Pocket Guide to The Empire, 1st Edition by Bethesda Softworks

Author:Bethesda Softworks [Softworks, Bethesda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bethesda Softworks
Published: 2018-01-25T03:00:00+00:00

The Dwarves

Hammerfell’s original name was Volenfell, named for the Dwemer “City of the Hammer” whose ruins lay nearly submerged by the sands of the Alik’r.

Legend holds that these Dwemer were the self-exiled Rourken clan of Resdayn (Morrowind), who refused to participate in making peace with the Dark Elves. Thus, the Rourken chieftain threw his mighty hammer, Volendrung, across Tamriel, promising to lead his clansmer to “wherever it should fall.”

This mythic image has been depicted on the walls of several ruins in Hammerfell: a mass exodus of golden-clad dwarves, trudging through the Cyrodilic forests, Volendrung a falling star in the nightsky before them, urging them on. Sadly, these same ruins offer no clues to the mysterious disappearance of the Dwarves from Tamriel, which was everywhere the same, ca. 1E700.

Before quitting this subject, we might as well address the oft-used misnomer for the Dwemer, the “Dwarves.” There is nothing to suggest that the Dwemer were any less towering over humans than the early Aldmeri were; indeed, extant Dwarven goldmail more or less fits every human lucky enough to possess it.

Imperial excavation of ancient and wondrous Dwarven machinery supports the Dlyxexic theory that the translation of Dwemer as “Deep Elves” might instead be read as “Smart Elves,” despite the incongruity of that notion. Perhaps, then, the “brilliant students” of the titanic Ehlnofey mentioned in the Anuad are the Dwarves, and that their giant masters gave them this sobriquet.

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