@@thalmoragent9344 Nah, I don't give a fuck. I'd do what I wanted even if I knew it would destroy me. Getting what I want and doing what I want are my only goals in life and the price really doesn't concern me.
Combined with the eye color, it gives them some alien vibe. It brings to my mind some small, grotesque creature living in inhospitable swamps and marshlands, feeding off whatever dies there Those black eyes do look like they belong on a being that has no morality or conscience, caring only on furthering its own knowledge. This dwemer looks like he could watch you being skinned alive without as much as a flinch, just staring and staring until life leaves your body. Quite uncanny
People don't seem to know, at least in the written lore, the Dwemer are a remarkably nightmarish race. This is probably, and unironically, the best portrayal of them. They do things not because they should, but because they can. And at that level of capriciousness, no action is too far.
@@xobile.123 With their intelligence on par with aedra deities and daedric princes (surpassed them even?). They are undoubtedly feared by men and mer, they even openly challenged Azura ffs
I've watched this a few times now and I think I know what's going on: Falion travels to some realm outside of the Aurbis and (perhaps unintentionally) begins the Psijic Endeavor. During this, he sees the dwemer and this robot who I'm going to call the Numidium MK2 (0:29). The Numidium MK2's euphemism "rod" pops up and impregnates an argonian maid (0:46/1:03), and Falion delivers the egg (1:08). When the egg's shell crackes, Falion sees The Tower (1:11). He begins to realize that he is part of The Tower, which actually delivered the egg (1:14), and that his entire existence is a fabrication of someone on a computer (1:17). Knowing that if he continues this process, he'll Zero-Sum as he's not ready to acknowledge the paradoxical nature of his reality (1:21), he abandons the process to save himself and his mind (1:26)
this makes this so much sense now, I couldn't make sense of it all I didnt even realize there was an argonian maid, everyone was making jokes as if the numidium had done something to him directly but this makes so much more sense. Thanks
Also, it looks like Falion at some point "becomes" the Numidium MK2, or at least has his crotch hooked up to it's, "rod", so HE impregnantes the argonian maid, which makes more sense because robots can't nut.
@@HalfGroxus Honestly, Gulum-Tei's shit would likely give the Blackwood Company one hell of a trip for every mission that had, especially when it came to infiltrating them.
Ok so i have a theory on what happened to the dwemer. Kagrenac tried to study the very fabric of his own reality and he saw the Morrowind Constructionset. He saw the spaghetti code Todd Howard wrote at 4 pm. He literally saw the construction of his own world but he had memories as a npc should, from a life he never had. He didnt understand what he saw so he tried to picture the gamebryo engine as a song. Because he could see patterns in it, like in a song. He saw code after code after code. And he understood, this was the bloodveins of Tamriel. He found the hearth, tried to reach into the Gamebryo engine. He tried to make his own mod and make his race OP. But as anyones first mod attempt usually go... he fucked it up. He deleted the dwemer race completely by accident. Only the armor and weapons remained. Ok so what about Vivec? Well he saw Mikael Kirkbride, and MK saw him too. MK showed him the other games. But Vivec is just a stupid npc, he didnt see games. He saw the older games as different realitys, similair yet different. And he started to study them instead. Both Kagrenac and Vivec had the opportunity to realise that they just existed within a videogame. But they saw it both in different ways. Kagrenac saw it as a song while Vivec saw it as paralell realitys. This is also the reason Bethesda cant change the game engine. Remember what happened between Daggerfall and Morrowind. When they changed the engine they destroyed the old world and created a new one. The new world still had memories from this vastly different old world and the npcs just explained this as a "Dragonbreak". They cant change the game engine because then Tamriel would die and a new Tamriel would be born from the ashes. Like a cycle.
I think Kangrenac actually succeeded in his endeavor, alas he misinterpreted the nature of the power he sought. Like he played with the aspect of the ''song'' as to equate the Dwemer race to what he believed to be the penultimate manifestation of reality, only to make them the equivalent of a null value and thus incapable to even affect the ''song'' in any way since reality can't manifest them anymore, like as if you'd reprogram a set of rules pertaining to a script but accidentally made it so that the script wasn't readable by the engine anymore due to its effectively foreign structure to the rest of it. Like they got corrupted out of existence, not in a metaphorical way pertaining to their humanity and ethics, but literally so as they made their own physical existence impossible to be made manifest, probably adding lines that simply couldn't be read into ''existence'' as they didn't follow the unspoken logical rules of whoever designed this in the first place. Like removing the 1 from that one line that make sure the NPC actually exist within the game world and isn't just a string of data in some file and replacing it with a line they believed would give them power beyond the limitations of their current self, only to literally disappear from existence because it simply cannot interpret the new data.
And so basically everyone that's taking these drugs are seeing the same thing: Its the elves, dragonborn. The clockwork elves. You know hist sap has high levels of DMT.
I remember reading a book in Skyrim, I believe it was called "Azura and the box". It was about a dwemer sage posing a question to the daedra Azura. He asked her what was inside a box. To which Azura replied a flower. Yet, when the dwemer lifted the box, it was empty. When the scholar left, a single rose petal fell out of his robe. At the time I was reading it in game, I only suspected the ploy was only to prove that the daedra were not omniscient as they would like to appear. After watching your video, and reading up a bit on the lore, I am now convinced the scholar *either altered Azura's perception of reality* or *changed the fabric of reality itself, for the daedra to percieve the flower in the handkerchief was in the box instead*. This is both fascinating and terrifying. TES Dwarves are truly something else.
@@dsheep9937technically "yes". If you go by Kirkbride's Lore, the Dragon breaks are fractures of causality, and the Dwemer actually retconned themselves out of that existence and ended up appearing in the middle of an alternate version of our New York City. Lots of people dislike his lore, and with the Dwemer having blue skin, no morals, actively spiting the gods through weird rules and laws, and controlling vast resources and lands by playing both sides of all conflicts, it can be seen as......well, you decide.
I got it. Falion was traveling through a small fraction of the 37,000 Pocket Realms of Oblivion to conduct research and study. Among his travels, he unintentionally (and unfortunately) entered a rare and seclusive Pocket Realm where he stumbled upon a small surviving band of Dwemer. The Dwemer, like Yagrum Bagarn, did not Zero-Sum a long with their race during the Battle of Red Mountain of 1E 700 because they were, at the time, also in some Pocket Realms of Oblivion likely doing their own study and research for Kagrenac to construct and perfect the Numidium. Upon their return to Mundus and the discovery of their disappeared race, they retreated back to Oblivion and regrouped in this Pocket Realm. Here, they conducted experiments and reconstructed their Numidium once again. They are trying to figure out why and how their race Zero-Summed. They want to understand it so as to either Zero-Sum themselves and rejoin their race, or bring them back by reversing the effects with the use of the Towers and time. Being creatures of logic and intellect, they will likely do the former. Falion was simply a test experiment. Almost Zero-Summing himself by seeing his true creator (the computer programmer at Bethesda - NOT the Godhead, and therefore NOT achieving CHIM), and being a creature of emotion with the desire to live, Falion interrupted the experiment and refused to Zero-Sum. Angry, the Dwemer sent him back to Mundus where he is to forever remember this nightmarish experience. Meanwhile, the Dwemer await their next victim with hopes to Zero-Sum.
@CrozoYT thanks, I’m a huge Elder Scrolls lore junkie. I’ve literally written essays and organize the lore in my free time. Not anymore since I have a kid on the way, but I was (and am) super into it all at one point.
Adding to and slightly modifying this theory: The Dwemer used for their experiment the Lusty Argonian Maid, a fictitious person written thousands of years after their disappearance from Nirn. She's an entity outside of time, space, and reality; the Dwemer could not have been aware of the maid while they existed on Nirn (time), the costume is a French maid's costume (space--there is no France in Nirn), and the Maid is herself fictional (reality). In their tonal magic sustained dimension, the Dwemer are able to play fast and loose with all of these. They could have reasonably pulled the Maid from Falion's fantasies-- as the story is hundreds of years old by the time of Skyrim. Using this libidinous creation, the Dwemer hold Falion enraptured as they reveal the nature of the Universe; that they are all as fictional as the Maid he fantasizes about, and the true creators made them all with computers--devices beyond even Falion's comprehension. They even show him how to use the computer. That's what was too much for Falion, and he began to zero sum before he pulled out. I don't think the Dwemer were all that angry. They know they're fictitious and don't care. Why would they? The Dwemer have the tools to make their all the stories they want for the rest of eternity. If anything, I imagine they were bemused and disappointed that he made it this far only to turn back.
