Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-2165692-20140425203121/@comment-202.156.139.1-20140427074356

All falmer are the superhero Daredevil (nah, just kidding)

The theory of hearing is quite silly. If it were true, if you are close to a falmer and clanking around in daedric plate or blasting off chain lightning, a falmer would fall over and cradle his/her head in pain, but they DON"T. Anyone who says that the falmer can adjust their hearing to compensate, they don't have PRECOGNITION to know when the sounds will come, or else they need nothing else, no senses. Also, if hearing was true, moment a fireball went off close to a falmer, you'd have their brains exploding from sensory overload.

Theory of smell is the most ridiculous. Smell takes time to travel through diffusion and unless the falmer got 1000 foot noses like pinocchio who went "my nose grows", they aren't going to hit you accurately at long ranges, which they do.

I'm not going to explain touch and taste, for good reason.

The other theory on having a permanent detect life spell. OK, more legit, until you consider they don't rain magic on you? Because if someone could weave a spell like that, whats to stop them from creating powerful destruction spells? Also, if someone says they have electrostatic fields, then lightning cloaking near them will kill them or at least cripple them due to sensory overload again. Also, both should work on invisible targets, but they don't.

Also, AES went "Ooh, gameplay =/= lore" and "Lore is based on game mechanics...", but he/she fails to see that game mechanics MUST be based on lore as well. If the falmer are blind, then they should be.

In fact, evidence points to falmer which can see - besides their good accuracy, the fact that they got eye sockets, when you go invisible they stop seeing you, they actually orientate their eyes towards you during attack and the fact that they respond to detected ranged threats quickly. In fact, almost no ingame evidence supports their blindness, besides lore.

I'd say they got a lousier form of predator vision - they don't see color, but infrared, so they see you in the dark, but they can't actually see many other things. Invisiblilty also probably cloaks your heat signature...