Board Thread:Skyrim/@comment-12599067-20130928060857/@comment-13446185-20130929200733

Lab Coat Billy wrote: Not necessarily, Dovahsebrom. The Dragon Age could've lasted two decades or two centuries for all we really know. I understand the architecture, believe me, but even so, there's not many Nordic Ruins in the reach anyway. Actually the Reach is loaded with Nordic ruins expecially the big ones.

-Ragnvald

-Hag Rock Redoubt

-Dead Crone Rock

-Valthume

-Lost Valley Redoubt

-Cradle Stone Tower

-Bleakwind Bluff

-Four Skull Lookout

-Sundered Towers (according to lore this may just be an old Reachmen structure but may also be an abandoned Nordic structure taken over by Reach men.

My calculations of How long the Dragon Priests reigned in Skyrim is based on a few things.

High King Harald was born in 1E 113, he is the next important king listed directly after Ysgramor himself yet he is listed as 13th in Ysgramor's dynastic line.

With him being the thirteenth we can assume that Ysgramor first landed in Skyrim around ME 200

Around this time the cities of Windhelm and Whiterun were built which show little resemblence to Nordic Cult style meaning that they were probably built before the Dragon Cult was the main power in Skyrim.

between Ysgramor's landing and High King Harald there is little recorded history, a perfect area that the Dragon Cult to fit in.