Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-77.172.125.107-20130901100104/@comment-3539474-20130922211417

Dovahsebrom wrote:

"Khosey, in his 'Tamrilean Tractates,' transcribes a firsthand account of the "discovery" of the Bretons by a Nordic hunting party. The Bretons, in ten generations of Elven intermingling and slavery, had become scarcely recognizable as humans. Indeed, the hunting party attacked them thinking they were some new strain of Aldmeri, halting their slaughter only when one of the oldest began to wail for his life, a shrieking plea that was spoken in broken Nordic. When word of this reached Windhelm, the Nords reasoned that the "Manmeri" beyond the Reach were, in fact, descended from human slaves taken during the Elven destruction of Saarthal."

- Pocket Guide to the Empire, First Edition: High Rock Snow Elves mated with the proto-humans? interesting.

Considering that the Snow Elves and Atmorans were lived in peace until the Night Of Tears,  it was the Eye of Magnus that caused them to attack each other, I think Ysgramor was justified in declaring war on them. War is a nasty business, and can easily go to further extremes than either side intended. The Falmer struck first, however, and that course of action proved fatal for nearly all of them. Ysgramor and the 500 warriors were right in their purge of the Mer of Skyrim. Atmorans were fighting for their continued survival.