have figured it out yet but it was because he was in a different dimension at the time so that's why he didn't disappear with everyone else

[@masonhoffman5653]

Nate, you forgot another theory on what happened to the dwemer. The theory of Zero Sum. The theory hinges on the concept of the godhead, the idea(comes from one of the developers) that the entire elder scrolls universe is a dream being dreamed by some unknown figure. Basically Zero Sum is one of two things that can happen to a person, or in the dwarves case race, when they realize that. They either 1: achieve chim(I think that’s how you spell it) where the person’s ego is so massive they become separate from the dream like Vivec or Talos did, or 2: they Zero Sum:they realize they’re part of a dream and that there is no point to their existence, so they’re deleted from existence.

[@LendriMujina]

Ah yes, the in-universe justification for console commands and mods. One of my favorite parts of TES lore, honestly.

[@izbiskigaming1535]

The Aetherium Staff uses "Conjure Dwarven Sphere"

[@ghostwarrior3878]

I honestly did not know that

[@MLPDethDealr32]

"One does not simple walk into Blackreach, there's Dwemer ruins there that never sleep. And a dragon that keeps a watchful eye"

[@arvetis]

Someone should make a playlist of every video where Nate explains the disappearance of the Dwemer.

[@ESKATEUK]

They really need to make a quest line in the next elder scrolls looking into the Dwemer, maybe finding out where they have gone.

[@chrisppx]

Maiq hates the Dwemer, made a robot that stole his sweet roll...

[@LordRunolfrUlfsson]

(1:10) "Descendants", Nate. "Descendants". The literal opposite of "ancestors".

[@TheHornedKing_27]

Yup

[@Juddernaut89]

Glad i checked comments, was going to mention the same lol.

[@marhawkman303]

@@Juddernaut89 me 4.

[@tbugmurphy]

I honestly sometimes question his grasp of the English language

[@tada-kun982]

Thank you, I noticed it too. And English isn't even my native language

[@Cyboogie.the.Cyborg]

I like more the idea that the dwemer went BACK in time. Which would explain why they where already in Skyrim when the Altmer arrived, why they are so advanced and many other things.

[@Lowfair]

As far, as I remember, there was some quest in skyrim, that shows, that if you want to create a dwerven machinery you mast use a soul gem. it means the might use their keen to power greater/ more powerful robots etc. I always thought it was the reason of their disappearance - they've created (soe sort of) an ultimate soul gem using their whole population (for the sake of the realm, or it just consumed them)

[@Lowfair]

I apologise for typos ;)

[@johnanderson7272]

"We don't know what happened to them" Kagrenac: Am I a joke to you?

[@averyvonfrank3282]

Last time I was this early, the Dwemer still lived on Tamriel.

[@ShockInazuma]

Me: * eating chips * Nate: *D o m e s t i c a t e d F l y i n g W h a l e s* Me: **dies**

[@memegod4674]

*raise undead* careful lad might wanna walk it off

[@onceuponadime978]

The story about the disappearance of the dwarves with the heart of Lorkan seems to suggest they did indeed just go somewhere else. They were losing a war and that was their retreat.

[@kacperk886]

This makes me wonder: Why don't we meet any Dwemer in the Soul Cairn?

[@TheDarkFable]

We only see a small portion.

[@ziv576]

Honestly the dwemer were soul gem scientists, and amazing at it too, I think it would be weird and unconventional to find out some have managed to get bound to oblivion. Altough a side quest with some dwarf who accidentally trapped himself wouldve been cool

[@prinzdenax]

*cough cough* Yagrum *cough cough*

[@TheTrueTerrydactyl]

Probably because the Dwemer didn’t soul trap each other

[@6scar911]

Bethesda were way too lazy to develop actual dwarves

[@aversivebark32]

Possibly there was an earthquake at Kagrenzal and rocks would fall onto the whales

[@Shitbird3249]

Aversivebark or the tunnel was fus roh dah’d because the whales needed to die.

[@Shitbird3249]

Also Dasboschitt

[@lucky-lu6tc]

@Celephinn yea most propable

[@mrs.hatfield1451]

That's a reasonable theory.

