Felix Caelus

He nods thoughtfully. "Dwarven migrations. Good thinking. I think I'll have to do a little reconnaissance in that Library soon. As for whether they died, that's a good question. You see, they were incredibly isolated. Secretive- xenophobic, from what I've read. There's a story that they had some kind of great project, but they didn't leave notes for anyone else.

"People have been arguing about what happened to them for centuries. Did they die? Did they activate some device that went horribly wrong? Did they succeed in transporting themselves to some other plane, or turn themselves into aedric spirits and leave Nirn forever? Was it planned at all? Nobody knows. All they left behind were great ruins, underground cities full of deadly traps and steamworks, eternally guarded by their sleepless, deathless automata."