User blog comment:Zippertrain85/Dawnguard Conclusion/@comment-17114085-20140524013940/@comment-17114085-20140525162541

''Why didn't they? It makes no sense, the more power they had, the more they could influence Tamriel, which they needed since they were the only humans on the continent at the time, why would they just leave and not do anything with open land that they could use well?''

'sigh' Zipper I am going to explain this one more time, if you still do not get it then just drop the topic. The 500 Companions came to Skyrim to avenge their fallen brothers in Saarthal. They killed the Snow Elves and then, seeing that Tamriel was too large, they split up when they formed the Circle of Captains. Ysgramor and two other captains lead their men to Eastmarch. When Ysgramor found his son's grave he grew saddened and decided to found Windhelm. The other two captains then separated from Ysgramor to continue hunting elves. The 500 Companions spread through all of Tamriel, from High Rock to Black Marsh, on their quest to kill Elves. After Ysgramor died all of the stopped killing elves and put down their axes, and settled down. That is when they started founding cities like Whiterun and others went to Cyrodiil and became the Nedes, etc. They didn't want power nor influence, they wanted revenge...that is why it took so long for them to settle down, all they did was hunt elves.

''They called it Mereth when they first arrived, but once their relationship went sour with the elves I assume they would've changed it. Since they don't want to bring up their enemies in the new territories name. Their can't be kingdoms ruled by another kingdom, that's a contradiction. So since they were all under Atmora, they were unified. Nothing implies that Harold.''

That is not contradictory, colonies have rulers that are subordinate to their homeland's King. You are tying to create a problem where there is non. IRL colonies had rulers, like governors for example, that ruled them. If there is no evidence that Ysgramor ruled all of Skyrim and we know for a fact that other cities were founded by other people then of course they were ruled by someone other than Ysgramor, who was the King of Eastmarch. Again just like the topic above it is not hard to understand, if you still don't get it then there is no point in me repeating myself for the billionth time.

It's been implied multiple times that the Dragons did indeed rule them, in addition to the King, if not above it, now you're just denying a bunch of lore to fit this ridiculous theory, it would make us question even more things if it was true.

I never said they didn't rule the Atmorans. I clearly said that they were like the Catholic Church, meaning they were above the Atmoran Kings in power and influence. There were other Cults but the Dragon Cult was the most powerful because of Alduin and the other Dragons. You keep putting words in my mouth and trying to create contradictions where there are none....

''He probably doesn't like to talk about it to the probable humiliation it brought him, men can be raped too, so there's absolutely no reason he wouldn't be. Since he's a powerful leader of a clan, the idea he got dominated like that, possibly in front of his family is likely very shameful, which is why it's concealed, he's lied about other things before.''

That could be true but there would at least be a mention of "Sons of Coldharbor" somewhere in the lore like there is for the Daughters of Coldharbor. So from what we can tell Molag Bal only rapes women to turn them into pure-blooded vampires. Men can get raped but so far there hasn't been any mention of Molag Bal raping men, only women. So it is safe to assume he only likes women went it comes to raping, why that is I do not know...maybe he only gets a kick out of raping women or something.