Board Thread:Skyrim/@comment-11444045-20131003032625/@comment-68.231.32.32-20160627070757

173.25.213.5 wrote: As with some of the lore on the Falmer, the Dwemer once made the Falmer eat poisonous fungi which may or may not have contributed to their blindness, they could have made their slaves eat similar fungi to control their behavior. Because we all know that slaves generally out weigh th population they are serving, I.E. why the Dwemer may have disappeared because they were wiped out by their slaves because they stopped eating the fungi

obviously speculation on this part but it could be one scenerio If you actually read some books in skyrim "the Treachery of the dwarves was so deep, they made the fungi an essential part of the Snow elves diet, ensuring that not only were they blind, but so were they're offspring" it would make sense that, growing up around the fungi that they were made slaves by, they would also be coherent enough to figure out how to use it aswell