Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-77.172.125.107-20130901100104/@comment-3539474-20130924014354

Dovahsebrom wrote: Atmorans were barbarian themselves & brought the Dragon Cult with them, thus bringing the first conflict into Skyrim.

I think I remember hearing somewhere that the Dragon Cult of Atmora was much less brutal than the one set up in Skyrim, mostly because it wasn't until the Nords settled Skyrim that the Dragons began to exploit the Cult. Also the Dragon Cult wasn't the traditional Ancient Nordic Pantheon, it is as it says, a Cult. it gained power after Ysgramors death and eventually took over as the main authority and religion of Skyrim when Alduin went to Skyrim, the traditional ancient Nordic Pantheon has Shor as it's leader rather than Alduin.

Basically he sacrificed himself for the greater good, the same thing the Forsworn doing now, retaking the Reach from the Nords.

Sounds more like desperation to me, as Falion didn't even succeed. Do I still need to explain to you that the Forsworn Uprising never should have happened. the Reach is part of de jure Skyrim, the Forsworn didn't have to revolt, it isn't like the Nords were keeping any rights from them, they were as much citizens of the Reach as Nords were. But no the stupid Forsworn have to muck everything up and when they're rebellion gets put down they act like they're the victims. I mean really they forcefully took over the capital of the Reach, did they think that was going to end well? It was the Dragon Priests that made the ancient Nords "ruthless" to dominate Skyrim. I believe only Vahlok the Jailor was the good priest since he tried to stop Miraak but failed. Vahlok is compelled to swear an oath of vigilance to watch for the "Traitor" return. But Bethesda ruined it, I sort of wanted to see a rematch between Vahlok and Miraak.

The Nords were known to control the Reach for quite some time but they never seemed to be able to really impose their will over it. They officially owned most of the Eastern Reach since the First Era under the banner of the Empire but they only ever conquered it four notable times in history, once in the early First Era, twice in the Third era, and once in the Forth Era.

I understand that Nords were there first and Nords are the one who sired the Reachmen. But noted that the natives does not want to live under Nordic rule as much as the Stormcloaks does not want to live under the current Empire.