User blog comment:Jack Pistol/The First Dragonborn?/@comment-5871119-20121219010706

remember miraak made people forget who he was? also miraak was defeated in solstheim he didnt make it to other lands to get fame. didnt the dragon priests take followers to live in that island to worship them. so if this was true wouldnt this be before alessia? the empire probably found solstheim years later by then solstheim was pretty abandoned. only the skaal the people that used to worship these priests could remember him.

alessia is more known due to being in tamriel and founding the septim bloodlines which were all dragonborns.