Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-77.172.125.107-20130907185947/@comment-9212235-20150328222107

The Dwemer didn't envy the gods. They didn't worship any gods. They didn't have any gods. The dwemer hated existence. They wanted to transcend not just mortality, but the Dream its self. So, in a bold-faced f*** you to the gods, they built their own. The giant NOing robot. The Brass God. Walk-Brass. Numidium. Anumidium. A-Nu-Medium for removing themselves from the existence they new to be a lie. They had advanced understanding of Tonal Arcitecture. Kagrenac understood the Heart of Lorkhan well, but not well enough, and his experiments made them the Numidium. However, Numidium came out... wrong.

[quote]It's literary and portentous. I get that. But the alternative? These words of yours? Those are easy. No. No. No. No. No. I mean, really, you're just being a brat. Your philosohpy is, for lack of a better term, the Entitled Teenager. I know you wanted it to be something else. Something more pure, maybe, like Never Underestimate The Little Guy.[/quote]

This is Numidium in a nutshell. He's a spoiled brat. It's hard to to feel sorry for him though. It's not his fault. He was made that way. He only understands "No."

And Numidium is the dwemer:

[quote]Let's face it. You were made to say 'fuck it.' That's not an answer that lasts. But, bey look, a lot of us took it to heart. Together, your people and mine, we joined forces, and said 'fuck that shit' to the men that invaded our lands. Afterwards? Yeah, we turned on each other, like people do. But we took you.[/quote]

Skip the not relevant stuff.

[quote]And the whole time? You were the scape route. You are 'The Disappearance of the Dwarves'-[/quote]

Numidium is them is their god is the ending of things. Which is their goal. The succeed... in a way.

For this Xrib? There is zero information on Xrib, but without any doubt I can say he is not a deity the dwemer worshiped. They didn't do that. Worship was fundamentally against everything they believed.