I think I am one step closer to figuring out the mystery of the Dwemer. The Dwemer are somehow linked to calipers. They have both mysteriously vanished off the face of Nirn, calipers vanishing sometime after the oblivion crisis.
In short, we find calipers, we will find the dwarves. Riften's court mage helped me to deduce this.
Theories anyone? I think this has something to do with sweetrolls aswell.