Turns Out The Dwemer Are Still Alive

[@EpicNate]

Note: The Dark Elves weren’t really around back in the day, the we’re actually called “The Chimer” back then. I had a big 7-minute tangent explaining that but cut it from the script!

[@Lodrik18]

Many of your (new Skyrim) videos have almost no new content, please take the time so look for new stuff! I enjoyed your videos for months/years and this video doesnt over much more content then your 5 dwemer facts video did...

[@jackmoffatt1208]

Awesome video Nate! You’ve given me a lot of theory ideas to craft. If only Todd Howard was cool enough to do an interview on the show

[@timmyturner7121]

Why? Rant on lol

[@TheRandomperv]

So I'm gonna piss you off with this one but: The Dwemmer never actually made Air Ships. First thing we have that actually quallifies was made by Louis Beauchamp, a breton in Morrowind the Blood Moon Expansion... but canonically I can't find any evidence or even references to the Dwemmer building or using Air Ships.

[@XuFuFgo12]

Woohoo another dewmer investigation. I love you Nate.

[@zynosgd9982]

They invented robots: *shows robot* They invented mind reading device: *shows mind reading devices* And even airships: *shows a random dude*

[@RatRatRattyRatRat]

Nah dude that was an airship

[@andreacurlette3364]

Lol

[@BelelEscabel]

Got any evidence that the dude can't fly? AH, THOUGHT SO.

[@arabiannights5301]

Yeah, he shoulda showed the crashed ship in Solstheim

[@JamesonMcLeod]

The dude was an airship

[@seanheaton5498]

the dwemer obviously all died to their own traps. people installing spinning blades in their living room didn't work out so well

[@iamfrancis1671]

The amount of times I’ve walked into those god damn traps man.

[@Aj-ud3ik]

Those are just security mechanisms that turned on after they disappeared lol

[@iamfrancis1671]

@@Aj-ud3ik you killed the vibe dude.

[@SourChicken1856]

@@Aj-ud3ik So what? Nothing confirmed those security measures were 100% safe

[@elonmusk6654]

Hey hun can you fetch me a cup of coffee. Hun?

[@clavicusvonhammar7479]

i know what happened to the Dwemer. They actually did create a god from the Heart of Lorkan. Unfortunately, he was a spiteful, greedy God and immediately locked them away in a plane known as "The Creation Club" to be returned at a later date when sufficient sacrifice ($) is paid.

[@byronnotbrian5419]

Incredibly underrated

[@ItzFoxUwU]

He he credit card go swipe

[@BlastinRope]

Hermaeus mora used them to create the heart of lorkhan and then poofed them out of existence. Hermaeus mora deals in arcane knowledge, likes using mortals for unknown purposes and has a reputation for poofing people who know too much out of existence

[@tikkivangu1325]

😂😂

[@glitch200]

DAMNIT TODD!

[@vesstig]

I always found Arniel's story to be interesting as he knows what happened to the Dwemer but continues to try and recreate something which erased an entire population.

[@greggo644]

And kept a non-existent lab notebook, awful scientist.

[@weebjeez]

@@greggo644 He carried it with him everywhere. The notebook went along with him. I remember, he used to always say "If I always keep it on my person, then it can never be lost and forgotten again." oh well.

[@harpunny6634]

"Being able to see is critical to fighting." The Falmer with a bow: "Say that to the arrow in ur chest." *Painstakingly translated from the ancient falmer tongue*

[@ozzylepunknown551]

HAH, missed the knee

[@rebeccaschroder3000]

@@ozzylepunknown551 not mine sadly

[@rafaelcastor2089]

Not as critical as being protected by armor thou, otherwise open helmets would've been a lot more popular (not that they weren't)

[@DAFORCEFilms]

You should have gone for the knee. *-Ancient Nordic carving*

[@Chimera_Photography]

*wrarghf* *grunt* *grunt* *grunt*

[@chalkeater1427]

Dragons: *speaks in an ancient and powerful language that creates fire, frost, force, etc*. Dwarves: *plays a jaunty keyboard solo and alters the very fabric of the universe*.

[@chrismalone2136]

So the Dwemer were teaming up with the Dragons to literally rock reality to it's core with music. What's your point?

[@williamzamora3196]

That makes sense to me 😂

[@gilliganIII]

Bards, Bards everywhere

[@TechnoBro999]

dragon shouts are also tonal manipulation. you can literally slow down time itself with a dragon shout.

[@NovaStella_]

Difference between a sorcerer and a bard, lol

[@dman5909]

The Dwemer got teleported into our time and dimension and made a company called Bethesda which is publishing games that tell stories about their world

[@benwarwick4290]

that would be a legendary plot twist :d

[@ky8667]

I like this idea 💡

[@siraztecasaur1873]

I really want to believe that XD

[@siraztecasaur1873]

@Scythian Lancer Fr Fr lol

[@VR_Rick_And_Morty]

It just works

[@H_WLL]

In regards to the snow elves, the Dwemer paragraph refers to “sent our machines against your enemies, to thereby take you under”. There is a clear separation between the Dwarves and the Snow Elves, as they talk about ‘our machines’ and ‘your enemies’. This implies that the Dwarves and the Snow Elves weren’t working together from the Dwarves perspective. Also, the phrase ‘take you under’ implies that the Dwarves were planning on possessing the Snow Elves from the beginning, as they take them, not bring, welcome or invite them. I think that the Dwarves realised that they could use the Snow Elves for their own means, be it experiments or as workers, and saw the humans purge against the Snow elves as an opportunity to pretend to come to the Snow Elves rescue and then exploit them later. The Dwarves were only fighting the humans so that they could have the Snow Elves, not because they felt bad for the Snow Elves, or that they were related species especially given that the Dwarves don’t have or believe in emotions.

[@ChristopherDwiggins]

All that is explained in the dlc

[@Jiub_SN]

The dwarves had emotions, they were just hyper racists, potentially more so than the altmer of today

[@hewhoplugwalks]

​@mistercomment1622Every new piece of information that comes out about the Dwemer makes me hope they suffered. These bastards were evil.

[@emrecagl662]

bro it sounds like they were A-holes. I was feeling bad about them disappering now i'm thinking good riddance lol

[@chriso8464]

I think Snow Elves could have been a fantastic ally as their tech and society was comparable in scale a complexity, though I think Snow Elves were a post Renaissance society from what I could tell.

[@poltomo]

Everyone in Tamriel: “the dwemer are extinct” Yagrum Bagarn: “bruh”

[@ireneparkin3360]

The reason why he survived was he was in another dimension.

[@ornado4773]

He's also now dead, the plague killed him so yes, they're extinct by the time of Obilvion/Skyrim

[@ireneparkin3360]

@@ornado4773 in Morrowind he was the last of his kind. Really tragic that the plague got him.

[@MrWizeazz]

Ornado He’s not dead. He’s still alive according to all the lore available. elderscrolls.fandom.com/f/p/3100000000000014585

[@MrWizeazz]

Ornado elderscrolls.fandom.com/wiki/Yagrum_Bagarn?mobile-app=false en.m.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Yagrum_Bagarn

[@katherineirisalessandrasmi2928]

The Dwemer didn't disappear. They just relocated to the Cloud District. Pretty much everyone can't get in.

[@Madcapredcap]

So THAT'S what it is

[@dickrichard5579]

NAZEEM!

[@Madcapredcap]

@@dickrichard5579 WHAT DOES HE KNOW

[@dickrichard5579]

@@Madcapredcap nothing

[@leepoppop5523]

Well that smart.

[@ifyoulikethiscommentyoumus7270]

Dwemer teleports into your house and takes all of your food, then tells you “no one is going to believe you” and then he teleports back!

[@speedycrackboi3743]

If you like this comment you must sub ! I saw this same comment on another video

[@ifyoulikethiscommentyoumus7270]

Nazeem go back to the cloud district Nazeem!!!

[@ItzFoxUwU]

@@ifyoulikethiscommentyoumus7270 Nazeem never even goes to the cloud district

[@jyggalagdaedricprinceoford6239]

I shall add this comment to my library

[@mark-sg6wo]

reverse santa

[@Espo11B]

I think one thing that's significant is that when you summon a dwarven machine it doesn't appear in a purple sphere like when you summon daedra. This makes me think they're not in Oblivion but maybe Aetherius, or a different time, or maybe even just somewhere else in Mundus.

[@Jiub_SN]

Another planet?

[@Espo11B]

@@Jiub_SN That's a possibility.

[@C6Z06J]

Excellent observation

[@bib4eto656]

Yeah, but maybe you summon it from a dwarven ruin somewhere in Tamriel, too

[@Espo11B]

@@bib4eto656 that could too

[@somekidwithnoskills7181]

Dragons come back in Skyrim: I sleep The Dwemer are still alive: *REAL SHIT!?!?*

[@5226-p1e]

i think the plane of oblivion transporter makes the most sense. especially since deadra give out dwemer tech to the player. but i don't think the dwemer made it as gods per-say, although they may live forever within the plane of oblivion that they occupy. but the plane of oblivion they are in, their artifacts are freely taken by the deadra and reused and repurposed by those who serve the deadric princes in some way within tamreal. although i have an theory of my own, and it's based off of how a part of your soul is traped in the soul carne, and the method used by serana to get you into the realm. basically she kind of soul trapped you partially which made it so the player could enter the plane of oblivion without you being dead and resistance into the portal, this was a method she learned from her mother who must have learned it from somewhere else, perhaps from another deadric prince. hermaous mora comes to mind because he's the deadric prince of knowledge and fate. which also might explain the advanced portal and how that works.

[@MLG4TheWin]

Such an overused meme template Not even funny imo aswell

[@somekidwithnoskills7181]

@@MLG4TheWin You must be fun. Bet the crowd roars with laughter with your opinions.

[@shr00mhead]

@@MLG4TheWin Its not as bad as the "Nobody:" template.

