Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-13446185-20130814010604

At first I thought that the Dragon War was long before Ysgramor's time, being waged by the earliest human settlers in Tamriel as no date can really be placed on the event. But the story behind Ahzidal basically says that the Dragon Priests were still around when Ysgramor brought the 500 companions, which means that the war had to have happened during or after Ysgramor's reign.

This seems strange to me as none of the cities from Ysgramor's time (Whiterun and Windhelm) show any evidence of dragon worship (no large temples, no statues, even the architecture is very different), not to mention there seems to be no lore that relates anything from Ysgramors time to the Dragon Wars.

What seems especially strange is that during and before the Dragon Wars Skyrim was a theocracy controlled by the Dragon Cult and Dragons themselves. But during Ysgramor's time he was supposedly the Emperor of Skyrim. So how could they be around at the same time? Also Ysgramor is considered the first human historian, if that is true wouldn't there have been mentionings of the Dragon War my him or others after him in which an actual date could be placed on the event.

Nothing seems to piece togethor when relating Ysgramor to the Dragon War. Is this just bad lore on Bethesda's part?

So the main question here is was the Dragon War before or after Ysgramor? 