Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-62.255.98.169-20130504143516/@comment-202.156.8.15-20131026024841

again  another point about biological bull

Firstly, the fungi, if an essential part of their diet, which I doubt (it is probably "essential" because of Dwemer psychological conditioning), would lose its effectiveness unless it is a DNA poison, as the falmer will evolve immunity to its effect (just like how you can become immune to snake venom if you take controlled doses everyday.) So, by extension, it has to be a DNA poison. This could also enforce the blindness better than a metabolic poison

Secondly, their senses cannot become more and more sensitive forever. This is because of the tradeoffs. Better smell will lead to confusion as you smell everything. Better hearing can overload you brain as you hear everything. Better touch means crippling pain when you get poked by a pin. Therefore, by extension, as falmer are NOT the superhero daredevil, It means that they have to evolve their sight back in some way to remain competitive with surface species (they never dodge spells or arrows, if you noticed). Or else, they would get disoriented the moment a mage goes fireball+chainlighting time.

So, This is why I purport that they will regain some form of sight, seeing that they have the genes for it and the stem cells ready to develop. They will not become like the original snow elves, but more like white altmer spellswords in a million years time, assuming one couple manage to break their psychological conditioning.