Board Thread:Online Discussion/@comment-180.95.18.10-20130528000937/@comment-7362333-20130603174322

PsijicThief wrote: That post is riddled with partial facts. The Dumner didn't evolve into what they are, they were once the Chimer (akin to the Altmer in looks) and were affected by the events at Red Mountain with the Dwemer to be turned into what they are today. Falmer actually means Snow Elf, they didn't evolve into what they are on their own - nor did they just migrate underground. They ran from the Nords (or what they were at the time) and sought help from their Dwemer brethren only to be betrayed by them and blinded via fungus. The animalistic properties could be an evolution of hatred and disdain born from that, but we just don't know what turned them ferral. . . at least not yet. Also, the overall characteristic of a child in TES is determined by it's mother. If a Nord fathers a child with an Orc woman (kudos to that Nord, lol), the child will have more Orc properties than Nord - in fact it will be an Orc. It takes magical intervention and purposeful long-term breeding to mix races (see the Bretons for proof). after careful research; Falmer are a race of snow elves, but falmer does not mean snow elf by (Your) discription or definition, but known as a race of. the falmer are a race of Mer most commonly seen as snow elves who were defeated in a war against the nords (as you stated earlier) the final battle which drove the falmer underground took place in Solstheim by Ysgomer & the 500 companions.The war began when the falmer became aware of an ancient artifact that the nords had incovered in a small town, and the falmer killed everyone except for Ysgomer and his two sons. The Falmer were once known as Snow Elves, and inhabited much of Skyrim. After the Nords arrived in Skyrim from Atmora, the two races eventually entered into a conflict in which the Falmer were defeated. The Dwemer offered the remaining Falmer shelter in their subterranean domain, in exchange for the Falmer's servitude. After decades of slavery and consumption of a toxic fungus, the Falmer evolved into the twisted but misunderstood race of the Betrayed as the current snow elves refer them as, as seen in Skyrim. and as a matter of fact by this sites definition of falmer, they did indeed devolve into the Falmer as they are known today. the falmer's accutes senses of scent & hearing developed in a few decades of being sightless, and as for their aggressive nature it could stem for their hatred of all races not just the nords.