[@gem2429]

My favorite video you’ve made so far. Great job! 🤗

[@jeramyharper7305]

My theory is that the dwemer didn't disappear, they bound their souls to their machines through the soul gems that you can find on them.

[@duplicitouscanadian3073]

For them.....that would kind of be like Godhood wouldn't it?

[@jeramyharper7305]

@@duplicitouscanadian3073 it could be. But think about it. They could've done it because they wanted to live forever and chose to be part of the very defense they created.

[@semi-useful5178]

It could be that "The Calling" was literally just a radio as in Morrowind you can find bits of dwarven machinery that are named Coherers, the name of a radio component.

[@ryanalving3785]

Oh hey, didn't expect to see you here.

[@semi-useful5178]

@@ryanalving3785 My interests are as varied as my ancestry, nice to see you here to.

[@zacharyrollick6169]

@@semi-useful5178 Thanks for the semi useful information.

[@semi-useful5178]

@@zacharyrollick6169 You're welcome, it's what I do.

[@kevinperry2492]

"Not a single Dwemer would ever be seen in Nirn again..." As soon as Nate said that I was like "wait there was that Corprus bloated, spider-legged, dwarven Riddler wannabe in Morrowind..."

[@brianlueck5805]

I absolutely love your vids nate, can't wait for the next one so I can learn how conjuration works again

[@trixunofficial]

Nate: *explaining conjuration and where each Daedra may hail from* Me: *Oblivion flashbacks* It makes me happy that someone with a nice teaching voice is taking the time to come up with these theories and share this knowledge with us ^-^

[@sadimp1586]

other people: "huh, this is a weird dwarven ruin" nate: "the dwemer kept flying whale pets"

[@Dethilion]

Bit small shaft for whales to fit through

[@YoshiLupus]

@@Dethilion Exactly what I thought.

[@Shitbird3249]

Giants aren’t smart. “Yeeeehhhgreeeeh huhuh “ as you get sent into space.

[@PauloHenrique-tu6ic]

they surely are, they even have a space program

[@edwardwhite8861]

at :55 "In year 700 of the first era, the Dwemer disappeared" at 15:10 "The Dwemer disappeared in the 2nd era" at 15:15 "The Dwemer would have traveled tens of thousands of years". The number of years for the first 3 eras are 2,920, 896 and 433. There is no way to know how many years are to be applied to each era. No wonder people thought that the Dwemer were the typical dwarves, in ES III Morrowind, the Dwemer were very short with beards.

[@roeko5701]

not tens of thousands, but you're also forgetting about the merethic era which lasted about 2500 years before the start of the first era. edit: and what makes you think they were very short? the spectres we see in morrowind arent particularly short. most references to the dwemer's height specifically say that there is nothing to suggest they were any less towering over humans than the early aldmeri.

[@baneblackguard584]

no they weren't. we see Dwemer ghosts in Morrowind that are as big as Altmer but stockier, and yes they had beards.

[@ciko5174]

Thank you for your Videos from Vienna Austria. I will send you Mozartkugels and original Wiener Schnitzl hahaha. I really love your videos and your dedication to Skyrim and that you put sooo much work and heart even if it seems "not worth" information at first you always make it sooo good i cant stop looking the video no matter which one. Please keep making your awesome videos.

[@AdderIsVenomous]

I imagine dwarves sending memes they remembered to other dwarves

[@ThecRL0]

thats probably why they disappeared because some higher up just snapped at some point and decided to erradicated the entire species

[@AdderIsVenomous]

@@ThecRL0 probably some Karen sending to many minion memes...smh

[@nightcollapse]

@@ThecRL0 Dwarf: who did this 😂😂🤣🤣🤣💯💯🔥 (link in bio) Gods: the time for talk is over. the lords work must be done

[@nikeimizhongtomasch1880]

Or Indian Dwarves telepathically asking for bob and Vegene mental projections.

[@rhobeans]

The way he pronounces “telepathy” fills me with rage.

