Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-7153552-20130708162914/@comment-24898462-20140706175303

209.173.251.148 wrote: There are books related to Saarthul and the Eye in Skyrim.

From what I remember it states how the Snow Elves knew of the Eye existing beneath Saarthul and attacked Saarthul because they were afraid of the Atmorans digging far enough and finding it. If you're right then maybe the snow tower isn't connected to the elves but is instead connected to the ehlnofeic proto-nords/atmorans and the snow elves stole the eye from it's cave (which in that case could be the underforge due to the skyforge's clear connection to the early humans and kynareth) and then they could have buried it where the future atmoran settlers would come to build saarthal, and so the snow elves raid it to prevent them uncovering the eye.