User blog comment:Thedoucheinthenorth/Reachmen/Forsworn - freedom fighters or terrorists?/@comment-76.180.122.235-20130406230233

They are not terrorists. They are not just "fictional" like you ignorantly claim. There is real historical basis in the lore of the Forsworn or Reachmen. It is Ireland. It is the great high king Brian Boru and Irish annals state that Brian was in his 88th year when he fell in the Battle of Clontarf in 1014. If true, this would mean that he was born as early as 926 or 927. Other birth dates given in retrospect are 923 or 942.

Here is an interesting insight on the lore timeline I have discovered from my knowlegde and oberservations that is indisputably accurate(regardless on when Brian Boru was born there is an obvious reference).

In 1E 1030 the legendary Reachman called Red Eagle was said to have existed around this time.

He Red Eagle is basically referenced with how he had died in battle after slaying masses of imperials before being slain. Brian Boru in some stories has been told to have died in battle at 88. If you add 88 to 942 you get 1030.

Beyond the mathimatical implications, the prisoners in Cidhna Mine have Celtic names and the name in the Forsworns language for Red Eagle is Faolan which is also a Celtic name mainly Irish, sometimes Scottish.

The lore while based around history does not by any means imply it isn't changed around for creative purposes, but there were far more numbers Forsworn at the beginning of Skyrim then Nords. Just because you don't know their names(as in they are called Forsworn Briarheart, Looter, Warlord), etc ranks) doesn't mean they are not characters.

They are terrorists to whoever wishes to see them such a way. With the barbarism and corruption among other peoples, they are not any more savages than the others and you will ovbviously have them conviniantly demonized by the Nords, Bretons, and Reachman.

To the Nords dying in battle is honorable(perhaps only for themselves). The Forsworn fight for something they believe in. They just are not an ally of the Nords. The coin can be flipped the other way as well.