So are the Dwemer trying to "birth" a new tower in order to add a "linchpin" to their own existence within their own parameters? Are they trying to usurp the reality that birthed them with an artificial one? If so, that is an incredibly Dwemer thing to do.
The numidium might've failed due to the war with the chimer, but if the dwemer are anywhere near mundus or oblivion even now, no one is safe given their command of tonal architecture to influence reality
@@supercellodude You can conjure Dwemer automatons so.... Ya know.... If conjuration is the art of pulling things from other planes.... **They might still be out there.** Or pushed down the river of time like Alduin. Also how the daedra like peryite and malacath gettin all these one of a kind Dwemer artifacts and using them as their own O.o? They may not be as far away as some may hope. Lavender skinned madlads.
@@Learius1220 Meanwhile the dwemmer are having a party with the daedra lords, they just got exactly what they wanted they godhooded the whole race and now seem inexistent because have no reasons for interacting with mortals
Sometimes in the moment you don't even remember why you chose to draw a scene like that. But that's exactly where this one is from! ATLA is a great show.
I absolutely adore the depiction of what I assume is tonal magic (or whatever it's called I can't for the life of me remember) as unearthly screaming that leads to an endlessly accelerating loop of overloading and resetting local reality into nothingness. The soulless Dwemer are great too. Watching but somehow more lifeless than even their creations. Like flesh-robots, cold inhuman cleverness behind a set of empty marble eyes. I feel like the mindfuck of that we see is a mirror of what Falion must have felt when he encountered whatever intensely weird and confusing things the Dwemer have been up to in their little corner of oblivion. Also: Argonian maid.
I believe it is Tonal Architecture exactly, I remember that Tonal Architecture is supposed to be the manipulation of Nir's primal wail when she died and gave birth.
Falion meets the dwemer. They have the numidium on the table. The tower rises from the numidium - this is what numidium is supposed to be. The dwemer try to explain what they think the world is - the world stands on the towers that are constantly moving like a wheel. The argonian maid is a meme so strong that it changes the reality itself - it becomes hands down the most popular book in the eras of future and past. The tower, that the world stands in, is in the egg. The egg is the world itself, or, a dream of the godhead. And Falion holds it - the same as the writers.The tower, the wheel, the gear spins, the player clicks the mouse - since the whole world is made for the players to experience. The player imposes the strongest will on the world - some games are non-canon if he chooses it, he changes the reality with mods and in his own head whatever the heck is happening - for someone, falmers are the actual dwemers (i met some skyrim players who think that way. And who are those NPC's to challenge the player outside of their own world?), so, the world bends for his mind. And this is why the argonian maid is such a strong meme - it far surpassed the world it was created in. There are 2 things the people outside of tes know about - arrow to the knee and argonian maid.
The elder scrolls reality is actually a dream in a tower. The numidian is a machine god built by the dwemner. The dwemner disapeared when kagrinak hit the heart of lorkahn. The dwemner have a loading error at the table. The machine is banging the argonian maid. This whole reality. Is in a video game and the dwemner are tearing dowm the 4th wall. The dwemner use tonal manipulation (vibrations, sound) to alter and control the reality around them. The dwemner... oh the dwemner. By the fifteen and one tones, When you see this. You will wish you were given the mercy that the snow elves were given by being transformed in the falmer. Cause the eyes will hear what the dwemner have to sing... Error 404: chim.exe not found
Oh, dont forget the nunidium cause dragon breaks every time it's used. Caused a dragon break in elder scrolls 2. Caused a dragon break when it was made at the battle of red mtn. Caused a dragon break when tiber septim used it against the high elves in a battle lasting less then 1 hour. The numidium is nothing to fuck with. And it shouts no at the godhead too.
@@megatronsavage443 I think it actually might be Meridia since she deals with energies and she holds a firm disdain to the undead. She is also an enemy of Molag Bal.
@@bungerbungerbunger246 yeah but Vaermina literally holds the cure in her realm and knows how to make it. Meridia possibly might be able to cleanse it. No way to know for sure.
The Dwemer have always been so fascinating to me, like, these guys literally just peaced out of existence because they learned the secrets of the universe that basically told them they were in a video game and their life was a digital construct because they hit a magic stone in a volcano too hard
Only now I have noticed that second dwemer on the right is a symbol for non-existing model but at the same time he or she reflects normally in Falion's eye
The eerieness makes it all very unsettling and alien, which is really so perfect for this. I love it. This also explains why he's out and about in the woods at 1 am.
No, you don't understand. They were waiting for him, around a table... Expecting him. The maid? His truest desire, his deepest fantasy made true through tonal architecture, but in reality he was impregnating their brass god(dess).
also there's a copy of The Lusty Argonian Maid, Vol.2 in highmoon hall, not going to redownload skyrim to check but I'm pretty sure it's under a certain someone's bed
If the devs had let it happen TES games could've become the most terrifying metaphysical horror games that would leave you scarred for the rest of your life. In many ways, they are but only if you dive into the madness that is TES lore... honestly, my mind feels like playdough after watching this 20+ times, I must be a masochist for insanity or something
As one aspect of them - totally. It's hard to ignore the effets of nostalgia but as a much younger person going through Morrowinds main quest (specially when it gets to constant Sixth House dreaming) I felt genuienly creeped out and disoriented. Almost as if I was actually waking up in a cold sweat to hear the blight howl outside of my 10 septim Ald'ruhn tavern room.
The Egg of Time showed that Lorkhan's Heart could not only transcend the Dwemer beyond the iron wills of Aedra or Daedra, they could become pure metaphysics. The pawns leapt off the chess board and smile at the checkered squares that once defined their position and influence.
I think it's both? Like the egg hatching into a tower is a pretty signigificant symbol in the elder scrolls lore, especially becuase I think the pene-robot was numidium?
@@colbyboucher6391 the towers are actually anchors of reality, which is why the white-gold tower in the capital is so damn important to the thalmor. they too wish to change reality like the dwemer wished to.
I swear, I keep coming back to this video... I love way that Dwemer's eyes are portrayed. It really reminds me of that study that some ancient hominids (before homo sapiens even existed) didn't have white scleras on their eyes. They were most likely bred out of existence (or killed off, apes aren't really constrained by human morality), which leads people to believe that even the ancient hominids found not being able to tell whether someone is looking at you or not untrustworthy, uncanny or frightening and either killed them off or didn't want to mate with them.
To this day, I still prefer Lays original potato chips. Doritos are great but can leave cheesy residue. Also one time I was eating too fast and swallowed a half chip...it was painful. Cheetos are good too but the cheesy fingers are x10 the Doritos. Yes Lays original is thin, crispy and perfectly seasoned. The only residue is oil. It doesn't try hard to impress. It doesn't do more than it needs. It is comfortable and worthy of respect.
Once I accidentally swallowed a whole dorito. It when down flat breaking down into a perfect painful seal in my throat. Fortunately the pain in my throat was so intense and wrong that it caused me to regurgitate thereby breaking the dorito out and saving my life. Never had that bad of an experience with lays.
i love how there's like, a degree of humor to this i don't say that disparaging its seriousness, either! sometimes the most horrible things are also the most absurd the fucking freudian nature of this fever dream, it's lovecraftian, this is honestly the best portrayal of the dwemer i've ever seen
The human followers of Herma Mora spend too much time in Apocrypha. They lose their minds slowly and start communicating in riddles and eventually become the seekers that we know. This guy's videos are becoming more and more cryptic. They're beautiful but I fear AllinAll is on that path....
