User blog comment:Zippertrain85/Dawnguard Follow up./@comment-17114085-20131216013719/@comment-17114085-20140114140657

Ysgramor and Harald weren't alive at the same time. Harald is Ysgramor's great-(11 times)-grandson. Also Ysgramor couldn't be the Emperor of the First Nord Empire as Skyrim was a colony of Atmora, since it was Harald who made Skyrim independent.