Well, when i think about just the setting of skyrim and we consider that the dwarfs are the only techonlogically advance race known to tamerial, and they have just simply dissapered off the face of the planet, i think its a safe bet that they built a space ship and moved to another planet.

Ok, this is coming from a guy that hasn't yet dug deep into the lore of the world. However, i think i have gathered enough info to conclude that the dwarves dissaperance is a mystery.

Thus, this gives all the freedom to their creaters to do as they pleased with the dwarves. So, for some DLC i would like to see a long quest line on figuring out what planet the dwarves ended up on. Getting a space craft operating again to visit that planet and reintroduce the existence of dwarves back into the tamerial universe. I mean we have every dam race imagionable but dwarves, and quite frankly, i would like to see them again.

Granted, it would be better agrued that the dwarves somehow dissaperaed deep into the earth rather than going into outspace but i think the quest to build a new space ship and solve a mystery as why they left the planet to being with, would make more sense and be more interesting than figuring out how and why they simply decieded to lives as pure moles. Furthermore, going to space would seem more consisent with the context we find the dwarves to be in within tamerial.

I mean they arugably had a more advance world then even our own real world. All it would take for humanity to go back to the stone age would be an emp blast in a certain area. Thus, upon visiting this new world were the dwarves found a new home it could be an anything goes enviorment. It could break all the rules as to what we consider the norm for the EOS universe, which would mean there would have to be certain boundaries that couldn't be crossed.

Anyway, that's my jab at it, i doubt that under tough scurtiny it could with stand the brains of the EOS scholars, but who knows, i just thought it would be a sick ass dlc and a brilliant way to explain and reintroduce the dwarves.

cheers.

We already know how they vanished. You maybe should have dug through the lore a bit before making a theory lol.

well how did they then? also, you could just make it a conspiracy that they lead others think thats how they vanaished. In a fantsay world nothing is written in stone

I'm sorry but I can't agree with you on that. To look at it from a historical perspective..as in..from the many civilizations that just coincidentally and questionably died out in the matter of days...it's most likely a very ..potent..disease.

there's a lore forum and there's a discussion forum for the series in general, and we already know what happened: they tried to rebuild a god and they all vanished and became the gods skin.

http://www.gamesas.com/forum/26-the-elder-scrolls-series-discussion/

http://www.gamesas.com/forum/16-elder-scrolls-lore/

ok, but such an advance civiliztion that has achieved techological advance far supior than our own couldn't have figured out how to survive it. I don't buy it. Look how just our own society stopped the swine flu from becoming an epdiemic.

I'd say they were killed by their own creations more than anything (yes I know its already been said how they vanished), but just wandering through those dwarven ruins to blackreach was crazy, bunch of bloodthirsty mechanical creations I saw the centurion and was like *WHAT!* , lol....

ah well that makes better sense than a plauge destroying them but still. We could just say that the dwarves developed that nonsense story to make the lesser minds believe they are gone. It's workable no matter what. I want to see some dam dwarven UFOs and fly to space damit lol

They became the golden skin of the numium is the most likely answer, however as you said, nothing is set in stone. I for one don't want them to return, I enjoy the mystery surrounding them. I hope you realise they are not small bearded alcoholics like in most other fantasy settings, many newcomers to the series don't realise that...

Its an interesting way of looking at things and it might make a nice mod, but it doesnt really fit the TES universe very well.

There arent really any other habitable planets outside of Nirn (and maybe the moons) because the stars are just holes in the sky and the planets circling around Nirn are the gods.

and besides, wouldn't having to gather old artifacts to build a spacecraft satisfy those people that want rare items. They could make a piece of the space craft some artifact that is now believed to be some gift from a God and worth 1,000,000,000.00 (hyperbqaly of course) coin. That way in order to build your space craft you'd need to save a bunch of coin and thus give you something to spend it on.

They vanished, but no one knows why. They didn't build a spaceship, it would take me a month to explain to you why that very statement doesn't even make sense.

Well, at one point humans believed the earth was flat and without Elvis rock would have no roll. Thus, whose to say that Tamerial's dwarves didnt enter into an age of enlightenment

It's not impossible, but there's nothing to back it up, whereas the Numidium theory has a fair amount of evidence; as you said, nothing is written in stone, but we're as close to absolute truth as we can get with something as vague as this.

They went deep underground. They've hidden advanced technology from the other species and are in full control behind the scenes. The Thalmor are puppets of these all powerfull, all knowing & all seeing puppet masters.

Has no one considered that they might simply have been subject to a species-wide invisibility/incorporeality/silence spell? This is quite a tragic interpretation of course; it would mean the Dwemer are still here and have been trying in vain to get each other's, and everyone else's, attention this entire time.

Well, thing is, its not a belief that the stars are holes in the sky, its a fact.
The people that live on Tamriel are quite advanced in some ways, certainly where magic is involved, and have been out there.
The orrery in Oblivion also shows a geocentric universe.

This may help:
http://www.imperial-library.info/content/cosmology

Oh, I think we all know an airborn virus killed them. The virus would slowly thin the dwarfs blood and break down the dwarfs internal organs until his body can no longer contain it and it begins to leak out of every pore, abdominal cramps, pelvik pain, rapidly worsening vision, severe and ongoing fatigue and decomposing flesh which will eventually lead to the dwarfs death.

Highly disturbing I know, but its all in the Imperial Librery.

Wait, where is this in TIL?

the dwemer will not be back, there is somethings not even todd would compromise, this part of the lore is surely among those things. if they were not all gone then the one we found in morrowind (excussed for being in the outer realms at the time) would have found others

From a philosophical perspective you could ask whether they still exist or not?

If they were killed on Nirn, by there own creations or by other means, then how come we never find their bodies?

There were ruins in Morrowind that had ash piles (though not all did).

What we know for sure:

The Dwemer found the heart of Lorkhan, began experimenting with it, and developed tools to manipulate it's power. They also began work on a super-animculi (robot). Messing with the heart leads to an angry Azura, and eventually the War of Red Mountain. During the climactic battle with Vivec, Nerevar, Dagoth Ur, Kagrenac, Dumac, and other major players, Kagrenac (chief Dwemer scientist) strikes the heart, and the entire race, across the entire world, disappears.

We also know that the Dwemer were telepathic or had radio, or both. (My preference is that they were telepathic, but used radio for controlling animculi and other specific purposes.)

Vivec didn't know what happened to them. The last living Dwemer didn't know either (he was off traveling in other planes when it happened). After Morrowind came out, one of the main writers for the game released some extra-curricular material that directly stated that the Dwemer collectively transformed into the skin of Numidium, probably in the hopes of transcending time and the mundane world. So they tried to become a giant killer collective-intelligence god-robot (and apparently failed). But BGS has never, and probably never will vet this. We know exactly when and how they disappeared. It's the actual results that are a mystery.

well then how would one dwarf survive?

Because he was in the Outer Realms the whole time.

Not just a spacecraft, OP, but a time-and-spacecraft named Numidium. And they weren't headed for a planet, but a state of pre-being beyond all planets, animals, vegetables, and indeed minerals.