User blog comment:Zippertrain85/Dawnguard Conclusion/@comment-17114085-20140511164121/@comment-17114085-20140514130728

There is nothing that is says it was unified under Atmora. It just says that they were part of Atmora, that doesn't mean that Skyrim was one big colony. For all we know they could have been smaller colonies that were later conquered by Harald.

My point is you can't claim he wasn't a King just because there is no clear evidence. There is plenty of time in two periods where he could have been a king. You can say you believe that he wasn't but you can't claim that he absolutely wasn't a king.

Also the older kings weren't even recorded that well. I mean look at High King Olaf, no one new that he was Jarl Olaf One-Eye of Whiterun. And he captured a fricking dragon and build Dragonsreach. That goes to show you how crappily Skyrim's High Kings were recorded, just image how the records for the rulers before the High Kings are then.