Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-8248675-20130629212310/@comment-25047024-20140223082211

Gordon Freemer wrote: Legate Alexandros wrote: Arniel does take some precautions. He clearly knows how to handle it right, he was surprised when Dragonborn brought it unharmed, even though he was handling it without proper packaging. I guess just the wielding a Keening doesn't kill Arniel, but whacking the scaled version of Heart of Lorkhan, appearantly does. Silly Arniel, now you probably know where the Dwemer went, but your shade cannot say anything about it. I will stay with the theory, that those artifacts weakened after destroying the hearth of lorkhan. Also in the topic of shades, it seems that Arniel soul went to this warped soul gem, and souls of Dwemer to the heart of Lorkhan, because there are ghosts (or shades?) of dwemer in Morrowind, but they don't appear in later games. However this could also mean, that the Heart of Lorkhan (I have a feeling, that I'm spelling his name wrong, sorry about that) and the warped soul gem connects them to the Nirn, and let them appear as shades, but when the artifact is destroyed, they can't anymore. One last thing, shouldn't we be able to destroy warped soul gem with all the artifacts?

Nah, Arniels soul became part of the LDB. Let me explain:

When Kagrenac used messed with Lorkhan's Heart, he somehow managed to bind all Dwemer souls to Numidium. Those souls merged and became it's "Skin". The same thing also happened to Arniel. The Warped Soul Gem was thankfully not as powerful as Lorkhan's Heart (or else all Bretons would be gone), but he managed to bind his soul to the nearest Divine being... the Last Dragonborn.