@@ananousous So that's why the Seekers have to magically float around; they couldn't walk right after too much "forbidden knowledge" and their legs withered from disuse. .... Yeah. Gonna make sure my armor is fastened firmly, my flame cloak stays up, and I'm going to keep drinking my magic resistance and restore magicka potions.
Either way, a normal mannish mind diverts into Vaermina or Sheogorath's realm. That is why Hermorrah is just a passive, one big eye and a set of hentai hands.
1:18 I just realized this is a fourth wall break. We watch Falion watching us watching back as Schrödinger’s Cat scratches out its own eyes to collapse the waveform/metaphor...
I'm not exaggerating when I say you're single handedly doing more to renew my interest in ES lore than anything has since playing Morrowind for the first time 16 years ago. You do amazing work.
I'm loving these more recent videos, they are excellent quality and can be taken both as an entertaining meme and a legitimate exploration into the bizarre fever dream that is elder scrolls lore. please keep these up they are fucking brilliant.
Isran: "Stendarr preserve us." Erik the Slayer: "By the eight!" Nazeem: "Do you get to the cloud district often?" M'aiq The Liar: "M'aiq knows much and tells some."
*Countless of UA-cam theories over Dwemer's lore trying to grow curiosity towards their lost technology and society* Vs AllinAll : "They were worse than reptilians ( Visitors style ) and you know it. You can't unsee this anymore by the way :))"
if you watch enough surrealist art, all of its colors bleed into one, and the only thing you cannot unsee is that vile and cruel amalgamation of colors you have simply come to know as the face of god.
@@k.e.v.2011 Did you know that apparently lore-wise most races have their own version of the lusty *insert racial type and job here*? Apparently the argonian one is just the only one that made it into the games.
If you are actually interested, the Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages(UESP) has a lot on the lore, and if you use Reddit r/teslore is a pretty good place to talk about it and find other resources
So I had to watch this a couple of times, just things I'm noting, could mean nothing: -Falion never blinks after stepping into what I'll call Dwemerspace, but the Dwemer do (and to his perception not always in time with the sounds, suggesting either increasing distance spatially or just time dilating/folding). -There's a big exclamation mark in a hexagon, which speaks of either Dwemerspace in fact being a dev room of sorts or some primordial place outside space-time (think an idea before it's even conceived waiting to be dreamt up). -After the entire mindfuck of the Tower sequence, reality begins to (from what I can tell) corrupt, reinforcing my suspicion as to Dwemerspace being some dev room, and the language used is either just Elder Scrolls' ones and zeroes, or more alarmingly, viral language/coding.
So, the frame of someone with a mouse, am I to assume that Fallon isntraveling into realms of oblivion, where smut fan-fiction is reality? And he happened to find one where dwemer probe you and force you to copulate with lusty argonian maids ?
@@redbeard9136 CHIM is literally an Elder Scrolls character managing to fully realize that they live inside a game without unmaking themself in the process.
@@aceambling7685 Remind me to get back at you when Bethesda decides to develop an AI-oriented TES game, where you actually converse go places in-game with a self-aware NPC lol
@@AllINAllmusicI think, therefore I am, even If that's true, I don't plan to wallow over it. Finna make the guy playing it give me OP perms or something
@@AllINAllmusic Seriously man the sound design in this is *phenomenal* I particularly love the way you portray tonal architecture as this constantly rising unending sound.
I like to think Falion was a vampire who got himself in too deep trying to figure out the universe, and seeing everything he shouldn't, he decided to cure himself and start a new life to help ease the trauma of seeing too much.
It is only appropriate that those who saught to realise "the dream" would be the ones starring you down as you come to see it. When one ascends there is only 2 options. You either accept the world is a dream and imbrace devinity and faith, or you choose to refuse the truth of the dream and cease to exist. And with the dwarves and all their cleverness, I can only imagine they chose a 3rd option. To sit upon the liminal line one reaches when one hits the dream, the zero-sum, the fault line on reality and madness, and act as a warning to all who seek the truth.
I know this is a bit of stretch, but this is what I interpret... At the table the Numidium is undoubtedly represented as a Tower (of which we know it is). The Argonian begins to be intimate with the Numidium, implying a relation between the two. From this union the Argonian lays an egg, within it a Tower. The answer is clear, the Argonians are revealed for what they are. The Aurbis (at least that's what I presume the cog is) keeps spinning as all this happens. This is important for the purpose of the two. Thus if the Numidium is a Tower for the Dwemer, the Heart of Lorkhan is its Stone. Then the Argonians are a Tower for the Hist, and the Hist are the Argonian's Stone. However the Dwemer built the Numidium to destroy Aurbis and escape the wheel. The Hist on the other hand having survived the destruction of the previous kalpas. Created the Argonians to maintain themselves within Aurbis, and stay within the wheel. This is the relation between the two Towers. One was built to destroy, the other created to defend. Then at the very end the Numidium probably fucked off to C0da to destroy Mundus. Oh and Falion was there too.
Honestly I like Dwemer being depicted this way, especially if the theory that they survived and nearly were transported to another plane is true, As I like the idea that the Dwemer have transcended so much that they have become nightmarish enigmatic observers, Viewing mortals as mere objects to be examined and experimented on, Almost like the fantasy version of aliens from Alien Abduction stories
Falion is my favorite side character, and maybe even my favorite character in Skyrim. Love his look, his self-appointed duty, the talent, the voice actor (Stephen Russell, who also did Garrett and Nick Valentine) and he is also the master of my favorite school of magic (Conjuration). Love his relationship dynamic with the College, with the local Jarl, and the kid that he will probably train up to be a mage. Super character.
“Only by the grace of the Dwemer did your culture survive, and only by the fifteen-and-one tones did your new lives begin. We do not desire thanks, for we do not believe in it. We do not ask for gratitude, for we do not believe in it.” - Calcelmo’s Stone
All the peeps that only ever think that the Dwemer either became one with Numidium or else zero summed always seem to conveniently forget the fact that the entire event of their disappearance took place within the dragon break triggered by Numidium’s first activation by Kagrenac striking Lorkhan’s Heart, known as the Red Moment. In a dragon break, all impossibilities become possibilities, and all possibilities become reality. Kind of like how elder scrolls let you look into other possible and impossible realities, dragon breaks let you actually live them all at once. The Dwemer didn’t JUST get absorbed into Numidium or zero sum. They also achieved CHIM, got wholesale displaced to some outer realm, deliberately fucked off to a reality/dream/simulation of their own making, were kidnapped by Azura, were displaced in time to a future where their technology and magic are almost obsolete, got turned to ash at the Battle of Red Mountain, and much more besides these options, all simultaneously. They did get absorbed, they did get erased, and they are also still out there somewhere/somewhen. Meaning that, while they are “gone,” they also aren’t gone, and thus it’s just as likely for some poor member of a normie race to just be walking down the street one day and bump into a Dwemer as it is for them to never meet a Dwemer at all. Falion very likely did actually meet one as he claims. Shit, technically speaking, you could conceivably even play as a Dwemer if the games ever had them as an option and it would still be lore friendly.
At first I thought the person on the computer was meant to represent the viewer of this video in a clever fourth-wall-breaking nod to the realization that none of the events and people in the Elder Scrolls universe are real because they're in the godhead's mind and how that's an allegory to them not being real because they're fiction in the viewer's mind (with the viewer replacing the godhead)... but it felt off that the person on the computer seems too specific to represent every single possible viewer, especially with how he has curly hair which isn't very common among most ethnic groups. Then after reading some comments and seeing how the video's creator AllInAll (a Russian man with curly hair) looks like in Fudgemuppet's podcast, I began to think that the person on the computer is indeed AllInAll, the de facto godhead and creator of all these wonderful animations. Or maybe, the person on the computer is actually a real-life counterpart to Falion, (both being a black person with curly hair, since the lighting gives no clue as to his skin color but the facial features do resemble those of a black person in his teens) observing himself in the video (godhead's dream) along with the Tower, realizing he isn't real and beginning to zero-sum? But why is he a teenager when both AllInAll and Falion are adults? Is he meant to represent the largest demographic of his viewers? It's 2AM but I'm having way too much fun overanalyzing these 2 seconds of the video.
