Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-24590102-20140327052040/@comment-24590102-20140330001131

This bit is my own speculation based on the facts mentioned:

''Given that all of the fast-travel villages are walled to allow separate treatment from the exterior world, Northkeep is not necessarily a walled village or castle – but the name is, however, suggestive. Following the naming logic, instead of triangulation (which does not fit with the Fourth Era Skyrim), Northkeep is suggestive of the northernmost point of somewhere which, based on the map, cannot be the northernmost point in Skyrim. Northkeep could, however, be the northernmost settlement or point of Falkreath Hold – which would place it on the crossroads at the triple-point in the borders dividing the Reach, Whiterun and Falkreath holds.''

''Given the extension of territory to annex these crossroads at the expense of tripling the border length around the immediate area, it would make sense that the crossroads were important enough to annex and, thus, important enough to defend. I can well imagine a minor trading post would have been situated here and, as a source of revenue in the form of tolls and taxes, it could justify the presence of a minor keep which might have once been an extension of the dragon mound structures in the vicinity of the crossroads.''

It might qualify for trivia - maybe a Speculation heading? A connection back to this thread, instead of including this part, would do as well and might even get some more discussion going.