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Dovahsebrom wrote:

The anti-Nord mentality comes from the recent butchery which seemed to leave the Forsworn fairly ethno-centric

Then why the hell did they rebel in the first place. The Reachmen are not victims, and the so called butchery was only done against the Forsworn.

Because the Nords outlawed the Old Gods and took away their indigenous culture.
The Empire 8 Divines + 1 worship that we know didn't come until afterward, thus the preceding traditions are still steeped in the original traditions and interacted well with Orcish villages in the region. The Reach is the preservation of their native religion and cultural tradition and not territory. The territory dispute is caused more by the Nords and we see very little major interference which is less overall combat when the Nords were 'in charge' of the region but. the Nords were never the predominant culture in the region. That seems to have been fairly recent after the Markarth incident as we're told that the Western Reach is far more diverse from the start yet in the times of Skyrim that seems to have changed. The settlements were pre-Foresworn by the Reachmen but that's a matter of semantics as the title Foresworn was gained during the Markarth incident itself.