Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-26318119-20150525023820/@comment-26318119-20150527021204

AzuraKnight wrote: Aetherium is unstable and very hard to use i would guess its reasonably easy to use the already processed bits we find in the quest but to mine and process it you'd need to really know what you were doing (if it is aetherium in Blackreach). while this is true, i feel like this is one of those moments that i wish the dragonborn, the player, can go to some kind of scientist/wizard/scholar/someone intellegent and tell em "hey theres a bunch of aetherium down in blackreach, we should go get it" but alas, we can only just derp :|