Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-2165692-20140425203121/@comment-24902649-20141205175408

So I just want to go back and address everything the OP said. For puropses of on-topic-ness.

Right so, I'm playing some TES and discovered there's no way falmer can be blind. I cam across a falmer chest with an expert lock. How did the BLIND falmer manage to create such a complex lock? I have no friggin idea.

Also, anything blind cannot fire a bow and hope to hit anything. I get it heightened senses. But for bows that just won't work. Eyesight is the most vital part of shotting a bow. Without eyes they might as well be shotting at each other.

Now for the actual weapons and armor, Not the worst kind out there, it's just as strong as steel. HOw do they make that? It can't be from the original snow elves... The armor is completely different.

Then their constructions. How do they even make the chests in the first place. Or the tents and Fences? They seem to know exactly where to put them as well. Do they hear or smell the friggin cliff?

Lastly, Muffle, sure they might smell you but in order to get to you and know your position that fast. Their noses has to be a few hundred times more powerful than a dogs.

Falmer cannot possibly be blind. It's Impossibru!

Also, I hope falmer alphabet refers to the snow elves...

Well, that's a gameplay mechanic, but I would argue that since lockpicking is based on tactile feeling, and the Falmer would have superheightened senses (to be able to function while blind, you kinda have to take it for granted that they do). Presumably that includes a very sensitive tactile sensation. They'd be able to build locks and similar mechanical things, simply because they can feel them really well.

I would assume that since they have such a sensitive sense of hearing and touch (again, take for granted) they have like a pseudo-three-dimensional perception of the world around them. Kinda like a really precise, constantly updating topo map in their heads. And either they can smell each other, or they have a telepathy ability passed down from the Snow Elves (the Dwemer did, so it wouldn't be unprecedented).

It's strong as steel for gameplay reasons. Lore-wise maybe Chaurus chitin is somewhat compressible, but really dense (like Kevlar)? I dunno. They've been around long enough to perfect their Chaurus farming, so I'd imagine they've gotten pretty good at using the parts.

How do they make them? See above: Chaurus, and hundreds of years of perfecting it. And they're somewhat intelligent, so it's not hard for me to believe that they could make them. As for cliffs, I'm still thinking that topo-map-vibration-sense. They can hear the air molecules hitting the walls, and know where the empty space is.

If they can hear/feel well enough to shoot you with a bow, they can DEFINITELY hear well enough to find you clumsily knocking things around as you move. Hell, I've met blind cats who could do this, and they had no trouble finding their owners when they wanted to. They could hear the difference between different people, too.