Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-69.171.163.78-20130529211921/@comment-7153552-20130603171258

I'm not sure what kind of threat they pose to Tamriel as a whole, but they certainly could do some damage to Skryim. While the Forsworn are annoying in the Reach, the Falmer do have Blackreach and therefore access to the entire province (yay Dwemer caverns across the land). Now, I have made mention in previous threads about the possibility of Blackreach being bigger, or of there being more areas like it throughout Tamriel. With that possibility in mind, the Falmer could then grow stonger and make more impact on the world as a whole. Also, I'm sure there are other Chantries, if I remember right Galebor even makes a passing reference as such. If they had a personal vendetta to take out all of the "old" Falmer in hopes of establishing themselves a real presence under the current formation of the Falmer, they would then have motive to expand beyond the borders of Skyrim. While the original Falmer never really expanded, they would have mostly likely had Chantries elsewhere for other Mer brethren seeking enlightenment. . . or possibly for indoctrination or trying to build on magical hotspots like Red Mountain ot the Throat of the World.

All-in-all, pretty good idea. I don't know how much of a role they played on the disappearance of the Dwemer. They certainly fought with them (as all slaves eventually rise up against their masters), but if memory serves in the last advance they made all they found were empty suits of armor standing at the front lines and empty halls when they made their way into the cities. Granted no true historian was among the Falmer, but this is what I seem to remember from one of these sites (no, it wasn't fan-fic).