[@jeremyrennerpornotruth]

shr00mhead nobody: nobody: also nobody: nobody:

[@chrisppx]

Nazeem is an undercover agent for the Dwemer, the “Cloud District” is code for where the Dwemer are hiding

[@MrExplosion449]

Anyone else murder Nazeem?

[@zyaggho9185]

They are the cloud district

[@RobertC6661]

HaxuppDee-85 I became a werewolf just to rip him apart

[@Deadpoolio47]

So that’s why no one goes there often...

[@thearbender5529]

Do you get to the cloud district very often? Oh, what am I saying of course you don't, but I'll have you know theres no pusssssssssiiiiieee

[@danieljensen2626]

Arniel: "I'm trying to recreate the Dwemer disappearance" Arniel: *disappears* Well I guess he did it, but I'm not sure what that accomplished.

[@xyrus345]

Arniel: "I'm trying to recreate the Dwemer disappearance." You: "Hold up..."

[@PuppyOrion]

What's interesting is after he disappears, he leaves Keening behind, but if you attack the warped soul gem with Keening, nothing happens

[@gj4312]

Arniel knows how the dwemer disappeared if he lives. I'd love it if it were something really underwhelming. Oh they were just a short trek away all along? Huh.

[@nadaabevev0487]

i disappeared.. but.. at what cost..

[@ectobluntus]

Arniel: "I'm trying to recreate the Dwemer disappea-

[@ImFangzBro]

I personally am a fan of that theory presented by the "we don't exist anymore" comic. Namely, the Dwemer got what they wanted, apotheosis, but they all were made to fit in the same godly space- their souls all fused together, and were placed into a single body- the Numidium.

[@prixswrld]

So.. Evangelion?

[@twiddlerat9920]

I'm pretty sure that was written my michael kirkbride, and with 99% of the stuff he writes is not canon at all

[@ImFangzBro]

@@twiddlerat9920 Who cares? It's a theory I like, even if it's not canon.

[@Jiub_SN]

@@twiddlerat992099%? You do realize that 99% of the current lore was written by him or extremely simplified versions of his work? Kirkbride haters don't realize he basically created all of the Bethesda lore they drink up

[@Jiub_SN]

@@twiddlerat9920and by the way, he's the one who made the mystery of the Dwemer, so if he says it's true then it's the most likely truth Bethesda will stick with given they're extremely unoriginal and the lore they create is either kirkbride light or LoTR or some other fantasy series lmao

[@thedovahkiin666]

The Dwemer are honestly one of the most fascinating parts of Elder Scrolls

[@spiderbat2533]

yeah but the fact their puzzles/death traps are fascinatingly annoying.

[@AremStefaniaK]

Halt, i know you

[@icemanchambers1207]

@The Dovahkiin The Dwemer are also the hardest to solve(The Lore)

[@isarnorixx822]

@@icemanchambers1207 Ashes.

[@solomonverrett8786]

Is it just me, or does the dwemer somewhat represent ancient Greece?

[@gogol45]

I am endlessly amused by the concept of Dwemer being teleported into the future, then trying to impress the future tamrellians with their steampunk robots.

[@Sk0lzky]

I have my own tinfoil concept that they (and the snow elves) could be teleported back to Skyrim to when they first colonized the area but don't remember shit because mass conservation and other bullshit made them forget where they actually came from or what they were doing and are thus stuck in this loop of living there and teleporting back there without the beginning or end

[@pillgrimm]

@@Sk0lzky That's actually a pretty good theory. What a nightmare scenario.

[@theFORZA66]

@@pillgrimm not really a nightmare scenario as its happening over a significant amount of lifespans

[@blacksunserpent]

@@Sk0lzky nice theory, but have "little" hole in it. Dwemers lived not only in f*cking Skyrim.

[@UNSCMarine117]

@chaos lord "Raiden you created a time paradox!"

[@sashimicheetah]

I like the idea that they discovered they were in a videogame by studying the “elder scrolls” and just ceased to exist upon realizing it creating some weird paradox.

[@DemonicAdj]

It's doable. "Zero-Summing" is in the lore as realizing that the universe is a dream (it is) and that one is a figment of that dream. You then cease to be. The path to CHIM is being able to comprehend that you're a figment of the dream, but still also your own self. Reaching that stage puts you on par with the player. (Going off Vivec's writings, whose description of dying and returning sounds a lot like reloading a save)

[@Marlon021000]

Wait a moment, so Hamerfell is literally where the hammer fell?

[@rezlov_]

Crazy, right?

[@ironie5319]

no it all makes sense

[@zigzaghyena]

It's an honest name! People did that back then, like hey, there was a hill, we fuckin broke it, welcome to Broken Hill.

[@7brokenribs]

@@zigzaghyena lol Hamburger Hill in Vietnam

[@jerrickbjornson347]

Llanfairpwll-gwyngyllgogerychwyrndrob-wllllantysiliogogogoch. the name is pretty descriptive - it basically tells you the town's exact location, standing for Saint Mary's Church in the hollow of the white hazel near a rapid whirlpool and the Church of St. Tysilio of the red cave.

[@The_Lone_Outlaw]

With a title like that, I just gotta come over and watch.

[@joshmcginn7546]

Really though haha

[@Alalpog]

Exactly

[@vettamarrero6839]

U right

[@erikramirez7716]

Indeed

[@plate_fox]

What’s his face in morrowind survived cause he was in oblivion and I refuse to believe he was literally the *only one if his entire race* who happened to not be in mundus when they got deleted

[@notottomedic]

The dwemer were never gone. Just invisible, and very very quiet

[@bobbethy]

Mia'q is that you?

[@ViViVex]

You can fight Dwemer ghosts in tes 3 so that’s kinda true

[@fristnamelastname5549]

AKA: There all dead.

[@attila2619]

They must have a lot of vampire powder whit them

[@zigzaghyena]

Given the nature of the dwarves lore, that's probably not far off, and a lot more horrifying than you'd think.

[@MDP112]

I always liked to think that the Dwemer were inter-dimensional, utilising the elder scrolls to access knowledge that allowed them to become so technologically advanced. It could also be that due to constant meddling with the scrolls that they were accidentally all transported to another dimension/time period with no way to return. It was a fun theory for me. You can imagine my delight when years later I heard countless stories of people around the world reporting to have encountered mechanical elf/dwarven entities while using ‘DMT’. Brought a whole new level of depth to my play throughs lmao

[@docjey3288]

Fun fact, the machine elves are said to teach humans how to "sing objects into existence" Tonal magic??

[@stevenceja4706]

Personally I think that they actually succeeded in creating a God that would only serve their interests but it kind of backfired on them and against their will they were Thanos-snapped to another plain of existence where they wouldn't be bothered by, nor interfere with the other races.

[@JohnGrandline]

They got isekai'd to Gravity Falls

[@skillet8477]

Imagine a whole main quest storyline on the dwemer, in depth .

[@daedricdragon5976]

I was thinking perhaps they do it in the next elder scrolls!

[@VoidLantadd]

Imagine a big plot point being the Dwemer returning like Alduin.

[@DzR1591]

they have a mod where they do have a questline like that apparently they created domains that whenever someone sins or does bad. the dwemer come alive and kill everyone and they only activate like that... and explains why the residents are dead and hardly anyone knows why they were created. they use those centurian cores as thier soul type thing.. it powers there bodies. I guess magic and artificial intelligence of some sort 🤷

[@Ozymandias2x]

They could fill an entire game with just exploring all this cool lore stuff.

[@ThinkYeaah]

@@daedricdragon5976 You mean Elder Scrolls: Skyrim Dwemer’s Fate Edition that will come out in 2023 when you expect them to mention about Elder Scrolls 6 and they will give you that instead?

[@Nemo12417]

I figured that the blindness inflicted by the Dwemer was just a side effect of their true motive: the souls of the Falmer. Dwemer constructs often drop soul gems, and obtaining black soul gems often requires dangerous bargains with the Ideal Masters. I figured the Dwemer wanted to use the Falmer as a fuel source. Alternatively, they wanted to study the gradual decay of their souls from black to white so they could use the data to evolve their own souls.

[@dreugh424]

What if the dwarves were studying soul gems to develop an entrance to the realm of the soul cairn, and they're sorta just hiding underground there, harnessing energy from there directly?

[@scp-049]

I feel as though the Falmer most likely are mostly, if not only, found in Dwarven Ruins because they were used as slaves, as is mentioned in the game a few times. They were probably used to help carve out tunnels and rooms for their various purposes. Along with that, it's possible they were used as test subjects for the Dwarven Automata.

[@Syonnach]

Very cool and fitting theories. This is why I love the mystery of not only the Dwarves in TES but of all of the other open-ended stuff too. TES's fanbase is pretty admirable when it comes to theories and how they dissect the lore. Good stuff :)

[@emileejones-pritchard2079]

Great theory!

[@martinmarik4674]

I think they blinded snow elves to prove a point that gods can not save them and their "blind" devotion is not going to help them. A middle finger to god they worshiped and also so they can not learn about their secrets, machines, dwemer metal etc... Do not forget they did not care about others, they did not base their work on third party entity. And we found mine with soul gems in game... In game there is a book called Azura and the box, read it and you will know more.

[@franciscol3510]

The time theory is interesting because that's exactly what happened to Alduin, the ancient warriors couldn't kill off Alduin so they just moved him to another point in history

[@kingt0295]

Weakass warriors I beat him first time easy

[@jackgeorge9478]

Alduin is truly a pathetic boss

[@tim6454]

​@@kingt0295 I think only a dragonborn can kill him

[@Sneakyrat_Gaming]

so they could have atleast timetraveled to the future and given the dB a glock or something.

