Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-2165692-20140425203121/@comment-24999978-20140806132826

Flamedude22 wrote: Although no individual sense could replace sight, especially when it comes to archery, but a combination of heightened scent, hearing, from those large highly placed ears, which are used by many animals to locate the source of noises, and the vibrations in the floor, could pretty much pin point a target, especially in an enviorment that is nearly hermetically sealed from the outside world, add a little bit of magic to that, and you've got a pretty sure shot.

But for the other things, you've got a point. I don't understand how you could put up a tent, or assemble a master level lock with no eyesight. Falmer, also, live in some of the most architecturally dangerous places in all of Skyrim (Seriously, what was the Dwemer's problem with guard rails?), and as you said "You can't hear a cliff" or a booby trap, or narrow walk way over a 10 story drop. To be fair, echo location can be used to identify the distances of obastacles and obstructions such as cliffs. I agree that some things appear odd to handle without the use of sight, as they are designed factoring in human reliance on sight, but my point was predominantly that it is viable to survive and do well without a sense of sight, and the fact that the sense is merely favoured by humans does not mean it is objectively the best or most important sense. Dogs get along fine with their hightened sense of smell and poor vision, for instance. Of course, in this case, they still have vision, but they still largely rely on their sense of smell, unlikes humans who may find it difficult to understand how living so differently works.