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Particularly when I enter Ulfric's palace with the Legate and General. They talk and everything, but when the fight starts the Legate and General don't respond or fight at all. What is worse though is that when I defeat and put ulfric into submission it doesn't trigger the conversation where ulfric suggests I be the one to execute him. I tried reloading from an earlier save before entering windhelm, and even before doing Fort Amol. So now I am stumped and not sure what to do. I tried ShowQuestStages to try and advance the stage but that didn't seem to work either. Any help would be appreciated.

I totally agree, I love the mystery of it, and really after Skyrim it only makes the mystery stronger by adding possibilities to what happened. I am not looking for closure, but would love some sort of progress towards mysteries being solved, or closing one mystery that leads to a bigger one. I love how Skyrim literally put an Elder Scroll in the players hands, let him read it without going blind, and have it teach us something about what the powers and capabilities of the scroll are. Maybe the Dwemer were able to harness a fraction of the power from a Scroll, and since they were not meant to it lead to it zapping them out of existence save the last remaining one. So, yes I enjoy the mystery - but I also enjoy plot development that leads to uncovering truths and clues into solving the mystery - but not giving it all up entirely.

I know I may be far off since no one really knows, but Skyrim has taught us a lot about the actual Elder Scrolls. Straight to the point: I think the Dwemer may have used a scroll and unintentionally transported their entire race on the same plane - basically any Dwemer that lived on Nirn rather than on another plane of existence like the one you see in Morrowind - either through time into the future, to another plane of existence. I am not saying for sure, since its still possible that their attempt at creating a new God may have caused them punishment of all disappearing - along with other theories. Here's hoping that somehow the next TES answers some of these questions or introduces a plot where they return and the player, somewhere along the line, finds out what really happened.