Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-77.172.125.107-20130901100104/@comment-13446185-20130921213928

Nazul Rostello wrote: Dovahsebrom wrote: What are the titles of the books?

Which books?

'In the game; the Reachmen worship a mixture of Daedric, Elven & Nordic pantheons. Explain their worship of Kynareth and Dibella, as shrines to both can be found at the Forsworn camps.'

I have noticed, a shrine to Dibella in Broken Tower Redoubt but if I am remembering correctly it is covered in blood and surrounded by typical Forsworn stuff, also they stole the Sybil of Dibella and placed her in a cell in that same fort.

I think they are trying to desecrate a shrine of Dibella.

I haven't seen any shrines of Kynareth, where are they found. The books about Nordic conquest of the Reach.

I believe the it's their native way to "commune" with Dibella. They keep a statue of Dibella for one, and kidnapped a young girl to receive visions from her, like Azura worshippers.

You can find Kynareth shrine in one of their unmarked camp. I think Kynareth is like a mother goddess of the nature and maybe even Hircine's "mother", before he decide to rebel or something. Hircine enjoys corrupting nature and Kynareth's realm. Remember that it was his idea of a good hunt involves twisting Kyne's creations into rebellious forms. The books about Nordic conquest of the Reach.

The Reach is part of Skyrim.

"Khosey, in his 'Tamrilean Tractates,' transcribes a firsthand account of the "discovery" of the Bretons by a Nordic hunting party. The Bretons, in ten generations of Elven intermingling and slavery, had become scarcely recognizable as humans. Indeed, the hunting party attacked them thinking they were some new strain of Aldmeri, halting their slaughter only when one of the oldest began to wail for his life, a shrieking plea that was spoken in broken Nordic. When word of this reached Windhelm, the Nords reasoned that the "Manmeri" beyond the Reach were, in fact, descended from human slaves taken during the Elven destruction of Saarthal."

- Pocket Guide to the Empire, First Edition: High Rock

"When the Nord armies of the First Empire finally entered High Rock and Cyrodiil, they found Bretons and proto-Cyrodiils already living there among the Elves. Indeed, the Nords found it difficult to distinguish between Elf and Breton"

- Frontier, Conquest

"King Vrage the Gifted began the expansion that led to the First Empire of the Nords. Within a span of fifty years, Skyrim ruled all of northern Tamriel, including most of present-day High Rock, a deep stretch of the Nibenay Valley, and the whole of Morrowind."

- Pocket Guide to the Empire, First Edition: Skyim

King Vrage did not rule until 1E 222, meaning that Skyrim didn't expand beyond it's borders until that time. Since Man-mer breeds were not even known of until the conquests of High Rock and Cyrodiil that means that the Nords ruled the Reach long before the Reachmen, as Nordic Ruins dating to the Dragon Wars are spread all across the Reach.