Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-62.31.43.199-20131118141224/@comment-13446185-20140313011837

Smoking.Chimp wrote: Hi Contributor 62 and welcome, however belated  :)

I'm not sure that the Dwemer are extinct. But I think if they were available for comment, their point of view, regarding the more powerful entities in the Elder Scrolls Universe, would remain largely unchanged. Don't forget, they treated the heart of Lorchan as little more than a machine part and, to what end, the commentators of the time would not have been technology-savvy enough to grasp. It could have been anything from mass teleportation device, to a spaceship or even a humble robot wherewith to terrorise their enemies. But I think that their insular focus on technology suggests that their culture tended to look beyond the narrow view of allies and enemies and see a larger picture of alternative territories - which would explain why they dug out these very secure underground fortresses of theirs instead of going out and conquering their enemies (as opposed to defeating them in battle then proceeding to return underground and largely ignore the surfacers). Maybe I'm missing something here, but that's how I see the Dwemer based on the clues left lying around. The Dwemer didn't worship the gods because they were arrogant and they couldn't except the fact that they were lesser beings. In order to prove they were better than the gods they attempted to make a god out of themselves (Numidium).

I don't remember seeing anything that said they treated Lorkhan's Heart as just a "machine part".