Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-92.233.139.244-20130530214619/@comment-11344160-20130711003459

The Skyforge is the Divine's gift to mortals. They needed a way to create arms and armor to defend themselves against ancient skeevers and mudcrabs, thus the Skyforge was given to them. It is the first forge to exist on Tamriel.

In ancient times mortals could create stuff like 'Skeeverhide' armor and 'Mudcrab Chiton' helmets, but they decided the stuff looked really lame so they started using regular leather and ores to make their stuff.