Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-3471274-20130606153913/@comment-16047389-20140109162913

218.186.253.45 wrote: I don't think so, I think the fungus corrupted the DNA of the falmer, so they mutated and became the hideous monstrosities they are today, also why it cannot be cured and why it is heriditary.

As the Z boss did say, even if you ate corrupted DNA, you just crap it out (if you ate a fried tumor, you aren't going to get cancer), so I doubt Vulthuryol got the problem from the falmer. Any poison that bioaccumulates cannot be passed on (if you had mercury in your blood, your kids don't get it), but can be consumed, but since the falmer aren't the original snow elves, plus their lives probs go shortened, I doubt Vulthuryol got owned by falmer toxic blood. The fact that it would be fried would mean that all possible living cells were dead, and thus wouldn't have an effect. The idea isn't that the poison is hereditary, but that the effects are. Even in the real world we have animals that are poisonous to eat (some of which CAN cause blindness if not careful). The idea is simply that long-term exposure to the poison had lasting effects on the Falmer that altered their physiology to become toxic in and of itself. Just as you wouldn't want to eat an animal that is suffering from a disease or poison, you wouldn't want to eat one thats effects were still prevalent.

The main problem, is that there isn't enough information on which to build anything substantial. We don't even know if these Falmer are descendants of or are infact the original Falmer. Knight-Paladin Gelebor proves that Snow Elves had long lives, as it is likely he was around during the First Era. The toxin they were forced to eat could have very much sterilized the entire race. It just raises too many questions.