Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-25531876-20141229215535/@comment-26516965-20150104194642

Caractacus IV wrote: Thehornydovahkiin wrote: I think it's not pure biological evolving. Maybe there's some magic or hidden super technology? We don't know what the Dwemer gave to the Falmer, what they had to eat (it was a mushroom but we don;t know what it exactly did)... There is no such thing as 'backwards evolution'. Perhaps the Falmer will just evolve into another race. By the way this is partially false: many scientists are starting to believe in reverse evolution. Have you ever heard of Flowers for Algernon?

Yes, there can be a kind of degrading evolution, but never exact reverse evolution. It would have to happen in certain natural circumstances (reversed "timeline" of natural circumstances that led to the way something evolved). It would be hard for the Falmer to be exactly like they were unless there's some technology or magic behind the Dwemer blinding the Falmer.

And I agree: the Falmer can't really beat the Empire with weapons, for example, but obviously could do so with numbers. And hatred.