It was pretty spectacular the first time I stumbled in there.
And I love how

The place is gorgeous and sure had "great potential" -some of what wasted,like most of Skyrim places that lacks "story" and "depth" sadly.

Once you get past the initial "wow" factor, it does seem a bit superficial, with not much exploration value.

Still, there's a lot of potential for modders to turn it into an active underground city.

After spending about an hour exploring down there, I was already saying to myself, "where's the Elder Scroll already?". It is a beautiful space, don't get me wrong, but I just wasn't as tense as I thought I should have been for being in such a massive Dwemer ruin.

Indeed.

No female giants either.

I was blown away by Blackreach.

I understand what others are saying but wiithin the context of the game as a whole, it is, imo, pretty amazing.

Yes. Blackreach is awesome. But a bit empty. They could have put so many quests in there.

There are some odd buildings, like theres stuff missing, blank walls, places that do nothing, but look like they should have stuff in.

I loved the hell out of Blackreach because it's the closest we're ever going to get to an actual Dwemer city. I love to mess around down there just because of the atmosphere of the place. It's probably my favorite location in the entire game.

But yes, I'd have loved some more quests, lore tidbits or unique artifacts down there, myself.

I think Bethesda just needs to bring the Dwemer back...they have been gone long enough....Just bring the Dwemer back in a DLC and the Dragonborn gets to help the Dwemer reclaim their underground cities from the Falmer.

This why in the next Elder SCrolls game, The Dwemer can be a playable race in the game....so they can really add something new.

Just out of curiosity, How do you feel the Dwemer should look like?

I don't think there has to be any set rules. We can tell from Dwemer Ruins and hallways that they most likely were not the typical "short" Dwarves...so they could be tall or taller perhaps. They could have Brown eyes, Bronze colored hair. Body styles could be different just like other men and mer IE: Some tall and slender, others short and heavier, some merely average.

Hair color could also be different....The Dwemer should have some things in common with the other races, after all...as you find out from the Transmuting the Mundane quest, the Other races of Tameriel are related to the Dwemer and the Dwemer are related to them.

So i think Bethesda has much free reign in deciding what the Dwemer should look like.

Also here is what a Dwmer Ghost looked like in Morrowind...this would be a good starting point.

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/File:Dwarven_Spectre.jpg

Well..... It's a fine day with you.. uh ... thanks for the nice greeting!

The title to the piece of music played in Blackreach is "Beneath The Ice", and while it is used elsewhere in the game I'd like to think Jeremy Soule composed it with Black Reach in mind. Certainly, Mark Lamberts overlay of effects really adds to the enchantment and mystery one feels here. Wish it could have been a bonus track on the Ambience disc included in the official soundtrack! I've had some wonderful naps when I've "parked" in Blackreach, and let the music continue on....

I hadn't really considered Black Reach to be made of "rehashed" components, though technically, giant mushrooms with streaming tendrils aside, it mostly is. I guess its part of the mystery, similar, yet a diffferent ambience entirely from the above ground.

It's a beautiful cavern, they should make it so the mushroom things attack you.. that'd be weird but they take up half the space.
I think there's a dragon, my contoller rumbled..
Anyway a giant? and I must shout at a globe, sounds fun!

Well you got the dwemer ghosts and yagrum (still living dwemer with corprus disease) in morrowind to go off of, so its entirely possible to make dwemer. Its just the thing is, bethesda already explained why the dwemer are gone and that explanation makes it impossible for them to return. Sure they can return a few like yagrum who were in outer realms at the time, which meant they were in oblivion or something of the like.
But the fact of the matter is that the entire dwemer civilization as a whole tried to transcend into god hood. They tried to make themselves a god and put all of their souls in the anumidium. It worked, partly. The dwemer left their bodies (explains the unknown piles of ash lying all over the dwemer ruins in morrowind) and entered the anumidium. The thing that messed up is that anumidium still remained inactive. So what essentially happened is that all the dwemer entered the metal that anumidium is made of and are trapped inside it. And since Neravarine's fiasco at red mountain, the dwemer are trapped in a destroyed machine lying at the bottom of a collapsed mountain.
I personally would like to see some dwemer come back, but if they do it they can only really make like a small handful of dwemer.

Blackreach was Moria as I said earlier, the dwemer coming back would be something new one or two women just a tribe and not playable until the next two games because of their population needing to be higher and that would take around 50 years at least and new players getting a feel for them, after their introduction. Falmer should be expanded on as has been said countless times on this forum and I've seen five ideas that seem plausible already for the dlc or expansion. And lastly if dwemer did come back I would see them having war with every nation to reclaim one place at least, and getting destroyed by the Nords, Thalmor, Argonians, and maybe the Imperials they tolerate any race for the legion but I don't believe the recently arrived dwemer of the past would be eager to join a failing army some would to survive maybe...

Geeze what more do you want?

Dwemer, Falmor, Forsworn, Stormcloaks, Thalmor, displaced peoples such as Bosmer, Dunmer, even Khajiit and Redguard..............the future of TES seems RIPE for wave after wave of cataclysmic wars....

Oh dear.

No, Ancient Dragons are the toughest and baddest ones there are. Uniques are not all that rare and are fairly easy actually.

The Morrowind and Cyrodil scenery is just there to make the world look more continuous than it really is. It would be pretty stupid to have nothing but a blue void beyond the mountains. And the reason why the mountains are so hard to climb in those areas is because YOUR NOT SUPPOSED TO BE ABLE TO!!!.

Fus-Roh-Deeeeerp!!!

I think the Dwemer should look pale since they basically live underground. But, they should also be pretty big considering how big the doors are in some ruins, but then again, the beds and chairs are normal sized.

OT: I think Blackreach should have had like a hidden tunnel somewhere near the waterfall that takes you deeper into the ground. Down there they can add all sorts of things like a long lost civilization, some lost explorers, or something that provides a bit of mystery. I remember I read a book where a couple friends go excavating very deep down into the Earth (I'm talking about miles upon miles deep) and they come across some place called the Garden of the Second Sun or something like that. That place had wildlife, some pyramids and if you couldn't tell.... it's own sun. Anybody else think it would be cool to stumble upon an underground civilization that has its own sun?

Actually there's a path that leads up to a snow trolls lair with a strongbox under a flag. And you can see Red Mountain quite clearly from this spot. So yes, you are supposed to climb these mountains as it's also the only way to reach Stendars Beacon.

I felt blackreach was a little lacking as beautiful as it was. Idk nothing really interesting aside from the elderscroll. I'd love to go back down there for a new quest or something

lol it was like a mass suicide (not that mass suicide is funny or anything, kids suicide is not the answer) but anyway i agree, i would like to have something dwemer related, but idk for some reason im like a falmer stalker right now i just wanna learn more and more about them

Hi there again!

The problem, let's call it that, with giant mushrooms is that they do not impact gameplay in any shape or form. They're just pretty scenery. You can't harvest then, can't chop them, climb them, can't eat them, there's nothung laying at their tops, nada, zilch. True, I've been to one or two dungeons which also feature the same fuzzy, warm and hypnotic music. Somehow, it just befits Black Reach so much more.

So what happens if you active the anumidium then or you destroy it?

I would dare say that BlackReach has future DLC potential. (Still looking forward to Dwemer DLC)