That kid is my favorite part. To me he represents the player. Playing the game as a kid when it came out and realizing that maybe this story isn't quite so kid friendly. Makes me laugh every time.
Eldritch lovecraftian much? Nah, just a friday night on the internet. *Edit* First time I watched this, I felt a multitude of things: confusion, a slight revulsion, but there was an unsuspected third, a seed that took root with those feelings: curiosity. I've been re-watching it trying to untangle this jumbled mess: Lusty Argonian Maid, The Numidium, the alien mind and "telepathic nature" of the dwemer. Falion, The Tower, The Womb, the egg, the world within the egg, the tower holding this world within the egg, the man within the world held by the tower within the egg. This feels like the dwemers, in all their "alien-mind" fashion, were trying to communicate and explain the idea of what Mondus is , how it came to be, what holds it together and what the people in mondus are and could be using a very twisted interpretation of language and imagery (and perhaps, to an extent, also the fact that The Elder Scrolls is a video game).
This is a really great interpretation of the dwemer I’ve seen similar styles for them but this really nails the otherworldly nature their supposed to have. Almost entirely separate from the other races of tamriel and indeed nirn.
For a long while I've had the impression that the Dwemmer are something like TES equivalent of aliens, as in foreigners to this world/dimension. Think about it: They're mer, but they inhabited Tamriel way before the original Aldmer, have way different physiology than other elves and a totally different language too. Their science and technology is way too advanced, even though Altmer do have a very advanced civilization when compared to other raced, yet don't come even close to how advanced Dwemmer were thousands of years ago. They vanished, which could be seen as them returning to their world of origin. And to top it off, they resemble the real world onld sumerian people, who were the first civilization of the world, progressed science and technology, and conspirationists say they had contact with aliens.
Первый раз помню Ола, когда он выкладывал сёрф-рок каверы в /tes.lore, сейчас он пилит психоделические мульты про двемеские члены. Это прогресс, я полагаю х) Спасибо за годноту то что надо на сон грядущий)
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Duncan Salyer here’s some happiness.
Some say M’aiq is a liar. They are wrong.
Khajiit has many wares for sale.
That's, yeah that's how i felt.
That's the last time I hit the skooma before bed...
I agree friend...I agree
So that's why the Falmer are blind
Strong point.
This explains so much.
The dwemer needed their privacy and gave em' the mushrooms
dwemer turned the snow elves blind
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Ya'know, even Hermaeus Mora believes that there is such a thing as too much knowledge.
To quote Lucifer Morningstar, one would think that being omniscient would include knowing when to stop.
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@@krzysztofbartczak3834 Lucifer's actual character is impulsive selfishness/evil so...?
@@krzysztofbartczak3834 and apparently this doesn't apply to god watching 2020 happen
Neravarine : "I will eat the sin of the Dwemer"
The Dwemer : "thats ok we'll just do more sin"
I think Jesus would destroy Mundus by barely glancing at it's akashic records. Here's the Mormon you didn't wish for.
The Dwemer are folks after my own heart! Punish me for my sins as much as you want but I'll just keep on doing it!
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Until you reach the consequences like the Dwemer, of course 🧐
@@thalmoragent9344 Nah, I don't give a fuck. I'd do what I wanted even if I knew it would destroy me. Getting what I want and doing what I want are my only goals in life and the price really doesn't concern me.
@@etinarcadiaego7424 including murder and such?
For some reason, the crackling sound of that dwemer's eyes REALLY unsettles me...
Combined with the eye color, it gives them some alien vibe. It brings to my mind some small, grotesque creature living in inhospitable swamps and marshlands, feeding off whatever dies there
Those black eyes do look like they belong on a being that has no morality or conscience, caring only on furthering its own knowledge. This dwemer looks like he could watch you being skinned alive without as much as a flinch, just staring and staring until life leaves your body. Quite uncanny
A lot of this guys work gives me anxiety ngl.
@@josephstalin6286 Yeah that's just elder scrolls lore in a nutshell
People don't seem to know, at least in the written lore, the Dwemer are a remarkably nightmarish race. This is probably, and unironically, the best portrayal of them. They do things not because they should, but because they can. And at that level of capriciousness, no action is too far.
This! This is by far the best interpretation of them. A cold, callous, unfeeling race of mad scientists that are probably better off gone.
Worse than the ayleids?
@@xobile.123 Probably.
@@xobile.123 With their intelligence on par with aedra deities and daedric princes (surpassed them even?). They are undoubtedly feared by men and mer, they even openly challenged Azura ffs
@@ajsouza3720 Its so true, they literally spited the gods. They knew the Deadra and Aedra existed yet they still tried to make a god of their own.
Her: he’s probably CHIMing right now
Him:
Is that Shredder on your profile picture?
AllinAll lol yeah
Him: I'm finna zero sum.
OHHHHHHHHH GOD IM CHIMMMMING OHHHH FUUUUGGGGG IM GONNA CHIMMMM
@@nuclearshorts1243 20-somthing-year-old CHYYMer
Ooooooooh, I'm gonna CHYYYYM
I've watched this a few times now and I think I know what's going on:
Falion travels to some realm outside of the Aurbis and (perhaps unintentionally) begins the Psijic Endeavor. During this, he sees the dwemer and this robot who I'm going to call the Numidium MK2 (0:29). The Numidium MK2's euphemism "rod" pops up and impregnates an argonian maid (0:46/1:03), and Falion delivers the egg (1:08). When the egg's shell crackes, Falion sees The Tower (1:11). He begins to realize that he is part of The Tower, which actually delivered the egg (1:14), and that his entire existence is a fabrication of someone on a computer (1:17).
Knowing that if he continues this process, he'll Zero-Sum as he's not ready to acknowledge the paradoxical nature of his reality (1:21), he abandons the process to save himself and his mind (1:26)
this makes this so much sense now, I couldn't make sense of it all I didnt even realize there was an argonian maid, everyone was making jokes as if the numidium had done something to him directly but this makes so much more sense. Thanks
Elder scrolls scares me
I know what's going on:
somethin nasty
Also, it looks like Falion at some point "becomes" the Numidium MK2, or at least has his crotch hooked up to it's, "rod", so HE impregnantes the argonian maid,
which makes more sense because robots can't nut.
@@Juustopizza100 Then you are starting to comprehend.
When ya boi Gulum-Tei gives you that weird tree sap he always talks about
And certainly a much better quality one, judging by its effects. Not that half-watered shit they had in Oblivion!
@@HalfGroxus Honestly, Gulum-Tei's shit would likely give the Blackwood Company one hell of a trip for every mission that had, especially when it came to infiltrating them.
My like got this to 420. I swear to God if someone ruins that I'm going to find them and curb stomp them
Joe "Have you ever tried Hist Sap" Rogan is my favorite Elder Scrolls character.
Our marshbrother always delivers on that good shit. Sap from the dankest corners of Black Marsh.
*"No words can describe what you see. Or what you think you see."* ~ Boethiah's Pillow Book
*AE JIMMIES AE RUSTLED.*
I like how Falion is just sitting there like “bruh”
Ok so i have a theory on what happened to the dwemer. Kagrenac tried to study the very fabric of his own reality and he saw the Morrowind Constructionset. He saw the spaghetti code Todd Howard wrote at 4 pm. He literally saw the construction of his own world but he had memories as a npc should, from a life he never had. He didnt understand what he saw so he tried to picture the gamebryo engine as a song. Because he could see patterns in it, like in a song. He saw code after code after code. And he understood, this was the bloodveins of Tamriel. He found the hearth, tried to reach into the Gamebryo engine. He tried to make his own mod and make his race OP. But as anyones first mod attempt usually go... he fucked it up. He deleted the dwemer race completely by accident. Only the armor and weapons remained.
Ok so what about Vivec? Well he saw Mikael Kirkbride, and MK saw him too. MK showed him the other games. But Vivec is just a stupid npc, he didnt see games. He saw the older games as different realitys, similair yet different. And he started to study them instead.
