Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-10197675-20130806142227/@comment-2600:1702:48A0:A380:F89A:DA2C:C7E5:ED1-20190414095031

No. They didn't "go" anywhere. They could return, given the circumstances of their disappearance were recreated - and notice it is commonly reffered to in game as the Disappearance of the Dwarves, not the Destruction of the Dwarves. Arniel at the College in Skyrim is proof that they weren't destroyed, but nor did they go anywhere; quite the opposite, because of what transpired during the Red Moment, there was nowhere for them to be. The Red Moment was a dragon-break in which reality split into every possible direction. Kagnrenac, Dumac, Nerevar, Vivec, Almalexia, Sotha Sil, Dagoth Ur, the Chimer, Dunmer, the other dwemer, and the Nords, all at red mountain did not know a dragon-break was happening. It is difficult for those withing a dragon break to know it. They are proven by its effects after all the realities merge again (such as during the Warp in the West), or while observing an active dragon-break from outside its zone of effect (as Morrowind could during the Warp.)  When Kagrenac struck the heart to activate the Numidium, he intended to essentially use mass soul trapping to bind the entire Dwemer race to the Heart to power his Brass God (Creating the sacred from the progane - in direct opposition to the Earth Bones, or the laws of existence is ES), and he succeeded,granting them them all immortality. He also unknowingly started a dragon break, which is why there are so many different and sometimes conflicting accounts of the Battle at Red Mountain (all are likely true to some extent) and in so doing, he accidentally severed himself and his entire race from the fabric of the universe. The only known dwemer to surive was Yagrum, because he wasn't even in the same realm or affected by Akatosh (the same timeline). If the right dragon break happened at the right time, either the Dwemer could "return" in the sense that they're somehow made compatible with Mundus, Oblivion, or Aetherius again.