[@majdalhakeem715]

@@Sneakyrat_Gaming LMAO

[@HouseRN]

Haven’t seen anyone mention this, but to further support your “Spectre” theory, in Morrowind you can go into the Dwemer ruins and actually encounter Dwemer Spectres, the ghosts of the dead Dwemer. They even drop ectoplasm when you kill them like the ghosts in Skyrim. It would be interesting to know more about ghosts/spectres and all that, because I think whatever plane these spectres pertain to that’s where the Dwemer are likely to be. Or maybe they met Dr Strange and he taught them how to get to the Astral Plane or something I don’t know. At this point, who knows.

[@happyhatter590]

“The conjure spells pluck things from oblivion” So any time I summon my dwarven sphere to follow me around there’s someone in oblivion freaking out that another sphere disappeared? Must be a pretty high bounty on the sphere thief in oblivion, pretty high indeed

[@DanielChico09]

Since i don't recall any vanilla spell that summon dwemer spheres I will assume you are talking about the Artherial Staff. Did you noticed you can only summon animaculum if you have some dwemer components in your inventory? Not only they are a requirement, they disappear for the duration of the summon and return when it is dismissed. To me that look like the super duper special staff made from the godly substance that caused a secret war doesn't conjure creatures from Oblivion, it construct fully functional machines from their broken components.

[@llanweier4911]

@@DanielChico09 you either never played morrowind,never saw the spell used or sold, or just don't remember.

[@cptncutleg]

@@DanielChico09 Summon Dwemer Centurion is a spell from Morrowind, not Skyrim. You can get it in the Telvanni storyline.

[@themaidenlesswretch7819]

The purple summon portals are oblivion summons, the blue ones I think are atherius

[@naturalaura5258]

I wonder if the mechanic behind dwarven sphere has to repair the dwarven sphere every time the player has it destroyed. Even more so, does he express the same level of paranoia as the guard in the pot room? I doubt it, but one must wonder.

[@brown56765]

"It may seem a bit tedious" Boy, I didn't click on a 30 minute Elder Scrolls theory video without expecting a good deal of tedium.

[@vashon6817]

I didn’t know tedious had other variations, but am pleasantly surprised to hear tedium is one.

[@Calum_Bell_]

Elder scrolls Vl: The Dwemer have come back, and they aren’t too pleased that everyone has taken to calling them “dwarves”.

[@dropdead234]

Bethesda missed a great opportunity..."Elder Scrolls II, Dwarven Buggaloo."

[@jamestgilkey75]

Or that everyone's been stealing their shit since they left.

[@thetau4866]

@@jamestgilkey75 I wouldn't call it stealing, I'd call it reverse engineering

[@evthespineconfiscator8652]

I refer to them as dwemer because it sounds cool lol

[@ogluqqychess4452]

Theyre called dwarves because they liked to hang out with giants and to a giant, a Dwemer is a dwarf, even though the dwemer are the same height as humans (give or take) The dwe-"mer" are elves. Deep elves. Besides their armor is human sized

[@AndrinoiaXO]

I really like the time travel theory because it's something that is proven to be possible. And not only is it possible, the dwemer had the equipment to do it. The nords used the Dragon Scroll to launch Alduin forward in time by reading it. In Skyrim, it just so happens we find that very same Elder Scroll in a giant machine made for ...reading Elder Scrolls. Is it so crazy to assume the dwemer found some way to manipulate the scroll into affecting a larger group? They achieved a great deal with tonal manipulation, and perhaps that heart of a god may have served some purpose as well. I have a feeling its involved.

[@Jiub_SN]

In morrowind (where Dwemer lore was written) the ruins are populated by ghosts and yagrum wasn't effected while in the outer realms, the elder scrolls would've effected him given they're the most powerful artifact in mundus

[@themonsterunderyourbed.7620]

Todd: okay, so i have an idea, a fantasy world but every race is an elf. Somebody: orcs? Todd: elves. Somebody: dwarves? Todd: *elves.*

[@CarpetEraser]

I think in lotr the orcs were elves too!

[@themonsterunderyourbed.7620]

@@CarpetEraser huh, I've never watched lord of da rings so i didn't know.

[@jdoc3118]

@@themonsterunderyourbed.7620 Mainly in the books.Also... seriously? (dont watch hobit though it is an abomination)

[@themonsterunderyourbed.7620]

@@jdoc3118 yeah, seriously.

[@Speederzzz]

@@CarpetEraser yes, orcs are the descendants of young elves (young as in the race was just created) that were captured and tortured by Melkor/Morgoth untill they were filled with a hate that transcends generations and transformed their minds and bodies

[@StrokeMahEgo]

Dwarves : "we can never dig too deep!" Also dwarves: *digs too deep*

[@_.l4n3]

CIRCUS IS IN TOWN BOYS!!! Dwarf Fortress meme too early ?

[@davidholbrook6221]

Oh I get it dwarfs from Skyrim accidentally fell into the world where the dwarfs from lord of rings maybe or maybe their copies did.

[@ogluqqychess4452]

He obviously means they slay that pussy... Gosh how could you have forgotten your training? The Dwemer are the deep elves, in more ways than one😘

[@Blowtorch87]

@@_.l4n3 those fuckin clowns!

[@vince-zm8ds]

@@ogluqqychess4452 yes officer this comment right here

[@TheSynthPunk]

I think that Arniel's experiment disproves the Oblivion theory, but not completely. Battlespire was a thing, and it was built by far less advanced Imperials. Yagrum is likely not the only one who was in the realm at the time, so it's a pretty likely possibility that a splinter clan of the Dwarves lives in Oblivion, escaping the fate of their Mundus tied bretheren. Artifacts prove it, and even in Morrowind, lower level Dremora were likely to be equipped with Dwarven weaponry.

[@Jiub_SN]

Likely the original intent, though Todd probably changed it, or he didn't and just made shit insanely inconsistent

[@ghriankashtagelenski6577]

The dwemer modded their game to death, making their lives CTD repeatedly

[@axol7417]

They uninstalled skyrim

[@deadfreightwest5956]

And yet they never had sloots.

[@artificerdrachen6908]

@@axol7417 And made their own game that is more to their liking.

[@Nachtness]

must be sucks trapped in goId experience requiem

[@xlgapelsin6173]

The dwemer have been busy trying to solve the load order and finding out why Immersive Wenches wont load if the Nazeem becomes jarl mod is active

[@Ellboyo95]

Imagine blinding a race to make them more sensitive to sound so they may comprehend tonal manipulation and the "soft music" of the Dwemer that only they could understand.

[@Chad-pj9pj]

some how those fuckers still spot me even tho im level 100 sneak

[@ШмельПчёлкин]

Delete Tomoko userpic, you bаstаrd

[@TheRealBalhaze]

@@Chad-pj9pj were they touching you or were you using a bow

[@Chad-pj9pj]

Bal haze bro I’d some how be behind them no bow, and no where near them, those mf still see me tho

[@zlatanlolhonderdeneen8416]

@@Chad-pj9pj They van heat and smalle extremely well. But yeah as a sneak master illusionist it's quite annoying that they can spot me with 100 sneak and illusion...

[@luckyloke5971]

Here's an intresting detail Nate forgot to mention. The dwemer, clearly, made experiments on an elder scroll, specifically, the dragon scroll. We know this due to the fact that the dragon scroll is found within the depths of black reach. Interestingly enough, the Dwemer either stole this scroll from the nords, or loaned it to them to defeat Alduin. Considering that the destruction of the world was at stake, the Dwemer might have aided the nords in destroying Alduin. If Alduin is a factor at all in this, and the fact that Alduin technically is a god of destruction, then the Dwemer might not have disappeared unexpectedly, but rather been preparing to flee since Alduin might want to destroy them for aiding in his disappearance.

[@joshuapittman4663]

The Dwemer didn’t disappear until long after alduin was cast to the future. The Dwemer all disappeared when Kagrenak used his tools on the heart of Lorkhan during the battle of red mountain in year 700 of the 1st era. It’s much more likely that this opened them up to Chim and since the Dwemer are a race of scientists and engineers they probably wouldn’t have been able to comprehend that they don’t actually exist and are a part of a dream from the godhead and they zero summed and seized to exist as a result.

[@luckyloke5971]

@@joshuapittman4663 Even then, this could have been in an attempt to escape from Alduin. Based on how intelligent they seemed to have been, they most likely knew about the effects of the scroll and most likely knew Alduin would seek vengeance against all who had helped in his exile to the future. They probably planned to escape first when he showed up, but during the experiments they vanished from Nirn.

[@joshuapittman4663]

@@luckyloke5971 highly unlikely that they cared at all about alduin since alduin only had control over Skyrim and the Dwemer that had used the heart of Lorkhan were in Morrowind. Also the reason that they had used the heart at that specific time was because the Chimer were closing in on the area where the Numidium was kept. It’s also likely that the Dwemer were doing other experiments when it comes to dragons if they were even worried at all because in black reach there’s a tonal bell you can hit that summons a dragon for you to fight. Also the elder scrolls contain different knowledge depending on who reads them so the Dwemer owning the dragon scroll is most likely unrelated to alduin.

[@luckyloke5971]

@@joshuapittman4663 I think they all would care because, ya know, Alduin was a litteral GOD OF DESTRUCTION and was going to devour the world.

[@joshuapittman4663]

@@luckyloke5971 alduin wasn’t gonna devour the world, his job is to end the world which the Dragonborn puts him back on that path since you don’t receive any dragon souls from alduin. Alduin was going to re-enslave Skyrim… Parthanax even states that he had gone rouge and instead of doing what he was created for he decided to become a king of sorts over Skyrim. The Dwemer being underground were likely unaffected by Alduin. The goal of the Dragonborn and Akatosh are to set the end of nirn in motion so that the next cycle can begin.

[@motegaze]

Theory: Nirn has two moons. The Dwemer experimented with transportation, atmospheric manipulation, *stars*, and were great diggers. I speculate that they have established a new foothold in the larger moon of Nirn. There they wait in...seemingly eternal exile.

[@VndNvwYvvSvv]

That's at best a hypothesis but more like just imagination

[@jkee9760]

Just like my dad, they went to the gas station to get a pack of smokes. They'll be back..

