I hate Blackreach. HATE it. My Necro/conjuration Mage Night Priestess is going there today with Mjoll to kill everyone there. I am using the Ritual stone and dual cast Dremora Lords to help cleanse this place.

I guess I hate it because I never really explored it. Always get there and run out to complete whatever quest I am on. Today, that ends. My Dark follwers and I are going to kill everything and everyone there so we can explore for ourselves.

Congratulations... I think.

Go with the gods!

(I hate Blackreach, too. I get the urge to put up some streetlights along those roads. Maybe some floodlight as well. I guess that makes me blasphemous or something. But the place gives me claustrophobia. It feels like a giant tomb. I bet the air is damp, too.)

I hate to tell you this but...

The falmer are like roaches, they always come back.

I have walked a red path of ruin through those sunken halls many a time and always are the eyeless wretches are there waiting for me when I return.

Its the one place I've never really explored in Skyrim. Too many Falmer, Chaurus, Falmer helpers, etc. It just looks awful and dangerous.

...Intelligence. And almost the definite logic behind Racism!
It's because Blackreach is black right?

"I don't know it well, therefore it svcks!"

I love how it looks but because it is so dark I pretty much never go down there a second time, only reason I do is to mine.

Let's cast it out or kill it with fire!

It's an impressive location but it can be a bit... much.

I *have* explored it and I still hate it. Like the OP, I usually go in on quest related stuff and that's it. On one character I did that and hung around long enough to go through pretty much the entire place, I didn't like it any better afterwards.

I'm not saying it isn't a stunning achievement on the part of the people who created it (I mean the devs and designers and whatnot, not the in-game "creators" of the place). I'm just saying I don't like going there and don't like being there. In fact my extreme reaction to the place is probably a testament to just how great a job they did.

But seriously...I love Blackreach. Exploring it (with a stealth character) is one of my favorite things (1-shotting Falmer with my crossbow never gets old). I think if you were playing it as a non-stealth character it could get overwhelming - everything would try to kill you at once and that would not be fun.

Still I love Blackreach and all things Dwemer.

Only been there once for the main quest but I'm really looking forward to visit this place again. I first got in at about level 15 or 20 and barely made it out alive again.

Yes, Falmer everywhere but I don't think everything down there is necessarily evil. I'm just guessing, but I will find out. Maybe even this year.

No, everything down there IS evil. They all want to kill you! (Well, except for the one time I saw a Stormcloak courier run by.)

I seriously Bethesda shed some light as to what happened to the dwemer, perhaps in a future DLC..

http://www.imperial-library.info/content/final-report-trebonius
http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Arniel (this link never works, it should've been Arniel's Endeavor)

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Disappearance_of_the_Dwarves#History

The Dwemer inexplicably disappeared during the http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Battle_of_Red_Mountain, the biggest and final battle of the http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:War_of_the_First_Council.^{http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Disappearance_of_the_Dwarves#cite_note-PGE3M-5} The Tonal Architect Lord http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Kagrenac of the Dwemer constructed http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Kagrenac%27s_Tools to harness the powers of the http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Heart_of_Lorkhan, which the Dwemer had discovered beneath Red Mountain.^{http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Disappearance_of_the_Dwarves#cite_note-TBORM-18} When the Chimer found out, they considered this aim blasphemous and sought to stop it.^{http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Disappearance_of_the_Dwarves#cite_note-TBORM-18} Kagrenac's goal remains unclear, but it is believed he sought to heighten his race to http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Numidium.^{http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Disappearance_of_the_Dwarves#cite_note-TBORM-18} The disappearance of a whole race in an instant sparked many theories,^{http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Disappearance_of_the_Dwarves#cite_note-PGE3M-5} but is generally thought to have followed this attempt to use the tools on the Heart,^{http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Disappearance_of_the_Dwarves#cite_note-KT-19http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Disappearance_of_the_Dwarves#cite_note-Yagrum-20} and simply coincided^{http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Disappearance_of_the_Dwarves#cite_note-Baladas-21} with the war. It appears that the Dwemer were conflicted on their use of the Heart. Some opposed its use, warning that massive side effects were likely,^{http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Disappearance_of_the_Dwarves#cite_note-Yagrum-20} while the majority of the Tonal Architects, including Kagrenac, and Bthuand Mzahnch (who wrote http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:The_Egg_of_Time which downplayed the risks of tampering with the Heart of Lorkhan) wished to proceed.

It appears all members of the Dwemer race were simply removed from the world. When the previously untouched Dwemer ruins of http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Tribunal:Bamz-Amschend in http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Mournhold were rediscovered, numerous piles of ashes were present next to weapons and armor, on chairs, and in beds, suggesting the Dwemers' bodies were suddenly reduced to ash in some way. In http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Fourth_Era#4E_201, http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Arniel_Gane, a researcher at the http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:College_of_Winterhold in http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Skyrim, attempted to recreate the circumstances of the Dwemer's disappearance after obtaining http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Keening, one of Kagrenac's Tools, but vanished suddenly in the process, strengthening the theory that Kagrenac's use of the tools was the cause of the disappearance. Some scholars still resist the notion that the Dwemer disappeared all at once.^{http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Disappearance_of_the_Dwarves#cite_note-D3-11}

A theory also exists that their sudden extinction was caused by their reversal of the usual processes involved in the Earth Bones, the laws of nature. Rather than creating profane by commanding the sacred, such as in http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Conjuration magic or http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Daedra worship, they sought to create Anumidium, their own sacred, from the "deaths of the profane."^{http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Disappearance_of_the_Dwarves#cite_note-Baladas-21} http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Vivec_(god), the warrior-poet god of the Dunmer, similarly believes that the disappearance of the Dwemer is in some way owed to their "divine sin"—attempting to create a god for their own purposes from the remains of the god http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Lorkhan.^{http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Disappearance_of_the_Dwarves#cite_note-Vivec-22} Whether their use of Kagrenac's Tools in this process or simply their intentions resulted in their extinction remains unclear in this theory.

lol thanks.

Fire is good. I bet Dwemer oil is flammable.