I was told an interesting theory the other day regarding the Dunmer and the curse that created them. I've been poking around online looking for anymore thoughts, opinions, and evidence on the topic, but was unable to find anything besides for a small snippet in a TheEpicNate315 video, so i thought I'd share it with you all here. Before I get to the theory I'm going to set up some background information for those who are unclear on the history of the Dunmer.
In the first era, year seven hundred, Azura laid a curse upon a race of Mer residing in Morrowin known as the Chimer. This is said to have occurred because Azura was angered by the actions of the Tribunal when they murdered Nerevar, and used Kagrenac's tools on the Heart of Lorkhan in order to steal its drvine essence in order to turn themselves into living gods. It is important to note that the Chimer were a race of Mer that had split from the Altmer of Summerset Isles to live in Morrowind when the Altmer began to worship the Aedric pantheon, where as the Chimer worshipped the Daedric pantheon. Now back to the curse part. Once the Tribunal had succeeded, Sotha Sil further angered the Daedric Prince by Moking her, saying that they no longer needed the Deadra, as the Tribunal were the new gods of the Chimer people. Upon this accruing Azura appeared before the Tribunal and cursed them for their sacrilege and heresy, as well as the entire Chimer race, transforming them into the Dunmer by turning their skin the color of ash, and they're eyes as red as blood.
Now with the theory it is the possibility that the curse is beginning to be lifted from the Dunmer, transforming then back to the Chimer. This is because one of the classic most noticeable features of the the Dunmer, besides for their dark ashy or bluish skin, three of the Dunmer in Skyrim lack the signature red eyes. These Dunmer are Karliah, a Nightengale and former member of the Thieves Guild introduced in their questline, as well as the Sarethi sisters of the Sarethi Farm just outside Riften. There are some different possibilities to this theory, the first one being a possibility that exists with every theory in The Elder Scrolls, being that this was just a mistake Bethesda made with the game or simply just something added without reason or thought. Another being that the curse is slowly being lifted by Azura herself, or maybe by another Daedric Prince. Lastly being that the Dunmer as a race have outlasted Azura's curse, that she intended them to die out as a people after the events that took place at the Battle of Red Mountain, that it is and has been slowly wearing of ever since the moment the Chimer were changed, a process taking hundreds of years across hundreds of generations and that by the events of Skyrim were just starting to see the first stages. And with another Elder Scrolls game release in the next few years who knows what Bethesda could be planning for this fascinating race of Mer.
This ended up being a lot longer than I originally intended it to be, but I found the whole thing to be very interesting. Let me know what you all think regarding the whole thing, Do you think it was just a slip up on Bethesdas part? Do you find the whole thing idiotic and upset that I wasted your time with my post? Do you think this is something interesting, the Dunmer reverting back into the Chimer, that you would like to see continue in the Elder Scrolls VI. Or do you like the Dunmer exactly the way they are and don't want any such changes made to the race?