Board Thread:Skyrim/@comment-12599067-20130928060857/@comment-13446185-20130929060159

Oh god another thread about the Forsworn, I'm sick of having to explain this over and over again.

The Nords were the first people to settle the Reach as the ruins dotted across the Reach were made during the Dragon Wars in the later Merethic Era.

Years after the Dragon Wars in 1E 240 High King Vrage formed the First Empire of Man after conquering large portions of High Rock and Morrowind.

While conquering High Rock, Nord war parties first discovered Man-Mer breeds they were proto-Bretons and were reffered to as Manmeri, they showed little resemblance to man and more towards mer, hinting that they were a rather new breed.

In the most Eastern area of High Rock, where the cities of Jehanna and Farrun lie, formed a new Hold created by the Nords known as the Western Reach, it was named this do to it's Western proximity to Skyrim and the Reach.

In this area the Nords proto-Bretons and Elves were first known to start mating, this is were the proto-Reachmen were birthed.

After the death of High King Borgas during the Wild Hunt of 1E 369 all of Skyrim plummeted into the War of Succession, all the Kingdoms of Skyrim broke away from each other and the First Empire of Man was completely driven out of Morrowind and High Rock including the Western Reach. The war doesn't end till Olaf One-Eye takes the seat of High King in 1E 420.

By now Bretons are a fully grown race and they start mating with the proto-Reachmen which gives the Reachmen a larger Breton heritage as the Nords had to flee the Western Reach.

Due to the location of the Western Reach right on Skyrim's border large amounts of Reachmen begin migrating into the Reach and living there.

-Skip a few hundred years-

Around 1E 1000, The Reach, for reasons unexplained (though most likely Skyrim's decline), is now owned by ten warring Reachmen Kingdoms. These kingdoms are conquered by the Alessian empire in 1E 1030, this is the first known full invasion of the Reach.

The Reach is owned by the Empire until at least 2E 430 when the Interregnum begins and almost all holds break apart from each other. The Reachmen once again control the Reach, though whether it was a united kingdom or not isn't known.

The Reach is reclaimed by Hjalti Early-Beard (Tiber Septim) and Cuhlecain in 2E 852 under the Kingdoms of Falkreath and Skyrim after centuries of fighting.

The Reach remains part if Skyrim until the Forsworn uprising of 4E 174 during the Great War. While the armies of Markarth are out fighting the against the Aldmeri Dominion the Forsworn steal the capital from King Hrolfdir and claim the Reach for themselves.

In 4E 176 Jarl Hrolfdir and his son Igmund muster up an army to take back the Reach from the Forsworn, by promising free worship of Talos in his Hold. Ulfric Stormcloak leads the army that takes back Markarth.

All the leaders of the Forsworn are executed except for the King, Madanach, who is secretly used in a plot by Thonar Silver-Blood, Thonar is basically responsible for the second Forsworn rebellion (Bastard).

Aldmeri Dominion forces Hrolfdir to arrest all Nords who worship Talos within Markarth at threat of War including Ulfric Stormcloak.

Jarl Hrolfdir, seeing no reason for the Nords and Reachmen to fight anymore goes to make peace with the Forsworn, during the diplomatic negotations Hrolfdir is murdered by the Forsworn (this may have been a move by Thonar Silver-blood but could also just as likely be a barbaric move by the Forsworn).

Second Forsworn rebellion begins

Igmund becomes the next Jarl of Markarth and is faced with removing the Forsworn from the Reach.

This is the history of the Reach take from this whatever you want. Just let me tell you the Reachmen aren't the "rightful rulers" of the Reach.