The Battle of Red Mountain , Part 1 Summary . The battle of the red mountain is an excerpt from a larger edition . Content . Who can clearly recall the events of the distant past ? But you have asked me to tell you , in my own words , the events surrounding the Battle of Red Mountain , the birth of the Tribunal , and the prophecies of a Nerevar reborn . Here is what I can tell you . When the Chimer first abandoned the herds and tents of their nomadic ancestors , and built the first Great Houses , we loved the Daedra , and worshiped them as gods . But our brethren , the Dwemer , scorned the Daedra , and mocked our foolish rituals , and preferred instead their gods of Reason and Logic . So the Chimer and Dwemer were always at bitter war , until the Nords came and invaded Resdayn . Only then did the Chimer and Dwemer put away their strife and join together to cast out the invaders . Once the Nords were driven out , General Nerevar of the Chimer and General Dumac of the Dwemer , who had come to love and respect one another , resolved to make peace between their peoples . In that time I was but a junior counselor to Nerevar , and Nerevar ' s queen , Almalexia , and his other favorite counselor , Sotha Sil , always doubted that such a peace might long survive , given the bitter disputes between Chimer and Dwemer , but by negotiation and compromise , Nerevar and Dumac somehow managed to preserve a fragile peace . But when Dagoth Ur , Lord of House Dagoth , and trusted as a friend by both Nerevar and the Dwemer , brought us proof that High Engineer Kagrenac of the Dwemer had discovered the Heart of Lorkhan , and that he had learned how to tap its powers , and was building a new god , a mockery of Chimer faith and a fearsome weapon , we all urged Nerevar to make war on the Dwarves and to destroy this threat to Chimer beliefs and security . Nerevar was troubled . He went to Dumac and asked if what Dagoth Ur said was true . But Kagrenac took great offense , and asked whom Nerevar thought he was , that he might presume to judge the affairs of the Dwemer . Nerevar was further troubled , and made pilgrimage to Holamayan , the sacred temple of Azura , and Azura confirmed that all that Dagoth Ur said was indeed true and that the creation of a New God of the Dwemer should be prevented at all costs . When Nerevar came back and told us what the goddess had said , we felt our judgments confirmed , and again counseled him to war , chiding Nerevar for his naïve trust in friendship , and reminding Nerevar of his duty to protect the faith and security of the Chimer against the impiety and dangerous ambitions of the Dwemer . Then Nerevar went back to Vvardenfell one last time , hoping that negotiations and compromise might once again preserve the peace . But this time the friends Nerevar and Dumac quarreled bitterly , and as a result , the Chimer and Dwemer went to war . The Dwemer were well - defended by their fortress at Red Mountain , but Nerevar ' s cunning drew most of Dumac ' s armies out into the field and pinned them there , while Nerevar , Dagoth Ur , and a small group of companions could make their way into the Heart Chamber by secret means . There , Nerevar the Chimer King met Dumac the Dwarf King and they both collapsed from grievous wounds and draining magic s . With Dumac fallen , and threatened by Dagoth Ur and others , Kagrenac turned his tools upon the Heart , and Nerevar said he saw Kagrenac and all his Dwemer companions at once disappear from the world . In that instant , Dwemer everywhere disappeared without a trace . But Kagrenac ' s tools remained , and Dagoth Ur seized them , and he carried them to Nerevar , saying , " That fool Kagrenac has destroyed his own people with these things . We should destroy them , right away , lest they fall into the wrong hands . " But Nerevar was resolved to confer with his queen and his generals , who had foreseen that this war would come and whose counsel he would not ignore again . " I will ask the Tribunal what we shall do with them , for they have had wisdom in the past that I had not . Stay here , loyal Dagoth Ur , until I return . " So Nerevar told Dagoth Ur to protect the tools and the Heart Chamber until he returned . Then Nerevar was carried to us where we waited on the slopes of Red Mountain , and he told us all that had transpired under Red Mountain . What Nerevar had said was that the Dwemer had used special tools to turn their people into immortals and that the Heart of Lorkhan held wondrous powers . Only later did we hear from others present that Dagoth Ur had thought the Dwemer destroyed , not made immortal . And no one knows for sure what really happened there .