[@mguanga3666]

He Mispronounces every npc, location, etc. Gotta be on purpose

[@eliphas_vlka]

Were is the problem? He pronounce that right

[@MezTZO]

@@eliphas_vlka No, he didn't. www.google.com/search?q=how+to+pronounce+telepathy&oq=how+to+pronounce+telepathy&aqs=chrome..69i57.6743j0j1&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

[@mguanga3666]

Dont get me wrong, I love his content and enjoy all of the videos. I just notice in all the videos there tends to be obvious mispronunciations. Watch other videos. You will see what I mean; Serana, Durnevir, etc.

[@dessertstorm7476]

@I boop ur nose Putting stress on the wrong syllable usually isn't an accent. It's usually a sign the reader is unfamiliar with the word. Especially since he seems to have a fairly standard american accent in other respects.

[@Raz.C]

@ Nate Thanks so much for that peek into the book Doors Of Oblivion!! I've been searching for ages trying to find that book once again. I wanted to re-read the parts towards the end and his disappearance, but I just couldn't remember the title of the book and since there are so many to read, it was slow going. Thanks for short-circuiting my search :D

[@adventure4509]

0:27 Hey! That's The Forgotten City!!!

[@Maplie]

Do you know there's a quest in ESO where a Nord alchemist is looking for invisible sand whales in Elsweyr? The quest is called Song of the Sand-Whale!

[@marshahammack4503]

ESO is like a spin off game. It is like 76 but so vastly different than it's predecessor. I cant get into it

[@Maplie]

@@marshahammack4503 The controls and UI definitely take some getting used to, but it was all worth it because I'm a huge TES lore fan and there's a lot of it in ESO

[@mrs.hatfield1451]

@@marshahammack4503 I'm having a really difficult time getting in to it too.

[@ulfricstormcloak9096]

TaikaJamppa its 6 years old I believe

[@mallios13]

I jumped into ESO from early access and jumped out before the first expansion was even announced. It's not a very good game on its own, and a far cry from being a passable TES game. It suffers all the normal pitfalls of bad F2P MMO gimmicks, and treats TES lore like a bad joke with puerile characters and cringy dialogue. When they developed it, the writers said they weren't going to adhere to TES lore truly, and then they just threw in all the random obscure content like it was funny, such as the grey skinned humans of Black Marsh, the Kothringi. That's what happens when you give TES to a totally different production team who never worked on any of the actual titles before, it ends up being bad fanfic.

[@KowalskiBlakk]

I'm a simple man really: I see Dwemer related video, I instantly add to watch later. I then proceed to binge on such Dwemer videos until I can't help myself and I must reinstall skyrim and begin collecting all Dwemer books, bowls, cogs, gears, and armor. A few days later we rinse and repeat with all the ugly bronze items we can fit in an inventory and several chests.

[@blazingblue_3039]

The truth is that the Dwemer time-travelled thousands of years into the future to see if TheEpicNate is still pumping out Skyrim videos 😂

[@GrizzlyG-go3jy]

Espanol orasiones catolicas

[@BassMaster.454]

Their answer: he'll never stop, even if every game copy is destroyed erased for the minds of others.

[@dannymaginnis8795]

One minute. The dwarves had the same elder scroll used to send Alduin forward in time right? Couldn’t they have used that scroll to send themselves forward in time to try to gain even better technology but it might have gone wrong, they may have accidentally sent every dwarf to the future. I’m not completely sure but I think it makes sense.

[@user-wr6dj4ib9o]

they had but heart of lorkhan did this to them

[@lucassiders7309]

​​@@user-wr6dj4ib9oould it have been the heart of Lorkhan and the Elder Scroll together? Idk it just seems like the Elder Scroll would play a part in their disappearance

[@totallynotmozziesaccount8506]

No One: Literally No One: People when Nate releases a new video: Hey, You, you're finally awake.

[@fallfromparadise]

YOU... the words in my mind was those ones. S2

[@ShadowEclipex]

Lazy meme

[@xen0blade]

Stand up. There you go. You were dreaming. What's your name?

[@QuietFury9]

I really hope that we eventually get a game during the Dwarves time period

[@AttiMatter]

I don't. Mystery ruined.

[@Sam-xd8fy]

@@AttiMatter People who never want an answer to mysteries confuse the hell out of me, to me that just means you'll never be satisfied. That's why I hate that one quote from Todd about how he likes never having answers to mysteries in the games. THE WHOLE POINT OF A MYSTERY IS TO FIND THE ANSWER.

