User blog comment:Zippertrain85/Harkon's backstory?/@comment-5558140-20130507033734

it could also be complete exaggeration, or its possible or even likely that he came from the original nord homeland of atmora and moved to the castle later on. atmora was described in game as a dangerous place to live. maybe the reason many nords left atmora for skyrim (ysgramor) was because of what harkon and maybe even others like harkon were doing?