While lurking on the Lore section, I had an idea so crazy, that I felt the need to subject you all to it share it with everyone, and so I made an account just to post this.

I was reading Hevnoraak's interesting theories about Jyggalag and the Thalmor, and he pointed out how the Altmer built Crystal-Like-Law, which was destroyed in some fashion, and Jyggalag is all about crystals, and I thought, maybe Jyggalag is a walking Tower, like Walks-Brass. Then I thought about how Walks-Brass was actually built inside of another Tower.

Then it hit me, the creation of Numidium has some interesting parallels to child-birth and pregnancy (Which I admit I may be just me being stupid) (And while I will end up using the word 'Sperm' a lot, I mean it in the most mature way possible, so lets all be advlts about it)

I apologize if this has been proposed before, but I have not found any threads that have (in the two minutes I searched) and so I will just go ahead and do it.

For this example, we will assume that Red Mountain/Tower is a womb, the Heart of Lorkhan is like an egg, and the Dwemer are like a sperm. The Dwemer, coming across the Heart, built Numidium around it, much in the same way, that when an egg is fertilized, the resulting zygote, and later fetus, grow around it, in a way. I suspect that the Dwemer, not able to tamper with the heart until the profane tools of Morrowind fame were created, and as such did not build Numidium then move the Heart to it, but built Nuimidium around the heart.

If this hypothesis is indeed true, then it could possibly connect to the disapearance of the Dwemer at Red Mountain, as it could be that Numidium was not finished, but mearly close to finished, (which could further explain Tiber Septim's need for a construction site and test ground for Numidium, he was not just piecing together an already finish golem, but finishing a nearly completed golem, which may not have worked properly) and as such, when Kagrenac panicked and used the tools on an uncompleted Numidium, resulting in a reaction other than what he expected.

The disapearance of the Dwemer relates further into the idea of "Dwemer as sperm", as if their souls were indeed bonded with Numidium, it could be seen as the same way a sperm bonds with an egg to create life, life in this case that took the form of a robot god. If Lorkhan is indeed Numidiums "mother", this could lead to interesting questions about Lorkhans nature, as Lorkhan's Shezzarines so far have been exclusively male, and particularly macho men at that, and he hasn't really had any 'feminine' characteristics.

And if may move this over to C0DA, it is interesting how Jubal calls Numidium a 'brat' and an 'entitled teenager' and implies it has to 'grow up'. And when Numidium admits he simply wanted to win, what is more childish then that? Jubal also infers that the Numidium has a "[censored] it" attitude, which again, is highly childish. Children, especially young children, tend to do things and act out for no other reason then because they can (although these things usually aren't as drastic as punching entire countries into the sea on a whim)

And finally, I found some intersting parallels to Numidium in the Mythic Dawn Commentaries. It is stated by Mankar Camoran, that Mehrunes Dagon was created by the Magna-Ge in secret, in the bowels of Lyg, much in the same way that Numidium was constructed by the Dwemer, in secret, in the bowels of Red Mountain, which is even more interesting considering that Lyg is essentially parallel Tamriel. And while the Magna-Ge are said to have created Mehrunes as a beacon of hope, could it not be said that Numidium represented hope to the Dwemer, a way of escape from mortality? Could it be that Dagon is infact a previous Kalpa's Numidium? Or even more disturbing, that the Magna-Ge are a previous Kalpa's variation of the Dwemer?

And now that my rambling is done, you are all free to start picking holes in it. Thank you for your time