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[Kiktamo]

Tamriel mod: 

There was, and presumably still is, work on a mod for Morrowind that adds the rest of Morrowind (Morrowind itself only containing the Vvardenfell province).  It's using a weird development strategy where people can apply for a volunteer "job" and if they prove their content creation skills they can claim a section of the map to work on.  It's very slow going and I doubt much will come of it.  There's already quite a bit done and playable but it's very buggy and missing a lot of the actual meat.

I'm  pretty sure this is what you're talking about. It's pretty nice from what I've seen of it though in the scheme of things not much.

http://www.tamriel-rebuilt.org/

[Neyvn]

Challenge...
Unarmed EVERYTHING, Not allowed to be Cat Person...
Magic allowed, but only Passive or Out of Combat magic...
No Combat Magic...
All damage must be via fists...

[alway]

Mephisto:

This is a Morrowind spoiler, but Morrowind is ten years old so I'm not putting this in spoilers.  Look away if you don't want to see it.  The Dwemer disappeared when Kagrenac attempted to siphon power from the Heart of Lorkhan.  What exactly happened to them is unknown.  They may have been destroyed, they may have been sent to another plane, they may have apotheosized into some kind of collective consciousness.  Nobody knows.  The dunmer say they were punished by the gods for sciencing too much.

My bad. I seem to have forgotten half of the lore I learned while playing Morrowind.

There is a little more 'answer' in Skyrim, though still cryptic as all hell unless there is something I'm not aware of.

Spoiler: Skyrim spoilers (click to show/hide)

There's a side quest for a guy at the mage college, Arniel or something, in which he has you help him get the materials to try and figure out what happened to the Dwemer by 'recreating the circumstances of their disappearance.' He finishes it, hits the crystal with the tuning-dagger-thing, and vanishes. You then learn a 'summon shade of Arniel' spell (0 magicka cost, you get an Arniel shade to fight for you) and the quest chain is over. Hella cryptic, but it at least lets you know the Dwemer were tinkering with some sort of doohickey which does something which makes you vanish or otherwise leave the mortal plane. Oh, and if it wasn't a cryptic enough demi-answer, it's left vague as the guy's setup is only approximate and, as he states, the results probably won't be the same, but will be similar. Though it does rule out most of the probability of time travel, as it has nothing to do with the elder scrolls, and so any time travel would need to be tech-based.

Oh, and Neyvn, you may want to add 'no companions' to that challenge list.

[Shadowlord]

The dungeons are dark enough that I have to use a light source (usually magical). A lot depends on how you have your monitor/TV adjusted, and the game's gamma, but the outside at night is going to be lighter than the dungeons, and that's realistic for somewhere like Skyrim, especially if there's snow on the ground.

[Nilocy]

Anyone done the quest where you sacrifice a companion? Get hella good item outta it.

[Raddish]

I am stuck trying to find a place I found when I was low level and had to run away from because I was overloaded.  I am sure it's a nordic stytle place found through a cave of somesuch which has got me zero leads so far.  Maybe I was imagining it...

Also everytime I think I have found all of the places in an area I have a look and there is another that I somehow missed before, exploring everywhere is taking a while with all this retracing of steps.

[Blargityblarg]

Is it possible to be both a vampire and a werewolf at the same time?

Nope. Becoming a werewolf clears you of vamprism, and also makes you immune to disease (including porphyric haemophilia or whatever it's called now).

[ukulele]

Anyone done the quest where you sacrifice a companion? Get hella good item outta it.

I didnt liked it myself, so far all the items i got from daedra quests are useless.

[Shadowlord]

Mehrunes' Razor sounds useful, if it can actually kill unkillable NPCs.

[Neyvn]

I caved and bought the Official Game Guide when i was up the coast the other day... Its thick as thick, around 650 A4 pages, fully coloured and lovely looking... Handy so far...

[Cthulhu]

Mehrunes' Razor sounds useful, if it can actually kill unkillable NPCs.

Pretty sure it can't.  I went crazy in Castle Dour with it and even after knocking Tullius from 100% to 0% in one shot he still didn't die.

All things considered, it's not that great.  As a dagger, most characters who would want it are going to be one-shotting people with it regardless, because of stealth.  Maybe as an off-hand for a warrior character it might be okay but I'll probably hang it up and make a daedric dagger once I've got the perk.

[zehive]

Dwemer traps. Hell yes.

Remember the bit at the end of Ravenholm in Half-Life 2? The mine cart? Yeah.

It's part-way into the quest to retrieve the

Spoiler: MacGuffin (click to show/hide)

Elder Scroll

from where they dug too deep.

Speaking of which,

Spoiler: Random musings on the Dwemer (click to show/hide)

The Dwemer mysteriously disappeared a long time ago. I haven't researched my Tamriel history yet, but I'm betting it was around the time the Nords used an Elder Scroll to rid themselves of Alduin. Something I read said that the use of this Elder Scroll froze Mundus at its current scientific level or some such. The Dwemer were far ahead of everyone else. What's the likelihood that the Dwemer were somehow, for some reason, sent along with Alduin to reappear at a date even farther downstream than Alduin's?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I read several ingame books on the dwemer. I forget the name, but one specifically notes the moment when the dwemer disappeared from the earth. According to this, the dwemer had the heart of a god or some such in their possession, and they were very close to putting it into a machine and making a new god. I forget what exactly happened, but one of the dorfs used the heart while some race was starting a war with the dwemer for their god-making ways and at that instant every dwemer everywhere disappeared.

[Cthulhu]

As I said, the dwemer disappeared when Kagrenac tried to siphon power from the heart of Lorkhan.

Also, I can't get over the voice acting.  Were the voice actors raised by wolves or something?  Are they morlocks?  I have never seen someone so grievously fail to understand how to inflect like a human being.

[alway]

I have figured out what annoys me the most about Skyrim. At first it was just a niggling little thing, but it has grown into a monstrous voice shouting at me every time I see it. The elk are deer and the deer are elk (and deer are also sometimes moose). D:

I mean really, who the hell named those things?!? At first I could've let it go as just a niggling little thing with misnamed models... But then, when hunting in the wilderness, I got close to a "deer" and it made the characteristic elk bugling sound!
example of elk bugling, for those who haven't heard it before: http://soundbible.com/957-Elk.html
GRAH!

[Cthulhu]

The deer are Irish elk, which are extinct and genetically unrelated to modern elk.  "Deer" is an acceptable name for one.