Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-77.172.125.107-20130901100104/@comment-8248675-20131002233812

Perhaps just like with Atmora, Skyrim used to be warmer at one point. That could have been the time when indiginous people lived there. Then it got too cold for Tamrielic people of the time, until cold resistant Nords started to come from Atmora. In Morrowind, probably people dissapeared due to high volcanic activity of Red Mountain. Black Marsh had that flu that wiped out all but Argonians I believe. However, if I remember correctly, the people from Black Marsh, used to have metalic skin. I am not sure how they even lived in the Province that almost entierly consists of water and marshes. Wouldn't metal skinned people be drowning all the time in Black Marsh?

Some say that it was the Eye of Magnus that caused Falmer to attack Sarthal. Perhaps the Eye implanted that idea in them, that there too many Atmorans there for comfort and they must be purged. How the heck Falmer could know that that purge would anger Atmorans so much as they would come back with vengence?