I was just wondering what dwarven weapons were made of are they steel or some kinda rare metal?

An alloy that has something to do with the manipulation of the earthbones

Past discussion suggests that it could even be simple bronze (I disagree right now), but as stated above, Earth Bone manipulation is a factor as well.

Dwarven weapons appear to be consisting of an alloy highly resistant to corrosion. Whatever it is, it's stronger than Imperial steel but weaker than Orcish steel. Or whatever metal the orcs use.;

The question is ultimately pointless because fantasy settings are great at ignoring the real physical properties of metal. It's all for show.

Still considering the Dwemer are well over 3000 years old and armor and weapons weren't all that advanced back then, Pelinals armor was 'futuristic', Brass or Bronze isn't a bad guess. They made a whole god out of the material too.

Then taking into account that a complete matching set of Dwemer Armor seems to behave as if it were power armor, not burdening it's user. They're well ahead of everybody else.

Magic is a distorting factor though, some beads and feathers can make a more formidable armor then all the steel in the world.

My guess is heavily enchanted bronze, so it's bronze that's a bit more sharp and durable, as well as longer-lasting.

The cyrodiilic Dwarven armor is probably just a replica, though.

I also heard the armor in Morrowind was actually a centurion's outer casing?

It looks very much like it, so I would not say it is a stretch. Those Dunmer probably got a hold of a few disabled robots, and gutted it of its engines and wore the shells.

Yeah...+1 AC magical rings.

read the book "ruins of kemel-ze"(sp?) it confirms it

There is no technical progress in TES.

In my opinion, I believe that Dwemer equipment is alchemically treated bronze and steel. And by alchemically I mean Medieval magic/metallurgy, not plants and stuff.

You've gotten it mixed up. Your post, where you assume that all progress follows the exact same patterns as that of the Western European renaissance and industrial revolution, is supposed to come first, and then someone makes an actual argument.

its funny how many people think that the TES universe is following that of the real-life world, at least when it comes to evolution

What are you talking about?

Glad you mentioned it.



The matched set, moves without burdening the wearer. Sounds like power armor, http://www.gearcritech.com/images2/2007.07/update31_iron1.JPG? That makes what appeared to be the Kings burial chamber the armory of the local battalion and they http://www.imperial-library.info/mwbooks/marobar06.shtml.




What makes you say this?

But neither the sets in Morrowind or Oblivion seemed to have that property of being powered; they both encumber you, even when full. I'm not denying that some are powered, but they're apparently not very common.

I reckon they weren't matching sets then.

The fact that this civilization remains being middle-age-like since... 4000? years.

So a matching set of dewemer armor is like a mechanized battle suit. It would be really cool if maybe beth introduces this some point in the series.

Their advances in Tech have stemed from greater understanding of magic, when lost, such knowledge must be rediscovered.

A lack of advancement in a civilization is nothing abnormal. Look at Japan, they had samurai into the 1800's.

But 4000 years is a bit much, although it's made more complicated when we consider that we don't know the dates of Tamrielic breakthroughs like wheels, iron, steel, bow and arrow, etc.

Well, that's right and I never stated the opposite.

I was more adressing the statement "Dwemers lived in the past so they had smaller knowledge of forging".