Mystery Solved!? What REALLY Happened to the Dwemer | The Elder Scrolls Lore

in today's topic we'll discuss one of the greatest mysteries in the Elder Scrolls lore the ultimate fate of the Dwemer and why all but one of them disappeared from the face of nirn let us first discuss the Dwemer themselves and who they are the Dwemer or deep folk are one of the many offshoots of the aldmer the proto-elves which populated Tamriel during the marathic era the oldest period of sequential time of the mortal world of nirn although some sources claim that the Dwemer originated from even before during the primordial end times of the daun era when the nascent mortal world was still being shaped regardless of when they originated the Dwemer were undoubtedly Elven and they shared Elven believes and cosmology namely the dweber knew that the creation of the Mundus and the Mortal plane of nirn was a result of the Adra having sacrificed themselves in the Act of Creation diadra gave up themselves in Creation with those that fully exhausted their very essence becoming the fabric of creation called the Earth bones as such the air the land the trees and plants the animals and even the very people are all made from the Adra who sacrificed their being to bring forth something new and this is why the aedra are referred to as thus when Adra directly being translated as is our ancestors however this is where the similarities between the Dwemer and their Alton Murray cousin's end in terms of cosmology and theology whereas the other elves venerate and worship theatra a Dwemer do not do so in the Elder Scrolls III Morrowind The Scholar the letters of Nevada says it was unfashionable among the Dwemer to view their Spirits as synthetic constructs three four were forty creational gradients below the Divine during the Don era they researched the death of the earth bones what we now call the laws of nature dissecting the process of the Sacred willing itself into the profane I believe their mechanist and tonal Architects discovered systematic regression techniques to perform the reverse that is to create the sacred the depths of the profane the Dwemer did not agree with the notion that they should worship theatra they saw themselves as Divinity that were unfairly diminished by The Act of Creation so they sought to reinforce said active creation to reverse the creation of gradients and become systemic Divinity again this notion of being Unbound from creation of undoing their ties to their Earth bones is once again reiterated in the Elder Scrolls 5 Skyrim in the translation of calcelmu stone provided by lead developer Kurt Coleman we only request the partake of the symbol of our bond the fruit of the stones around us and as your vision clouds as a Darkness sets in fear not not only our mercy and the radiance of our affection which unbinds your bones to the Earth before and sets your final path to the music of your new eternity it would seem that before attempting to unbind their Rays from the earth Bones the Dwemer attempted to do the same thing to the fleeing farmer the snow elves and the blinding of their whole race was part of the process though how one is related to the other is not touch the pardon the dwemer's grand culmination of their desires soon found the method of fruition when they came to vardenville and found deep the depths of Red Mountain the legendary heart of lorkham with a Divine spark given the Mortal at hand the Dwemer soon had a whole series of new avenues to explore enter kagernac in the Elder Scrolls III Morrowind the last Wimmer yagrimba Garden says Lord kagarnak the foremost Arcane philosopher and Maze crafter of my era devised tools to shape mythophoic forces intending to transcend the limits of Dwemer mortality however in reviewing his formula some logicians argued that side effects were unpredictable and errors might be catastrophic prior to the release of the Elder Scrolls dream Morrowind Bethesda put out an in-game interview as a promotional piece on the now defunct Forum luckily the good people at the Imperial Library saved the interview and Bethesda let them know that the interviews copyrighted the official property of the game studio in the promotional piece a character known as The Skeleton Man goes around interviewing denizens of Tamriel zal a human maricotti in portavana says the brass God is a new medium the prime Gestalt he is also called The Divine Skin he meant to be used many times by Our Kind to treat sudden degrade maybe the first to see him was a shop for mayor kagernac of vardenfell the wisest of the tono Architects do not think as others do that kagarnak created the new medium for petty motivations such as a refutation of the Gods kagarnak was devoted to his people in the dwarves despite what you may have read or appear slot he would have not sacrificed so many of their golden souls to create a new medium's metal body if it were all in the name of grand Peter kagarnak had even built the tools needed to construct a Mantella the Crux of transcendence but by then and for a long time coming the Doom of the dwarves marched upon the mountain and they removed from this world there are several things we need to ask ourselves now starting from the phrase a Mantella the Crux of transcendence the Mantella prominently features in the Elder Scrolls 2 Daggerfall as the power source of the new medium however it was created by the arch major zirin arctis during the rise of cyber septum several thousands of years after kagernac and The Disappearance of the Dwemer so what is the Mantella that kagarnak