[@goose93]

In several thousand years

[@yuritzenpresents3113]

Dude, he's not coming back. That pack of smokes is all the way in Tennessee and has much bigger tits.

[@mauriztiowallen1655]

Same ngl

[@EAdude101]

Son?

[@imnotasalad6963]

Same thing happened to me

[@lewislogan1938]

“Airship technology hasn’t been replicated since!” Bucket with a handle: “And I took that personally.”

[@zdubs9335]

*Oblivion paintbrushes have entered the chat*

[@bullymaguire7554]

Just need a giant and a club, you'll be sent to the stratosphere in seconds.

[@michaelpettersson4919]

I remember an airship trip playing the bloodmoon expansion for Morrowind.

[@LazyY91]

What about the Giant's Space Program?

[@Standenanian]

"Airship technology hasn't been replicated since." Louis Beauchamp: "Am I a joke to you?"

[@SevenPr1me]

Dude I literally went out of a dwemer ruin once at night looked at the stars and planets and moons and thought "maybe they went into space, seems to be the next logical step for an advanced civilization"

[@MEEP83]

Did this just appear in your recommended also

[@SevenPr1me]

@@MEEP83 I watched a few Skyrim clips the other day so clearly I've instigated the algorithm to show me more Skyrim clips

[@MEEP83]

@@SevenPr1me this just appear randomly for me, it's been awhile since I watched anything on skyrim

[@pmoore8941]

I also thought this. Makes sense as to why they've all just vanished without a trace.

[@thevision8034]

I could be wrong about this but aren't all the other planets just planes of oblivion ? Then where are they in space ? Just in the middle of nowhere?

[@S0n0fG0D]

The only idea we get is from arniel gane. When he uses the dwarven keening dagger against a replica of a gods heart, he's turned into a ghost that we can summon. Every machine has a soul gem inside it. Im presuming the dwarves achieved immortality by putting their own souls into machines. It's how they've gone undetected for so long.

[@burrito8443]

Elder scrolls VI: Krag “Dwarves are back and they’re pissed”

[@uncleweirdbeard86]

The Dwemerborn must seek the Elder Scrolls to learn the rust shout or all is lost against these mechanized foes

[@dannymartin4367]

i like this comment

[@bxmgaming3158]

The dwemorborne took a ballistic bolt to the knee

[@grizzle4050]

this was funny

[@R.O.U.S.]

AKM says нет

[@cykanator2314]

You should note that when someone becomes blind, their other senses become sharpened, especially their hearing. So maybe, the dwarves wanted the falmer to serve as precise hearers, so that they could fine-tune their tonal manipulation.

[@conna-k8607]

Nate needs to see this

[@Armageist]

Oooooooh. Think of Bats and their ability to see things through Echo location. Perhaps this allowed them to see other dimensions or the properties of their tonal manipulation/manifestations.

[@Lilferiby]

I hate this common misconception (I suppose it could be true in TES, but it's certainly not in our world). Your senses don't get stronger when you lose one; it only seems that way when one of your more prominent senses is taken away and you're forced to rely on the others. It's like if I lose my hearing, my eyes aren't going to suddenly improve, but I would become more visually observant, as I would need to compensate for my lack of hearing (through lip reading and minding my surroundings more, et c.) to continue to live in a similar way as I do now. It's the same thing for losing your sight; your hearing doesn't instantly improve, your hearing improves because now you have no choice but to rely on it for the vast majority of your sensory information (or you just start to rely on another person, or guide dog, instead). All of that being said, I still like your idea and it does still make sense (but the reason for their increased sensitivity to sound would come from necessity, not some biological buff in response to losing their sight, unless it's Dwemer magic, hah) to have blind people work on audio-based technologies; if this was true, I'd be inclined to agree with you, or suggest that the Dwemer may have blinded them to prevent the Snow Elves from easily using the powerful tonal technology of the Dwemer against them. Or maybe, because tonal architecture is based on sound, the Snow Elves would be more susceptible to it when blind? To be controlled or whatnot.

[@ProfPuffOfficial]

@@Lilferiby it's not about the your sense organs becoming stronger It's about neural pathways being rebuilt allowing for faster and more accurate cognitive processing of stimuli from the healthy sense organs

[@Lilferiby]

@@ProfPuffOfficial Yeah, neural pathing that results from having to rely on a particular sense more: "Your senses don't get stronger when you lose one; it only seems that way when one of your more prominent senses is taken away and you're forced to rely on the others." Like I already said.

[@aligonzalez4862]

I swear this man is doing everything humanly possible to hide his normal voice

[@convexsix]

What DOOO YOU mean-ah?

[@tornadotaylor8956]

Bc he's a dragon that's why

[@20Mecus12]

He-ah cannot-ah stop-ah adding-ah random-ah syllables-ah to the end of words-ah unnecessarily-ah.

[@dremora10]

His voice reminds me slightly of Patrick Bateman from American Psycho lol

[@TheRealPaiMei]

Lmao. I was looking for this comment.

[@mythrindiir1463]

You mentioned that summoning Arniel Gane doesn't use magicka. If you get the Aetherial staff it also doesn't conjure the spheres/spiders in the same way that other things are summoned. The staff uses soul gems however it does not appear that you are summoning them from oblivion. The spell is different than any other conjuration spell in the way that it looks.

[@goldenknight578]

I thought M'aiq was the last Dwemer. At least, that's what he told me once.

[@samitasim2177]

Maiq knows much, and tells some. Maiq knows many things others do not.

[@Knightfang1]

The only thing that is certain about M’aiq is that’s he is definitely not really a simple Kahjit. He’s been in every elder scrolls game and is at least several hundred years old if not more

[@lurkenvoncurken518]

@@Knightfang1 Maiq also has a line that suggest he comes from a long line of Maiq's so either could be true

[@goldenknight578]

@@lurkenvoncurken518 This is assuming we believe him. Personally, I'm starting to think that he's really an Argonian with a really bad toupee.

[@lurkenvoncurken518]

@@goldenknight578 I think Maiq might be either an avatar of Sanguine or Hermaus Mora or some other being from oblivion since he seems to be everywhere and know everything.

[@Kikoou]

I can imagine the Dwemer being shot into the future to find themselves in like the Elder Scrolls version of modern day San Francisco or something.

[@fristnamelastname5549]

That's quite the rude awaking. To find out that your technology is useless, and far outdated. I wouldn't be surpised if they become enslaved them self's.

[@cleanwater3180]

Argonian walking forward down a street just texting listening to music and bumps into this sword weilding group and just freaks out running off. the group looks around wondering where in Oblivion they are. Strange metal carages fly past them leaving a strong smell in their path and the chief gets some strangers, a nord looking woman but dressed in thin looking clothing, not bulky and heavy armor, or as lose and worn as something they were more accustomed to, grabbing her attention, but the women can't understand them and just bids them farewell, a little confused at such a strange language. Some passer by honks at the group as they stepped into a street a little while looking at the towers of homes, taking in the new look.

[@OnyxXThePunch]

@@cleanwater3180 just yes

[@exorias625]

thats actually a possibility there are stories about the eye of magnus being something from the future so i know it can also be sent forward because of the shit with alduin but they just manage to do it without a scroll... hmm

[@andrewalfano2860]

Or into the past causing fallout

[@markblakey3456]

They have mastered the art of standing so still as to vanish to the naked eye.

[@Petey90112]

Drax the Dwemer

[@vincentvanzant321]

Their movements....so slow

[@zacharymisikin645]

Their sneak have all reached 100

[@johnandreas5925]

Two words. Weaping Angels.

[@Petey90112]

@@johnandreas5925 Don't they just move when you're not looking? That isn't the same as staying still to become invisible

[@volehunter]

The snow elves got mad about being blinded and messed with the tonal research to trap the Dwemer in the Dwemer machines. The Dwemer became AI in their own machines, “living forever” until the dragon born comes along.

[@samwood7299]

I would love the next Elder Scrolls game to be about the return of the dwemer, with them being either the antagonists who the main character has to help defeat or them arriving in the nick of time to help finally destroy the Aldmeri Dominion.

[@sultanofswag8901]

The high elves get owned by the low elves

[@DrLukeHart]

Would love an Aldmeri antagonist angle, where they just have like a new-Numidium :P

[@yikes9944]

Either this or a time when the snow elves were still thriving

[@rileymunkholm6679]

I don't think they would care unless the aldmeri dominion was attacking them directly

[@DrLukeHart]

@@rileymunkholm6679 Depends if they’re trying to return to Aetherius or not? If the Dominion were in their end game, then you could expect the Dwemer to come out of nowhere to stop that. They didn’t share the Thalmor beliefs of returning to the Aedra

[@prolaeusmorris6540]

If you put in the hours playing Morrowind, and do every possible dwarven-related quest, read the right books, and look at the dwemer ruins in Morrowind, the answer honestly stares at you in the face. The dwarven ruins nearly ALL contained observatories to the cosmos. Add to the fact that in a Morrowind quest, you literally see a crashed airship that the Mages Guild tried to fly based on dwarven documentation. The quests allude to that the dwemer left to go to the moon. The dwemer are very much alive; and they will be back in future Elder Scrolls games.

[@treemane0]

This is shit I need you to explain further

[@keizoxd5623]

there is also this crashed Spaceship of Darth Vader where u get an Lightsabre lool

[@jonathanthompson5710]

This guy is right. I don't remember the moon specifically but they did go to space.

[@rootz420]

Dope

[@zdrux]

"Aliens"

[@etholus1000]

Dwemer: hey kid wanna ascend? Snow elf: don’t really got a choice do I?

[@gho5tspartan26yt]

No, not really.

[@libbypowell4278]

Who's assend?

[@etholus1000]

@@libbypowell4278 ?

