#the Dwemer

[almsivislay]

i opened my phone to my notes app when i woke up and apparently before i went to sleep i solved the disappearance of the dwemer???? sleep deprived me can do anything i swear

[dantesthighs]

Just something I did for my favorite OC, Athayne.

[skypevevo]

[skipppppy]

Uhh. Delicious in Skyrim. Is that anything

They go around killing dragons and Laios is absolutely devastated that the dragon meat disintegrates when he absorbs the soul every time. He just wants to eat dragon meat. Let him eat the dragon meat Akatosh

[ony01]

Daedrus and dwemerus. Sus.

[janusfranc15]

Firstly, nice coverage of the (elven!) Creation Myth! Secondly, I like the idea that they DID go somewhere- specifically that the entire Race/Civilisation except One (1) Guy became the literal Bronze Skin of their nascent Robo-God that was planned to use the Heart of another, mostly Dead God to. Deny and Escape the Universe using Facts and Logic.

The Numidium can, when PARTIALLY activated with a shitty power source:

-Cause Akatosh to go on a little Mental Breakdown (not that hard tbh) causing Time to temporarily Explode (Dragonbreak)

-Nope people out of existence

-Cause a Weird Metaphysical Atomic Explosion when Tiber Septim tested it in Elsweyr (Thanks Bastard Murder Jesus)

And at FULL power (and there is a version of it that is. Somehow) it can go Stompy Stompy on the Aedra and Daedra. And can start Nopeing bigger things out of existence.

It. Is. Terrifying.

I really need to share this... THING I left as a YouTube comment

"[Warning - huge The Elder Scrolls cosmology rant that I SWEAR was just supposed to be a funny little joke at one point]

I kinda love the Dwemer as the Precursors trope bc, in lore, the fact that they tried to use the Heart of Lorkhan (aka Shezzar aka Shor aka maybe possibly Pelinal in his past life, the creator deity of the entire world more-or-less, depending on how you look at it) and subsequently just VANISHED is kind of insane. Like they didn't DIE, they didn't actually get TRANSPORTED anywhere, just straight up VANISHED. For real world terms it's like if the very energy that made up their bodies was just… gone. The one and only instance of energy being, for lack of a better word, destroyed. Can you imagine that? That's basically what happened to the Dwemer, and nobody really knows why - the gods didn't actually punish them, nobody really DID anything about them trying to use the Heart of Lorkhan, they just did and subsequently vanished. It's probably the greatest mystery in the whole of Mundus and how do most people react?

"Welp, the Dwemer did a silly and vanished. Who gives a shit, I'm out of Skooma / my son drinks milk / filthy n'wah keep showing up / any other random personal issue." Literally nobody, even the brainiest of brainiacs, gives half a shit. The only thing some people care about is what they can learn from Dwemer tech, and even THEN nobody's thinking about how they could use the automatons as free labor or how steam could revolutionize transportation or any of that shit, instead the only thing anyone ever cares about is typically some magic McGuffin which typically doesn't make any sense whatsoever as to why the Dwemer would even make it.

I mean, again, to reinforce this, every single living being is, to an extent, a divine spirit given form as offspring of the Ehlnofey, who in turn were the offspring of the Aedra (aka the gods), who in turn are sort of the result of Existance Itself (Anu) pondering itself, thus creating it's own Soul (Anuiel) which wished to define itself by defining its own limitations, creating Sithis, then they all fucking ponder themselves so hard they make the et'Ada, one of which was Lorkhan, and then depending on who you ask, Lorkhan either tricked the et'Ada to create the world by pondering their own deaths or by convincing them of the beauty of parenthood or similar. If we follow the "ponder own death" storyline, some of the et'Ada straight up die, others nope the fuck out when they see what's up (among them, most famously, Magnus) and the remaining ones either sacrifice themselves to stabilize the world, essentially BECOMING the physical world or concepts in the world, being now referred to as "World Bones", or refuse to give themselves fully to create the world, choosing instead to populate it with their offspring and becoming the Aedra (also before you ask the Daedra are either the et'Ada who COMPLETELY refused to give anything at all when the world was created but wanted to stick around anyway, reaping all the benefits to no cost to themselves or else are illusions dreamt up by the et'Ada who pondered their own death).

So, mortals are infinitely small fragments of the divine, the One that is Everything, so the Dwemer couldn't have just VANISHED vanished, since they SHOULD still be a part of Anu, but they are nonetheless completely fucking vanished anyway because fuck you. I'm saying they're so thoroughly GONE that NOBODY knows where the fuck they are. At least nobody up to and including the Aedra, the third fucking tier of divinity - we're probably, like, tier 20 AT BEST when we play as the Dragonborn, btw, and that's just bc we have the soul of a Dragon, thereby counting as a descendant of Akatosh, the first ever Aedra. Regular people are probably at like, tier one sjjgillion or something. And the Aedra still (assumedly) have not a clue. Literally the only more divine existences are Anuiel and Sithis in tier 2 and Anu in tier 1, being Literally The Sum Of Everything. Sithis more or less interacts with the physical world via the Dark Brotherhood, at least in the sense that his wife (where is she even from btw), the Night Mother, orders the Brotherhood to murk people for pretty much no reason than she said so and her will is the will of Sithis or whatever. Not relevant - what I mean to say with this is that, essentially, any active actor in the world CAN'T know where the Dwemer went bc then "nobody knows" would be false, so even tier 2 beings don't know. Literally only the Sum Of Everything In Existance, the fucking personification of Before The Big Bang, knows where they went, and THAT tier 1 being is, as far as we all know, purely theoretical in it's existence.

To repeat myself. LITERALLY. NOBODY. KNOWS. Where the Dwemer went. Not even Ultra God knows. Fucking God Squared doesn't know. Only Actually God But For Real This Time MAYBE knows, but we don't know that bc literally nobody can talk to it??? So. AGAIN. NOBODY KNOWS. And your common Nord is more concerned about whether you, a complete stranger, do or don't drink milk."

[igorlevchenko-blog]

Morrowind: Lady Mrkngth, Razak of House Bhadthumz

Commissioned by @brogley who introduced me to the idea of incorporating elements of high fashion into Dwemer design.

[frandookie]

My dunmer sorceress checking out the local dwemer ruin. This was Imenu. She was a researcher sporting 4thUnknown's dwemer armor. Their armor mods are so lovely that I weep.

[ghostsandgod]

[maxandkon]

I hope he is saved

[elderscrollsconceptart]

Dwemer

Concept art for The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind

Art by Michael Kirkbride

[skyrim-forever]

THE FUCKING DWEMER???

[mazurga]

Dwemer ruins (and a not-ruined building and a bridge) in the rain near Markarth

[kydra-umbra]

Blackreach, underneath Skyrim

[sugaredtea]

leyendecker study w my nerevarine and her daughter