Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-77.172.125.107-20130901100104/@comment-8248675-20131002210612

Oh and recently I glanced at Frontier Conquest book. It struck me as being a bit to biased to Cyrodilians. It maybe so that there where Nedic people all over Tamriel before, but Skyrim and they were Proto-Imperials and other races but Nords and Redguards. However, they claim that Nords who came from Atmora, were poised on conquest, unlike the Nedic people who lived in peace with Mer. They suggest that everywhere else in Tamriel (Possibly even in Morrowind), the Nedic people peacefuly coexisted with Mer, just minding their business. Nords however, that came from Atmora, were inspired by the proximity of reinforcements and did not want to accept Mer authority.

We all know that the first setlers at Sarthal, did not want to conquer anyone. They just wanted to have their city on the shores of Sea of Ghost, minding their own business. At first indiginous Falmer co-existed peacefuly with the Nords from Atmora. Now regardless of weather the Eye of Magnus made Falmer attack Sarthal, or they though Nordic men multiply too fast for their comfort. Perhaps that exactly what the Eye made them think, that humans are the threat to their existance and need to be exterminated. The end result was the same either way, genocide of Atmoran Nords at Sarthal, Ysgramor's return to Atmora and comming back with 500 brave Companions and purging Falmer to near extinction. Makes you wonder, how just 500 humans, were able to drive an entire race of highly sophisticated Mer into the underground, to seek refuge with their Dwemer cousins that betrayed them? But this is a whole different discusion.

So, knowing all of that, the statements provided in Frontier Conquest, makes one question wheather whoever wrote it, (And I mean an in game writer) was trying to show how successfuly Nedic people, the original people in Tamriel co-existed with Mer. Until Atmorans settled on the shores of Sea of Ghosts. They also mention that Ysgramor was not even the first Atmoran to arrive to Tamriel, that migration tradition from Atmora started long time before Ysgramor. Makes you wonder if Nedic people really were the first people in Tamriel, or wheather they existed at all? Perhaps even the Nedic people came from Atmora at some point. They did say there was a long tradition of Atmorans before Ysgramor to come to Mereth or Tamriel, yet by the time of Ysgramor, there were no humans living in Skyrim, so where did all of those earlier settlers gone? Maybe, they dispersed across entire Tamriel and in time became the indiginous, Nedic people. Like that, it is quite possible that the first men in Tamriel, who later became Imperials and Bretons, really did come from Atmora at one point. Nords were just one of the final migration from Atmora, before it froze over. Later ofcourse, Redguars showed up in Hammerfel and that was the pre-final migration of men from other continents. Akaviri people would have really be final, but I am not sure if you can call that a migration, since it was more like a failed invasion attempt and then Akaviri sieized to exist, or so it seems.

Anyways, please don't try to skip over this and tell us what you think. My theory of Nedic people (If they even existed), posibly being the earliest Atmorans who arrived to Tamriel before Ysgramor may not be that valid, but there is a sense of biasy in that book Frontier Conquest. Nords from Atmora initialy didn't try to conquer Skyrim, they tried living peacefuly with Falmer, just like the book said, other Nedes of Tamriel did. Although it mostly sounds like by peacefuly coexisting, it meant being enslaved by Mer, like was the case with people in Cyrodil.