Board Thread:Skyrim/@comment-14027812-20130807032958/@comment-25047024-20140428144930

Lygarx wrote: Twigman55 wrote:

Lygarx wrote: each soul gem has a tiny pocket dimension that can house a soul. during the quest given by Azura, you were able to go into the dimension space contained within Azura's star. All soul gems probably hold a small pocket dimension and using the soul's power inside the gem would break a soul gem since they are fragile and Azura's star has a better and stronger dimensional structure that can handle the process of taking the souls out. Black soul gem pocket dimensions are tied to the soul cairn and using those gems is actually the process of offering up the souls to the Soul Cairn and the Soul Cairn in return gives power to enchant an object. Regular Soul gems are probably tied to a different dimension. And Azura's star may possibily be tied to Azura's realm of Oblivion. Azura definitely knows a lot about soul gems and how they real0ly work since she was able to take from natural soul gems and artificially create her own perfect soul gem. She may have been the one who caused the Dwemer's disappearance by applying what she knew of soul gems to teach Nerevar how to stop the Dwemer from drawing power from the Heart of Lorkhan and making the heart act as a soul gem and absorb every Dwemer in Mundus. So therefore the Dwemer can never return due to the fact that the Heart of Lorkhan was destroyed in the events of Morrowind. another dimension. nothing truly disappears.

I first want to say that the Heart of Lorkhan was never destroyed. The Nerevarine simply broke the Enchantments which were holding the Heart in one place. Basicly, he just set it free.

Then I want to say that Kagrenac managed to erase most of the Dwemer (I say most because we know that Yagrum [and possibly some other Dwemer] weren't affected by what  Kagrenac did because they were in an outer realm) from existence by binding them to the skin of Numidium. The Dwemer over-soul ceased to exist as soon as Numidium was destroyed.