I don't think they're hiding the fact at all that demer are supposed to be dwarves. They've simply gone about implementing dwarves in a very original and interesting way. They're even called dwarves in oblivion.

Seriously! I'm suprised anyone would argue the point.

They're dwarves, to the giants who gave them the moniker. Gary Noonan, I believe, word of goded that one. The Bosmer are your dwarves.

Except for the fact that making and repurposing Dwemer metal to make new weapons and armour is next to impossible. It's simply beyond the metallurgical skills of early/mid 4th Era Tamriel. The secrets of Dwemeri metallurgy vanished with them, and even if Yagrum (locked away in Tel Fyr) somehow manages to live to SKyrim's time period, I'm assuming that Divayth or Corprus has taken its toll on the fat Dwemer man: you aren't gonna get anything from him. In the case of Oblivion, where you're getting this commonality of Dwemeri armours and weapons from, it is purely a poorly thought out game issue, a side-effect if you would of the loot scaling.

In the other games where you had Dwarven/Dwemeri weapons and armour, they were quite rare: not impossible to find, but definitely uncommon and certainly expensive enough that only the best equipped people will have any of it, and only the ultra-rich would have a full suit.

Every piece of Dwemeri armour and weapons you've seen in the games have existed for generations, with the newest things till being nearly a thousand years old. As for stylistic differences? Chalk it up to varying cultures adapting the same materials to account for regional necessities. Most Dwemer armour you see in Morrowind, if you've noticed is basically repurposed Animunculi that have been 'cleaned out' for use since most 'proper' Dwemer armour is strictly regulated by the Census and Excise Office and the East Empire Company is the primary trader in Dwemeri artefacts. Presumably, I believe, the Dwemeri armour you see worn in Cyrodiil is the sort of armour that the Dwemeri themselves would have worn: particularly if you compare it to Assyrian/Babylonian armours (in general style) considering that their ghosts you encounter in the various Dwemeri ruins in Morrowind were heavily influenced by that style.

The Dwemer, being the most advanced race in Tamriel, discovered console commands. One of the more idiotic Dwemer was tinkering and found the "Killall" command. The rest is history

Dwarves don't have to be short. Dwarves in original Norse mythology were in fact not short at all.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norse_dwarves

They were also related to metalwork, craft and technology like the Dwemer.

They got collectively vaccuumelted into the golden skin of Numidium, according to the Love Letter from the Fifth Era.

It makes sense, too. They didn't worship gods, yet they wished to create one themselves. When the tools where used, they became PART OF Numidium, one with a god, as one might see it.

It's funny that their weaponary is used all over Tamriel when they're gone. Although I guess Men or Mer smiths could of picked up the recipes.

I guess then the question is, why did the Numidium need skin? Apparently the new megazord would have worked just by activating the heart in it, then the god could have built himself. What does the skin do?

the clones wouldn't really be dwemeri, as the culture is dead.

Dwarves don't have to be short. Dwarves in original Norse mythology were in fact not short at all.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norse_dwarves

They were also related to metalwork, craft and technology like the Dwemer.

I would love if you could find the information in the gameworld by solving puzzles, putting together clues like on notes or runes on the walls of ancient dwemer ruins. It would be sort of an easter egg

Actually, in TES, culture makes all the difference and pretty much defines the race.

So there is no Imperial race? :whistling:

That's lovely, I'm not short. I'm related to those things as well. I'm not a dwarf.