Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-121.217.164.118-20130929050443/@comment-118.136.108.51-20160329152502

Late to the party, but oh well. The theory I like the most and find most believable is the one by either Divayth Fyr or Vivec (one of the two I can't remember, I think it was Divayth though). The theory states that the Dwemer's disappearance might have had something to do with the process of acquiring CHIM, which is a state of an almighty existence beyond even that of a god's.

This state if I'm not mistaken, cannot be achieved by a God, but only by mortals. The way you can achieve CHIM, is by looking at the Tower, a godly image that exists inside the heart of Lorkhan. However, to be able to actually achieve CHIM, you need to be able to pinpoint your exact individuality. If you fail to do that, then your existence and any trace of it whatsoever will be erased from the entire Aurbis. I think the Dwemer might have simply disappeared entirely, because when Kagrenac tried to utilize the Heart if Lorkhan, he messed up something, causing the Dwemer race to disappear entirely, which explains why Vivec couldn't sense them anywhere in the Aurbis.

The mess up could've been that the Dwemer weren't able to pinpoint their individualities, thus causing their existence to be wiped out entirely. Or maybe Kagrenac's unirthodox use of the Heart caused it to have an unexpected result. Either way, I think this is how the Dwemer disappeared off Aurbis.