Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-139.218.211.126-20131213051049/@comment-4705438-20140211213025

First of all, please, do not make pyramid quotes. Quote the parts you need. These are incredible pain to remove.

Back to the topic. Atmorans were certainly taller and stronger, more brute than the modern Nords. Atmora was said to be green, not snowy and frozen. The assumption that it was cold there at that time remains nothing but an assumption. Traditional astrophysics do not apply in the TES universe. Nirn is the center of it and sun isn't the heat-source.

On the Atmoran appearance. They are speculated to be related to the Giants, but I am unable to give a source on that at the moment.

But the concept, that they were all the same, is incorrect as well. Atmora is a continent, not an island.

''One such crew was that of the Krilot Lok, sinewy long folk from the eastern edge of Atmora. Their ruddy skin matched the dawn and it was often said that morning herself learned [her glorious colors from] the first faces to meet her at the break of day. The great Kyne lifted their souls and their winds, propelling them westwards with the new lands of Tamriel ever beckoning to the south.''

---Songs of the Return, Vol 24

On the Dragon Cult and Dragon War. Dragon Cult may predate the Saarthal. BUT, the Dragon War and eventual "fall" of Aludin happened sometime after the Return.