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Very crude and basic homes and weapons, at least. Most of their shelter comes from the fact that they live in cave systems and Dwemer ruins: their huts aren't very well constructed. On their weapons and armour, it's little more than bits that they ripped off of dead Chaurus: not quite like the quality Chitin equipment that the Dunmer are known to create.

At any rate though, I do not dispute that the Falmer can potentially pose a threat to settlements: my main opposition is to the notion that they can somehow conquer the surface world. On the Fall of Rome, it's ostensibly similar but ultimately rather different, owing to the complexity of the Fall in and of itself (the Barbarians were far from the only factor, they were just the death blow), and the fact that they weren't exactly blinded and made feral by eating poisoned mushrooms. They had the same intellectual capacity as the Romans, just not the same level of technology.