Board Thread:Skyrim/@comment-12599067-20130928060857/@comment-13446185-20130930195133

Nazul Rostello wrote: Dovahsebrom wrote: Lord Hadron wrote: The Reach is up for Land Grabs. No one orginally belongs there but the Snow Elves. The Reach doesn't belong to anyone but them.

Who ever rules over the Reach owns the Reach. There's no point in saying the Reach belongs to the Nords because it don't. Skyrim is all Snow Elven land, everyone would do well to remember that. Well technically Skyrim didn't even exist until the Atmorans arrived, but yes the Falmer were the first to live in the area in which Skyrim is located. Say Auri-El first created the Aldmer & Falmer in northern Tamriel, there later were the tribal Orcs by Malacath. Then the Atmorans followed by minglings of elvish Half-nords aka Reachmen.

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The beast folk lived on Tamriel before all others (other than Elhnofey and Hist). Then the Elves arrived in Summerset and began spreading across Tamriel from there. Then the Aldmer began to break apart into different groups such as the Ayleids, Chimer, Dwemer, Falmer, and Orsimer. After this Nedes first start arriving all across the northern coast and began to live in small numbers in the areas known as High Rock and Cyrodiil. Then the Atmorans arrived and made Skyrim their own.

Proto-Manmeri may have been around sense before the Atmorans but Reachmen are definately of Nordic descent.