This is always something I wondered about while playing Morrowind (a looong time ago)and Oblivion. I may be spacing out, or maybe I just didnt read that ONE paragraph of text in one of the hundreds of books in Oblvion, but what happened to these lil guys? I always found it interesting how their armour came up in the game, their old tech did and there were always severl mentions of them. I noticed in the latest "animations" gameplay trailer that there was some dwarven-robot looking tech and wondered if anyone knew if they'd be making an appearance? So, WHERE DA DWARVES AT?

I believe dwarves in the elder scrolls universe are an ancient race that died out long ago.

It's been hinted at that something wiped them out during the first Battle of Red Mountain in Morrowind, but it's never really been fully explained. Suffice to say, they're all dead 'till proven otherwise, brah.

I think they may have been wiped from the world due to some experiment involving immortality. There was actually one dwarf guy still alive in some plague dungeon in Morrowind if I remember correctly

The fate of the Dewmer is referenced in the main quest of Morrowind. They created a giant war machine using the heart of a dead God while at war with the Dunmer and the entire species (except for one guy) disappeared from Tamriel. You can read more here.

@Poppduder: An incident during the war between the dwemer and the proto-dunmer, all wiped out instantly, except one who you meet in Morrowind. Basically a spell backfired.

"A great war erupted between them, eventually leading to the mysterious disappearance of the Dwemer during the Battle of Red Mountain. The difficulty was prompted by the discovery of a mythological artifact known as the Heart of Lorkhan by the Dwemer, deep in the mountains' bowels. The Chief Tonal ArchitectKagrenac, their de facto religious leader, devised a set of tools, Sunder, Keening, and Wraithguard, to manipulate the Heart to instill divinity to his people, but the spell failed and caused all known Dwemer to vanish"

They're deed (that's 'dead' in a Scottish/Dwarven accent). At least there's plenty of their cool machines around in Skyrim though.

As odd as it sounds, dwarves were elves, with big bushy beards. They were engineers, they made all those yellow robots(well, no really robots) you fight in Morrowind, and their ruins seem to be several hundreds of years more technologically advance than the rest of Tamriel. They went extinct under very mysterious circumstances(well, not entirely).

Their machines live on while they do not. Probably like what will happen to us.

They were elves that vanished during the Battle of Red Mountain. The last Dwemer (Yagrum Bagarn) was in Morrowind and infected with Corprus disease. He is probably dead by the time of Skyrim.

Man you guys are good. Now I'm going to fall into the K-hole that is UESPwiki while at work. Edit: I'd really love to see one pop up in one of the games. A kind of once in a lifetime run-in with an extinct species would make a helluva quest. Agreeances?

@damswedon: bad things happened to Vvardenfell in the gap between Oblivion and Skyrim didnt they?

But if he didnt get killed hes still alive. Corprus is infinite life, but also permanent pain.

@EdIsCool:

@Aronman789

But that was Dunmer, right, not the Dwemer...? I'm so confused anymore!

@Aronman789 That's heavy stuff.

@EdIsCool said:

@damswedon: bad things happened to Vvardenfell in the gap between Oblivion and Skyrim didnt they?

But if he didnt get killed hes still alive. Corprus is infinite life, but also permanent pain.

Bad things happened in Vvardenfell during Oblivion, one of the random NPC's mentioned that a great gate opened on top of Ald-Ruhn.

The dwarves did some bad magic stuff so the gods took them away. Done.

They're in space. Well, "outer realms" to be more precise, but yeah.

yeah you can spend a few evenings reading through the timelines of the series, and you should, great stuff.

poor crazy underground elves

I'm pretty sure i remember reading that they died out an age ago.

They went to space and became the Squats, also known as Demiurg.

They're in the Elder Scrolls minigame.

Get it?

Hello?

Anybody there?

you do meet one dwarf in morrowind... the last dwarf.

We did them like we did the Neandertals. We did them good, and then we spread ourselves over the world. But before we eliminated all the dwarves, we had sweet sex with them, like we did the Neandertals. That explains why Ryan looked a good bit like that dwarf in War in the North...it's those dwarf genes that have been passed down....

Okay, now back to more reading of The Hobbit....I'm learning so much!

They weren't even proper dwarves; they were just steampunk elves.

midgets are creepy

@kingzetta said:

midgets are creepy

@EdIsCool said:

@Poppduder: An incident during the war between the dwemer and the proto-dunmer, all wiped out instantly, except one who you meet in Morrowind. Basically a spell backfired.

"A great war erupted between them, eventually leading to the mysterious disappearance of the Dwemer during the Battle of Red Mountain. The difficulty was prompted by the discovery of a mythological artifact known as the Heart of Lorkhan by the Dwemer, deep in the mountains' bowels. The Chief Tonal ArchitectKagrenac, their de facto religious leader, devised a set of tools, Sunder, Keening, and Wraithguard, to manipulate the Heart to instill divinity to his people, but the spell failed and caused all known Dwemer to vanish"

As heartbreaking as a fantasy without dwarves might be, that back story is pretty sweet.

@EdIsCool said:

@damswedon: bad things happened to Vvardenfell in the gap between Oblivion and Skyrim didnt they?

But if he didnt get killed hes still alive. Corprus is infinite life, but also permanent pain.

Awesome. We must all scour Skyrim for him. Endlessly.

@kingzetta: don't be so dramatic...

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2011/06/09/dwarf-actor-from-star-wars-and-harry-potter-films-found-guilty-of-flashing-girl-on-train-115875-23189339/

0_o nevermind

@zFUBARz said:

@kingzetta: don't be so dramatic...

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2011/06/09/dwarf-actor-from-star-wars-and-harry-potter-films-found-guilty-of-flashing-girl-on-train-115875-23189339/

0_o nevermind

That article's title is blatantly tailored to make people think it's referring to Warwick Davis. God, I hate the sensationalist British tabloids.

@Aronman789 said:

@kingzetta said:

midgets are creepy

Wait a second. Peter Dinklage is the freaking man. Although we need a more topic-related image of him:

I guess you could say that they were... raptured.

.....YEAH!!!

@dankempster: don't limit that to british tabloids, look at the title of this article and tell me you don't expect to see mike myers in jail.

http://maturityisfiller.com/?p=679