Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-62.255.98.169-20130504143516/@comment-1470368-20140623201852

Evolution doesn't quite work the same in TES as it does in real-life. Disregarding evolution, even Gelebor doubts that toxic mushrooms caused such a sudden change to his people (because let's face it, the Falmer's change into the "Betrayed" was not something that happened slowly over time).

Also, for anyone not clear on this yet...Falmer = Snow Elf ("Falmer" is the Aldmeris word for "Snow Folk")

As far as the ignorant Nords of today choose to see it, the Falmer "monsters" they encounter are not Snow Elves. They're wrong, of course.