Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-24.242.109.73-20140221052911

Does anyone else think that the Dwemer race are now just imprisoned in their technology?

The Heart of Lorkhan in Morrowind says it can't be destroyed because the world cannot exist without it (and it cannot exist without the world). So there's an attachment aspect to it. The Dwemer Kagrenac created the three tools to handle the Heart, hoping to put it in a giant robot hoping it would power the thing, and when the Chimer attacked he used the three tools to handle the heart hoping to attach the divine properties (namely immortality) to the Dwemer race. Then they disappeared.

But their machines still work. It is my theory that using the heart without knowing what he was doing transferred the souls/consciousness/life essences/whatever in their technology, or else attaching themselves to the robots that harass you in the Dwemer ruins. I guess of course the bots could just be powered by magic, but my theory fits! 