Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-31254830-20180210045821/@comment-89.65.49.202-20190902010901

found it It's not the Brass God that wrecks everything so much as it is all the plane(t)s and timelines that orbit it, singing world-refusals.

The Surrender of Alinor happened in one hour, but Numidium's siege lasted from the Mythic Era until long into the Fifth. Some Mirror Logicians of the Altmer fight it still in chrysalis shells that phase in and out of Tamrielic Prime, and their brethren know nothing of their purpose unless they stare too long and break their own possipoints. Basically The numidium projects the belief of rejection and nihilism the dwemer had (world-refusal) and thus just NOPES everything out of what, even the passage of time and your chance of victory, in any possible timeline. It is known to be incredibly traumatic to everyone involved.