Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-6685058-20130223165123/@comment-11393399-20130629170418

Okay, so I freaking love the Dwemer mythology going on throughout the ES series, so here's my thoughts:

The majority of lore indicates that no one knows where they went. All we know with certainty is that they're not accessible as far as explorable locations go within the playable series, thus far. There absolutely is an indication that the Aedra "willed them away", but there's no indication as to where, or with what level of permanency. I think it's key though that as far as ES goes, Gods/Aedra/Daedra work more on a Greco/Roman level in terms of their power and ability. They aren't exactly all powerful, as evinced by the fact that they fight each other, they seemingly have egos, wills, desires, failings, and have to work with one another, and in some cases mortals in order to achieve their goals. Given that this is provably the case - just look at the main Oblivion storyline- it would be extremely easy to work a "Return of the Dwemer" into a story arc, although I agree with those who've stated that a DLC just wouldn't cut it at all. They'd need to build an entire game, and primary storyline along with a myriad of subplots around this element in order to satisfy the level of complexity that's gone into creating the existing mythologies. Equally critical is the fact that information acquired about them is either written, or comes from other mortal beings, who, even moreso than the extremely powerful Aedra/Daedra, have failings. The written word is only as good or accurate, as the individual writing, and one has to account for the potential that the perception of the writer conveying information may be flawed, or contain elements that were included for subjective reasons. Look at the Morrowind storyline - it's based around the idea that an entire people devoted themselves to 3 living gods, along with quite a bit of writing supporting that they ARE gods, only to find that they are, in all reality, mortals who may have had good intention (or not, depending on which books/people you believe) and acquired great power, but were not Daedra/Aedra/Gods at all. Granted, it's all "what if" at this point, but to address the question posed for this particular forum entry: "Are they coming back", I'd say there's no way to know, unless you happen to be working for Bethesda and have all of this already planned out. No one here, I daresay, can say one way or the other with certainty, but personally? I'd love to see a game built around it. I think if anyone has the ability to come up with a mind-blowing story that finalizes the answer to the question of what happened to them, and have the race return in some unforeseen, but incredibly satisfying way, Bethesda can absolutely do it if they want to. And to those who "love the mystery", I don't think a game would be built around that bit of mythology without introducing more questions than are answered by the seemingly simple questions we know to ask and want the answers to as things stand.