Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26984208-20180530061459

Okay, bare with me because this is small and I still haven't pieced together how she was able to do it but here goes:

Is is possible that Azura has the Dwemer locked up in Moonshadow?

So, Azura was a big player in the War of the First Council. She was practically Nerevar's top advisor in the whole matter; she confirmed the Dwemer were going to use the Heart of Lorkhan, she was the one he and the Tribunal swore an oath to about using the tools on the heart, she created the Nerevarine Prophecy and she cursed the Chimer and turned them into the Dunmer.

Nerevar was a big worshipper of Azura, and after his death I do see her allowing him to live out his spirit life in Moonshadow, kind of like Sovngarde where Nordic heroes go after they die. But then she made the Neverarine Prophecy, and sent him back to Tamriel to be reborn when the time was right.

Moonshadow could be where all of Azura's biggest worshippers go, like Nerevar, as a prize for their devotion but it could be also where she keeps the people who have angered her. Her wrath is known to be swift and painful if brought about, like when she cursed the Chimer to punish Sotha Sil for his words against her right after she created the Nerevarine Prophecy to punish the Tribunal for breaking their oath to her and Nerevar.

The Dwemer don't need to have a happy life in Moonshadow. Like Azura's wrath, Moonshadow may be able to turn dangerous and deadly for the people who have wronged the Daedric Prince. She takes them to her realm of Oblivion, after they die or even before that, and punish them for their misdeeds before they can find redemption, or maybe they can never redeem themselves in her eyes.

Azura could have timed it perfectly or even enchanted the tools briefly so when they hit the heart all of the race were transported into Moonshadow. Maybe when the Tribunal died (or vanished in Vivec's case but Azura could have easily just kidnapped him) she took them to Moonshadow to punish them personally.

This could also explain why Yagrum Bagarn is the only Dwemer on Tamriel left. He wasn't even in Nirn at the time, but in another undescribed outer realm, maybe a realm of Oblivion, and if so Azura could not take him from there because he became 'property' of whoever's realm he was in and her reach cannot stretch to another Daedra's pocket of Oblivion without permission or starting an all out war with that Prince. Thus he was safe and evaded Azura's eye.

And, if Azura could just take the entire Dwemer race to be punished, she could easily take Vivec after the Nerevarine dealt with Almalexia which could explain where he went. Azura took him and the souls of Almalexia and Sotha Sil for wronging her, just like when Molag Bal tortured Mannimarco for trying to plot against him.

We don't know what even goes on in Moonshadow, all we know is what it looks like to people who have visited; a giant beautiful garden that can make mortals half blind. We don't even know the half of it.

Now it's just a theory and I'm not saying it's canon, but it's just an idea of mine I recently thought of. 