Falion Meets Dwemer

[iamfine]

Ya'know, even Hermaeus Mora believes that there is such a thing as too much knowledge.

[hobomisanthropus]

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.

[kylemorin]

So that's why the Falmer are blind

[Scotttjt]

For some reason, the crackling sound of that dwemer's eyes REALLY unsettles me...

[iaminterface]

Neravarine : "I will eat the sin of the Dwemer"


The Dwemer : "thats ok we'll just do more sin"

[jacobmonarch]

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.

[AllINAllmusic]

Just realized a missed out on an opportunity to show gears looking like a tower from the side...

[Dobbinator]

Whilst this keeps falion up at night, calcelmo would get off over the very thought of this happening to him

[Galimeer]

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)

[ZonsoAvalune]

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.

[vincegalila]

Falion probably isn't the one who removes Molag's curse. He's the one who contacts the "beings" that can.

[lobstrosity]

There's no way you'll convince me you're not Michael Kirkbride.

[Xenaisthebusiness]

Her: he’s probably CHIMing right now

Him:

[Freddetron]

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.

[doom]

I like how Falion is just sitting there like “bruh”

[davidorduna]

When ya boi Gulum-Tei gives you that weird tree sap he always talks about

[Dhumanizd]

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.

[SneedFeedAndSeed]

*"No words can describe what you see. Or what you think you see."* ~ Boethiah's Pillow Book

[johannesnylund]

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.

[francisruiz]

The moment that 'rod' stood up..."oh no"