Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-10197675-20130806142227/@comment-1470368-20190414130517

Wow, this thread. And back when more people assumed Kirkbride still had control over the series' lore.

Yes, the "Golden Skin of Numidium" remains just a theory, no matter how much some people here want to believe it to be truth. MK's texts on the Imperial Library are entertaining to read, but they aren't official lore. And I can't believe anyone takes "C0DA" that seriously anymore, either.

From what we see in the events of TES3: Morrowind & its expansions, several ash piles can be found in Dwarven Ruins across Vvardenfell, especially in the ruins of Bamz-Amschend.

We do know how they disappeared by now, as it's directly referenced in Morrowind & an example of how they disappeared is shown in TES5: Skyrim (what happens to Arniel Gane when he uses the Warped Soul Gem). Those ash piles in Morrowind's Dwarven Ruins are the biggest hint as to what really happened to them upon "disappearance".

It's safest to say they're all disintegrated (save Yagrum) and some individuals like Radac & Dahrk Mezalf have become Dwarven "Specters" haunting their ruins. Yagrum survived despite his psychic link to the rest of his Race due to being in a different dimension at the time.

Further evidence of the fact they all were disintegrated (if you ignore the Ash piles)? Wraithguard, which was created to prevent the wearer's destruction when using Kagrenac's Tools to tap into the Heart of Lorkhan's power.

(I'm legitimately surprised that I'm the first person in this whole thread to mention Wraithguard)

If anything, I think it's at least somewhat possible that the Rourken Clan survived, as we don't know for sure if they maintained [or severed] their psychic link to the rest of their people after they established Volenfell.