Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-77.172.125.107-20130901100104/@comment-8248675-20130920232149

Actually, Reach belongs to Nords as much as Forsworn/Reachmen. Reach was originaly settled by Nords, the Temples from Dragon Wars suggest that, so Nords always been in the Reach. For  Reachmen variation of Bretons to come to be, there would have to be Bretons first. And in order to Bretons to come to be, there had to be an interbreeding between Altmer of High Rock and first humans in Tamriel and those were proto-Nords from Atmora. Also, recently I noticed the mention that Atmorans were actually Nedes, so if you even belive that Nedes were the first humans to settle Tamriel, they would still be from Atmora. Besides, it seems that Ysgramor and 500 companions and his first party, was not the first people from Atmora to come to Tamriel. They say that they followed in the long tradition of Atmoran people, seeking adventures across the sea of Ghosts in Mereth.

To make my point, I would just say how proto-Nords settled in Skyrim and Reach, interbred with Altmer within High Rock, after some of them trickeled there. Then some of those Bretons ended up trickling back into the Reach, where they interbred with Nords that probably lived there by then and perhaps even with Redguards from the west of Reach, if they were already in Tamriel. That's how Reachmen came to be, but no matter how you look at it Nords were there first and have the same claims on the Reach as Reachmen. They should be more equal, instead of Nord contorling everything, but it's too extreem to want to rid Reach of of Nords. Red Eagle also wasn't fighting against Nords in the Reach, it was the almighty Alesian Empire, who believed that they had a claim on everything in Tamriel. I think that by year 1000 of first era, the first Empire had strayed way too far from what Alessia established. Alessia actualy coexisted with Empire of Nords, but seems like ever since King Borgas was killed, everyone all of the sudden wanted a piece of Empire built by descendants of Ysgramor. Just remember how many times Falkreath was taken away from Skyrim and how many times they took it back from Cyrodilic Empire? In the way, Forsworn are misguided, they used to live fine alongside of Nords in the Reach, then they declared their Kingdom for 20 years during Great War. And now that Reach was restored to Skyrim like it always was, Forsworn want to kill every Nord in the Reach. I have a nickname for Forsworn "Phychoes" they will attack anyone who comes into Reach, Nord or not, no questions asked.