Ok, so they're called Dwermers or whatever....but where are they? They all die and leave their metal AI to guard their dungeons? If they are dead, where are all the bodies?

They died thousands of years ago.

The bodies are gone.

I believe they "un-created" themselves

lore, read

They got sick of the Chimer and left. Last report is that they relocated the to the North Pole and are working in Santa's sweatshops, earning less than minimum wage.

They are up at the north pole, helping santa... oh, wait. That is elves.

I will move this to Lore, where you can get info.

Wasnt Morrowind their home and something happened and they got wiped out?

That is a serious topic.

Short version:

You'll find a lot of stuff in the TES Lore forum, not all of it is going to be correct. You can start http://uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Dwemer, if you're so inclined.

Edit: [censored] this forum moves fast

That's the thing, the Dwemer are/were elves.

Where's the Lore thread/section? I'm a noob.

The Dwemer were toying around with the Heart of Lokhan, which is basicly the heart of a god.

Its how the Tribunal got their godlike powers.

Unfortunatly for the Dwarves, they instead had every member of their race, save a single one, completely disapear. Not dead, just vanished.

They might even make an appearance in a future Elder Scrolls game as a main quest, their return and attempted reclaiming of Tamriel. Im calling it!

They took their ale and the combs for their bushy red beards and went deep into the earth to dig for gems. Move along, nothing to see here.

And they aren't a typical Dwarf like Gimili or some other Lord of the Ring type Dwarves.

They are about as tall as Imperials but they did like to have long beards.

Thanks for all the info and laughs. It svcks they're dead though. I want to be a dwarf.

The Dwemer are techno-Assyrians.

Someone else posted this link in another Dwemer related thread - http://www.imperial-library.info/content/final-report-trebonius

Useful info, though it is disappointing to see talk of 'souls' and desires to be 'gods' coming from a race that purportedly values science, reason and logic. It cannot even be about achieving enlightenment, since without a brain, there can be no understanding of anything .... just sayin'

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Now, that, sir, would be EPIC. Talk to Bethesda and see if they're hiring!

"The Goal of the Dwemer was to transend Morality, or obtain Enlightenment."

They were trying to understand how things worked, they wernt specificly trying to become gods.

Gimli called them all to Valinor

Except that in the TES universe, souls, ancient spirit beings percieved as gods, and higher planes of existence not only exist, but are fully verifiable, studiable and manipulable through science. In the same way we understand electromagnetism scientifically and use it to do our bidding, the dwarves understanding of the world beyond and spirits gave them the tools to create amazing technologies using the scientific method.

Unfortunately they eventually made something - the Numidium - which ultimately un-made their entire race; they erased their race from the timeline.



Science is not the rejection of/non-existance of "gods" or "souls"; that'd be Atheism. The scientific process is the process of studying and refining knowledge, and in a scenario where souls and the divine not only exist, but are subject to study and anolysis then they too become part of the scientific process. 9It just so happens that in our world atheism is synonymous with science because there has never been any verifiable evidence supporting the existance of any kind of soul or gods)

You make a fair point. One way to justify the use of the word 'soul' I suppose is to view it as the matter which makes up each person or creature as opposed to the way in which people generally think about what souls are. I should probably not take it so seriously though

Here's a cool pic on the wiki.
http://www.uesp.net/wiki/File:MW-art-Dwemer-Concept.jpg