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Sevec wrote: I assume you're talking about the Void Nights?

Since the Thalmor are the ones that brought the moons back, I'm guessing that they were the ones that made them disappear in the first place. It's been suggested that the Thalmor were trying to turn the Khajiit into elves. According to Khajiiti legend, the feline race we know today was once a race of elves, not unlike the wood elves. Azura (the one that transformed the Chimer into the Dunmer) changed the Khajiit by giving them several different forms, and tied these forms to the lunar lattice. In other words, the particular breed of Khajiit that you are depends on the phases of the moons when you were born.

So, what if the moons were gone? Theoretically newborn Khajiit might have been elves, like their ancestors. However I suspect that they weren't born as elves, otherwise the Thalmor would never have brought the moons back. What the Khajiit born during those years looked like is anyone's guess. It is said in "Father of the Niben" that the original Khajiit were still Khajiit, they were wild hunting beasts that probably evovled into the Khajiit we know as of now.