Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-3344494-20131027221306/@comment-13446185-20131102003254

Somebody Stole My Sweetroll wrote:

I'm aware of Red Eagle's campaign and the Forsworn uprising put down by Ulfric, but how/why did the conflict originate? How did the Reachmen come to feel that the land was theirs? I often ask myself the same question. The Reachmen aren't actually from the Reach, they originate from the Western Reach in High Rock.

My theory is that after the War of Succession and the downfall of the First Empire of Man, Reachmen began immigrating into the Reach and eventually became the majority of the population within that area.

Due to the fact that there is no recorded history of tensions before the Red Eagle Incident, and the Reach during the time of the Red Eagle was controlled by 10 warring Reachmen Kingdoms; I believe that Reachmen dominance in the Reach was something that happened naturally do to Skyrim's deterioration of power and th Reachmen population majority in the Reach.

During this time of the Reach's independence from fatherland of Skyrim, the whole "Reachmen rule the Reach" way of thinking probably started. Though true tension between the Reachmen and other races probably began with the Alessian Conquest of the Reach during the time of the Red Eagle.

The whole "Reachmen were first" ideaology that the Forsworn follow is bull-crap and is one of the many reasons why I do not like the Forsworn.