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before it's too late." Follow the tunnel to a very large chamber and look around for a bit. A few feet into the ruin, the whole place will shiver, and an unidentified female voice will echo through the halls, saying: "Please, turn back. As you approach the entrance, the earth will quiver underneath you, hinting at things to come. Or perhaps it, like the secrets of Aetherium itself, still remains to be discovered." The Ghost of KatriaĪs soon as you open the book, an objective will be added to your journal, encouraging you to investigate Arkngthamz, a Dwemer ruin located down the path from Dushnikh Yal. It may have been destroyed long ago, by the Nord invaders or the Dwemer themselves. The book ends with a challenge for the adventurer: "But nothing like the Aetherium Forge described in the inscriptions has ever been found within the borders of Skyrim. The weapons created were so powerful that the strong bonds between the four city-states shattered, as everyone wanted to have access to the Forge, with subsequent conflicts weakening the cities enough for them to be an easy conquest for Gellir. Due to their brilliance, the Dwemer actually succeeded. The author suggests that the Dwarves found a considerable amount of Aetherium and started experimenting with forging it into weapons with a newly constructed 'Aetherium Forge'. The Aetherium Wars, a tome written in the present day by Taron Dreth, details the fall of the four cities, and even offers an explanation for the downfall of the Dwarves: namely, Aetherium, an ultra-rare crystal-like matter with a strong, magical aura. While the Nords ascribed the destruction of the cities to the strategic genius of High-King Gellir, many scholars suggested the cities fell for other reasons, although the mystery was buried along with the cities and merely forgotten. Then, in the midst of the First Era, all four city-states suddenly collapsed within three years. While their purpose remains unknown, the city-states were undefeatable, and held their ground against attacking Nords for centuries. In ancient times, the Dwemer constructed four city-states, led by the great research center of Arkngthamz in the Reach.