Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-5543592-20141213173915/@comment-11457306-20141228203641

"I believe we are dealing with Dwemer, what's left of them.  The Dwemer were a very advanced race and they disappeared completely, not even leaving behind their bones.  No one ever figured out why, where or how.  We know they worshipped logic and reason and their machinery.  They worked constantly to keep perfecting their machines.  Think upon the knowledge we gained from the Lexicon and you will see that I am right.  Nothing was as important to them as their machines and their research into higher reasoning.  That's why they enslaved the Snow Elves--to do the menial work and free them to work more on their special projects.

They also used the Snow Elves for experiments."  Megan shuddered.  "That is knowledge I wish I didn't have. They were researching into how the mind works.

My guess is that they advanced to the point where they could transfer their consciousness into their machines--or else they learned to exist outside their physical bodies, which could die--and could choose to either manifest as a non-physical being--like our friend back there--or enter a machine at will.

They can probably join together--several beings becoming a larger whole--or they can share thoughts--a hive mind, if you will, like a bee hive. They may not even exist as totally separate beings, but as a mind consisting of many parts all linked together. That is how they know where we are all the time. What one knows, the other knows. He described them as different nations and different cities--but they may not be completely separate as we understand it.

Such a force, when transferred to physical bodies such as the automatons would be invincible. As to filling the skies--we all know they built airships. The conscious may not have been speaking of actual flying beings."