[@mmmdazzagoodmemeayzzz7264]

@@libbypowell4278 joe momma

[@libbypowell4278]

@@mmmdazzagoodmemeayzzz7264 joe mamma is yo mamma? 😉

[@stone1andonly]

I think the theory that the Dwemer were sent to the void is potentially valid, but I have another theory that might have something to it. Given that a great battle was taking place as Kagrenac was working away in his lab, what he might have done was try to find a tonal method to render the Dwemer "unbeatable". Now, given that even the greatest civilizations have fallen in spite of their technological prowess, Kagrenac was seeking a tone to render all of Dwemer blood invulnerable or otherwise undefeatable, and instead he discovered a tone that sent all Dwarves to a point in time where they could not be defeated - specifically, the end of all time, when nothing else exists. Thus they exist, unchallenged and unbeatable in a universe devoid of all other existence.

[@dat_one_kid_6865]

Theory: they made an elder scroll using tonal manipulation, accidentally sending their entire race to the future

[@scottishcheese13]

I had a similar thought. Alduin was banished to another time using the Elder Scroll you find in the main story of Skyrim, and the Dwemer had a Lexicon that was capable of reading Elder Scrolls. The Elder Scrolls, from what I understand, are pieces of reality, so I don’t think the Dwemer could have just “made” one. Maybe they work using tonal magic. Maybe the Lexicon was a tonal machine made to read one, which the Dwemer learned from to send themselves to another time.

[@edvardgrieg6408]

I was thinking that the Dwarven were sent back in time, because of how they were already there when the other elves first left the Isles. And im thinking Shades are a previous image of the person it belongs to. Like how your shadow is an afterimage of yourself. TLDR: Dwarves went back in time, and shades are someones/somethings copy from a previous time.

[@scottishcheese13]

@@edvardgrieg6408 This is my new headcanon for the Dwemer

[@forrest0]

@Back from the Deadpool that and it was a kids show so they couldn't show characters getting chopped in half and guts flying out.

[@DraedonTheInventor]

I love imagining Dwemer with rifles driving tone-powered tanks

[@BritishGandalf]

He turned the Dwarves into a pickle, funniest shit I've ever seen

[@shiestysean]

Pickle Dwarves!!!!

[@tabushka292]

To be fair, you really need a very high IQ to understand tonal manipulation. Nothing personnel, kid. And yes, I totally have a Kagrenac tattoo but it's for the ladies's eyes only ;)

[@urdadthatleftfouryearsago4835]

@@tabushka292 *personal

[@baronvonfaust]

@@urdadthatleftfouryearsago4835 it's from a meme dad

[@ahsmer9836]

@@urdadthatleftfouryearsago4835 the misspelling was intentional dad

[@fabiospasiano9885]

Dwemer: “Hey kid, ever heard about ascending?” Falmer: “No!” Dwemer: “Would you like to?”

[@notably5233]

Fabio a TES fan?? No way??

[@TheTyrial86]

Falmer: The desire to not know more intensifies.

[@gyronnax]

Falmer:''what's the catch ?''

[@General_Kenobi_212]

One theory i like is the Chim theory, where when High Architect Kagrinack struck the Heart of Lorkain with the tools his people accended enough to realize the Godhead dream theory, but they couldn't accept that their reality was a lie, thus couldn't achieve Chim and so they ceased to exist.....

[@nohobo23]

Hey nate! I know it’s a bit late, but as you mentioned at the end of the video about the dwarves and time travel, it might be interesting to note that the elder scroll used to send alduin into the future was found deep within a dwarven ruin 🤔

[@nohobo23]

@@gopolangmakgothi6982 honestly i thought of this a while ago but i still feel pretty confident, especially with the context that the spheres are meant to show things, not weirdly contain them; we simply have no idea what the container holding the elder scroll was meant to do

[@II-ei8xd]

@@nohobo23 maybe it was so they could read it without going blind. Maybe that’s what happened to the falmer.

[@R0ach585]

@@II-ei8xd falmer went blind bc of fungus the dwemer made the snow elf’s eat causing them to devolve and go blind so I’m afraid that’s not an option

[@sethv4227]

Maybe it was meant to broadcast the power of the scroll to every dwemer so that they could all disappear?

[@nohobo23]

@@sethv4227 just was traveling through blackreach because anniversary edition, and i realize that the sphere under the scroll is the same model/design for the device used to broadcast items of magic power from the mage college questline. Current running theory is that the device is most likely designed with a similar intention (ie potentially looking forward in time, finding areas of shattered time like the throat of the world, or potentially finding other elder scrolls)

[@CookieDog800]

For all we know, they pissed of the Divines for striking the heart of one of their fallen fellow deity. So pissed that the Divines punished them by letting the Daedric’s use them as they pleased. That explains the Daedric Artifacts that are Dwemer based, and why we can summon Dwemer Automations from places in Oblivion. Or it could be that they stuck themselves in another plane of existence that not even the Divines can locate, or that the soul gems inside the Dwemer Automations are filled with their souls meaning the Dwemer are dead, but alive as their own creations. Just some random ideas that I’ve been holding onto for a bit...

[@apestrong667]

kewl

[@Zesmas]

even the divines don't have the power to do that. Doing what happened to the dwarves is beyond their scope of power.

[@Zuvas]

The Dwemer living as their own creation is an interesting idea, but I gave it some thoughts and I think its not possible. Because in the video, when he translated the plank about the Dwemer accepting the Elves in exchange of their eye sight, it said they sent their machines to fight off the humans while they sheltered the elves. If their creations needed Dwemer souls to function, then they wouldn't have been able to send them to war; would they? Though it makes you wonder about this danger of always wanting to improve your technology and ''ascending''. You start threading with things that have much bigger consequences

[@darthjayder9914]

not neat

[@nickmorenos4357]

@@Zuvas unless there was a warrior class who end up in the soul gems because you can reuse the gem with the soul ? like if you go to battle and die that's it its over, but if you where a machine, nay a gem you could simple battle over and over with no end exhausting any foe with time and resource. one thing that got me is the tonal architects they use sounds to alter the would that to me sounds like advanced shouts focused in volume for exact effects desired. could be the spiderbots are meant to retrieve the gems from fallen warriors to them be brought back to fight again. its said the way of the voice some people cannot hear for it would kill them is it possible the falmer where blinded to improve the ability to hear the dwarven people who cannot or possible would not be capable of speaking to outsiders outside idk maybe tonal architects. they didnt worship a god because maybe they are the ones making them. they changed the falmer, created countless artifacts used by the gods, suggesting they can indeed make better goods then the gods. or they wouldn't use them, to be fair that could be why they went to war with the followers of gods. if they made the gods they made Deedra but why?? to test their creations the gods actively toy with/test you in tes so would the ones who made them not be even more so curious. if they wanted to be found they would. its pointless to butcher what you create you get no results of tests, but if you could observe unknowingly to the observed you gain everything. tonal architects as a word is revealing af tonal=sound pattern architects build plans builder of sounds?

[@majinjason]

Headcanon: The dwarves sent themselves to thousands of years in the past, to before elves showed up. Hence why they don't have an origin. They are their own grandpa situation. The whole race is stuck in a time loop. Also explaining the advanced tech, they've had much longer to develop it in this go around. Who knows how advanced they'll be in the next kalpa(?). Constantly restarting and always doomed to restart again. Trapped in a time loop.

[@YourLocalCopiumDealer]

Interesting idea, but they wouldn't return at the next kalpa though, because they'd be stuck time looping in this one. Also timetravel has limits in the form of paradoxes. For example: You can't kill your own grandpa before he has kids, because as a result you'd indirectly prevent your own birth and thus his murder. In the same way the dwemer can't change much about dwemer history or dwemer tech. Like the previous example: They can't prevent their own disappearance, because it would "kill" their grandpa and undo their own birth. Cool idea, but I highly doubt it.

[@kkkk-uh1cu]

All of those restrictions are only in place if we assume there is no multiverse. Changeing the past could simply shift it, or create an alternative dimension. Net negative entropy in a set universe and hence time travel are impossible anyhow, you can come up with almost anything.

[@YourLocalCopiumDealer]

@@kkkk-uh1cu Traveling to an alternative universe isn't time travel.

[@majinjason]

@@YourLocalCopiumDealer no it's not universe shifting, it time traveling but the actions create a new time line with you in the past. It could also be that you were always your own grandpa the whole time. Thus creating a paradox. So the drawers are stuck in an infinite looping paradox.

[@YourLocalCopiumDealer]

@@majinjason An alternative timeline IS an alternative universe. Changed, created, shifted... call it what you want. Fact is a second reality exists. And if they're stuck in a loop on the same timeline, my point still stands that they can't change anything.

[@Dorgpoop]

You missed a theory I've heard for why the Dwarves blinded the falmer. They might be been trying to get them to replace their sense of sight with being able to sense by hearing tonal architecture. Falmer still have their large ears, which are so potent they can be used as an alchemical ingredient, and work as well as eyes. That could've been the dwarven experiment they were trying to perform

[@robinanderson1087]

Or perhaps they didn't want them to be able to understand their technology

[@nolankanski9116]

Bruh I like this idea

[@MrDUneven]

That's cool theory in the concept of TES. The world is made of sound so hearing it would be more true way of experiencing it.

[@dudeinarmour8523]

The snow elves/Falmer were blinded by centuries of abuse at the hands of the dwemer, they tore out their eyes and tortured their senses. The Dwemer wanted a slave race to test their experiments on, but thats what Behtesda wanted to make you think. But I think they may have tried experiments on the Falmer, and then tried them on themselves. And the etherium also makes tones if you read the flavor text on atheric items. Also the daedra and the dwarves share some of the same ideals and looks as the daedric princes. So, it is possible that the dwemer became part of the daedra.

[@K0sm1cKid]

@Shadow King these fictional snow people LITERALLY blah blah blah bruh chill nerd 😂

[@kotaman232]

"Nothing-uh" "Huge-uh" "Plains-uh" DUDE STOP!

