User blog comment:Timeoin/Dragonborn Screenshots/@comment-93.142.194.15-20121201130411/@comment-3136998-20121201135254

Well listen there was imperial activity there long before the event of Skyrim. Fort Frostmoth and (well not fort ,but related to the Empire) Old Ravenrock which once belong to the East trading company,before the Ebony mine had ran out.