Turns Out This Skyrim Mystery Was Bigger Than We Thought

...been made.

We'll start to develop a few theories and ideas here, and once we've dug through everything, we can then move into exploring the Elder Scrolls Online's clues and related revelations, which are arguably more important than the Elder Scrolls V's, but we'll get there eventually.

When all's said and done, we'll combine what we've learned from the history with the implications of these two games, and notice how everything points to a specific conclusion.

Anyway, enough monologuing.

Ladies and gentlemen, without any further ado, let's do further and try to figure out what the heck the dwarves did to the Falmer.

Alrighty, so as promised, we're starting with history.

Because the Snow Elven people were virtually exterminated, and their closest neighbors, the Dwarves, have disappeared, there's a lot of missing information here.

And most of what we do know about the early Fulmer comes from Nordic folklore, poems, and songs.

Which, for obvious reasons, probably contains some bias, and should be taken lightly.

That all said, the Snow Elves likely emerged as a distinct people sometime in the early Merethic Era.

The Merethic Era, or Elven Era as it can be translated to, was a period of time that began around seven to ten thousand years prior to the events of Skyrim, when the first Elves left the Summerset Isles and began settling modern mainland Tamriel.

While at first all of the Elves belonged to the same race, the Oldmer, as their people started spreading across the continent, they began to develop distinct characteristics, cultures, and biological traits.

Thus, the elves who settled Tamriel's southwestern forests became the Wood Elves, or Bosmer.

And the elves that set up in modern-day Cyrodiil became the Heartland Elves, or the Aliens.

And the Snow Elves eventually asserted themselves in Skyrim.

Because, again, everything eventually got burned down, we know very little about how the Fulmer organized their society and were governed.

We are sure they worshipped a variant of a traditional elven pantheon, considering Arielle, the elven god of time, to be their chief deity, and the snow elves definitely had large cities and sophisticated urban metropolises.

But the Nords would do such a good job of destroying everything, we're not sure where all of those cities exactly were.

Old journals tell us that there was one in the Rift, wherein modern-day Ford Greenwall exists, and another somewhere in Falkreath, but that's about all we know for sure.

Notably, at the same time the Snow Elves had established themselves all across Skyrim's surface, another elven race called the Deep Elves, or Dwemer, had established themselves beneath Skyrim.

The Dwemer inhabited massive underground cities and forts all across northern Tamriel, and their people's biggest priority was to better their own understanding of the world, and basically learn.

To this day, no group has ever come even close to matching the Deep Elves' technological achievements.

While everybody else was using bows and arrows and lighting fires with sticks, they already had giant robots, machines that would do their work, and intricate power systems.

Well, not really power in the same way we think of it, but you get the idea.

Because the dwarves were living underground and very rarely left, there really wasn't much interaction between them and the snow elves at all.