Adrian Laguna Posted January 21, 2004 Share Posted January 21, 2004 As ShinJiOh said, the dwemer were dwarfs right? not elves. Why do the people of morrowind call the dwarfs dwemer? Thats so stupid and unnecesarry (cant spell that one :( )No, they are not. In Nirn (the mortal world basically) there is no such thing as dwarves, at least not as we know them in D&D and most fantasy books. As Stormscape said, the Dwemer where named Dwarves by the now extinct Giants. The Giants were 3 or 4 meters (9 or 12 feet) tall, when they met the Dwemer they realized that they where very similar to each other, so the Giants befriended the Dwemer and called them Dwarves because of their small relative size. In reality a Dwemer is about the size of a Breton or Imperial; shorter than an Altmer, Nord, Orc, or Dunmer; and taller than a Redguard or Bosmer. Dwemer means: Deep, or smart folk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormscape Posted January 22, 2004 Share Posted January 22, 2004 Now, if someone could make a race of Dwemer based on the ghosts in the ruins, I just might have something to go on with Part 2 of Chronicles...hmm....*imagines what the Orsimir looked like* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian Laguna Posted January 23, 2004 Share Posted January 23, 2004 Have you seen an orc? That is what the Orsimer (not Orsimir) look like. As a matter of fact, Orcs are Orsimer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormscape Posted January 24, 2004 Share Posted January 24, 2004 No, I mean before Boethiah ate Malacath... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emiare Posted January 25, 2004 Share Posted January 25, 2004 when men tried to translate the word dwemer into their language in was originally in elvin (i think) and in elvin it meant "deep folk" but ppl from teh west thought mistranslated deep as "short", so "short folk" hence dwarve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmac Posted January 25, 2004 Share Posted January 25, 2004 It actually means "Deep Ones" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ohGr Posted January 27, 2004 Share Posted January 27, 2004 deep ones, could that relate to the fact that they were always deep underground?i can see the short part, but i dont get the deep part Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haplo12345 Posted January 31, 2004 Share Posted January 31, 2004 well, there are 6 in my opinion bosmerdunmeraltmerfalmeraeylidsdwemer and then theres orcsbretonsnordsimperialskhajiitargonians just goto TIL if you want to know more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Breton Thief Oriana Posted February 1, 2004 Author Share Posted February 1, 2004 Aeylids ive never heard of, but are they in that book "The Wild Elves"? if they exist, and you include all the elves past and present, there are at least nine 1.aldmer2.chimer3.altmer4.dunmer5.bosmer6.dwemmer7.falmer8.aeylids9.Orsimer(Which are Orcs, read more books like "The true nature of orcs" and "The pig children" etc.) and that pretty much sums it up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmac Posted February 1, 2004 Share Posted February 1, 2004 Aeylids ive never heard of, but are they in that book "The Wild Elves"? Aeylids ARE the Wild Elves. An Excerpt from "The Wild Elves": In the wilds of most every province of Tamriel, descended philosophically if not directly from the original inhabitants of the land, are the Ayleids, commonly called the Wild Elves. While three races of Elven stock -- the Altmer (or High Elves), the Bosmer (or Wood Elves), and the Dunmer (or Dark Elves) -- have assimilated well into the new cultures of Tamriel, the Ayleids and their brethren have remained aloof toward our civilization, preferring to practice the old ways far from the eyes of the world. The Wild Elves speak a variation of Old Cyrodilic, opting to shun Tamrielic and separating themselves from the mainstream of Tamriel even further than the least urbanized of their Elven cousins. In temperament they are dark-spirited and taciturn -- though this is from the point of view of outsiders (or “Pellani” in their tongue), and doubtless they act differently within their own tribes. Indeed, one of the finest sages of the University of Gwilym was a civilized Ayleid Elf, Tjurhane Fyrre (1E2790-2E227), whose published work on Wild Elves suggests a lively, vibrant culture. Fyrre is one of the very few Ayleids to speak freely on his people and religion, and he himself said “the nature of the Ayleid tribes is multihued, their personalities often wildly different from their neighbor[ing] tribes” (Fyrre, T., Nature of Ayleidic Poesy, p. 8, University of Gwilym Press, 2E12). Like any alien culture, Wild Elves are often feared by the simple people of Tamriel. The Ayleids continue to be one of the greatest enigmas of the continent of Tamriel. They seldom appear in the pages of written history in any role, and then only as a strange sight a chronicler stumbles upon before they vanish into the wood. When probable fiction is filtered from common legend, we are left with almost nothing. The mysterious ways of the Ayleids have remained shrouded since before the First Era, and may well remain so for thousands of years to come. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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