CaptainBeerDude wrote: »Man.... Too slow to flex my (lack of) lore muscles.
The disappeared during the Battle of Red Mountain between the Dwemer and the Chimer (ancestors to the Dunmer) when the Tribunal were still mortal.
They were experimenting on the Heart of Lorkhan and the accounts from the time say they just vanished. No explanations of when, why or how.
After this occurred Vivec, Almolexia and Sotha Sil promised Lord Nerevar (who had recieved a mortal wound in the battle) they would never use the dwarven tools to try and access the power in the Heart.
This promise was broken and led to the Chimer being cursed by Azura (or Meridia, but I think it was Azura) and their skin was changed to the grey ashy colour it is now and their eyes became red.
CaptainBeerDude wrote: »Man.... Too slow to flex my (lack of) lore muscles.
The disappeared during the Battle of Red Mountain between the Dwemer and the Chimer (ancestors to the Dunmer) when the Tribunal were still mortal.
They were experimenting on the Heart of Lorkhan and the accounts from the time say they just vanished. No explanations of when, why or how.
After this occurred Vivec, Almolexia and Sotha Sil promised Lord Nerevar (who had recieved a mortal wound in the battle) they would never use the dwarven tools to try and access the power in the Heart.
This promise was broken and led to the Chimer being cursed by Azura (or Meridia, but I think it was Azura) and their skin was changed to the grey ashy colour it is now and their eyes became red.
The Dwemer vanished. There was no major catastrophe. No genocidal war. No massive epidemics. They were there one moment, and simply gone the next.
They didn't die off though. There are no bones or bodies. There are no ghosts or spirits.
FluffyReachWitch wrote: »It was Azura. She showed up after they used the tools and basically said, "You had ONE job."
And then Sotha Sil mouthed off at her.
And then Azura was like, "LOL, have fun pretending to be gods."
And then she left and the Tribunal were like but they shook it off and went home.
platonicidealgirlfriend wrote: »FluffyReachWitch wrote: »It was Azura. She showed up after they used the tools and basically said, "You had ONE job."
And then Sotha Sil mouthed off at her.
And then Azura was like, "LOL, have fun pretending to be gods."
And then she left and the Tribunal were like but they shook it off and went home.
lol hardly, Almalexia and Vivec changed their appearance with divine cheatcodes and Sotha Sil plainly couldn't care less about it.
Nobody knows - but I like to tell myself that when they disappeared they weren't actually made extinct - rather they now exist in an alternate plane of existent - maybe even still on Nirn (or maybe sent to a different planet) - just not on the same plane as us, and therefore unable to be interpreted by us.
Kind of similar to what people have proposed about the Mayans irl (though I'm pretty sure they just got wrecked by spanish pox).
The Dwemer vanished.... There are no ghosts or spirits.... .
The Dwemer vanished. There was no major catastrophe. No genocidal war. No massive epidemics. They were there one moment, and simply gone the next.
They didn't die off though. There are no bones or bodies. There are no ghosts or spirits. Even the immortal Daedra appear ignorant. Whatever happened to the Dwemer literally erased them from Tamriel. If it wasn't for their ruins and machines, the only evidence they had existed would have been myths and legends.
What could instantly wipe an advanced race like the Dwemer off the face of Tamriel and yet leave their creations behind?
Speculation abounds. Time travel, alternative planes, even space travel. But officially it is one of the great unsolved mysteries of Tamriel.
all we got was some story fragments.
also i have no idea why Snow elves and Nords fought and have those elves wiped to last snow elf who was in exiled. as seen in Dawnguard DCL main questline. and some surviving snow elves refugees became as falmirs, twisted by Dwemers
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