Skyrim How Did The Dwarves Be So Advanced?

[pjedilord]

The dwarves must be the most advanced technology wise and they don't exist now.
How did the dwarves be advance? they built machines that run on soul stones?

So the dwarve soul runs the machines? Why others don't use dwemer tech?
In there base, we can see there tech running on steam,so was inspired from
are history? So when DB kills npc there soul goes to the soul stone?
People like to buy and sell dwemer gear? why so heavy?

[Lady Aeleanor]

**sigh**

[Brother Skolas]

so hard to read

[Junipercat]

From OUR history.

Those ARE not the Droids you are looking for.

Sorry, that has bugging me for a while (ARE vs OUR).

The Dwemer (TES Dwarves) are a mystery. How they got so advanced is not really known. When they gave the Snow Elves "sanctuary" they made them innately blind to keep everything a secret. I do hope they go more into that mystery in a future game.

As for why so heavy, the race is typed to be very strong. They are working with dense metals for everything. This is not wood, hide, cloth, or weaker metals. And machines which deal with constant use, not intermittent like our equipment, have to withstand running practically all the time.

[Yellowbeard]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secularism

[psychotron666]

Originally posted by Junipercat:

From OUR history.

Those ARE not the Droids you are looking for.

Sorry, that has bugging me for a while (ARE vs OUR).

The Dwemer (TES Dwarves) are a mystery. How they got so advanced is not really known. When they gave the Snow Elves "sanctuary" they made them innately blind to keep everything a secret. I do hope they go more into that mystery in a future game.

As for why so heavy, the race is typed to be very strong. They are working with dense metals for everything. This is not wood, hide, cloth, or weaker metals. And machines which deal with constant use, not intermittent like our equipment, have to withstand running practically all the time.

Their posts are full of broken English to the point it's like a chat bot, and this is what you get hung up on?

[Dakota]

Originally posted by Junipercat:

When they gave the Snow Elves "sanctuary" they made them innately blind to keep everything a secret.

pretty sure they just went blind from living underground as slaves

[Dakota]

Originally posted by Jeff:

if dwarf so smart then why do they hide underground instead dominating the world like tiber septim?

who says world domination is a smart thing to do?

[Junipercat]

Originally posted by Dakota:

Originally posted by Junipercat:

When they gave the Snow Elves "sanctuary" they made them innately blind to keep everything a secret.

pretty sure they just went blind from living underground as slaves

The Dwemer fed the Snow Elves a toxic fungus forcing them to be blind. They still had their light sources underground, wasn't automatically complete darkness.

[Dakota]

seems I'm wrong lol

never heard this before but it makes the dwemer even worse than I thought

[theo]

Well the blinding theory belongs to an in-game author Ursa Uthrax who doesn't refer to any facts and only has 1 book in her/his record. So I take it with a grain of salt

The dwemer don't look particularly strong, it seems they've made machines do all physical work for them at some point. They give an impression of savants rather than hard workers and their ghosts appear as slender robed figures with long beards and elvish ears unlike the dwarves you're used to in other fantasy settings.

Other races totally did make use of dwemer tech on numerous occasions, problem is, no one was able to fully understand how it works except maybe for Sotha Sil. Another problem is resentment and superstition most people have against the 'godless' dwemer

[Heimdall313]

Animoculi (dwarven machines) are powered by soul gems, with some rudimentary intelligence. No one knows how, its a secret of the Dwemer.

Falmer weren't driven blind by a fungus or by living underground. Dawnguard DLC, you talk to a Snow Elf (ancient Falmer), it took many generations and toxins to twist the Snow Elves into the modern Falmer. Dwemer and Ayleids both lived underground much longer with no blindness.

Vivec, who's had quite a bit of experience with Dwemer prior to their disappearance / banishment from Mundus, comments on the Dwemer Gods of Reason and Logic. Their engineering was sort of their own "school" of Magic, similar to how the Psijiics developed and mastered Mysticism (which involves the nature of Magicka, its laws, and its exceptions) and the Ayleids developed and mastered Alteration (the nature of nature and form). Dwemer steampunk engineering is basically the development and mastery of machine.
Vivec's brother, Sotha-Sil, is a somber and intellectual mage personality, he tinkers with Dwarven stuff, probably has an understanding of it beyond any living mortal perhaps even Corprus-cursed Dwemer living in Morrowind even if you throw ESO "lore" into a dumpster.

[psychotron666]

Originally posted by theo:

Well the blinding theory belongs to an in-game author Ursa Uthrax who doesn't refer to any facts and only has 1 book in her/his record. So I take it with a grain of salt

The dwemer don't look particularly strong, it seems they've made machines do all physical work for them at some point. They give an impression of savants rather than hard workers and their ghosts appear as slender robed figures with long beards and elvish ears unlike the dwarves you're used to in other fantasy settings.

Other races totally did make use of dwemer tech on numerous occasions, problem is, no one was able to fully understand how it works except maybe for Sotha Sil. Another problem is resentment and superstition most people have against the 'godless' dwemer

No the dawnguard expansion confirms it with the Paladin snow Elf dialogue.

"In a manner of speaking. We had always maintained an uneasy alliance with the underground-dwelling dwarves, and when faced with extinction we turned to them for help. Surprisingly, they agreed to protect us but demanded a terrible price... the blinding of our race."

"There were splinter groups that resisted the agreement, and even some that sought alternate alliances. But when it was all said and done, those elves were either slaughtered, vanished or gave up and took the dwarves' bargain."

What turned your people into the Betrayed? "I've often asked myself that very same question. The blinding of my race was supposedly accomplished with a toxin. Certainly not enough to devolve them into the sad and twisted beings they've become."

[Junipercat]

Toxin blinded them, but something else devolved into the Falmer. Probably something that happened during the uprising against their Dwemer overlords.

With "vanished" I hope in the next installment it is discovered Snow Elves that managed to survive and are not on the verge of extinction.

I always wondered if their might even be a splinter group of Dwemer who either helped the Elves, or at least weren't a part of the atrocity and just went and did their own thing. A full Dwemer land to explore sounds like fun.

[alexander_dougherty]

Originally posted by Heimdall313:

Falmer weren't driven blind by a fungus or by living underground. Dawnguard DLC, you talk to a Snow Elf (ancient Falmer), it took many generations and toxins to twist the Snow Elves into the modern Falmer. Dwemer and Ayleids both lived underground much longer with no blindness.

Dwemer forced them to eat Toxic Mushrooms, these were made to become an essential part of their diet, but the toxins blinded them.... KEY part "The Dwemer Forced them to eat", Dwemer are to blame, and they did this knowingly.

[alexander_dougherty]

Originally posted by Junipercat:

Toxin blinded them, but something else devolved into the Falmer.

No, it was the toxins, the poisons that slowly dissolved their eyes would have been painful beyond belief... They were driven mad by the pain,,,,, the pain caused by the toxins from the mushrooms.