User blog comment:The Milkman/What I learned from Skyrim/@comment-3981209-20111211171116/@comment-1663285-20111212011457

^Nope Draugr were rising even beforehand, if you go by what Blood Moon mentioned about them. In their lore a Draugr is a Nord who was a cannibal in life, so a good mention would be that there was a massive cannibalism trend in Skyrim since a vast majority of the corpses in any given tomb are Draugr.