Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-77.172.125.107-20130901100104/@comment-3539474-20130920234729

Legate Alexandros wrote: Actually, Reach belongs to Nords as much as Forsworn/Reachmen. Reach was originaly settled by Nords, the Temples from Dragon Wars suggest that, so Nords always been in the Reach. For  Reachmen variation of Bretons to come to be, there would have to be Bretons first. And in order to Bretons to come to be, there had to be an interbreeding between Altmer of High Rock and first humans in Tamriel and those were proto-Nords from Atmora. Also, recently I noticed the mention that Atmorans were actually Nedes, so if you even belive that Nedes were the first humans to settle Tamriel, they would still be from Atmora. Besides, it seems that Ysgramor and 500 companions and his first party, was not the first people from Atmora to come to Tamriel. They say that they followed in the long tradition of Atmoran people, seeking adventures across the sea of Ghosts in Mereth.

Maybe we missed something in the books. Perhaps the Snow Elf-Manmer breed were the original Reachmen? And the Dragon War  was a war between the dragons and Man, pretty sure the Atmorans used some of the High Rock Manmer next to the Reach border, in their battles against the dragon priests.

The temples were build after the war; Late Merethic, not before the war. Before the conflict, they settled in Saarthal & The Pale.