Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-28928375-20160704230601

This is my WIP theory as to how the Dwemer ACTUALLY disappeared.

It is also my first post on this forum. 

Here it goes. The Dwemer never actually vanished from Tamriel. They are trapped in un-time with the Brass God, and have been ever since they invoked him at the Battle of Red Mountain. It is known that activating Numidium has induced dragon break in the past, and it is recorded that the Dwemer successfully activated the first Brass Tower on the date of the Battle of Red Mountain, the same day their entire race disappeared from the face of Tamriel.

 So Why did they vanish?

 Well, and this is getting into the metaphysics of Skyrim here, but I am just going to put it out there:

 When the Dwemer activated Numidium, they allowed the secrets of immortality as discovered by High-Engineer 'K' to manifest in all Dwemers. As the seeming purpose of dragon breaks in nature is to resolve any paradoxes consequential of returning to a Dawn-Era mode of existence (that is, on a non-linear timeline) by occurring whatever events had to have had happened simultaneously in real, linear-time (remember the events of Morrowind and Oblivion), it is only natural that the Dwemer fell, along with their Brass God, into a state of un-time. Everyone can't be immortal at once, so time (as it exists in The Elder Scrolls) had to resolve itself.

And so the Dwemer's dying wish of existing on a higher plane was suddenly fulfilled. It would explain why the temples did not go with the Dwemer. Of course by the time the events of Skyrim take place, temples like Mzulft have fallen into serious disrepair, but they weren't seemingly obliterated by anything. It was a temporal phenomenon that wiped out the Dwemer, not a spatial one.

There is also a quaint little star called Mnemoli that must be researched more in depth. Unless of course we already have all the lore we can get on that. We know it shines brighter every untime, (I believe this occurs IG somewhere around midsummer). We also know from Vehk's teachings that it causes the summit of an unnamed mountain to catch fire every time it passes. While it is not said what mountain it was that this happens to, the pilgrims of Veloth agree it was the location of one of THE LAST DWEMER STRONGHOLDS IN TAMRIEL. This can NOT be a coincidence! Can it? The God of time is a dragon named Akatosh, maybe he is the one spewing fire on Red Mountain, scolding the arrogance of the Dwemer race.

The Dwemer getting stuck un-time would also explain why there is no evidence of them ever having reached Sovngarde (you don't have to be Nord to get there), oblivion, the Black Marsh, or the Dreamsleeve, which is where their life force would have been sent if they actually died. Which they apparently did not, as they can't be found anywhere in the after-life's of any other races, nor in the inescapable realm of Dreamsleeve. This would further corroborate that all of Dwemer-kind achieved immortality on that fated day, and as a consequence, had and have to experience reality on the plane of un-time for the rest of their days. Immortality is for the gods and the honorable dead.

A maxim that has yet to be broken in the Skyrim Universe.

I know the discussion won't ever end, but I'm going to need you guys to go in game (Elder Scrolls 5 and Morrowind) to find more evidence for my theory. Anything helps, but I believe we are going to have to look closer at any and all Dwemer-to-English inscriptions that have been created thus far. From Blackreach, Mzulft, you name it.

I also believe that the Promised Day has something to do with the Prophecy of the Dragonborn as it relates to Numidium and the nature of Akatosh.

Some players have recently traced a pentagram through locations of import on the global Skyrim map, connecting 5 insects stuck in bell jars, making almost the image of a transmutation spell-circle. Perhaps the Promised Day will be brought about by a transmutation spell and not, say, a destruction spell. Maybe the intent of a creed like the Thalmor would be to banish mankind to the realm of un-time by granting them immortality, rather than blow them up in world-eating flames. It was pretty effective on the Dwemer.

It would also be nice to know more about the larger metaphysics of the whole of creation in Skyrim, i.e. The tower, the wheel, the rim, the void, the spokes, and how all of those things play into untime.

Thanks for reading!

Yours Truly, A Fan

P.S. Do you think the Dwemer are trapped in un-time? If so, do you think they could ever find a way to escape it? Do you think they would, granted it would mean they would have to give up their immortality?



P.S.S. PLEASE correct me if I made any blaring mistakes. For instance, Mnemoli does not shine brighter in midsummer, but during Last Seed... Thanks!!





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