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[[{{Precursors}} The Ancients]] had some pretty ''[[OlderIsBetter neat]]'' gear. Robots, weapons, [[Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy even the answer to The Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything.]] [[InWorkingOrder Easy to use]], little or no maintenance required, and [[RagnarokProofing after thousands of years of neglect often still in perfect working order]]!

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[[{{Precursors}} The Ancients]] had some pretty ''[[OlderIsBetter neat]]'' gear. Robots, weapons, [[Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy even the answer to The Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything.]] Everything]]. [[InWorkingOrder Easy to use]], little or no maintenance required, and [[RagnarokProofing after thousands of years of neglect often still in perfect working order]]!
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** The now-extinct [[OurDwarvesAreDifferent Dwemer (Deep Elves or "Dwarves")]], were the most technologically advanced race known to have ever walked Tamriel. Blending SteamPunk machinery with [[{{Magitek}} masterful enchantments]] along with [[LoopholeAbuse bending the "Earthbones"]] (essentially the laws of physics and nature) allowed them to create technology far more advanced that any other race on Tamriel has come close to and has allowed their creations to [[RagnarokProofing last in working order for the thousands of years]] since [[RiddleForTheAges their disappearance]]. They are essentially a fantasy version of SufficientlyAdvancedAliens, leaving behind working lost technology such as {{Weather Control Machine}}s, HumongousMecha, and even a machine capable of safely reading [[TomeOfEldritchLore Elder Scrolls]]. Despite having ready access to Dwemer technology, no one else on Tamriel has been able to replicate their creations because, similar to the [[MakeMeWannaShout Thu'um of the dragons]], the Dwemer's technology runs on RealityWarper principles that no one else seems to be able to grasp.

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** The now-extinct [[OurDwarvesAreDifferent Dwemer (Deep Elves or "Dwarves")]], were the most technologically advanced race known to have ever walked Tamriel. Blending SteamPunk machinery with [[{{Magitek}} masterful enchantments]] along with [[LoopholeAbuse bending the "Earthbones"]] (essentially the laws of physics and nature) allowed them to create technology far more advanced that any other race on Tamriel has come close to and has allowed their creations to [[RagnarokProofing last in working order for the thousands of years]] since [[RiddleForTheAges their disappearance]]. They are essentially a fantasy version of SufficientlyAdvancedAliens, leaving behind working lost technology such as {{Weather Control Machine}}s, HumongousMecha, and even a machine capable of safely reading [[TomeOfEldritchLore Elder Scrolls]]. Despite having ready access to Dwemer technology, no one else on Tamriel has been able to replicate their creations because, similar to the [[MakeMeWannaShout Thu'um of the dragons]], dragons, the Dwemer's technology runs on RealityWarper principles that no one else seems to be able to grasp.
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* Incipient example: One very old woman in Sardinia is believed to be the last person able to craft lace from "sea silk", a thread-like material secreted by a type of sessile clams to anchor themselves to rocks. Such lace was hugely prized in the days before conventional silk-making had spread beyond China, but the technique for harvesting the clams' anchor-threads and processing them into lace seems destined to die with the woman, as she has refused to teach anyone else the method due to the clams in question being a protected species.

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