Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-10197675-20130806142227/@comment-1255618-20190419213754

For me, I'd rather we be introduced to a whole new race of "dwarves" that are not Dwemer, possibly a race living underground in Atmora (since no one suspects that there might still be people living in that frozen wasteland), that give us insight into what Dwemer society may have been like (and their origins) but are also significantly different and just as puzzled about the Dwemer's disappearance. Perhaps they rely solely on technology and less on magic for example. Also, since the Dwemer are still loosely "mer" maybe other groups may be more culturally or biologically distinct while in the end still being dwarven, although stereotypical dwarfish tropes should still be avoided.

What I'm trying to say is that new discovery that adds to the mystery is probably preferable to undoing all the mystery by having the Dwemer return and tell us what happened to them, kind of like how we learned so much about the Dwemer in Skyrim from learning about the Falmer who interacted with them.