Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-9601450-20131225183646/@comment-29458028-20141003013101

You do realize if the Dwemer forge could work Aetherium, you just needed Aetherium to make Aetherium stuff. It could be mass produced so long as there's Aetherium to feed it. The forge's not single use so we have an assembly line (the Dwemer made multiple Aetherium stuff with it)

You would have to unlock how to forge the armor, weaponry, artifacts and how to improve them separately through a questline of collecting codices, reverse engineering and other stuff, after reaching 100 smithing and getting the planned "aetherium smithing" perk (which replaces dragon smithing). Also involves getting a dwemer drill to mine Aetherium. A complicated, difficult questline.

Which was why I thought it was OK, given the amount of effort needed to get them. Lore never stated such existed, but it never denied their existence.