Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-69.171.163.78-20130529211921/@comment-11509577-20130710002950

I like this and agree but I think you're giving them too much credit. In hundreds of years they may be intelligent enough to pose a threat but for several reasons I don't think this is likely honestly.

1. Psijic covered it that the Falmer don't have anything to do with the Dwemer disappearing, that was because of Lorkhan's Heart.

2. Other than Blackreach, all the various caves and dwemer ruins aren't connected, whatever Falmer live there are the inhabitants that were made slaves there. They never saw their families that they were seperated from and devolved from there. Any Falmer you find are just the decendents of the original Snow Elves in service there. Other than mating, or the transfer of slaves, there wasn't more brought there. Furthermore, excluding Blackreach, since these places aren't connected and I don't see any Falmer coming to the surface, apart from the Forgotten Veil and the occasional raid around their area, and communicating between eachother. Every area you find them is essentially a clan, this isn't an Empire with many different settlements, but just several pockets of Falmer.

3. I think they attacked the Chapel just because they ventured out of one of their caves and found the Vale, by slowly venturing out more and more they found that there wasn't any real threats in this area and they could relatively live in peace on the surface. What I'm saying is that I don't think it mattered that they were Snow Elves living there, just that they were non-Falmer living there. If it was Skaal living there I imagine the same thing would have happened.

4. Seeing as how the Ancient Falmer could make armor, if they ever did regain the same level of intelligence, which is unlikely, they would have to learn the smithing skills all over again to adequetly(?) equip their race to fight all others, or even just the Dwemer, which were highly advanced. Still on the Technology bit, once again, they might be able to use it if they regained their intelligence and took awhile to learn. You can learn to use a rock to break things fairly easily, teaching yourself to use something that took the Dwemer, a highly advanced race, centuries and is still not wholly understood by any other race during all the years that the Dwemer have been gone, isn't that simple.

5. Whoever said the bit about them having something moving them, a dark version of Auriel, that is a scary thought, but since in none of the areas you explore, even after the Falmer expansion with the Dawngaurd DLC, you don't find idols or shrines, I doubt this is likely.

I don't really have any other points and thats my bit, but what of the fact that they DO live on the surface in the Forgotten Vale? This has to mean something. They can't hate the Surface Dwellers if they themselves are Surface Dwellers. I think they just hate everyone not falmer. And its not so much a hate, as they're more basic beings who just kill. They can't hate something they don't understand, this would indicate higher levels of intelligence. What reasons to the current day Falmer have for hating Surface Dwellers? They don't teach their children their pasts and why the SD should be hated after all. Its more like just trespassers and they don't have access to higher understanding. They don't trade amongst themselves. All they can really do is tame Chaurus, build houses, and kill people. Idk. Thats just me..