jacuwi Posted December 17, 2011 Share Posted December 17, 2011 I recently finished the quest where you must return a Lexicon to a Dwemer ruin for an argonian in Riften, and within the ruin were shades of the argonians compatriots that helped her steal the Lexicon in the first place. A little ways into the ruin, one of the shades said something along the lines of: "What? Are you scared of some sleeping men?" The odd phrasing of the sentence got me thinking and I've come to realize something. The Dwemer never disappeared, the only transferred their souls into the automatons. When you do the main quest that takes you to Blackreach, the scientist who discovered the ruin (and is now dead) wondered why the automatons had soulgems within them when the had no clear purpose. I would like to present the theory that the Dwemer, who questioned the powers of the Divines, seeked to make themselves immortal in mockery to the Divines' intention. They did so by putting their souls within machines so that they would never die ad continue to exist beyond their normal life expectancy. This explains how the entire race just up and vanished. Though I have no idea what happened to all the bodies... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex4921 Posted December 17, 2011 Share Posted December 17, 2011 (edited) Holy s***.I think you may be onto something.However I found a flaw,you need a black soul gem to store a dwemer soul(Presumably as a black soul gem is needed for all other races of Mer) and just to sustain the soul within the gem requires even more black souls to keep it going(Think the Azura star) and the soul gems found in these machines are certainly not black that ive seen. Also I found a single dwemer body in Blackreach(I think it was a dwemer anyway).There was a small abandoned dwemer building and within it was loads of dwemer stuff like plates,ingots etc etc and a single humanoid skeleton(Dead) with an arrow in its ribcage Edited December 17, 2011 by Alex4921 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justwannaddl Posted December 17, 2011 Share Posted December 17, 2011 Doubtful. The gems were all normal gems. If they were in the gems, they would likely have been black gems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dambuster Posted December 17, 2011 Share Posted December 17, 2011 The body mentioned is that of Sinderoin? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lessabos Posted December 17, 2011 Share Posted December 17, 2011 Well I found one humanoid skeleton lying on the bed in locked room in Muzflt when i was doing quest for collage Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matth85 Posted December 17, 2011 Share Posted December 17, 2011 Why do they use soul gems? Easy: ask yourself this, what is their fuel? The Dwemer learned how to use soul gems as a fuel source, instead of enchanting source. It's the same thing as enchanting, but slowly going into a machine. Really, I doubt that the Dwemer was sent into the bots. They were so advanced they could easily get back out in a weeks time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex4921 Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 Why do they use soul gems? Easy: ask yourself this, what is their fuel? The Dwemer learned how to use soul gems as a fuel source, instead of enchanting source. It's the same thing as enchanting, but slowly going into a machine. Really, I doubt that the Dwemer was sent into the bots. They were so advanced they could easily get back out in a weeks time.Not so as if their bodies were dead and all that remained was their souls in the machines then they could obviously not get out as they dont have a body to actually inhabit!Source for this assumption:Azura's star quest,the dude was trapped in that thing for ages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacuwi Posted December 18, 2011 Author Share Posted December 18, 2011 Not only that, but the scientist's journal states that the soulgems aren't the source of fuel for the automatons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huntsman2310 Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 The Dwemer all dissapeared when Kagrenac did something with the heart of Lorkhan, Its more likely that they simply ascended somewhere else, rather then just lock themselves in those automatons. Besides those soul gems are power sources for the Constructs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lachdonin Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 The Soul Gems are not powers sources, their more like heating elements. Theres a journal under Markarth i beleive which explains it. Essentially, some type of external power source channels energy to the gems, causing them to heat up, and then they boil the oil, fueling the centurion. My main problems with the hypothesis that the Centurions contain the souls of the Dwemer are as follows. 1; In Morrowind we have Dwemer ghosts2; If the Centurions were Dwemer, and continued to live, why would their holds be in such ruin?2; I would assume Yagrum would ahve explored that possibility3; It doesn't explain what happens to that mage in Winterhold4; It implies something went right, and everything else we know about the Dissapearance of the Dwemer indicates everything went catastrophically wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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