Quote:Posted by: Nelacar Jun 30 2005, 12:29 AM

I've got a weird disappearance theory, too: I think they deliberately destroyed themselves.

Quote:QUOTE(Xal @ Human Marukhati)
Ah. I will tell you the truth, because you will believe none of it. The Brass God is Anumidum, the Prime Gestalt. He is also called the divine skin. He was meant to be used many times by our kind to transcend the Gray Maybe.

Anumidum, Numidium. Designed by the Dwemer for the purpose of transcending Nirn.

Quote:QUOTE(Xal @ Human Marukhati)
Kagrenac was devoted to his people, and the Dwarves, despite what you may have read, were a pious lot-he would not have sacrificed so many of their golden souls to create Anumidum's metal body if it were all in the name of grand theater. Kagrenac had even built the tools needed to construct a Mantella, the Crux of Transcendence. But, by then, and for a long time coming, the Doom of the Dwarves marched upon the Mountain and they were removed from this world.

He sacrificed their souls. He deliberately destroyed them all to create Numidium. The Mantella is literally the central point of transcendence. In other words, Kagrenac and the Tonal Architects were planning to allow an entire race to escape Nirn, but his work is incomplete. Nobody was left to make and use the Mantella. And take another look at the reference to the Mantella. A crux is also a cross, of which Vivec says this:

Quote:QUOTE(36 Sermons of Vivec)
'The magical cross is an integration of the worth of mortals at the expense of their spirits.

Which means that the Mantella uses the spirits of mortals to allow them to transcend. Which is how Tiber Septim and Mannimarco became gods; they transcended at the expense of Zurin Arctus.

Quote:QUOTE(Sotha Sil)
You wonder where the Dwemer have gone? Perhaps better to wonder why one remains.

One remains because it's his job to make use of the Mantella. Yagrum Bagarn was in an outer realm at the time so that he would be unaffected by the destruction of the Dwemer, allowing him to return to Nirn and complete the work of the Tonal Architects. Except he couldn't do that when he returned because he couldn't find the Tools to use on the Heart, since the Tribunal had taken them. So while he was looking for the Tools, he caught Corprus. After a while, he lost his memory of the plan. If he hadn't forgotten it from the Corprus by the time he met Fyr, he certainly wasn't going to explain a plan like that to anybody. So he just says, "I was looking for other Dwemer." Now that Dagoth Ur is gone, he's recovering from the memory loss:

Quote:QUOTE(Divayth Fyr)
Yagrum, on the other hand, seems to have regained much in the past. He still shows signs of corprus, but his memory seems to slowly be coming back from time to time. He spends quite a bit of time on his own now and wishes to remain alone. I am sure that glimpses of his past, coming freshly back to him, give him much to ponder over.

Now he remembers the plan, and wants the tools:

Quote:QUOTE(Divayth Fyr)
And interesting thing.... Yagrum confronted me after my arrival from the council, and wished to know if I still had the Tools in my possession. Upon hearing that the Hortator had taken leave and carried the items off with him, Yagrum seemed quite upset.

The reason he needs the tools is so that he can make a Mantella that can fully power Numidium at the expense of the Heart of Lorkhan, then destroy himself and transcend.

Now that I think about it, I have a whole lot of weird theories.

Quote:Originally posted by Cuthalion
far-fetched

Quote:Originally posted by final reclaimer
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