Board Thread:Skyrim/@comment-11444045-20131003032625/@comment-5.150.213.164-20161118115247

173.25.213.5 wrote: As with some of the lore on the Falmer, the Dwemer once made the Falmer eat poisonous fungi which may or may not have contributed to their blindness, they could have made their slaves eat similar fungi to control their behavior. Because we all know that slaves generally out weigh th population they are serving, I.E. why the Dwemer may have disappeared because they were wiped out by their slaves because they stopped eating the fungi

obviously speculation on this part but it could be one scenerio Nah. The Dwemer disappeared due to Kagrenac's dabbling in dangerous magic to improve the Dwemer race (as Yagrum Bagarn says) - if they had been slaughtered by the Falmer, there's be skeletons strewn over every Dwemer ruin in existence, and Dwemer travelling outside their colonies would have survived, but there is none save Yagrum Bagarn who was travelling in the Outer Realms (the Daedric Realms or Aethereius).

As for the Falmer slaves, the most likely thing is that they were captured, young or adult, and feeble enough to bend to the Falmers strength. Then, living with the Falmer, the only food provided would be that same fungi that made the Falmer blind and feeble, and such, most likely, it would have the same effect on them. Because the Falmer is not strong by any means, their strength lies in numbers, but their slaves were those already weak of mind or too young to understand.