DLCs don't work together.

Hit it with Keening.

I sat down in the chair and noticed how it was presented looking directly at this artifice. Why would a dwemer man angle his chair and desk at a seemingly unimportant semi-ball? I believe that it has some sort of importance to him, like a religious token if you will. The dwemer didn't necessarily have religious artifacts in the regular sense however, so that leads me to believe it's some sort of idea that this dwemer man believes in.

He wants to reach godhood, Aetherius.

Notice the flags of the Dwemer surrounding this odd contraption. Their placing seems to denote some sort of correlation between the Semi-ball and the flags themselves. I looked at the flags more closely and noticed that their symbol (the dwemer crest) looks almost exactly like the face of this ball and its surrounding features that I examined earlier.

With the above statement in mind all of the dwemer essentially have this ball in their lives; this is the idea of reaching godhood. The Tribunal reached it in a way, but found themselves only demigods.

In summary: it's basically a "religious" (if you will) symbol for the Dwemer.

People keep saying this, but is 100% true? Not arguing it, would just like to have it in black and white so it can be disregarded from the theories list.


I believe it's been tried.

Do it harder.

I sat in the chair for an hour (real time) while I was on here. Very alluring. I did notice how the centre of the 'machine' lines up with you and that the 'flags' seem burnt. The 'chamber' is made of stone, not uncommon for a Dwemer area, but why just that one area? Where is the rest of it? Again, I bring up my furnace idea and what the journal said. Looking at what the room tells us doesn't really aid nor dismiss this though :/

A very good questions. I believe many people with specific knowledge about how the stuff works here. Some pre-existing mechanics may work with a DLC, like you can use DG characters as stewards in HF, but new mechanics from DLC A can't be used in DLC B. I think Auriel's Bow shouldn't be able to start something specific in DB.

This could be a door to a dwemer ruin as well (why not make an elaborate door?). A furnice also makes sense (again: why not make an elaborate furnace?). The fact remains that it's very sun-related in general observation.

Also, a bit of a coincidence to my earlier idea: there appears to be a caricature of sorts (a little black stick figure) on the wall to the chair's right. He appears to be throwing his arms up in the air as if in worship. Also note that above him is a disk with squirming rays which I believe to be the sun again.

There is? I missed something!? I'll have to have a look now.


I don't have it but i'm sure someone would be kind enough to try sometime.


While I agree that items from DLC A shouldn't be needed to start a quest in DLC B, there isn't anything stopping them... right? On that basis, in theory, it's possible for something like Auriel's Bow to be needed to 'open the machine'. Though I do doubt that is the case. If someone knows 100% either way, please explain so I may keep/remove the idea from my list.

What about the new restoration spells DG gave us. They are sun related?

Which ones are we talking about here? I tried a few resto spells and some of the VL spells and abilities (which I knew would fail but wanted to cross them off the list).

True. The journals,etc don't add up to the "it's nothing teory" but it could be nothing. You never know. You never know... The suspense is killing me tho. Dagnabit!

As I understand it, it's not only a matter of what Beth wants to do, but a technical one, too.
But yeah, maybe someone who knows about how that stuff works can explain whether DLCs could work together or not. As far as I know, they can't, not without putting the entire mechanic from DLC A into DLC B, basically copying it.

The offensive restoration spells that do sun damage to undead

I believe he's referring to the undead damage spells. I have one of them: sun fire.

Join the club :/ There is more here in this 'theory' then there ever was in some of the other theories, and this one is only a few hours old! There must be something.... Surely? *In a Beth office far far away.... Todd pulls the biggest troll face you've ever seen...*


But that means it IS possible.... I think we'd best wait and see if anyone knows it inside out


True....


Probably won't do anything, but care to try?

If they would copy Auriel's Bow and it's mechanic into Dragonborn, yes... I don't see why not.
But actually I have very little knowledge of the stuff.

I think this is Beth's way of driving us insane.

I'll check it out in a minute, but I doubt anything will happen.
Maybe that's what drove Hrodulf and that Bjorn insane: the wonder at what this thing does.

The entire thing seems to have a Lovecraftian vibe to it.

Awesome and yeah... an interesting idea.

I think we already tried pretty much everything (that makes sense), right? Maybe all we can do now is speculate.

i love speculating

this is a pain in my ass, its huge lol

Speculation isn't against forum rules yet (Love you really Mods!)

I've got to grab some sleep or else my morning won't exist yet again. I'll log in tomorrow if I have a chance and will no doubt have another theory or two

Same here. I've had enough testing and speculating for today.