Frostvault Question

AlboMalefica · March 2019

Hello one and all!
I have been looking to see if I can find an answer to this burning question I have about the new Frostvault Dungeon, the subterranean dwemer area underneath Skyrim........why no Falmer? My understanding of the Falmer is that they have really made their presence known only recently in elder scrolls history, as around the actual Skyrim game. But they were always there and encounters obviously happened throughout history. I always said to myself that the dwemer delves we had in the base game of Eastmarch & The Rift didn’t go deep enough for us to encounter the Falmer during this time period, made sense to me.
Seems to me they missed an opportunity to introduce them for this dungeon, they used reiklings instead 😢
Was this explained by any of the lovely ZoS peeps as to why no Falmer here or are they saving them for the rest of the Skyrim map do you think?

ArchMikem · March 2019

The enemies in Frostvault were Goblins though, weren't they?

But I don't think ZOS would design, create, and implement an entire new set of Mobs just for one Dungeon, especially since they wouldn't be used again in the upcoming Elsweyr chapter. The excuse that Frostvault doesn't go deep enough to reach their dwellings is good enough.

Meesha1170 · March 2019

I’m guessing we’ll see them when they finally do a Skyrim expansion which I assume they’ll release in 2021 to celebrate Skyrim’s 10th anniversary.

Vicarra · April 2019

Even in TES: Skyrim, the Falmer weren't seen in every Dwemer dungeon, and Frostvault doesn't connect to Blackreach so the Falmer wouldn't be able to get there via Blackreach. The fact that we haven't seen any Falmer at all yet in ESO leads me to suspect that they will form part of a major update at some point in the future (perhaps next time we get a Skyrim map).

EDIT: Just double-checked the span of Blackreach on the overland Skyrim map, and as I suspected, the area that Blackreach covers doesn't cross any of the areas we have yet in ESO. From my own research on Dwemeris, I think the Falmer most likely originated in Irkngthand, which is in the Pale. If they spread mostly to the West from there, that would coincide with the Blackreach and the Ruins in that region.