Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-67.242.90.204-20130908163603/@comment-13446185-20151031184258

Platinum Luffy wrote: So if all land began on Tamriel, does that include Atmora, Akavir, etc? Also, why are the Aldmer called Aldmer if they began on Tamriel? Where on Tamriel did they begin? As stated in The Annotated Anuad, in the Dawn Era, all of Nirn was land. This land was Tamriel and it is where all life derives. Oceans rise and the lands split into the continents as seen now. "Aldmer" translates best to "old elf" or "first elf", it is possibly derived from the term "Old Ehlnofey" itself. It's probably impossible to pinpoint where exactly they came from on Tamriel as things worked fairly weird back in the Dawn Era and Nirn had no oceans in its beginning.