Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-12481512-20130717104617/@comment-447226-20150416154016

My hypothesis is that perhaps the reason Dwemer metal can't be recreated is that Dwemer metal itself is impossible. The Dwemer needed a material that is completely immune to wear and corrosion and time, but that is not possible under Mundus' physics laws. So they pulled a B.S. Johnson and bent the laws of physics to make it anyway. After all their Hat is to be medieval-fantastic mad scientists. If one were to find out how they made the stuff it would be replicable again.

Perhaps when on TES6 the Dwemer come back and invade Tamriel...