Dwemer oil

Post » Wed May 02, 2012 2:18 pm

Yes, true.
But we can agree then that Dwemer structures will not be everlasting?
I think Skyrim and Morrowind showed such, with damage to the strongholds (seemingly) beyond the capabilities of the automatons to repair.
A few times in Skyrim I have snuck across a spider hacking at a collapsed wall, perhaps it is trying to repair?

In any case, the existence of disrepair and collapse points towards discord, or possibly Padomay, being on the winning side.

Yes, of course. It's obvious they aren't going to last forever.

But if we're going to make a contest out of it, then it would be truly incredible if Padhomay did not win. After all, Stasis has only to shift by a single iota to cease being truly static, while absolutely all change must be halted to conquer chaos.*

On a side note: aren't both Anu and Padhomay static, if separated and purified? If a system is constantly unpredictable, isn't that in itself a form of constancy? I guess this is really stated already: to see one's antithesis is to awaken in truth. Paraphrased from I don't know where. Sithis/whatever cannot truly embody change without permanency's counterpoint.

/off topic.
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Post » Wed May 02, 2012 1:03 pm

I find seeing Anu and Padomay as Yes and No, respectively, or 1 and 0 when using computer terms. Then you go into Stasis and Chaos with Anuiel and Sithis, and all that other junk.
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Post » Wed May 02, 2012 2:58 pm

The Dwemer strike me as having perfected fully-automated industrial production.

I'm also pretty sure that they could transmute people into that brass-alloy crap that nobody seems to be able to identify.
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Post » Wed May 02, 2012 12:13 pm

I've never seen the spider animunculi doing anything resembling "repairing." I've only seen them scavenging for gems.

As Aranarkus says, they were built in defiance of the Earthbones. They remain because they were built to remain.
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Post » Wed May 02, 2012 3:30 pm

They remain because they were built to remain.
So they defy the Earthbones... not earthquakes?
You know what I know? The cities built the Dwemer.
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Post » Wed May 02, 2012 12:51 pm

You know what I know? The cities built the Dwemer.

Dwemer are the cities.
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Post » Wed May 02, 2012 5:08 pm

Dwemer are the cities.
Anything slightly gold-colored at least.
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