Both Kagrenac and Vivec had the opportunity to realise that they just existed within a videogame. But they saw it both in different ways. Kagrenac saw it as a song while Vivec saw it as paralell realitys.
This is also the reason Bethesda cant change the game engine. Remember what happened between Daggerfall and Morrowind. When they changed the engine they destroyed the old world and created a new one. The new world still had memories from this vastly different old world and the npcs just explained this as a "Dragonbreak".
They cant change the game engine because then Tamriel would die and a new Tamriel would be born from the ashes. Like a cycle.
I agree.
Sick
holy fuck bruh
One might say a "kalpa" cycle, no?
I think Kangrenac actually succeeded in his endeavor, alas he misinterpreted the nature of the power he sought. Like he played with the aspect of the ''song'' as to equate the Dwemer race to what he believed to be the penultimate manifestation of reality, only to make them the equivalent of a null value and thus incapable to even affect the ''song'' in any way since reality can't manifest them anymore, like as if you'd reprogram a set of rules pertaining to a script but accidentally made it so that the script wasn't readable by the engine anymore due to its effectively foreign structure to the rest of it. Like they got corrupted out of existence, not in a metaphorical way pertaining to their humanity and ethics, but literally so as they made their own physical existence impossible to be made manifest, probably adding lines that simply couldn't be read into ''existence'' as they didn't follow the unspoken logical rules of whoever designed this in the first place. Like removing the 1 from that one line that make sure the NPC actually exist within the game world and isn't just a string of data in some file and replacing it with a line they believed would give them power beyond the limitations of their current self, only to literally disappear from existence because it simply cannot interpret the new data.
And so basically everyone that's taking these drugs are seeing the same thing: Its the elves, dragonborn. The clockwork elves. You know hist sap has high levels of DMT.
The Minya on your avatar makes it.
More like cockwork elves
My guy Terence Mckenna
So *thats* what he meant by self transforming machine elves
Woah you just blew my mind.
Just realized a missed out on an opportunity to show gears looking like a tower from the side...
Oh dang
Or the gear as the wheel
I'll just turn my phone sideways
*screams in fractals*
I remember reading a book in Skyrim, I believe it was called "Azura and the box".
It was about a dwemer sage posing a question to the daedra Azura. He asked her what was inside a box. To which Azura replied a flower. Yet, when the dwemer lifted the box, it was empty. When the scholar left, a single rose petal fell out of his robe.
At the time I was reading it in game, I only suspected the ploy was only to prove that the daedra were not omniscient as they would like to appear. After watching your video, and reading up a bit on the lore, I am now convinced the scholar *either altered Azura's perception of reality* or *changed the fabric of reality itself, for the daedra to percieve the flower in the handkerchief was in the box instead*.
This is both fascinating and terrifying. TES Dwarves are truly something else.
I would love to sniff Azura's box.
Truly the duality of elder scrolls fandom
Gamer Girl Azura and it’s consequences have been a disaster on the elder scrolls fandom
Does this tale have any connection to Shordinger's experiment,
@@dsheep9937technically "yes". If you go by Kirkbride's Lore, the Dragon breaks are fractures of causality, and the Dwemer actually retconned themselves out of that existence and ended up appearing in the middle of an alternate version of our New York City. Lots of people dislike his lore, and with the Dwemer having blue skin, no morals, actively spiting the gods through weird rules and laws, and controlling vast resources and lands by playing both sides of all conflicts, it can be seen as......well, you decide.
I got it.
Falion was traveling through a small fraction of the 37,000 Pocket Realms of Oblivion to conduct research and study. Among his travels, he unintentionally (and unfortunately) entered a rare and seclusive Pocket Realm where he stumbled upon a small surviving band of Dwemer. The Dwemer, like Yagrum Bagarn, did not Zero-Sum a long with their race during the Battle of Red Mountain of 1E 700 because they were, at the time, also in some Pocket Realms of Oblivion likely doing their own study and research for Kagrenac to construct and perfect the Numidium. Upon their return to Mundus and the discovery of their disappeared race, they retreated back to Oblivion and regrouped in this Pocket Realm. Here, they conducted experiments and reconstructed their Numidium once again. They are trying to figure out why and how their race Zero-Summed. They want to understand it so as to either Zero-Sum themselves and rejoin their race, or bring them back by reversing the effects with the use of the Towers and time. Being creatures of logic and intellect, they will likely do the former.
Falion was simply a test experiment. Almost Zero-Summing himself by seeing his true creator (the computer programmer at Bethesda - NOT the Godhead, and therefore NOT achieving CHIM), and being a creature of emotion with the desire to live, Falion interrupted the experiment and refused to Zero-Sum. Angry, the Dwemer sent him back to Mundus where he is to forever remember this nightmarish experience. Meanwhile, the Dwemer await their next victim with hopes to Zero-Sum.
@CrozoYT thanks, I’m a huge Elder Scrolls lore junkie. I’ve literally written essays and organize the lore in my free time. Not anymore since I have a kid on the way, but I was (and am) super into it all at one point.
@@eddardstark6554 I would love to hear more
@@arminosas Haha, like what?
@@eddardstark6554 I would appreciate it if you posted another essay of your choosing.
Adding to and slightly modifying this theory:
The Dwemer used for their experiment the Lusty Argonian Maid, a fictitious person written thousands of years after their disappearance from Nirn. She's an entity outside of time, space, and reality; the Dwemer could not have been aware of the maid while they existed on Nirn (time), the costume is a French maid's costume (space--there is no France in Nirn), and the Maid is herself fictional (reality).
In their tonal magic sustained dimension, the Dwemer are able to play fast and loose with all of these. They could have reasonably pulled the Maid from Falion's fantasies-- as the story is hundreds of years old by the time of Skyrim. Using this libidinous creation, the Dwemer hold Falion enraptured as they reveal the nature of the Universe; that they are all as fictional as the Maid he fantasizes about, and the true creators made them all with computers--devices beyond even Falion's comprehension.
They even show him how to use the computer. That's what was too much for Falion, and he began to zero sum before he pulled out.
I don't think the Dwemer were all that angry. They know they're fictitious and don't care. Why would they? The Dwemer have the tools to make their all the stories they want for the rest of eternity. If anything, I imagine they were bemused and disappointed that he made it this far only to turn back.
The moment that 'rod' stood up..."oh no"
@jose tapia The Rod Screamed.
@@VattuyRam00991 It has no mouth, and it must scream
I don't get it maybe I just don't understand the lore
I thought it would start shooting at him and he’d run away, I wish it had started shooting at him and he’d run away
I said *"run"* out loud instinctively
So are the Dwemer trying to "birth" a new tower in order to add a "linchpin" to their own existence within their own parameters? Are they trying to usurp the reality that birthed them with an artificial one? If so, that is an incredibly Dwemer thing to do.
Yeah, that's basically what Numidium was all about. It's a testament to AllInAll that you managed to get THAT from THIS video. Amazing.
The numidium might've failed due to the war with the chimer, but if the dwemer are anywhere near mundus or oblivion even now, no one is safe given their command of tonal architecture to influence reality
@@supercellodude You can conjure Dwemer automatons so.... Ya know.... If conjuration is the art of pulling things from other planes.... **They might still be out there.** Or pushed down the river of time like Alduin. Also how the daedra like peryite and malacath gettin all these one of a kind Dwemer artifacts and using them as their own O.o? They may not be as far away as some may hope. Lavender skinned madlads.
@@Learius1220 you can conjure things from mundus too. Spriggans often do this.
@@Learius1220 Meanwhile the dwemmer are having a party with the daedra lords, they just got exactly what they wanted they godhooded the whole race and now seem inexistent because have no reasons for interacting with mortals
"I dreamt that you went away. You made monsters." - Agni to Falion.
_Angled zoom-in on dwemer face with twitchy eye wobble_
*"Drink cactus juice. It'll quench ya! Nothing's quenchier. It's the quenchiest!"*
Sometimes in the moment you don't even remember why you chose to draw a scene like that. But that's exactly where this one is from! ATLA is a great show.
@@AllINAllmusic It's a nice homage to the idea that Mike Kirkbride is rumored to be a frequent user of peyote, which is a type of cactus.
