Dwemer!

[Ta'Thalos]

Helloo folks.

I have been immersed in the amazing fates, history and background of the Dwemer featured in 'Morrowind', and I have tried to find as much information as I can about them both in-game and out. However, apart from the 17 or so ruins on Vvardenfell, the ancient Dwemer city featured in 'Tribunal' amd whatever books I have acquired in-game, I have found out nothing else about this mysterious race.

So if anybody has any links to Dwemer-only (or at least Dwemer-mostly!) sites or the like, I would be grateful if you could post them here.

[Marxist ßastard]

Perhaps this, uh... Belongs in spoilers.

 

Dark0ne has kindly hosted the Imperial Library after m0use.net, the site's previous host, fell apart, burst into flames, and left an area of contamination in its wake. Although it has recently adopted Striker, someone that I hate with a firey passion that consumes my soul, into its staff, it still contains many its of useful information about the Dwemer and Elder Scrolls lore in general. If you follow a couple of link trails, you should find some rather interesting sites.

[Baphomet]

Although it has recently adopted Striker, someone that I hate with a firey passion that consumes my soul...

Behold! A tiny glimpse into the dark and oft' times brooding nature, of the"well" of knowledge that is... Marxist male without a father.

 

:P

[Marxist ßastard]

I downloaded Blood and Gore, Combat Moves, Modern Adventurer, and a particle effect sword just so that i could beat Striker into a bloody pulp and watch him die in a sea of flames... I've got screenshots, if anybody wants some...

 

Yes, i know this is sort of OT... Got to hold down the floodgates until this thread is moved...

[Switch]

Think this belongs in lore more than anything... moved.

[Marxist ßastard]

Meh. I suppose.

 

The Dwemer were a race of elves that broke apart to advance their own secular causes on Vvardenfell, the Velothi Mountains, and various places scattered throughout Morrowind province. They are said to have been master architects and enchanters, a reason why many of the extraordinary structures and artifacts around Tamriel have been attributed to them. Since they came to inhabit the same area as the Chimer, fighting often broke out and the Dwemer had to focus on maintaining a military of robotic constructs. Eventually, the Dwemer military evolves from creating steam-powered gizmos to reconstructing Lorkhan. The Dwemer reconstruct Lorkhan as a giant golem called Numidium under the leadership of Kagrenac, operating in secret, without the knowledge of Dumac Half-Orc, the king of the Dwemer.

 

This was the state until the time of the First Council, when Dwemer and Chimer developed a relative truce, with the Chimer House Dagoth acting as a buffer between the two, promoting the Dwemer secular agenda in Chimer culture. However, this peace breaks as Red Mountain erupts because of Kagrenac's experiments on the Heart of Lorkhan. Somehow, Kagrenac's plans for the heart are leaked. The information is passed to Dagoth Ur, who passes it on to Nerevar. Since Nerevar is more-or-less in bed with Azura, he finds this to be an incredible blasphemy and orders a meeting with Dumac, who predictibly denies everything on the grounds that he simply wasn't informed.

 

Nerevar and a few Chimeri warriors break into Red Mountain and plan an attack on Numidium. Trying to act quickly, Kagrenac tries to make his race invincible using the heart, but instead makes the Dwemer simply disappear. Sotha Sil decided to carry on the work of the Dwemer in his Clockwork City afterwards.

[cmac]

...and the Dwemer had to focus on maintaining a military of robotic constructs.

That is not true at all. The Dwemer did indeed create many constructs, the Animiculi, but they did not solely make up the Dwemer miliraty force. The Dwemer had fully armoured warriors, so that they might LOOK like contructs, but were most definitly not.

[Marxist ßastard]

Well, that was just speculation on my behalf. If your statement's proof is the existance of Dwemer armor, that armor is that metal exterior ripped off of a Shpere Centurion. IIRC, this information can be obtained from any armorer.

[Peregrine]

*looks at dwemer curiass, then at sphere centurion* Uh, I think there's a bit of a size problem there! The curiass alone is too big to fit them! Just look at the ball compared to the size of the armor, it won't fit. Anyway, why would a sphere centurion need greaves, boots or bracers?

[Ta'Thalos]

:huh: Dwemer 'armour' has been modified, hammered and reshaped from the metallic exterior of the Centurions and other constructs.. It doesn't mean that the 'armour' was actually worn by the constructs! :D LOL

 

But it makes you wonder what their real armour actually looked like.. Personally I think that at least the cuirasses found in-game are the real deal; to back this up (SPOILER WARNING, DO NOT READ BEYOND THIS POINT IF YOU HAVEN'T PLAYED 'TRIBUNAL'!) the ash piles in the Dwemer city underneath Mournhold (gah can't remember its name.. It isn't even terribly long..), with armour and weapons next to them, seem to indicate that the Dwemer who were standing in those places underwent whatever dsctructive/teleporting/strange cataclysm when Kagrenac used his Tools on the Heart of Lorkhan, and just dropped whatever they were wearing/carrying and disappeared. Now, the cuirasses there are exactly the same as everywhere else, which leads me to two options: 1) The cuirasses, and whatever other armour can be found next to the ash piles, are of original Dwemer-make; and as they are identical to the ones found in Vvardenfell, they are also original. And 2), somebody crept down into the ruins, disabled some of the centurions, stripped the metal off them, created the armour and scattered them all over the place next to some odd ash piles. :rolleyes:

I think option 1 is more viable, but believe as you will. :P