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CatapractofOrder wrote: If you have played Bloodmoon or Dragonborn you have most likely incountered the skaal, a group of Nords that have a monothestic religion of the "All-Maker." They claim that Ancient nords once worshiped the All maker. I have also heard of Christian symbols in old nordic tombs.

Is there a connection? There's also a trinity of crosses in Blackreach on a HUGE stone monument.

Reading the Skyrim books (and I've read each one as I've come upon it) it's exceedingly obvious that one of the writers is/was big into theology, even writing at yawning length-- more than one book--about his crushed emotions in regard to not getting enough praise for his authorship of the church bulletin    ...in the Elder Scrolls.

I mean seriously... a church bulletin? I know the lore is full of contradictions and ambiguities, but that's just plain ridiculous. Where do they fit in with Aedra and Deadra and Necromancy and Draugurs, cannibals and Werewolves and Werebears and Vampires exactly?

To address your question, the funny thing is that the Nords/Skaal, based on the Norse, with only the most minor changes to their theology and lore, were not originally believers in Christianity at all.

By the way, the song Ragnar the Red is a dirisive slander about Ragnar Lodbrok, the "Scoure of England and France" a great Norse hero of the Viking age.

Clearly the writers/developers have an axe to grind, as it were, against the Norse, because they've portrayed the "Nords" as superstitious, dull, dim-witted, rude and crude when in actual history they were the greatest explorers of any age and were in North America centuries before anyone else and gave birth to what is now Scandanavia.

And yes, I do have Norse heritage, though my current character is Breton.