All I know is that sometime in the first era they disappeared without a trace, and apparently one survived, but as a bloated madman living in Morrowind.
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Let me fus-ro-dah this thread over to the Game Room (from GQ), since that is a more appropriate forum for the Dragonborn.
There is an Elder Scrolls timeline here. I’m not going to take the time to piece together how many years are in each era and do the math, but you should be able to figure it out from here:
According to the timeline, the Dwemer disappeared around year 700 in the First Era. Skyrim is year 201 of the Fourth Era.
Hmmm. It seems to have occurred between 3,751 to 4,000 years before Skyrim.
If those numbers are canon, then it’s about 3,750 years.
What is something that was built, or happened in the real world that many years ago to appreciate how long the Dwemer have been gone?
Babylonia is celebrating it’s sesquicentennial or thereabouts, where Hammurabi is being a boss. Bronze/iron age. The Middle Kingdom of Egypt is drawing to a close.
I’d like to think that Yagrum Bagarn is still around in Skyrim times. He’s not mad, just eccentric! Divayth Fyr too.
That’s not true, because in Morrowind there was at least one living Dwemer (Yagrum Bagarn) and that was just 207 years before TES5: Skyrim. Yagrum Bagarn may in fact still be alive, though it’s unlikely he survived the destruction of Vvardenfell.
Corprus kept his lifespan unnaturally long if not immortal. Plus as mer he lives longer than men.
Neloth managed to survive, and their cities are in the same region. Neither are very near Vivec city or Red Mountain.
AIUI, the Dwemer didn’t die, they just left. There could still be lots of them out there, and when they come back, they’re going to want all their scrap metal back.
They can have it. That shit’s heavy, and I need all the space I can get for the gems that rain like manna.
Sorry about all the blown up guard machines, though.
Yeah the Dwemer are like apartment renters who just bail one night and leave their crap all over.
If they ever come back and demand their stuff they’re outta luck.
Yagrum mentions his travels ‘thousands of years ago’ to search for other Dwemer after their disappearance. He’s ancient.
I do remember a mention that ‘the divine disease’ stops the sufferer from aging, but I’m also curious as to when Yagrum contracted it. It was created by Dagoth Ur, after his reawakening in 2E 882, prompting the creation of the Ghostfence to contain it - that’s a good 3,000 years after the disappearance of the Dwemer. So that points towards a naturally long lifespan, he had been alive for thousands of years before even contracting the disease.