Whilst this keeps falion up at night , calcelmo would get off over the very thought of this happening to him
Lol
This is the real reason why nobody likes the high elves.
@@shadysam7161 "around elves, watch yourselves" "if they have pointy ears, it justifies your fears"
@@aceambling7685 Pretty sure Argonians have been saying that for quite some time.
@@__jonbud______________________ *An-Xileel spares children... But we see no eggs here.*
I absolutely adore the depiction of what I assume is tonal magic (or whatever it's called I can't for the life of me remember) as unearthly screaming that leads to an endlessly accelerating loop of overloading and resetting local reality into nothingness. The soulless Dwemer are great too. Watching but somehow more lifeless than even their creations. Like flesh-robots, cold inhuman cleverness behind a set of empty marble eyes. I feel like the mindfuck of that we see is a mirror of what Falion must have felt when he encountered whatever intensely weird and confusing things the Dwemer have been up to in their little corner of oblivion.
Also: Argonian maid.
Tonal architecture. You were close.
I believe it is Tonal Architecture exactly, I remember that Tonal Architecture is supposed to be the manipulation of Nir's primal wail when she died and gave birth.
Fun fact, several races apparently have their own versions of that book. With their race as the insert instead of the argonian.
@@Learius1220 The Argonian Maid is Jesus Christ!
@@Learius1220 how is the one with khajiits or vampires or khajiit vampires called?
Falion meets the dwemer. They have the numidium on the table. The tower rises from the numidium - this is what numidium is supposed to be. The dwemer try to explain what they think the world is - the world stands on the towers that are constantly moving like a wheel. The argonian maid is a meme so strong that it changes the reality itself - it becomes hands down the most popular book in the eras of future and past. The tower, that the world stands in, is in the egg. The egg is the world itself, or, a dream of the godhead. And Falion holds it - the same as the writers.The tower, the wheel, the gear spins, the player clicks the mouse - since the whole world is made for the players to experience. The player imposes the strongest will on the world - some games are non-canon if he chooses it, he changes the reality with mods and in his own head whatever the heck is happening - for someone, falmers are the actual dwemers (i met some skyrim players who think that way. And who are those NPC's to challenge the player outside of their own world?), so, the world bends for his mind. And this is why the argonian maid is such a strong meme - it far surpassed the world it was created in. There are 2 things the people outside of tes know about - arrow to the knee and argonian maid.
I mean, you can find the lusty argonian maid in daggerfall, it's a meme so strong it survived the dragonbreak
You would make a good literature teacher.
The elder scrolls reality is actually a dream in a tower.
The numidian is a machine god built by the dwemner.
The dwemner disapeared when kagrinak hit the heart of lorkahn.
The dwemner have a loading error at the table.
The machine is banging the argonian maid.
This whole reality. Is in a video game and the dwemner are tearing dowm the 4th wall.
The dwemner use tonal manipulation (vibrations, sound) to alter and control the reality around them.
The dwemner... oh the dwemner.
By the fifteen and one tones,
When you see this. You will wish you were given the mercy that the snow elves were given by being transformed in the falmer.
Cause the eyes will hear what the dwemner have to sing...
Error 404: chim.exe not found
I now live in fear that one day the dwemer will break down the fourth wall and enter our reality.
Oh, dont forget the nunidium cause dragon breaks every time it's used.
Caused a dragon break in elder scrolls 2.
Caused a dragon break when it was made at the battle of red mtn.
Caused a dragon break when tiber septim used it against the high elves in a battle lasting less then 1 hour.
The numidium is nothing to fuck with.
And it shouts no at the godhead too.
Ma- Magnus?
Yes?
Hate To Be The Asshole But It's Dwemer
Falion probably isn't the one who removes Molag's curse. He's the one who contacts the "beings" that can.
Most likely, Vaermina.
@@megatronsavage443 I think it actually might be Meridia since she deals with energies and she holds a firm disdain to the undead. She is also an enemy of Molag Bal.
@@bungerbungerbunger246 yeah but Vaermina literally holds the cure in her realm and knows how to make it. Meridia possibly might be able to cleanse it. No way to know for sure.
He does refer to Molag it's very much implied you have to offer another person's soul in order to retrieve your own soul from Molag
@@bungerbungerbunger246 Thing is the ritual requires a black soul gem. By saving your soul, you’re damning another. is that up Meridia’s alley?
There's no way you'll convince me you're not Michael Kirkbride.
He is in the video btw.
@@AllINAllmusic Omg I'll have to re-watch until I achieve CHIM!
@@AllINAllmusic Is he the error model?
@@Rathause He is.
@@AllINAllmusic Rad!
The Dwemer have always been so fascinating to me, like, these guys literally just peaced out of existence because they learned the secrets of the universe that basically told them they were in a video game and their life was a digital construct because they hit a magic stone in a volcano too hard
Only now I have noticed that second dwemer on the right is a symbol for non-existing model but at the same time he or she reflects normally in Falion's eye
The eerieness makes it all very unsettling and alien, which is really so perfect for this. I love it.
This also explains why he's out and about in the woods at 1 am.
Only great horror can make a man still wearing his hood and go to bed.
No, you don't understand. They were waiting for him, around a table... Expecting him. The maid? His truest desire, his deepest fantasy made true through tonal architecture, but in reality he was impregnating their brass god(dess).
also there's a copy of The Lusty Argonian Maid, Vol.2 in highmoon hall, not going to redownload skyrim to check but I'm pretty sure it's under a certain someone's bed
also just noticed upon rewatching for like the tenth that Falion is the kid playing on a computer for a second there, that's a mindfuck
@@Ith4qua reminded me of certain internet adventures adult me wishes child me didnt have.
111th like
If the devs had let it happen TES games could've become the most terrifying metaphysical horror games that would leave you scarred for the rest of your life. In many ways, they are but only if you dive into the madness that is TES lore...
honestly, my mind feels like playdough after watching this 20+ times, I must be a masochist for insanity or something
As one aspect of them - totally. It's hard to ignore the effets of nostalgia but as a much younger person going through Morrowinds main quest (specially when it gets to constant Sixth House dreaming) I felt genuienly creeped out and disoriented. Almost as if I was actually waking up in a cold sweat to hear the blight howl outside of my 10 septim Ald'ruhn tavern room.
Ooh, sounds like fun I've only made it to the part where ol' sugar tooth gives me 200 drakes and tells me to fuck off to one of the guilds
Oh, so That's what they mean when they call Numidium a tower
Dance atop the Tower time?
@@AutobotTitan numidium's gonna make me into a lusty argonian maid if you know what I mean
@@Ezekiel_Allium you are living proof that existence was a mistake
@@menospeakwelsh this was never a subject for debate
Oh no XD
Falion probably shouldn't use moon sugar to sweeten his evening cup of tea anymore.
The Egg of Time showed that Lorkhan's Heart could not only transcend the Dwemer beyond the iron wills of Aedra or Daedra, they could become pure metaphysics. The pawns leapt off the chess board and smile at the checkered squares that once defined their position and influence.
did you come up the last quote, it goes so unbelievably hard
@@fragbomb I did. The Dwemer are a masterstroke of lore writing. My gratitude to the writers, too often unsung for their contributions.
Agni: "I dreamt that you went away. You made monsters."
Goosebumps material.
not sure if a meme or an esoteric representation of actual elder scrolls lore either way gj love u
I think it's both? Like the egg hatching into a tower is a pretty signigificant symbol in the elder scrolls lore, especially becuase I think the pene-robot was numidium?
The Scrolls are the greatest memes there are.
It is both.
It’s actually quite a LITERAL interpretation of the lore.
@@colbyboucher6391 the towers are actually anchors of reality, which is why the white-gold tower in the capital is so damn important to the thalmor. they too wish to change reality like the dwemer wished to.
I see nothing out of the ordinary here. The Dwemer did this sort of thing all the time.
I swear, I keep coming back to this video...
