User blog comment:Bork-The-Ork/Thalmor or Forsworn: who do you hate more?/@comment-3293002-20120718144037/@comment-5135631-20120722203427

The Forsworn might know every nook and cranny of the Reach, from Bard's Leap to the walls of Understone Keep itself, but they will never get anywhere because they make everyone their enemy, except Hagravens. They have been fighting for the autonomy of a land they don't actually own (and never really owned) since, what, the late First Era? By then they might have seen the benefits of appealing to powerful High Rock Lords or A'likhr, but they have chosen to take the path, in their mind, of the glorious freedom fighter, which has ironically transformed them into petty brigands, terrorists and invaders, the very thing they swore to destroy. The Forsworn are just dogs who can only run their little rebellion because it amused a corrupt city man. They're Wildlings, scattered around, those of them still in the field don't pose a big enough threat to the Reach and their best commanders have been executed or imprisoned, to the extent that they have to look to a Deadman for help.