Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24402683-20131012015855/@comment-3076045-20140303132829

108.203.30.44 wrote: Man of steak wrote: The Aldmer had the first empire, which spanned all of Tamriel. They definitely did, multiple in-game books agree, I can't remember which ones though. The Aldmer may have had the first empire, but the aldmer are technically extinct. The Altmer (along with all other elves and possibly humans) are merely descended from the Aldmer

The "first" empire - but not the First Empire. That one belongs to the Nords, or Alessia, depending on the context to which it is used. (Why? Who knows - its just how it "is", for some reason).

Oh, and the First Era was actually started because of the Camoran Dynasty. (As in the Bosmer family, not Mankar Camoran).