Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-2165692-20140425203121/@comment-25073873-20171125045056

97.113.215.207 wrote: Guys in natural selection the toxin couldn't have made their whole race blind. If you cut your arm off, your kid isn't born missing an arm.

What's more interesting is that perhaps on the planet Nirn, Lamarquian evolution takes place! I would dispute this - the Dwemer were probably smart enough to feed them not just normal blinding toxins, but probably something highly toxic to DNA that led to deformed children. Things like Aflatoxins, various teratogens etc.

But then again, natural selection would definitely favor mutants who retain some sight/the intelligence to learn detection magic. And then the problem starts again.