Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-33305276-20171009085606

I stopped playing Skyrim years ago but this thing still bugs me. First Im not very knowledgeable person in regards the ES universe and also Skyrim so please no shaming or anything. I dont even know how to start this so yeah. One day I saw this site on google and apparently you can post here whatever Skyrim-related and theories so I remembered mine and here goes...

There are many unique trees in Skyrim and they're all piqued my interest. Im also interested on Dwemers. They one day Im just running around a dwemer ruin under a side quest "The Lost Expedition" and came across a journal and a tree. So yeah, I became a bit interested about that tree but theres little to no info about it before the quest starts, during, and after it ended so I just set it aside. Then DLCs came.

I believe it was Dawnguard DLC. Then theres a side quest along that dlc. It was "Lost to the Ages" side quest where you get an aetherium artifact and the Zephyr Bow. Then out of the blue, before the final part of the quest, another tree appeared in front of me. Then I remembered the first tree that piqued my interest. I started thinking maybe theres something behind these trees. So I started looking. But no answers on the web. Some say that they are just a gift from the above, or Eldergleam sapplings or planted by Atmorans when they first arrived in Skyrim but like I said, Im not really that knowledgeable about any of that. I went looking again until I came to a conclusion. Maybe  these trees are somewhat related to one another. I started Skyrim again, and run through the quests and tried to understand each and every part of the quests.

Heres what I got:

Ok, the first tree is the tree of Skyrim(NO DLC). Found in the side quest "the lost expedition". Apparently in my research and with the info others gave me, there are clans there, dwemer clans, who have a thing for war. Civil war erupted there. The journal said the tree is like a symbol or power or something to those dwemer there. Then, whats the quest goal? To turn on the defences. After the quest, no one speaks about the tree anymore. Not even Calcelmo or courier passing by.

Then Dawnguard came, and added some more ruins. The one quest is the "lost to the ages" quest where aetherium forge and zephyr bow lies like I said earlier. Theres a tree just before you get to the forge. And if you play Skyrim W/O DLC yet, u know that the "Ruins of Bthalft" is just a bandit den, theres no door leading down. Some books here tells about how dwemer can make aetherium coz this is a very hard magical rock.

So in sum, the first part, is to activate the defences, then dwemer war arrived, then whoever won in the clan, took control of the forge was what I guessed.

I only found two trees then I stopped playing. Im thinking that another tree or trees (since there are still 2 DLCs remaining: Hearthfire and Dragonborn) will show on some new ruins or previous ruins like the Bthalft which, like I said, was just a bandit den before dlc arrived.

My theory here is that the trees act as symbol, a connection. Saying that this is point A and that is point B. "The Lost Expedition" is point A, "Lost to the Ages" is point B. They all have "Lost" in their names. Funny right? One or two more trees will end my search, theory, or whatever.

Yeah I just shared it now. Just comment or pm your thoughts. Im ready for my theory to get shot down anytime... to get it off my mind.  