[@AttiMatter]

@@Sam-xd8fy I disagree.

[@user-wr6dj4ib9o]

@@AttiMatter the game in first era mystery ruined?

[@casimir970]

@@Sam-xd8fy yeah, I love solved mysteries. Whether we're talking about in a game or irl. Unsolved mysteries that are going to remain unsolved annoy me so much. It's like reading a book but then throwing it away before you get to the end, and never knowing what will happen

[@yaboideathwish]

The dwarven spheres always get me when I'm trying to get a freaking artifact.

[@ewokchicken4209]

@TheEpicNate315 love the vids!!! Wondering if you have(or maybe could) cover the stones of behrenziah(spelling). I’ve been questing them and reading the in game books but there’s got to be more to them and why they are scattered all around Skyrim.

[@artemisarrow179]

I love how 9 years later Skyrim is still way more culturally prevalent than Fallout 76

[@mguanga3666]

So true..

[@BearOldcastle]

Happens when Bethesda misreads it's fans so badly they think we play the games for combat and pvp

[@goodenoughright5433]

I mean Fallout 76 is a train wrecker that hasn't stopped crashing for like 2 years, so...

[@Spootington]

Shame the main story is just as shallow, though

[@owenvanderwesthuizen576]

Couldnt agree more

[@roonkolos]

Holy crap we could be here all week with a topic that broad

[@slackerpope]

Really great video!

[@winund8088]

The fact that Dwemers are called Dwarfs but are elves could be an innuendo to the old nordic tales where youd find 2 words for the 1 species that is best at crafting. One of the words translates to "dark elf" the other word translates to "dwarf"

[@OldNorthFoxx222]

"Wow look at these Dwemer ruins, what stories could these walls tell....aaaaaand we're in Blackreach again."

[@chaswald1461]

Hey, Nate! It’s guys here.

[@gwenmorris86]

Personal theory would be that the Dwemer are the machines. Each one has a soul gem, and you can see the sphere's in various dwemer areas carying or using tools. They also fight with the Falmer who have quite the grudge against the Dwemer for what they have become.

[@tonyman1106]

15:30 Crazy theory: What if starfield is Elder Scrolls during the 9th or 10th era

[@wu1ming9shi]

"Lavender skinned elves" ... ... ... Me: "So you mean smurfs?"

[@_ziac_6048]

wu1ming9shi I think you have discovered why their called dwarves😂

[@metetural9140]

"So you mean Smurfs?" FT FY

[@mguanga3666]

HAHAHAHA

[@carmelopappalardo8477]

Dwarfs, Smurfs. Pretty much the same.

[@wu1ming9shi]

@@metetural9140 Yeah, fixed it for ya! I could've also called them elderberries but they aren't plants so yeah. XD

[@mrsmissy2669]

The Dwemer/Dwarves are such a wonderfully deep clouded mystery in Elder Scrolls. I think I would miss the unknown if they completely explained their disappearance! However, I do appreciate your delving into the matter in detail.

[@EPIKGamess]

They sorta explained it

[@airiannawilliams3181]

Don't forget, when you do one of the side quests, for the Ethereum forge, where you can get a staff to summon dwarven automatons. So even if we can't summon the sphere, we still get cannon lore of summoning dwarven spiders from another plane.

[@jbzhummerh2gamer]

0:08-0:14 Love that beard, I hope that the next ES game will give us more character customization options (especially from the start).

[@reychop]

17:29 had to snicker at that “telePAAATHY”.

[@checkcheck1579]

so, who misspelled telepathy when they invented the word?

[@checkcheck1579]

nevermind

[@Secchan1]

"Not a single Dwemer would be seen again" Yagrum Bagarn: "Am I a joke to you?!"

[@vexile12]

Yes?

[@talonman1825]

"The Calling" might be a reference to "The Shining"

[@tateranus4365]

in my opinion things like Michal Kirkbride's writings after he left bethesda should be considered partially cannon

[@chiefkeef74]

Kirkbride is the Matt Ward of TES.