User blog comment:Blinded-Men/Possible Future DLC/@comment-3496379-20120709150957

The Lost to the Ages quest in the Dawnguard DLC is easily one of my new favorite side quests, and one that I'm really looking forward to playing for myself. Still, there was a lot of potential that I think went unresolved, and I think a future DLC could certainly expand on it some.

When I read through The Aetherium Wars and how the mineral could be responsible for the collapse of the Dwemer city-states, I started to wonder how exactly the Dwemer were able to produce the Aetherium Key from something that was supposedly impossible to procure under normal conditions. Eventually my mind settled on an Aetherium-tipped pickaxe. Rock breaks rock, Aetherium breaks Aetherium, right? And everyone who's been to Blackreach can probably guess where all their Aetherium came from.

So then I wondered, is it possible that such a pickaxe (or at least schematics to build one) could still exist--and that this pickaxe could be used? And I think that could be a promising quest right there for a future DLC--being able to accomplish something that even the most technologically advanced race on all of Nirn was never able to do.