Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-186.215.22.127-20130215011559/@comment-6707115-20131230221229

The "born in Atmora" is most definitely confusion (or merger) of Wulfharth of Atmora (the first Ysmir, High-King of Skyrim, Underking, and last Nede to depart Atmora) also a dragonborn (I think) and Talos. Both would collaborate during the conquest of Tamriel, and would be named Ysmir, Dragon of the North. Both are also Shezzarines most likely. In Windhelm, Wulfharth of Atmora is on one of the plaques in TES V: Skyrim. Besides, the confusion was also probably of poetic nature, what sounds better in song and epic poem, origin in a known and visited kingdom, or in a mythical homeland of humanity. In the subsequent debates after Talos had become legend (and since he obviously wasn't born to a family of note and prestige, unless he just decided to suppress accounts of his early life, however difficult that might be) there would be a need to record where he came from, and with two Ysmirs running around, the tie in origin went to the legendary land.