Sorry, euphemisms. Doom Drum is another name for Lorkhan, Tin Man is Numidium, and son of a battlemage can be substituted for something more colorful.
i see, thanks. and to answer that question, no, that's not what i was thinkin, but now that you mentioned siphoning and the leeches, maybe, maybe. not what i was thinking though.
my line of thought, as Sheo-like as it is, is that Dwemer reached some level of development(magica, tech, etc), looked at the Vitruvian Man, decided that they are the [cencored] of the universe and should be gods(or something like that). Kagrenac, under pressure from the war and how it was going, not researching his stuff further, just went ahead and tried to speed up their quest for goodhood, and a)paid the price OR b)it worked and we now have a race of gods. or both a) and b ) took place, hence the the Dragon broke. i'd not drag dragon brakes into this were it not for what R'leyt-harhr had to say in "Where were you when the Dragon Broke?"(particularly, the highlighet part) :
“Do you mean, where were the Khajiit when the Dragon Broke? R'leyt tells you where: recording it. 'One thousand eight years,' you've heard it. You think the Cyro-Nordics came up with that all on their own. You humans are better thieves than even Rajhin! While you were fighting wars with phantoms and giving birth to your own fathers, it was the Mane that watched the ja-Kha'jay, because the moons were the only constant, and you didn't have the sugar to see it. We'll give you credit: you broke Alkosh something fierce, and that's not easy. Just don't think you solved what you accomplished by it, or can ever solve it. You did it again with Big Walker, not once, but twice! Once at Rimmen, which we'll never learn to live with. The second time it was in Daggerfall, or was it Sentinel, or was it Wayrest, or was it in all three places at once?
Get me, Cyrodiil? When will you wake up and realize what really happened to the Dwarves?”its just that he talks of dragon brakes related event and then mentions the Dwemer(isn't it who he means when he sais Dwarves?) and ask when will we realize what really happened to the Dwarves. granted, he might have had too much skooma recently. or he might mean something else aside from what i am seeing here... in which case, crash and burn to all the madness outlined in the first post