Kagrenac ' s Tools Content . Beneath Red Mountain , Dwemer miners discovered a great magical stone . By diverse methods , Lord Kagrenac , High Priest and Magecrafter of the ancient Dwemer , determined that this magical stone was the heart of the god Lorkhan , cast here in the Dawn Era as punishment for his mischief in creating the mortal world . Determined to use its divine powers to create a new god for the exclusive benefit of the Dwemer , Kagrenac forged three great enchanted artifacts , which are called Kagrenac ' s Tools . Wraithguard is an enchanted gauntlet to protect its wearer from destruction when tapping the heart ' s power . Sunder is an enchanted hammer to strike the heart and produce the exact volume and quality of power desired . Keening is an enchanted blade that is used to flay and focus the power that rises from the heart . When Kagrenac used these tools on the heart in the Battle of Red Mountain , no one knows what happened , but the Dwemer race disappeared entirely from the mortal world . Lord Nerevar and Lord Dagoth retrieved these tools , and didn ' t know what to do with them . Nerevar asked Dagoth to guard the tools while he went to consult with his counselors , Vivec , Almalexia , and Sotha Sil . He left and spoke with his three counselors , and they decided to return together to Red Mountain to decide what to do . But whilst Nerevar was gone , Dagoth was tempted and confused by the powers of the tools . When Nerevar and the counselors arrived , he refused to give up the tools , claiming he had sworn to Nerevar to protect them . Then Dagoth fought with Nerevar and the counselors , and was mortally wounded and driven off , and the tools were recovered . Then Nerevar and his counselors decided to take the tools for safekeeping . They all swore a great oath never to use the tools , but after Nerevar ' s death , Vivec , Almalexia , and Sotha Sil yielded to temptation . They took these tools themselves and went to Lorkhan ' s heart buried beneath Red Mountain , and gave themselves divine powers . But Dagoth has not died . We do not know what happened , but this is what we believe . His experiements with Kagrenac ' s Tools had joined him to the heart ' s divine nature in some way , so that he learned to draw power directly from the heart . We conjecture that Dagoth Ur , driven by anger and greed , used the heart without caution and restraint , and , as a result , he has become terribly powerful , and terribly mad . But the Tribunal showed great care and restraint in their use of the tools , and so they were not driven mad , and they did many good things . Nonetheless , the Tribunal , too , appear to have been corrupted by the heart ' s power , though more subtly . Kagrenac ' s Tools are cursed . Stealing power from the heart of a god is a terrible folly , and fated to disaster . The Tribunal is losing its battle to control the power of the heart . They are sustained by the same tainted power that drives Dagoth Ur mad . They grow weak , and cannot protect us from Dagoth Ur . But even if they could , would we be wise to worship gods such as these ? They conceal the truth from us out of shame . They persecute the Nerevarine and the Dissident Priests out of shame , when they should be welcoming and enlisting their aid against Dagoth Ur . The Tribunal have done much good for Morrowind and the Dunmer . But they succumbed to the temptation of Kagrenac ' s Tools , and though these tools once may have seemed the instruments of salvation , now they must be seen as instruments of doom .