Neesa grinned, raising her brow somewhat as her eyes looked over Sabine almost analytically. She was judging her, and made no effort to hide it. "Ah, so now your mind starts to touch on the truth. The Altmer have always placed the Aldmer on a pedestal, but it was the Dwemer that surpassed their ancestors, at least based on everything that is known. I suppose it is possible that the inhabitants of Aldmeris had mastered tonal manipulation, which might explain why the whole continent was destroyed. At any rate, complete mastery of tonal manipulation would allow one to reshape reality to their will. What the other races saw as hubris, the Dwemer's goal of surpassing the gods, was a real possibility for them. No Aedra nor Daedra would have been able to stand against their tonal architects. Have you never looked around these cities, these caverns, and wonder how they were created? If you think they got together a bunch of people with shovels and pickaxes to dig their caverns, you are sorely mistaken. No, they rewrote the ground's song so that the stone was never there. Everyone always wonders of what secret metals the Dwemer alloyed together to form their metal; the metal that never rusts, never decays, never loses its edge. But there is no secret of smithing that will forge Dwemer metal, because it was tonal manipulation that created it. They modified the tones so that time itself could not touch their metal, which is why it is all in perfect condition today."

By this point, they had left the building and were on the streets, though Meesei was trying to keep them away from any crowds. It would not take more than a minute or two to come across at least a wandering Dwemer spider. In the meantime, Neesa seemed to have no problems continuing her explanations. "Of course, for all of their intellect and understanding, I do not believe the Dwemer ever came close to mastering their craft. Some might argue with me on it, but they had a long way to go yet. They were never able to make their resonators and other machines small enough to use directly in combat. They could only use them to make armor and automatons. I think their lack of mastery showed when the Chimer forced Kagrenac's hand, made him desperate. He tried to use Lorkhan's song to elevate the Dwemer, then they all disappeared. Ended my first marriage. I've heard some try to argue that the caused the entire Dwemer race to zero-sum,  but if that were the case, we wouldn't remember them at all. Maybe that's just what happens when one tries to approach the ultimate power without first attaining Royalty. Or maybe they did succeed, and he brought his whole race to some higher plane of existence. If you were hoping that I had the answers to the mystery of the Dwemer, then I'll have to disappoint you."