Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-8248675-20130606043855/@comment-13446185-20130913205710

Legate Alexandros wrote: I wonder if at the time that Hjalti was born in Alcaire, the war of Aliances was still going on. That would make his parents belong to different Aliances. His father would be from Ebonheart Pact and his mother would be from Daggerfall Covenant. Somehow, in the mids of all of that Aliance hatred, they fell in love and had two known sons in Alcaire. Then when their son Hjalti grew up, he took up Ebonheart Pact's side and showed the Daggerfall Covenant what's for, when he annexed Eastern Reach to Skyrim. (I believe there is another Reach, which is still part of High Rock and Skyrim's Reach is just a portion of the former Reach that used to be part of High Rock. If I am not mistaken though, by that time Eastern Reach might have been an independent Kingdom from High Rock as well.) I truly hope they don't make the Alliance war last that long as that would butcher the lore of the Interregnum. The Interregnum was a time period where almost every kingdom, large and small, broke apart and started to attack each other for power. If Bethesda makes it so that the Alliance war last that long than they break the lore.

Here is a good example of how Tamriel's borders probably looked during the Interregnum.

http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/578993369391958846/CEA8319F172C0C5F739E9CC550E274232A8F8897/

The Reach you are refering to is the Western Reach which holds the cities of Jehanna and Farrun. The reason why it is known as such is because it was land conquerored by Skyrim during the Nordic Conquests, do to it being west of the main Reach it was named the Western Reach; I also believe that the city Dragonstar in Hammerfell is part of the Western Reach. The Reach was indeed an independent during this time and was most likely made of many different petty kingdoms.