4. http://www.imperial-library.info/fsg/luagararticle1.shtml

And like I said...the superficial gist of what happened is that they disappeared. They disappeared basically because their way of thinking: they literally thought Nothing, as a physical, corporeal entity, existed. They thought the world was fake, essentially.

"Disappear" means "to not be seen." We don't see them anymore. They disappeared.

THAT'S what I was trying to say....

That's the opposite of what happened. They thought the world was nothing and tried to become something.

I was just saying we don't see Dwemer as Dwemer anymore mainly because of the atheistic/nihilistic nature of their religious thought.

I hate when this happens. I look like such a [censored] when it does.

Well if there is no spoon you can make it be a thousand foot golem instead.

...Numidium should have been a milipede. Now THAT'S a walker!

:lmao:

So, wait, did the Dwemer zero-sum, or did they all get their souls bound up into the Numidium?

Also, how does Akatosh have blood in the first place to join with Alessia? Or, is that just symbolic? Is it blood, or soul-stuff?

They're the big stompy-bot

Maybe you're right. But I would like to think that the gods don't exist - and it's more just the idea, fear, worship, obsession, and idolization of gods exists, which makes it seem like the gods really exist.

Ah forget it.

To deliberately misparaphrase: 'he knit together the bloody skeins of their hearts.' Symbolic, but magical to. I suppose there's not much difference in this case.
He put her in the soul gem, which was the Covenant.

Going a bit farther out on the limb, think of Alessia as a mother, joining with Akatosh (or Shezarr, remember that the Aedric mother Mara is the concubine of both) and giving birth to the new homeland of humanity: Cyrodiil. Much later, she mated with King Hrol and the land swelled into a hill (Sancre Tor) like a belly and gave birth to Reman.


Edit: Anumidum was the ultimate collective endeavor- a giant costume designed to take all the Dwemer and turn them into a single being. The universe naturally splits into smaller pieces, and the Dwemer were trying to reverse the process- on themselves.

So they were all svcked up into the walker, making it divine, and then it... didn't work. It sat there.

Yeah, I understand what you mean. What I liked about TES was that the 'gods' weren't really gods. They were just different kinds of beings. They aren't like the Greek and Egyptian deities. They aren't like DnD 'gods.' In fact, I dislike even calling the Aedra and Daedra "gods" because I don't think they are. I guess I just have a lot of notions tied up in the word god.

Anyways, what I liked about TES was that, unlike DnD, I'm not forced into fanatically worshiping this or that god or whatever. The Daedric Princes are in Oblivion, they have their own motivations, plans, goals, that aren't exclusively bound up in the Mundus. I generally prefer to ignore the Aedra, I feel the "Nine Divines" are more of the Imperials manipulating religion to further the goals of the empire (hence "imperial cult"). I intensely dislike how the Cult turned into the cliche european-christian thing - cathedrals complete with pews and stained glass windows. Pah. :meh: I expected something more original and creative than that. Oh, and don't get me started on the Knights of the Nine! :flame:

EDIT: at paw-prints: ew... I really could do without the woman-and-fertilization imagery. I don't think I'll ever have kids, because the idea of something growing inside me like a parasite creeps me out to no end. :shudder: