User blog comment:Spritydove/Deeper Thought into the Civil War/@comment-1692583-20120707023130/@comment-3470121-20120707030153

the nords went on a genocide after the snow elves, and as far as i know saarthal was the farthest they went into skyrim before the night of tears, so basically they just took the area with the bad weather with no crops or food, hardly justifies saarthals destruction