Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-3471274-20130606153913/@comment-218.186.253.45-20140109160822

Dark Jeto wrote: The Falmer still carry the taint in their bodies, if they didn't then the effects of the poisons they'd been forced by the Dwemer would've worn off a lot sooner. Also, the Falmer in Blackreach are either the descendants of the originally enslaved Falmer, meaning that the effects are hereditary and would very likely be contractable through the blood, or they are the original Falmer that were poisoned and thus would have a more potent amount of it in their system. The food might not be in their system anymore, but the effects of it are still prevelant and have long lasting effects. I don't think so, I think the fungus corrupted the DNA of the falmer, so they mutated and became the hideous monstrosities they are today, also why it cannot be cured and why it is heriditary.

As the Z boss did say, even if you ate corrupted DNA, you just crap it out (if you ate a fried tumor, you aren't going to get cancer), so I doubt Vulthuryol got the problem from the falmer. Any poison that bioaccumulates cannot be passed on (if you had mercury in your blood, your kids don't get it), but can be consumed, but since the falmer aren't the original snow elves, plus their lives probs go shortened, I doubt Vulthuryol got owned by falmer toxic blood.

Nice backstory though. Do you write fanfics or something?

I think the same thing happened to him as with Numinex, Dragons seem to weaken and even biologically (although not physically, as their soul enters some sort of dormancy/stasis until their body is reconstriucted by SLEN TIID VO) die if they allow it to happen, so it could be that the same happened with Vulthuryol, he lost hope as he was stuck in blackreach and he wasted away as his powers atrophied and waned, so he became easy to kill and his fire breath lost potency. Notice that only his attacks lost strength, so its quite probable that he wasted away and became weak, but his scales never degenerated.