Board Thread:Skyrim/@comment-12599067-20130928060857/@comment-13446185-20130930065112

Lord Hadron wrote: The Reach is up for Land Grabs. No one orginally belongs there but the Snow Elves. The Reach doesn't belong to anyone but them.

Who ever rules over the Reach owns the Reach. There's no point in saying the Reach belongs to the Nords because it don't. Skyrim is all Snow Elven land, everyone would do well to remember that.

Well technically Skyrim didn't even exist until the Atmorans arrived, but yes the Falmer were the first to live in the area in which Skyrim is located.