[@joshthompson7994]

Nate: ' let me go through the history of the dwemer ' Me: * re-checks video length *

[@j3ffm1s7r0]

Literally me 😂😂😂😂😂

[@braydenbreslaw5406]

Nice

[@thedyingmeme6]

Did the same thing

[@Longshanks1690]

I know, it’s so damn short smh. 😤😤😤

[@theinquisitorisamage1653]

Damn, why do I feel called out?

[@wailfulcrab]

Some things: -Dunmers weren't 'the dunmer' yet in that time, but the Chimer -You can also summon Sphere Centurion in TES3 if you join house Telvanii and finish building your fortress -Spellbreaker was reclaimed by Peryite on death of dragon priest Zaan the Scalecaller that she somehow got the shield in the first era. Peryite then gives the shield to Hero of Kvatch (or a copy of it) -Volendrung was present in all TES games, but only in Morrowind it was not a Daedric Artifact, but ordinary warhammer with unique look. How the hammer became associated with Malacath is a mystery of its own, since dwemers were Malacath's great enemies.

[@beansandboarsontherun5762]

If the Dwemmer wwere Malacath's enemies, perhaps the hammer came to be with him through spite, or something like that.

[@CorvusCorone68]

interestingly the transition of the Chimer to Dunmer was closely tied to the events leading to the disappearance of the Dwemer; the ascension of the Tribunal; both are related to the Heart of Lorkhan and the devices Kagrenac made

[@DeadEarthTheory]

You can summon Minotaurs and Skeletons in Oblivion. This is not evidence.

[@velcro1061]

Nerd

[@TheAnalatheist]

I think you get the Centurion Sphere from a dwemer ruin. I got it just the other day, so I don’t know why my mind draws a blank on exactly where. I’m still mad that I can’t enchant an item with the ability to summon it though.

[@trancebodega2739]

"take a good look at the wisp mother character model" shows us a heavily modded character model that looks almost nothing like the original design

[@trancebodega2739]

@Uvaaren the point stands when you look at an unmodded wispmother. but the face on this model looks completely different, almost human. if we didn't know what the original looked like, this would be far off enough to seem like a stretch.

[@trancebodega2739]

@Uvaaren but im mostly just ribbing nates "interesting" editing choices, since we all know what he's referring to

[@smilejos6715]

Believe I saw a wispmother here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hqqzdXlqoLGXfpI

[@1r0zz]

I don't see much resemblance even in the vanilla one, and what I think is the model in online is completely different...

[@Adino1]

She kinda looks like one of those British heroin chic models from the 90's.

[@johnedillittle416]

I've watched this video probably 10x already while at work and expect to re listen another 10x within the year

[@jdawg1086]

Yagrum Bagarn: I just got back from a five-year journey to an Outer Realm, can't wait to see my wife and children again, and all my other Dwemer friends...

[@bloodangel19]

Kagranak: N O

[@condor2279]

(Clueless)

[@mewsterx3679]

@@condor2279 he's from morrowind. The last dwarf :(

[@pluckybellhop66]

@@mewsterx3679 I didnt appreciate how cool it was to meet a real live dwarf in Morrowind, tho honestly his looks were kinda terrifying. He was obese and his body was mechanized to give him electric spider legs.

[@JoelCSabo]

@@pluckybellhop66 well, his body was wrecked from the corprus disease that also made him cease aging. So, maybe that's why he was so plump.

[@captaindapper5020]

"Turns Out The Dwemer Are Still Alive" 35 minutes later "We have no idea what happened to them, they might be dead!" awesome.

[@hammerite6418]

They’re definitely alive

[@differentbutsimilar7893]

@@captaindapper5020 It took you 4 whole minutes to pee? I remember one time when I was really drunk it felt like it took at least that long buuut...

[@constantine9142]

@@differentbutsimilar7893 my so takes at least a minute long pisses which pisses me off when I'm in the bathroom. I understand I'm a girl and I sit to pee but wtf

[@jaydehall9731]

It reminds me of all those documentaries that start with "We will die trying to solve this mystery if we have to!!!" And end with "We may never know..."

[@clownsanity]

Thank you this is all i wanted to know. Watching this video is pointless

[@n3onkatman]

Last time i was this early the Dwemer were still aro- *WAIT WHAT*

[@zackattackr.p.g]

Lol

[@Chikinbokbok]

This actually made me laugh out loud. Good on you, sir.

[@n3onkatman]

@@Chikinbokbok yay!

[@andrewcollins2060]

0:40 an airship was repaired and used during a great battle I cannot recall the name of the book or the battle but it was unfortunately hit during the battle though it did decemat the opponent it ended up going down in the ocean and never seen again. They did not have time to reverse engineer it due to needing it to beat the god like opponent. If you dig in the books you will even find a prophecy about Lorkan raising out of the valcano in Morrowind eventually which makes me feel that the Dwemer are now the body of Lorkon and the heart is slowly making it's way to the body down in the lava. Remember, in the story Lorkons heart was deamed indestructible and was impaled upon a spear after his defeat and where it was cast a valcano rose. The Nevarine was not able to destroy the heart the tools he used on it simply undone what had been done and the heart fell into the lava. 😶‍🌫️

[@charlyzwinning]

My theory is that the Dwemer spent generations relying on tones, and to get their new slaves to embrace tones they took their eye sight, so the snow elves had to rely on hearing. But who knows. I've spent years being excited to find out more about the deep folk. Thanks so much for this video.

[@jthoppins4990]

My thoughts about that tablet is that the Dwemer blinded themselves as well and were trying to get the Falmer to the same state as them. Or they were hiding their machines and processes so the Falmer couldn't take their secrets to the surface too.

[@amberica86]

You should play Morrowind!! There’s a ton to learn about the deep folk in that game. The Tribunal arc is full of dwemer lore, and the main quest as well

[@romeufrancisco7041]

@@amberica86 yes. Kagenac's tools, the heart of Lorkan, Anumidium... and the copy by Dagoth Ur, Akulakhan.

[@hermitsunite953]

The last time I was this early, the dragons still ruled Skyrim

[@masonwheeler6536]

27:57: "[When] Arniel attempts the experiment, it goes horribly wrong." Depending on your point of view, it may well have gone horribly *right!*

[@seneca983]

Or wonderfully wrong.

[@XXXXXX-yv3sv]

He doesn't sound like he's having much fun when you summon him tho

[@azureandnoir3274]

hes like moaning in pain i dont think it went right at all loll

[@krush454]

Hey, Long time watcher, Love your videos. Mostly caught your fallout ones but now getting into the elder scrolls stuff :D

[@noahgray543]

Just a note (as an elder scrolls lore fanatic/researcher myself): Arniel Gane's Shade's conjuration might have a zero magicka cost for another reason: he is being summoned from Aetherius, the source of all magic. I, personally, find this more likely than Oblivion anyways because if the Dwemer were in Oblivion, Hermaus Mora would almost certainly know and over a few thousand years someone would have gotten the knowledge from him, at least in some kind of cryptic response. Wherever the Dwemer are, they aren't any place that Mora can observe or readily send someone to observe. As an aside, i find it difficult to believe that there weren't at least some Dwemer who followed Hermaus Mora. Or at the very least, Dwemer on the whole probably got along with Mora rather well. Mora is all about knowledge and the seeking of it, and he doesn't really care for worshipers in the traditional sense. People dont worship Mora out of reverence like the Dunmer worship Azura, they approach him to obtain or trade knowledge. It is very, mercantile, really.

[@Bluerockpie]

Hermeus mora is probobly my favorite out of the daedra, as far as I know, he may want to keep his servants in eternal servitude or simply ends them when they are not useful, but he's not really all that petty, I don't recall any point in time during my playthrough of skyrim and it's dlcs where he sought revenge towards anyone for wronging him in anyways, I doubt he'd give anyone the chance to anyways. and as you said, he doesn't care about worship like the gods, other daedra or even the dragons, I don't think he even has a shrine or temple dedicated to him anywhere. He's also rather unique in how he represents himself towards mortals, most gods and daedra use the forms of creatures or things that can be found within the mortal realm as something mortals can identify them with. Not Mora, He doesn't care if you are wierded out by the mass of eyes he appears as, all he cares about is weither or not you can get him the knowlege that he seeks.

[@J_Squatch]

There is the whole quest in Skyrim revolving around Hermaus Mora and the Dwarven cube.

[@zcrawford81]

@@Bluerockpie He has a shrine in Oblivion, though they do depict him as a weird crab/lobster monster thing.

[@Bluerockpie]

@@zcrawford81 Oh, I didn't know that. Thanks for the information! ^w^

[@kennithjames2045]

Bro wrote an essay long comment 👌

[@ExceedProduction]

Someone found a way to activate all their Hearthstones at once and now they're in the Warcraft universe, but shorter and more alcoholic.

[@JonatasAdoM]

They also used their knowledge to make a game that hooked people like they did to the falmer.

[@razgrizfromacecombat5]

Nah they probably found a connection to the warp so the chaos gods teleported them to the warhammer universe for shits and giggles and now they've got to fight oversized orsimers and crackhead rat khajiits

[@gamingwithgeekwares4416]

Lel

[@OakleafRanger09]

bold of you to assume they weren't that alcoholic originally lol

[@RedTBasco]

Rofl hic...

[@theradioactiveplayer3461]

"I know the gods exist, I just don't stake my faith in them. Someone who isn't too good at gambling shouldn't really bet their _soul_ on anything."

[@commanderstorm8874]

You really shouldn’t bet your soul anyways

[@connerseibert3033]

Kinda hard without one tho

[@commanderstorm8874]

@Demented Edge the would also be unwise as they would become some kind of daemon and come back to kill you

[@davidholbrook6221]

unless you have highly extremely extremely extremely extremely truly highly distilled liquid luck from Harry Potter that you just drank then you could bet but make sure you bet on a sure win bet.

