User blog comment:Moogleknight24/Why are the Falmer blind?/@comment-3544483-20120525131218

Mistrustful of their Falmer guests, the Dwemer forced them to eat toxic fungi native to Blackreach which would render them blind and powerless. Through treachery, the last of the Falmer were made servants and slaves to those who posed as their saviors.

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