Both Dunmer and Dwemer originated from the ChimeriVelothi exodus . Culturally speaking , the Dwemer ' s beliefs were much closer to that of the Altmer than their Dunmeri cousins , but still strikingly different . You have to understand that the reason the Dwemer and Dunmer fled to Skyrim was to avoid a genocide and to allow themselves their own religioncultural freedom . That being said , again I don ' t see the Altmer hating the Dwemer . I would probably put them somewhere in between the Bosmer and Dunmer in terms of treatment , but to my knowledge we have almost no recorded interaction so I can ' t say for sure . In fact the Dwemer likely looked down upon the Altmeri religion more so than they scorned the Dunmeri pantheon .