So today's post is the Battle of Red Mountain
It took place in the 1E 700. During the War of the First Council, the Battle of Red Mountain was the peak of the war. The battle consisted of mainly Dwemer and Chinmer Great House Dagoth, but some Nords, Orsimer, and Khajiit.
Chinmer are the ancestors of the Dunmer. There were 7 major Great Houses. The Great Houses were pretty much political parties that controlled local administration, and trade.
Due to culture and religious differences in the two races, the Dwemer and Chinmer were often picking at each other. The War of the First Council was caused by some religious differences.
Before the War, Nerevar (Azura's Champion), and the Dumac Dwarfking had heated negotiations. Azura had told Nerevar that the Dwemer were building a new god under the mountain. Nerevar and the Tribunal decided to stop the Dwemer. The Heart of Lorkhan was under the mountain, which was an Aedric artifact. The Dwemer refused to stop making a new god, so the Chinmer declared war.
Nerevar drew the Dwemer forces away from the mountain so that the rest of the army could ambush. Some of the army, incuding the future Tribunal, sneaked inside the mountain and tried to take the Heart. They went inside and found Dumac and his main architect and tried stopping them. Dumac was killed, by one of the infiltrators. Nerevar died after the battle due to his wounds.
The outcome of this invasion resulted in the disappearance of the Dwemer, which was caused either by the Tribunal using Kagrenac's enchanted tools on the heart, or by Kagrenac using the tools himself on the heart.
Some years after the battle, the Tribunal used the Heart to make themselves gods. As part of the Tribunal was Chinmer, Azura made the light skinned Chinmer into dark skin elves, now known as Dunmer.
There is some unknown about the battle, but what is definite is that the battle was that the Great House Dagoth and the Dwemer were wiped out.