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Caradagh ("Caratacus" on Imperial documents) is a native Reachman, born to a family from the foothills outside Markarth. His father sided with Madanach's rebellion, and was killed defending the city walls from the Nord army that reclaimed it under the command of Ulfric Stormcloak. His mother escaped with her infant son, and survived by doing odd jobs in villages nestled in the hills of the Reach. Despite calls from old friends and relatives to join the Forsworn, Caradagh's mother stayed out of politics, and, after her death, he did the same until he was a young man working in his uncle Ainethach's mine, when Nordic mercenaries sent by the Silver Blood family attempted to seize control of it. Enraged by the greed of the Silver Bloods (or, rather, that it was directed against his kinsman), Caradagh murdered the mercenary chief with a pickaxe, and fled south towards Cyrodiil to escape the law, where he stumbled into the ambush that captured Ulfric Stormcloak, and was sent to Helgen for execution. The rest, as they say, is history.