Skyrim Mysteries That Still Haven't Been Solved
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- 27 Feb 2023
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The Elder Scrolls community has some talented sleuths, but even a decade of scrutiny hasn't been enough to solve Skyrim's biggest mysteries.
When it released in 2011, The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim quickly found abundant success thanks to its open-world map full of characters, locations, quests, and secrets - and even to this day, there are some mysteries still that haven't been solved. Not only is this a testament to the world building within Skyrim itself, but in the Elder Scrolls universe as a whole, as the series' fifth installment contains plenty of references to its predecessors. In this way, Skyrim can answer some burning questions for fans of TES, but in the same breath, the game has spawned some of the biggest conundrums in the entire gaming sphere.
It's entirely possible that some of these entries are simply oversights on Bethesda's behalf rather than meticulously crafted stories for players to solve. Admittedly, this would be the less exciting option, but it's happened before with Skyrim's most disappointing bug jar mystery and some other strange occurrences that just turned out to be cut content. As far as the community knows, however, these mysteries are meant to be deciphered - and this makes it all the more intriguing that after over ten years, they remain unsolved.
The Disappearance Of The Dwemer Is Skyrim's Biggest Mystery
By far the most concerning Skyrim mystery is that of the Dwemer's disappearance. This historical event is one that spans across all Elder Scrolls games, but despite it being widespread knowledge across Tamriel and even among its NPC citizens, still nobody can quite figure out what happened to the dwarves. They were by far the most technologically advanced race to ever exist within TES, building complex infrastructures, sentient machines, and even harnessing the powers of souls before they suddenly dropped off the face of the earth (or in this case, Nirn) during the First Era.
It's quite possible that what happened to the Dwemer in Elder Scrolls was caused by using the Heart of Lorkhan, an Aedric artifact that they believed would grant them divinity. In the heat of battle against the Chimer, the dwarves attempted to utilize this mystical object, hoping to turn the tides; instead, they vanished into thin air. Only a single dwarf named Yagrum Bagarn, who appears in The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind, survived this ordeal, but even he is completely clueless as to what caused his entire race to disappear. Unfortunately, though players can explore Dwarven ruins across Skyrim, none provide the answer to this age-old question. Read More…
