Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-10197675-20130806142227/@comment-37023646-20180926150842

After watching this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmJkQKViQmI  "The Most Dangerou Tree in Skyrim"

The Soul Cairn, Blackreach, and the Sleeping Tree glow in the same color. Does that hint at some kind of connection? My first thought at seeing the tree in dark at nighttime was the it may have grown out of a natural aetherium deposit, or because the tree looks dead, maybe it's some kind of connection between the Soul Cairn and the living world. Maybe every time you drink the sap, you're losing part of your soul.

On that note, the Ingenium is also the same shade of blue as aetherium, AND it harvests souls. So, what if atherium is also somehow connected to souls, or soul harvesting/collection? Hell.what if the Dwemer didn't just "twist" the Snow Elves after years of slavery, what if they were actually using some kind of soul sucking tech, drained the SE souls, and used that to power all of their machinery??

It could explain both the existence of the Falmer, AND the disappearance o the Dwemer. With no more Falmer in existence, no more souls to suck, thus no way to continue their society. But this would lean heavily on suggesting that only Snow Elf souls will work. Maybe they created something like the Ingenium for themselves, and left this plain after the Falmer replaced the SE.

Maybe this is why we find such cruel torture machinery in Blackreach where they "mined" aetherium. I'm talking about that execution arena. Maybe Clavicus Mer-napped them in fear that Umbra would do the same for their industrious soul collecting methods. Maybe Clavicus was "impressed by their vile methods", and collected all of them. That fits in with the part of the lore that says the Dwemer were risking angering the Gods. I definetly feel that there is a connection here between the Dwemer and soul collection, through use of the aetherium.