The whole thing with the blinded shield-thane yadda yadda.

Magnus' eye remains on Tamriel, therefore he was blinded!

This just just clicked for me, sorry if it's old news.

I find it interesting as well that the Falmer (who, as far as I understand from Skyrim lore, razed Saarthal to find the Eye of Magnus) were blinded after their wars with the Nords. While perhaps not as important in the long run to enantiomorph (and thank you for pointing that out, since I keep replacing Magnus with Trinimac and keep forgetting that others look to him as the observer instead), perhaps that irony, as well as the presence of the Falmer "eyes" in Dwemer ruins, is intentional.