Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-28928375-20160704230601/@comment-68.38.87.24-20190930120043

I've always had the theory that, maybe not all, but some Dwemer still exist in Tamriel as the Automatons. The Dwemer were obsessed with improving themselves, and finding a way to transcendence or immortality, and the automatons could have been their first attempts at immortality. All the machines have filled soul gems on them when you loot their bodies. Yeah, they could have just been using the souls energy to power the machines, but what then makes them all seamingly have artificial intelligence? I think the automatons are basically possessed by the Dwemer souls that were used to create them, and they are keeping the Dwarven machinery running since they're the only ones left. There also seems to be a sort of hierarchy/ class system with the different automatons. Like almost as if the lower class dwarves were put into the Dwarven Spider Workers, maybe the guards were put into the Spheres, and the Upper class got the Centurions 🤔 Plus if all the Dwarves were turned to ash except their armor, then that would mean the Dwaves in the metallic bodies would have be safe from the genocidal barbecue. Idk. Just a thought I've always had. Thoughts?