I love way that Dwemer's eyes are portrayed. It really reminds me of that study that some ancient hominids (before homo sapiens even existed) didn't have white scleras on their eyes. They were most likely bred out of existence (or killed off, apes aren't really constrained by human morality), which leads people to believe that even the ancient hominids found not being able to tell whether someone is looking at you or not untrustworthy, uncanny or frightening and either killed them off or didn't want to mate with them.
I love this little factoid. Thank you!
I'm not proud of this newfound fetish...
I have taken sanity damage...
What's that
Roll a d12 for sanity check
The ending of the words is ALMSIVI.
To this day, I still prefer Lays original potato chips. Doritos are great but can leave cheesy residue. Also one time I was eating too fast and swallowed a half chip...it was painful. Cheetos are good too but the cheesy fingers are x10 the Doritos. Yes Lays original is thin, crispy and perfectly seasoned. The only residue is oil. It doesn't try hard to impress. It doesn't do more than it needs. It is comfortable and worthy of respect.
Only in elder scrolls can a deep discussion into the lore lead someone to say something profound about something so mundane.
Once I accidentally swallowed a whole dorito. It when down flat breaking down into a perfect painful seal in my throat. Fortunately the pain in my throat was so intense and wrong that it caused me to regurgitate thereby breaking the dorito out and saving my life. Never had that bad of an experience with lays.
I actually strongly agree. Classic lays chips is the best chip.
@@danjudex2475 this reply is the best comment in this thread so far.
@@ephraimawesome4447 so what you're saying is lays are doritos for people who don't know how to eat food
i love how there's like, a degree of humor to this
i don't say that disparaging its seriousness, either! sometimes the most horrible things are also the most absurd
the fucking freudian nature of this fever dream, it's lovecraftian, this is honestly the best portrayal of the dwemer i've ever seen
Thank you! That pretty much sums up the intent.
The human followers of Herma Mora spend too much time in Apocrypha. They lose their minds slowly and start communicating in riddles and eventually become the seekers that we know.
This guy's videos are becoming more and more cryptic. They're beautiful but I fear AllinAll is on that path....
Ay, a few tentacles won't kill ya.
With the mass of books and writhing tentacles in the realm of Apocrypha, one shudders to think what forbidden knowledge they desire to seek.
@@HumbleMemeFarmer No one stops after a few
@@ananousous So that's why the Seekers have to magically float around; they couldn't walk right after too much "forbidden knowledge" and their legs withered from disuse.
.... Yeah. Gonna make sure my armor is fastened firmly, my flame cloak stays up, and I'm going to keep drinking my magic resistance and restore magicka potions.
Either way, a normal mannish mind diverts into Vaermina or Sheogorath's realm. That is why Hermorrah is just a passive, one big eye and a set of hentai hands.
I see the dwemer are making gigantic sex toys in the realms of unexistence.
A good use of their time
Untime. I wrote this comment 5 years ago, but you know, the Dragon broke the second I tried to post it.
1:18 I just realized this is a fourth wall break. We watch Falion watching us watching back as Schrödinger’s Cat scratches out its own eyes to collapse the waveform/metaphor...
I'm not exaggerating when I say you're single handedly doing more to renew my interest in ES lore than anything has since playing Morrowind for the first time 16 years ago. You do amazing work.
I'm loving these more recent videos, they are excellent quality and can be taken both as an entertaining meme and a legitimate exploration into the bizarre fever dream that is elder scrolls lore. please keep these up they are fucking brilliant.
U search for dwemer artifacts ya gon get burnt
This just has such an insane amount of esoteric tes lore packed in a 1.5 min long animation
Explain the argonian maid impregnation to me. Im incredibly intrigued by the dwemeri culture. Also did they combine with the numidium?
Isran: "Stendarr preserve us."
Erik the Slayer: "By the eight!"
Nazeem: "Do you get to the cloud district often?"
M'aiq The Liar: "M'aiq knows much and tells some."
*Countless of UA-cam theories over Dwemer's lore trying to grow curiosity towards their lost technology and society*
Vs
AllinAll : "They were worse than reptilians ( Visitors style ) and you know it. You can't unsee this anymore by the way :))"
if you watch enough surrealist art, all of its colors bleed into one, and the only thing you cannot unsee is that vile and cruel amalgamation of colors you have simply come to know as the face of god.
@@k.e.v.2011 Did you know that apparently lore-wise most races have their own version of the lusty *insert racial type and job here*? Apparently the argonian one is just the only one that made it into the games.
@@Learius1220 lol kinda like how all the races think Tiber Septim was their race.
@@aceambling7685 Wait you mean Jesus
@@arminosas him too
I want to learn the lore just so I can understand this postmodern memeing
If you are actually interested, the Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages(UESP) has a lot on the lore, and if you use Reddit r/teslore is a pretty good place to talk about it and find other resources
ArcanePhysics Do what this guy said, those are the 2 best places to learn the lore.
@@imperialspence5106 Yeah, both the UESP and r/teslore are great. Nearly all of the TES lore that I know about I learned from those two
@@arcanephysics7384 Ill check those out, thanks!
Haha good luck on your journey to CHIM
So I had to watch this a couple of times, just things I'm noting, could mean nothing:
-Falion never blinks after stepping into what I'll call Dwemerspace, but the Dwemer do (and to his perception not always in time with the sounds, suggesting either increasing distance spatially or just time dilating/folding).
-There's a big exclamation mark in a hexagon, which speaks of either Dwemerspace in fact being a dev room of sorts or some primordial place outside space-time (think an idea before it's even conceived waiting to be dreamt up).
-After the entire mindfuck of the Tower sequence, reality begins to (from what I can tell) corrupt, reinforcing my suspicion as to Dwemerspace being some dev room, and the language used is either just Elder Scrolls' ones and zeroes, or more alarmingly, viral language/coding.
After being activated, the mechanical abomination said but only one thing...
*"Greetings. Fisto is programmed to please."*
Best crossover ever
I get it now, the Numidium was just an overdeveloped RealDoll
So, the frame of someone with a mouse, am I to assume that Fallon isntraveling into realms of oblivion, where smut fan-fiction is reality? And he happened to find one where dwemer probe you and force you to copulate with lusty argonian maids ?
I am beginning to like the whole aliens probing theory. Speaking of a kid with a mouse... Imagine if your reality was a computer game.
@@AllINAllmusic that's what chim would feel like, right ?
@@redbeard9136 CHIM is literally an Elder Scrolls character managing to fully realize that they live inside a game without unmaking themself in the process.
@@aceambling7685 Remind me to get back at you when Bethesda decides to develop an AI-oriented TES game, where you actually converse go places in-game with a self-aware NPC lol
@@AllINAllmusicI think, therefore I am, even If that's true, I don't plan to wallow over it. Finna make the guy playing it give me OP perms or something
Mom come pick me up I'm scared.
Also the sound design here is just superb.
Thank you! I made the Dwemer eye sound by being creepy with the mic.
@@AllINAllmusic Seriously man the sound design in this is *phenomenal* I particularly love the way you portray tonal architecture as this constantly rising unending sound.
I like to think Falion was a vampire who got himself in too deep trying to figure out the universe, and seeing everything he shouldn't, he decided to cure himself and start a new life to help ease the trauma of seeing too much.
We don't do optimism.
Enough to drive Septimus insane all over again.
Now thats what I call "The Egg of Time"
I'm never going back to the dwemer ruins
I really appreciate the usage of the Morrowind Spell sound when Falion gets there
Incredibly interesting and very well made, can't wait to see more. Kinda want a whole series of these
So close to Amaranth.
It is only appropriate that those who saught to realise "the dream" would be the ones starring you down as you come to see it. When one ascends there is only 2 options. You either accept the world is a dream and imbrace devinity and faith, or you choose to refuse the truth of the dream and cease to exist. And with the dwarves and all their cleverness, I can only imagine they chose a 3rd option. To sit upon the liminal line one reaches when one hits the dream, the zero-sum, the fault line on reality and madness, and act as a warning to all who seek the truth.
I know this is a bit of stretch, but this is what I interpret...
At the table the Numidium is undoubtedly represented as a Tower (of which we know it is).
The Argonian begins to be intimate with the Numidium, implying a relation between the two.
