[quote=The New Yorker]
Wow, you don't see why an empire would want to build a fort on an island they are colonizing, but you think that a Dwemer ruin is possible in Elseweyr? Are we living on the same planet? The Dwemer were a very isolated people, they really only built things in Skyrim, High Rock, and Morrowind. Another thing, Balmora blue is, as I've said, herbal. It is my idea of what Marijuana would be like in TES lore. No moon sugar at all. And while we're on that subject: While there may be inflation on the price when it is transported to the empire, have you thought about the difference in currency and cost of living between the two places. It's like taking Marijuana from Afghanistan, sure the dudes cutting it off the mountain are gonna hike the price a little bit, but only because it's coming to America, or Europe. Case in point, the Khajiits might ask for 5 more septims per bottle but that might just raise the price to, say, 15 for the smuggler. He sells it to the pushers in the Imperial city for almost double that and the bums are paying 30 (I used completely bullshit figures, but it doesn't change the logic). And by the way, how do you think those beggers in leyawin are affording skooma? It's gotta be cheap. That's just the way it is, dude.
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The Dwemer did indeed only really settle in northern half of Tamriel. Morrowind has the most ruins, with Skyrim and Hammerfell also having some. As for the cost of skooma, though, a beggar might afford it the same way the poor in our world do. That is all they buy. Addicts tend to neglect other parts of their life just to get their next fix. It would be more expensive the farther it is from elsweyr, especially in the Empire. Moon sugar can only grow in Elsweyr. 

Also, Balmora Blue does contain moon sugar. In fact, it is more potent than skooma. [url=http://uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Balmora]
[url=http://uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:The_Dainty_Sload]