User blog comment:Thedoucheinthenorth/Reachmen/Forsworn - freedom fighters or terrorists?/@comment-2040576-20121218171131

Ahh, how I love discussions like these. To be quite honest I despise the Forsworn, the Reachmen are fine, but I will leave no Forsworn alive if I happen upon one of their camps.

The one thing that comes to mind for me, is that the Forsworn kidnap and attack innocent citizens, including women (and a Dragonborn who happens to be walking by, minding his own business). The Forsworn are depraved and animalistic and I will never sympathise with them.

Interesting point that they could not possibly have been there before the Nords, because they are Bretons and the Nords are the ancestor's to the Bretons. Although perhaps the Nords did not really occupy that area and their Breton descendants moved there. History shows that this was a long time ago that the Nords took the Reach, so the Forsworn need to get over it. If I am correct, the Nords also used to own much of High Rock. At least they got that back, go live there. It is a small hold in Skyrim they are fighting a losing battle for, and they are using immoral means to achieve their petty goals. Killing the innocent for land the size of a hold lost thousands of years ago is honestly ridiculous. Killing the innocent is in fact generally terrible, but for such a petty reason it is all the worse.

The Forsworn have, as it seems to me, lost their true purpose. I think they are driven by vengeance more than the desire of their land. Why are they corrupting themselves with hagraven worship and Daedric rituals? Why do they murder and kidnap the innocent instead of taking on the militaries within the Reach? The Nords are not stopping them from living in the land like the other Reachmen, why not settle down and live there. That is what they want. If they want self-governance then work towards a political position in the hold of the Reach where a Reachmen majority will control the land.