[@davidholbrook6221]

@Demented Edge it's equivalent exchange when you're dealing with the souls you need 10,000 million million million million million million million million million souls to equate to your soul the more personal it is more valuable it is if you don't care about other people it's going to take even more souls so the only way for the soul thing is the literally used alchemy from Fullmetal alchemist to access truth will be the same equivalent of making a deal he'll always take five times the price because it's the same equivalents of what you're selling I mean getting maybe it's both.

[@bakwudzbutcher]

Your video creation skills are awesome, I loved the constant rise in theatrical music, you must have put hours into editing this. Thanks for cpmpiling all this info, I started the series in Morrowind, and have always thought the dwemer were catapulted into the future! Cool video

[@orridinn]

If you could be a Dwemer in race selection: Hadvar: By the gods, where have you been!?

[@autocorrecter999]

xD

[@albertoverbeek4206]

I like this

[@6H05T_]

Bethesda better add that to the future games

[@JonatasAdoM]

"We can't have the last being of a race walking down here. We'll have to execute you too"

[@Ublivion01]

@@JonatasAdoM well don’t you know Skyrim is for the Nords???

[@Oktobot12]

dwemer is Vault-Tec, cant convince me otherwise

[@aaronhall1479]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@impulsecod322]

Would make sense.

[@Filipz911]

I laughed to hard on this.

[@vernedictb.valentine2057]

Also you know those Bronze Hrad busts it looks very similar to the ones in Fallout coincidence?

[@dspt9803]

@@vernedictb.valentine2057 the busts are cameras ;)

[@zenhaelcero8481]

I found an ancient Dwemer text, thought lost to the ages. After having braved the dangerous underground ruins, automatons, and traps, I absconded with the book. Seeking its hidden knowledge, I brought it to Calcelmo in Markarth. He painstakingly translated it over a period of weeks. It read... "Never should have come here!"

[@MultiEnemis]

I don't know a whole lot about Elder Scroll lore, so I don't know if my "head cannon" would even make sense in the lore. But my head cannon is that the dwarves found a way to reach Godhood via the Numidium and something either screwed up (or it all went to plan) and the souls of the dwemer was syphoned into the Numidium. It's also possible that the Falmer were used to act as defenders of dwemer ruins in the hopes of keeping their knowledge hidden from outside forces and having them blind and mad would work best for that purpose. It's also possible that the dwemer trader artifacts to the daedric in return for knowledge or other artifacts. Overall, very neat mystery and one of my favorite in the series. If anyone reads this and knows about the lore of the games, let me know if this would fit into it.

[@daxiclies]

I actually really like the trading idea I can definitely see them making deals with someone such as Hermaeus Mora

[@omni_sparrow5473]

The theory that I subscribe to is that the Dwemer, upon Kagrenac's tampering with the Heart of Lorkhan, all ceased to exist because they failed to achieve chim. Chim, if you don't know, is when an individual in the Elder Scrolls realizes that their universe is a dream and that they are a figment of someone's imagination, in a sense, and still having the arrogance to believe that they're real and their own person. Successfully doing this makes them really powerful and stuff as they are basically lucid dreaming. Tiber Septim and Vivec are characters that have achieved this state of being. It's possible that tampering with the Heart of Lorkhan brought about this realization across their entire race. But the Dwemer, being logical in nature, couldn’t accept this reality, and thus they failed...realizing they don’t truly exist, they zero-summed out of existence. But that’s just one possibility. Could be something else, but that's just what I believe happened.

[@WisdomThumbs]

“Thankfully, some Bethesda writers translated it. Quote: *SAVE MONEY ON THE SUMMER CLEARANCE SALE!”* Crazy timing for an ad.

[@lukelukey4155]

I swear i recognise you from the gears forums, or you just have the same name.

[@WisdomThumbs]

@@lukelukey4155 Yeah, I'm on the Gears forums.

[@secretagentcat]

@@WisdomThumbs sweet, lets bang

[@cliffordcrimson7124]

Dwarves confirmed Ferengi

[@violetbean8928]

@@cliffordcrimson7124 ah, i see you are a man of culture as well.

[@quacked4024]

Dwemer: *trying to gain infinite life* Gman: Prepare for unforeseen consequences.

[@galaxykitsune]

Wait- Is that referencing what I think it is-

[@Romaboo453]

@@galaxykitsune no shit praise God praise God

[@feiradragon7915]

Y'know, the implication that G-Man is a Dwemer is a crossover headcanon I never even considered but that would be fanfic material.

[@DevourMySeed]

G-man

[@quacked4024]

instinct of thieves pshh you don’t call him “Government-man”

[@ItsSpade404]

Even though I've been playing the elder scrolls games for years, I just recently figured out that ALL dwarven ruins lead to Blackreach. You're able to reach the ruins through Blackreach, or the sphere that Septimis gives you. I think the falmer was blinded to learn the tonal information. Of course the falmer possibly being workers of the dwemer, falmer had no choice to tell the dwemer all the new things falmer could hear since they couldn't see anymore.

[@mr.grumps3544]

The falmer are the snow elves that de-evolved from living in the dark underground

[@HIRCINESChampion]

They all lead to blackreach

[@suhanshubhattacharya9450]

The falmer actually went blind due to some kind of poison that was spread to them by the dwemer. This was confirmed by the last living snow elf Gelebor in the Dawnguard dlc quests

[@kfiru48rhd8rjdhd]

They where in the middle of enslaving them with a potion that was meant to help them fight the nords when they disappeared

[@BigMan7o0]

@@kfiru48rhd8rjdhd did you watch the video? That's not what happened lol

[@IndependentObserver]

0:40 They have been. Louis Beauchamp was able to create an airship, it suffered a critical failure as we find out in "The Patchwork Airship" quest (but hey, so did Hindenburg, and many other IRL airships) but it was still a functioning airship, it flew from Ald'Ruhn to northern part of Solstheim. Also, of course Dwemer still live because Yagrum Bagarn still lives.

[@mattmyr5270]

I think the dwemer blinded the snow elves so they can use there heightened sense of hearing to learn the tones of creation necessary to ascend to become gods. When the other gods found out they sabotaged the dwemer to be trapped in time until the falmer are restored to snow elves as punishment for messing with the natural order.

[@perfectlyperfectpops4203]

This comment needs more likes

[@earthwascool8377]

Woah you are onto something

[@bearandthebull2372]

That's the ultimate dwemer reasoning too.They wouldn't have done something like that to the snow elves without a very specific reason as they DESPISED barbaric torture,and the falmer seem incredibly "powerful" despite their eyesight being gutted. Whatever the dwemer wanted with them,it was obviously unfinished before they got popped from the universe.And they sure as hell didn't want them as an easy punching bag.

[@madclowninc.4233]

They cannot be restored

[@barronasi]

THIS.

[@TeaspoonTom]

Something huge you missed during the analysis of the Dwemer tablet of Calcemo: The tablet mentions that their bones would be unbound to the earth. This language is EXTREMELY closely tied to the expressions used to describe the original nine Divines, the Aedra whose "bones became the foundation of the earth." It sounds very much like the Dwemer were experimenting on the Falmer/Snow Elves to experiment with divorcing the soul from this plane of existence. One of the key elements that's tied to the Dwemer disappearance is the Heart of Lorkhan, which was used in their ascendancy. The thing is, though, the Heart of Lorkhan is the heart of a true God. One of the original Aedra. One of the bones of the earth. If the Wisp Mothers are the result of the first experiments that lacked the Heart of Lorkhan, then perhaps with the Heart, they were able to complete the transition entirely. You also forgot to mention the Dwemer proclivity towards astronomy and spatial travel. The Dwemer in Morrowind, Bagrum, specifically was one of these astromancers, or whatever they're called in the Elder Scrolls. They most likely created and transitioned to an entirely new Daedric plane of existence. What's interesting is that by the Dwemer joining the Daedra, they would be the first to escape Nirn. While the Aedra created the earth by giving themselves up, the Daedra are so named because they specifically *withheld* themselves from giving over to the act of creation. In doing so, the most powerful among them, the Daedric Princes, hollowed out spaces and realms of existence for themselves in Oblivion. Perhaps the Dwemer did in fact make their own plane of existence?

[@AtenKain]

That's what I was thinking, too. They created and shifted into thier own alternate dimension, or "plane of Oblivion". It could even be a facsimile of thier original world (Tamriel/Nirn/whatever), but with the Dwemer being the only race inhabiting it. I always got the impression that was something they would have preferred, being the insular, exclusionary, supremacist culture they seemingly were... Be careful what you wish for, as they say.

[@aswd90]

If what you're saying is true, one can only imagine their technological advancements now.

[@Dorgpoop]

I like how this idea explains why they were experimenting on the Falmer, trying to divorce them of their elven aedric divinity, as a precursor to their work on the numidium. It kind of fits in with Michael Kirkbrides ideas about the Dwemer being absorbed into the "skin of the Numidium", which could just be a poetic way of describing a plane of existence created specifically by the brass god with the power of the heart of lorkhan.

[@rastabincoolie1]

@@aswd90 or the curse they bear similar to the Falmer.

[@garla7983]

Thomas Pearce Jesus Christ that was pretty in-depth

[@willassmaximus]

12:36 This statement makes me think they used the souls of the snow elves to inhabit the Dwemer machines and control them.

[@epicmomenttime5430]

Underrated comment

[@lllIIIlIllIIll]

You might be on to something. Blinding the falmers so when there killed by the dwemers they won't know what hit them, then enslaving their souls in soul gems, giving them new mechanical bodies just to serve their masters for eternity...

[@Hashashyuun]

"My Life as a Subterranean Soul-Farmer"

[@ILKOSTFU]

agree

[@elephystry]

Dwemer automatons don’t have black souls in them though.

[@connorblack99]

I like the idea that Kaggy successfully managed to make them live forever by doing something so legendary that the dwarves will never be forgotten

[@AGHathaway]

I HAVE A THEORY!!! The Dwemer blinded the Snow Elves so that they would become more attuned/sensitive to sound. This heightened sense of hearing, which Flamer DO have, would help them hear sounds that the Dwemer cannot distinguish. So, many Falmer could have ended up as assistants in the tonal processes of the Dwemer.