created according to the skeleton interview and what is the Crux of transcendence the Crux of transcendence is an idea that is borrowed from Aleister Crowley's tarot specifically from the hanged man the hanged man represents overcoming and bettering oneself through strife and struggle Enlightenment and Transcendence through self-sacrifice or great suffering this is a theme that is very common in various human mythologies in Norse mythology Odin tears his eye out to drink from emir's well to gain great wisdom Christianity the crucifixion of Christ and his Ascension to heaven in the ancient Egyptian religion Osiris is torn asunder by his brother's Seth which leads him to becoming lord of the Underworld the last myth is mirrored in the Elder Scrolls as well in Ariel killing Shore leading to the latter to become the god of sovngarde the Nordic underworld even their respective lives Isis and kind both share Hawk imagery let us go back to yagram bagar's words Lord kagernac the foremost Arcane philosopher and magecrafter of my era devised tools to shape mythopoic forces intending to transcend the limits of Dwemer mortality what are mythopoic forces mythopoeia is an ancient Greek term that means the making of myths so kagernac created tools to shape or remake a myth which myth was kagarnak trying to shape well luckily we already know kagernac3 tools to be used on the heart of lorcan were Sunder Keening and wraithgard Sunder means to tear apart as in lorcan having his heart torn out Keening means to wail or cry in grief as in Lori can scream as his heart was torn out wraithguard a wraith is a ghost in the likeness of someone just after their death so wraith guard protects the wearer from the echo of lorkhan's dub kagernac had created these tools to reenact and imprint lorican's demise without the need to actually die in the process kagernac managed to actually reenact the myth of lurkan's death the moment where lure Kane's heart was sacrificed and given to the mortal world the moment itself was kagarnak's Mantella his Crux of transcendence and Druid he would power a new medium so what is a new medium is it just a giant robot meant to stomp on enemies various sources refer to a new Medium as the brass Tower and Towers have very powerful functions within the eldest world's Universe what are Towers you ask the signifier says the spike of adamantia and zero Stone dictated the structure of reality in its Arabic vicinity defining for the Earth bones their story or nature within the unfolding of the dragon's time bound Tale the almeri or merethic elves were singular a purpose only so long as it took them to realize that other towers with their own Stones could tell different stories each following rules inscribe by very architects Towers tells stories narratives of reality and the biggest story of them all is a story of the mortal world of creation akatosh tells it and of the rules the Earth bones must play Within and it is the same narrative that the Dwemer wished to break from The Narrative that defines them as mortal gradients of the Divine so that's the function of a new medium of the brass Tower it tells a new story that directly refutes the story of adamantia narrated by akatosh himself hence why it always causes Dragon breaks when it activates because it's the opposite of akatasha's story Let Us return to the skeleton man's interview he would not have sacrificed so many of their golden souls to create a new medium's metal body as if it were all in the name of Grand Theater kagernac literally used The Souls of his fellow Dwemer to construct the body of a new medium but why as belated says to create systematic regression techniques to reverse the process of the earth Bones by vesting of divinity until it became gradient mortality the interview also refers to a new Medium as the prime Gestalt and the definition of a Gestalt is an organized hole that is perceived as more than the sum of its parts therefore you can surprise it was designed to be the totality of the Dwemer rather than many small bits of divested Divinity they would come together into the Divine construct and apotheosized together in an oversoul a new narrative reality one of uniform Divinity for the Dwemer Unbound from the whims of another divine this vein of thought is further backed up in the Elder Scrolls 5 Skyrim in the Elder Scrolls V Skyrim arnio gain attempts to recreate kagernak's experiments on the heart of lorcan and he essentially succeeds because he then vanishes never to be Satan however it is revealed that the last Dragonborn can summon the shade of ardnium gain Arniel essentially bound his very being to the closest thing to Divinity near him at the time which in this case would be the last dragonborn's dragon blood and dragon soul says I think kagernac might have succeeded in granting our race eternal life with unforeseen consequences such as wholesale displacement to an outer realm or he may have aired and utterly destroyed our race the last swimmer was right kagernac gave his whole race eternal life but because of the medium failed to ascend pass to moral theater and remained in nirn the Dwemer horrifyingly remained stuck in a medium trapped forever in their failed attempt to make of themselves a god a new medium a new medium a medium that became the Doom for the whole of Dwemer thanks for watching if you have other theories or thoughts on what happened to Dwemer be sure to leave a comment below and be 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Length: 13min 45sec (825 seconds)

Published: Sat Jun 03 2023