Feasibility of a Dwemer Rifle

Post » Thu Jun 20, 2013 4:30 am

For whatever reason, I've got this idea of a dwarven weapon that uses soul gems to fire pure beams of magicka. I'm on the 360, so I'm not asking of modding tips, just wondering if anyone else thinks a weapon like this is possible.

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Post » Thu Jun 20, 2013 4:44 am

No its not. The god Eeballik Lenoloc goes around and erases things that don't belong in Tamriel. Whether that be things it finds from a previous kalpa, or things it just doesn't want mortals to have in Nirn like anything resembling a firearm.

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Post » Thu Jun 20, 2013 10:11 am

I don't think so..

Dwemer Technology is Steam based, and I don't see how: Steam + Captured Soul = "Ima Chargin meh Laza!"
*wait to see if anyone gets the reference*

But no, All Dwemer Technology is steam based, I don't see anyway you could combine Steam with a Magical rock to produce a Laser... Not to mention the fan-backlash...

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Post » Thu Jun 20, 2013 2:04 pm

I was thinking the soul gem is more of a battery, drawing energy from it, and focusing it into a beam through mirrors and lenses inside of it.

And yes, I now what you were talking about

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Post » Thu Jun 20, 2013 5:01 am

but that is not how Dwemer technology works..

Dwemer Technology is Steam based, Like the Steam-train Engine, or those Riverboats from the Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

both Dwemer Technology, or Soul Gems just don't work that way.

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Post » Thu Jun 20, 2013 3:43 pm

The idea that their willful manipulation of the earthbones to create a super-metal, their assembly of intelligent mechanical slaves, the Numidium itself arose from a society based on steam power is a little farfetched - especially since we've encountered and tampered with the very crux of Dwemer god-tampering in the games, and it sure doesn't look steamy. It looks sorta fleshy.

No, the problem with a Dwemer gun isn't technological feasibility, but rather why they would need such a thing. But to say that they wouldn't/couldn't make it would be to second-guess an entire race. Perhaps one singularly violent and philosophically-disinclined mer might suddenly get struck by such a thought. More likely, a rather daft mannish mage might well have reverse-engineered something of this sort from their old brassy arsenal.

Also, "pure beams of magicka" honestly sounds more like an Ayleid thing to me.

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Post » Thu Jun 20, 2013 8:25 am

Sure sure, just don't think so small. A Dwem-tech gun wouldn't be so base as a steam-powered mass-thrower or, heaven-forbid-it, a magickal pewpew toy. Nah, the Deepers would wrought something truly esoteric and profane, like say, weapons-grade depleted elenchus slugs hurled from inertia-less chiralcaster gauntlets.

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Post » Thu Jun 20, 2013 2:30 am

It is a somewhat feasible idea; soul gems can often be found within Skyrim's Dwemer Animunculi, and the Dwemer are an easy go-to with this kind of thing.

The problem is, they are too easy a go-to. The idea has been stale since people first started modding Morrowind*. There are dozens of Dwemer Gun mods. It has been unoriginal and overdone for over a decade.

There's also the issue of their common usage of crossbows and higher magicks; when one has self-aiming ballistae and a wide variety of automaton warriors armed with killing sounds, what is the point of a gun?

*Not to insult your imagination. If you had seen Dwemer Gun mods before, you probably wouldn't be asking the question.

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Post » Thu Jun 20, 2013 7:33 am

Theres always the legendary Daedric Assault Rifle, heh.

But I guess there could be a dwemer firearm that shot like steam out of it or maybe bolts at a rapid fire. But I don't see them shooting any magical beams from guns.

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Post » Thu Jun 20, 2013 2:34 pm

I might be the odd one out here, but I personally think the Altmer would be better suited for crazy beams of magicka in full technicolor. They do like to fire things in majestic ways after all.

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Post » Thu Jun 20, 2013 2:13 am

Dwemer technology isn't solely steam based. It's a combination of magic and steam. No soul gem; Dwemer Animunculi don't work.

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Post » Thu Jun 20, 2013 3:01 am

Oh sure. But that raises the question of how there are any coastal towns left standing on non-Dominion soil (assuming that their death lasers are all mounted on ships). Presumably the Legion have something just as good. I guess we're back to the good old "magicka obsoletes firearms" point. Or at least, fireballs are just as good as zap guns.

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Post » Thu Jun 20, 2013 4:03 pm

Thy could make a 'chu ko nu' for that

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