From this union the Argonian lays an egg, within it a Tower. The answer is clear, the Argonians are revealed for what they are.
The Aurbis (at least that's what I presume the cog is) keeps spinning as all this happens. This is important for the purpose of the two.
Thus if the Numidium is a Tower for the Dwemer, the Heart of Lorkhan is its Stone. Then the Argonians are a Tower for the Hist, and the Hist are the Argonian's Stone.
However the Dwemer built the Numidium to destroy Aurbis and escape the wheel. The Hist on the other hand having survived the destruction of the previous kalpas. Created the Argonians to maintain themselves within Aurbis, and stay within the wheel.
This is the relation between the two Towers. One was built to destroy, the other created to defend.
Then at the very end the Numidium probably fucked off to C0da to destroy Mundus. Oh and Falion was there too.
The ayylmao looking dwemer are a great visual, nice work.
@MrNahual2099 Based on the ghosts, yeah. But i was talking more about the black eyes, and the sound they make when they blink.
@@Caiodindin it's actually very close to the vibe they give off when they capture vivec's mom in the 36 lessons, very alien and uncomfortable
Is this canon? Of course it is.
Seriously love your dwemer art style. Probably the best representation I’ve seen so far.
It's like that Spongebob episode where Squidward goes to the future but even more horrifying
Alone. ALone. aLoNe.
And I thought C0DA was weird...
hey, a new video! Can't wait to see another lore related- OHMYGODISTHATAROBOTDICK
1:25 For a single frame Falion replaces the missing texture sprite HOLY FUCK
Honestly I like Dwemer being depicted this way, especially if the theory that they survived and nearly were transported to another plane is true, As I like the idea that the Dwemer have transcended so much that they have become nightmarish enigmatic observers, Viewing mortals as mere objects to be examined and experimented on, Almost like the fantasy version of aliens from Alien Abduction stories
The ultimate Other.
By all that is filthy, Namira, defile us.
I had to watch this twice to confirm what it was I actually saw. My mind keeps wanting to block that.
Falion is my favorite side character, and maybe even my favorite character in Skyrim. Love his look, his self-appointed duty, the talent, the voice actor (Stephen Russell, who also did Garrett and Nick Valentine) and he is also the master of my favorite school of magic (Conjuration). Love his relationship dynamic with the College, with the local Jarl, and the kid that he will probably train up to be a mage. Super character.
“Only by the grace of the Dwemer did your culture survive, and only by the fifteen-and-one tones did your new lives begin.
We do not desire thanks, for we do not believe in it. We do not ask for gratitude, for we do not believe in it.”
- Calcelmo’s Stone
Well, it's so exceedingly bizarre it must be canon.
How Vivec was born
All the peeps that only ever think that the Dwemer either became one with Numidium or else zero summed always seem to conveniently forget the fact that the entire event of their disappearance took place within the dragon break triggered by Numidium’s first activation by Kagrenac striking Lorkhan’s Heart, known as the Red Moment. In a dragon break, all impossibilities become possibilities, and all possibilities become reality. Kind of like how elder scrolls let you look into other possible and impossible realities, dragon breaks let you actually live them all at once.
The Dwemer didn’t JUST get absorbed into Numidium or zero sum. They also achieved CHIM, got wholesale displaced to some outer realm, deliberately fucked off to a reality/dream/simulation of their own making, were kidnapped by Azura, were displaced in time to a future where their technology and magic are almost obsolete, got turned to ash at the Battle of Red Mountain, and much more besides these options, all simultaneously. They did get absorbed, they did get erased, and they are also still out there somewhere/somewhen. Meaning that, while they are “gone,” they also aren’t gone, and thus it’s just as likely for some poor member of a normie race to just be walking down the street one day and bump into a Dwemer as it is for them to never meet a Dwemer at all. Falion very likely did actually meet one as he claims.
Shit, technically speaking, you could conceivably even play as a Dwemer if the games ever had them as an option and it would still be lore friendly.
Interesting take
How am I just discovering this now? The Dwemer are so...alien and unnatural.
Just as they should be
Оk, I think he was closest to the mystery of the disappearance of the Dwemer...
I have one question: what?
What?
@@AllINAllmusic No no: WHAT?
AllinAll That’s the trouble with YOU!
@@Bootheal THAT'S THE TROUBLE WITH YE!
AllinAll in the butt.
At first I thought the person on the computer was meant to represent the viewer of this video in a clever fourth-wall-breaking nod to the realization that none of the events and people in the Elder Scrolls universe are real because they're in the godhead's mind and how that's an allegory to them not being real because they're fiction in the viewer's mind (with the viewer replacing the godhead)... but it felt off that the person on the computer seems too specific to represent every single possible viewer, especially with how he has curly hair which isn't very common among most ethnic groups. Then after reading some comments and seeing how the video's creator AllInAll (a Russian man with curly hair) looks like in Fudgemuppet's podcast, I began to think that the person on the computer is indeed AllInAll, the de facto godhead and creator of all these wonderful animations. Or maybe, the person on the computer is actually a real-life counterpart to Falion, (both being a black person with curly hair, since the lighting gives no clue as to his skin color but the facial features do resemble those of a black person in his teens) observing himself in the video (godhead's dream) along with the Tower, realizing he isn't real and beginning to zero-sum? But why is he a teenager when both AllInAll and Falion are adults? Is he meant to represent the largest demographic of his viewers?
It's 2AM but I'm having way too much fun overanalyzing these 2 seconds of the video.
That kid is my favorite part. To me he represents the player. Playing the game as a kid when it came out and realizing that maybe this story isn't quite so kid friendly.
Makes me laugh every time.
Looked like that Argonian was gonna CHIM all over that tower
Eldritch lovecraftian much? Nah, just a friday night on the internet.
*Edit*
First time I watched this, I felt a multitude of things: confusion, a slight revulsion, but there was an unsuspected third, a seed that took root with those feelings: curiosity.
I've been re-watching it trying to untangle this jumbled mess: Lusty Argonian Maid, The Numidium, the alien mind and "telepathic nature" of the dwemer.
Falion, The Tower, The Womb, the egg, the world within the egg, the tower holding this world within the egg, the man within the world held by the tower within the egg.
This feels like the dwemers, in all their "alien-mind" fashion, were trying to communicate and explain the idea of what Mondus is , how it came to be, what holds it together and what the people in mondus are and could be using a very twisted interpretation of language and imagery (and perhaps, to an extent, also the fact that The Elder Scrolls is a video game).
I was like "what.....what is that rod for?"......then I seen the Argonian
Elder scrolls lore is an exhibit built on the fourth wall of a sideways art gallery.
Seems like you found Kirkbride's drugs stash. I like it.
MINE.
Machine elves are considered the quintessential DMT hallucination. I think Kirkbride got his idea for the dwemer from it
If I were a falmer I'd blind myself too
a wizard who knows no spells must be a wizard of a different type of "magic"
This is a really great interpretation of the dwemer I’ve seen similar styles for them but this really nails the otherworldly nature their supposed to have. Almost entirely separate from the other races of tamriel and indeed nirn.
For a long while I've had the impression that the Dwemmer are something like TES equivalent of aliens, as in foreigners to this world/dimension. Think about it: They're mer, but they inhabited Tamriel way before the original Aldmer, have way different physiology than other elves and a totally different language too. Their science and technology is way too advanced, even though Altmer do have a very advanced civilization when compared to other raced, yet don't come even close to how advanced Dwemmer were thousands of years ago. They vanished, which could be seen as them returning to their world of origin. And to top it off, they resemble the real world onld sumerian people, who were the first civilization of the world, progressed science and technology, and conspirationists say they had contact with aliens.
Первый раз помню Ола, когда он выкладывал сёрф-рок каверы в /tes.lore, сейчас он пилит психоделические мульты про двемеские члены.
Это прогресс, я полагаю х)
Спасибо за годноту то что надо на сон грядущий)
My goodness mate you're amazing and I hope I'm one among many who appreciates the great work that you've been putting out.
I know of a certain man named Michael who would approve of this in every way.
Fallion has only done Skooma once.
*Once*