Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-5131223-20130411153637/@comment-5724540-20130916135042

Elrohir of Valenwood wrote:

I think I know why the Dwarves Betrayed the Snow Elves and turned them into the Falmer. Dwarven Automatons run on Soul Gems, we know this because of Calcelmo’s Lab with that dwarven spider you can control with the staff. So that means that to create a mass of Dwarven Automatons you needed a constant supply of souls.

Nealoth told us that the Dwarven Ruins called Nchardak could make a fully functional automaton in one day. That means one soul every day, at least. We’re not sure if he was talking about the Centurions in particular or all of them, but I would assume that it takes less time to make the Dwarven Spider Workers.

This means that the Dwarves needed to find ways to get souls without having to travel very far, or have someone going out hunting for the souls. Keep that in mind.

Remember in Dawnguard, when you were talking to the Snow Elf and he told us that the Snow Elves went to the Dwarves and the Dwarves blinded them, and he said that they had to have done something else to change the race to the Betrayed? Yea, here’s the thing. Snow Elves have souls that can only go in Black Soul Gems. That’s obvious since they had a society that rivaled the Altmer. The Falmer have Souls that can be put in Petty or Lesser depending on the sub-type of the Falmer.

Remember what I said about the Dwarves needing a source of easily accessed souls? The Dwarves created the Falmer to harvest their souls for the Automatons.

Incorrect, they used them for protection and slave labor, notice how almost all falmer are in mines or cities of the dwemer?