[@IluvinortheIneffable]

I think the blindness is more due to living underground. If you never see light, your eyes probably would stop working.

[@AGHathaway]

@@IluvinortheIneffable The theory isn't about how they became blind, but for what purpose. And why then aren't the Dwemer also blind?

[@bread_cat_gaming1]

@@AGHathaway because they had light if they were able to make machines and air ships and bend reality through sound wouldnt it make sense for them to have also discovered light?

[@AGHathaway]

@@bread_cat_gaming1 I think it's been confirmed that the Falmer were blinded before the Dwemer disappeared.

[@marcus5202]

Makes sense to me

[@josephiroth89]

I'm wondering if maybe instead of being flung forward in time if the Dwemer weren't flung backward in time, this might explain why they were in Tamriel before the first colonists from the Summerset Isles. The implication, then, is that the Dwemer eventually become their own progenitors and are stuck in a time loop. This time loop may be a Dragon Break instituted as divine punishment by Akatosh himself for the Dwemer's arrogance in trying to create their own god. Or maybe the Heart of Lorkhan is itself a clue to the Dwemer's disappearance. If what I understand about Lorkhan is correct, he was the one responsible for the creation of Mundus and the separation of physical from spiritual existence. Is it possible that Kagrenac undid this separation for the Dwemer? Essentially succeeding in putting his people on the same level as the gods.

[@marhawkman303]

that fits with the observation about what the Dwemer said about the fungus process on the Falmer. freeing themselves from the "bones of the earth" is talking about becoming non-physical entities.

[@shrimpcactus5978]

You guys are an a different level than me

[@big_chungus1001]

Yeah, like holy shit^

[@QrazyQuarian]

I am of the opinion that when we discuss the day-to-day minutiae of gods, we are merely ants speculating on the affairs of mankind. The mundanity of gods is the pinnacle of man. There exists outside this universe a realm(?) greater than we can possibly conceive within this curtain of the universe. If our metaphysical quandary of mortality is to be translated into The Elder Scrolls, then it is very understandable that what became of them is both a gift and an eternal curse, for they now themselves may have become gods and are not able to wield such a station. If the ants are given a vehicle, can they drive it? It is very possible that they did attain godhood, but in their hubris they could not understand the mantle of responsibility upon them, and therefore now toil endlessly in their ascended existence. They dug their grave, and now live buried in their eternal coffin.

[@shrimpcactus5978]

How did this turn from me being confused to talking about tamrielic gods

[@RedPandaSquadron]

Personally, I'm into the theory that the dwemer became displaced so far into the past and eventually became the aedra and daedra.

[@burghleyimeanberdly6513]

They did hold themselves as equal to the divine so there is definitely evidence to support this

[@LoveLee_Dreamer]

So, it seems like you're partially right but not entirely. I found this post on Reddit that sheds light onto what seems to have happened to them, which is what the Aldmeri Dominion is also trying to do btw: "From what I have been able to gather, the Dwemer as a race suffered from a profound and possibly neurotic hubris. Common theory follows that there exists the Dreamer. To understand itself, the Dreamer split itself into Anu and Padomay - static order, and changing chaos. These two being are subgradients of the Dreamer. These two, in turn, formed subgradients of their own, and then *those* spawned subgradients, all in attempt at self-reflection. In essence, the Dreamer wanted to know about itself. Fast forward: the races of man and mer are but subgradients of subgradients of subgradients ....you get the gist. The Dwemer were not content with this. Through sciences, meta-magics and tonal architecture, a Dwemeri process through which one can alter reality by altering the fundamental music of the universe, the Dwemer came to the process of uncreation, the shattering of souls that somehow advanced the subject *back* a subgradient - moving closer to the Dreamer. In an effort involving the creation of the Numidium, the Dwemer essentially uncreated themselves as a race." So basically, you're right in that they became the Aedra but wrong about the time traveling part. They just undid the process that happened when Lorkhan tricked the Aedra into making Mundas and the mortal races. If all mortal races achieve this, the Aedra would revert from their weakened state following the creation event.

[@remiscott7759]

Maybe the dwarves devolved into giants.

[@geo4876]

@@LoveLee_Dreamer How much of that reddit post is backed with research? I'm not saying that they're wrong, but I do want to know how much of it is factual and how much is theoretical.

[@wowo2017]

@@geo4876 everything he said not related 2 the dwarfs is facts and everything related to them is the actual theory

[@wesleyrlee]

So something that was neglected here; You make it some like the humans attacked the falmer for no apparent reason, but it is my understanding the the falmer and humans were living relatively peacefully when the Falmer started attacking human to inhibit their growth and advancement. Also I would like to second @AGHathaway's statement that the Dwarves blinded the Snow Elves to help them become atuned to tonal frequencies.I think the Dwemer only let in the Falmer so that they wouldn't have to experiment on their own people. It is often said that as one sense diminishes the others strengthen. I think this is back up by the latter part of the Dwemer plague reading "...And as your vision clouds, as the darkness sets in.. sets your final path to the 'music' of your new eternity."

[@Blestyr]

"Turns out the Dwemer are still alive" A few moments later: "No matter, despite this boatload of evidence, at the end of the day it's unclear what actually did happen to the Deep Folk..."

[@thochaos13]

Lots of clickbait videos lately.

[@KellingtonDorkswafer]

@Cross of the West Tell me it ain't so! But yeah, there's been quite a few clickbait and semi-clickbaity videos released by him recently, so I don't think I'll come back until after TES 6 is released. A shame really, since I love his content. The one thing that could fix this title is the addition of one word... "Theory".

[@beansandboarsontherun5762]

@@KellingtonDorkswafer They've always been clickbaity, at least the theory ones. At this point I don't actually expect a real answer when I watch these videos cause I've come to learn that no matter how convincing the title is, it will never be a real answer when it comes to Nate. At least the videos are good, but it **would** be nice if he learned to use the word theory in his titles, especially since he gets a lot of flack for it.

[@DeadEarthTheory]

Most of the "evidence" he uses is totally refutable. One example is that conjure Dwarven Sphere is not in Skyrim unless you use mods or commands. This video is 100% click bait.

[@invictuszn]

@@DeadEarthTheory theres a staff that can summon them tho

[@rad666a]

I like the theory that the Dwemer were sent back in time to their own beginnings and are now caught in a causality loop, and unable to break free.

[@sirschengler3165]

You should watch the series Dark...

[@TechnoMinarchist]

The Dwemer became the Brass God, the Numidian. Simple.

[@Patch2112]

Unrelated to your comment, I love the profile pic.

[@keatoncampbell820]

Theory: When the dwemer tp'd through spacetime, they arrived at the same location they left the world in, only long before the migration of elves to tamriel. Lacking their technology they had left behind, they slowly rebuilt their society through the ages, creating technological marvels that dwarfed other civilizations because their technology was already researched and developed. Eventually they forgot how they started out on the continent and reenact the series of events leading to their disappearance. IE: The dwemer are stuck in a paradox, where their society begets itself as it ends itself. This could explain why they worship no God: they are their own progenitors. If you assume that some of their Falmer slaves could have been brought with them, it explains the unaccountable origins of the falmer as well. Edit: perhaps the question is not where they went, but when. After all, if you create a hole in space you create a hole in time!

[@vandakaii2893]

An endless never ending cycle of life and death... played throughout the eternities.. sounds like something a VERY powerful, agitated and pissed off bored god would do to pass the time.. And agitating the heart to abuse its power while at the same time never even believing any of the gods and seeing them as equals.. I bet, and almost can promise that would def piss a god off and that he/she showed them a portion of their power and now suffer for it and probably completely believe in the power of gods now... and more so will never compare themselves to them ever again more or less get the chance to do so.

[@Ethereally13]

This is my head canon now

[@yourfriendlyneighbourhoodl6206]

@@vandakaii2893 If they are a god, would they even have to do that thing sounds like something a lower being would do, not a higher being

[@yourfriendlyneighbourhoodl6206]

I like your theory, very very, much in fact, but why would they just forget, this isn't game of thrones and the mother of dragons lol and the iron fleet we're talking abut here We're talking about here, this is a whole ass race of people, highly advanced people that did in fact wrote stuff down and cataloged various different things, so you're actually tying to tell me that they all mysteriously and collectively just forgot everything about their culture and knowledge as well as all of their sciences and technologies as well as history and then after forgetting everything, didn't bother to consult any dwerven / dwemer historians and or history books, if this is all true, how could something happen like this? I find that hard to believe, wouldn't or couldn't they just retrace their steps? It's unfathomable to even conceive such an un-beguiling notion if you could think of an actual logical reply that makes sense I would very much love to hear your piece as most of your initial theory is actually amazing and I hank you very much for the taking the time out of your day whenever you wrote the comment to actually think the thoughts to make that comment, people lie you are what make The Elder Scrolls Community great in the first place, but please, take your time and reply when you can

[@klosnj11]

@@yourfriendlyneighbourhoodl6206 I may have an answer. Say that the Dwemer were sent back in time with knowledge in tact and arrived on the northern coast before the other elves. They start building all manner of things using their knowledge, but at some point, their knowledge of their own arrival and before is not merely lost, but stolen from them. Considering that the information would contradict the proper flow of the kelper cycle, it could be considered "forbidden knowledge". Thus it would fall under the control of the god hermeus mora. Are there any in-game links? Perhaps. In skyrim, it is within a giant dwemer puzzle box that the dragonborn finds the Oghma Infinium. Not solid, but a link. This also could explain why they blinded the Snow elves. Hermeus mora certainly has an ocular theme to him. Perhaps in order to ensure that the daedra of forbidden knowledge would steal nothing more from them, they blinded any who could fall to his will.

[@XJonAye]

When I started playing skyrim it was my first exposure to TES lore, so exploring I found the dwemer ruins so fascinating.