You guys all know about how the dwemer tried to harness the power of the Heart of Lorkhan and how they tried to do it with Kagrenac's Tools that would allow them to control the hearts power? I wonder if the Aetherium Forge is the forge that was responsible for creating Kagrenac's Tools? What do you guys think?

Maybe. Too little lore on the subject to be sure about it

It's possible. What is the blade of keening made of?

I'm not sure what the blade is made of but it looks like it could be Aetherium. I'm wondering this because the forge is kinda made out to be extremely impressive and important but all it gives you are a crown, shield, or staff

Is the glowing stuff that makes up the lamps and such in Dwemer ruins Aetherium too?

If so, I think it should be a very limited resource that could be used to create very, very powerful weapons with specal properties.

Make them extremely hard to acquire and costly to forge.

staff, crown, or shield... i wanted a sword.

I was thinking about this quest and then it hit me. They should add more of that fancy metal in Future DLC's and patches and allow us to eventually get enough to craft something truly epic, like Chrysamere epic!
The choices we got were disappointing.

I got a crown that lets me resurrect legions of the undead. I'm not disappointed!