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AlmightyMehrune wrote: I indeed do know quite a bit of Elder Scrolls lore on the Chimer. This is my first post on any threat existing on any wikia, and I thought I'd start here. The first person on this thread to mention and elabourate on the Chimer made a few mistakes, and here I shall correct them.

The Chimer are the ancestors of the Dunmer, or as some call the "Dark Elves." These Chimer originally lived in the Aldmer homeland of the Summerset Isles, however this had changed when the Chimer people and their Aldmeri relatives had a dispute involving the Gods they worshiped. This is because the Aldmer worshipped the Aedra, most commonly refered to as the Divines, where-as the Chimer formed their religous pantheon out of the Daedric Princes. These disputes caused the Chimer, led by the prophet Veloth, to migrate to the land known as Resdayn (now known as Morrowind.)

The Chimer were suprised to be confronted by the Dwemer, or the Dwarves, who had inhabitted the land of Morrowind before them. These Dwemer mocked and taunted the Chimer for their belief of the Daedra, due to the Dwemer prefering their religion of Gods of logic and knowledge. These events led to a conflict between the Dwemer and the Chimer.

The Dwemer believed they could harness immortality by unlocking the power of the Aedric artifact named the Heart of Lorkhan within the Red Mountain in Vvardenfell. This began the final battle of the Chimer - Dwemer war. In the midst of the final battle, the Dwemer completely vanished from the face of Nirn (except for one, who was in another plane at the time. Many theories have been made to explain this, but none can be proven entirely.)

After the battle, Sotha Sil, one of the advisors of the Nerevar, attempted to harness the powers of the Heart and succeeded, gaining godhood. He offered his counterparts, Almalexia and Vivec, to receive the power he had extracted. They both accepted and together they formed what is known as the Tribunal, and threw away the Daedra. Outraged, Azura cursed the Chimer and turned their skin grey and their eyes red. They were then on known as the Dunmer, or Dark Elves. The only ones who were unaffected were the Tribunal.

The Tribunal ended when Vivec gave the Neveraline plans which initially ended the godhood of the Tribunal. Almalexia turned on Sotha Sil and murdered him, and turned insane. Almalexia tried to kill the Neveraline in TES 3 - Morrowind, and Almalexia ends up being killed by him, leaving the last Chimer and the last member of the Tribunal as Vivec, who did not care for his divine powers.

The fate of Vivec was unknown, as he disappeared during the Third - Fourth Era. He is the last known Chimer to date, and the last of the Tribunal. The Tribunal was then replaced by Azura, Mephala and Boethiah.

I wrote this all by myself. I hope this proves useful to you. May Azura guide you. I've edited the wiki page for Chimer a couple times, a while ago I made a section for the last of the Chimer.