Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-121.217.164.118-20130929050443/@comment-26821260-20150726022757

i concur with Alduin1996. consider the cult of technology apparently practiced by the Dwemer. they are analogous with the Maya, or with those currently on Earth who think it would be sweet to inhabit a robot instead of dying. whether in response to an extinction threat, or merely as a result of their own ideology, i believe they voluntarily sacrificed themselves to maintain their machines. after all, machines last forever. the incidence of low-level soul gems in the animunculi is primarily for loot distribution; it could be explained away any number of ways.