Board Thread:Skyrim/@comment-12599067-20130928060857/@comment-3539474-20140225232303

Dovahsebrom wrote: Three points I want to make.

3. The Reachmen (tribal ones like Forsworn) are not good people, in fact they are very barbaric and cruel. If you don't believe me read A Life Barbaric and Brutal or Travails and Triumphs of a Monarch. They would not make peace with the Nords as they are not reasonable or rational people, this is seen by the fact that they murdered Jarl Igmund's dad, Hrolfdir, after he tried to make peace with them. So a bunch of mountain barbarians want to spent time with bird witches and practicing jungle stuff, then let them be. As long as they do it in private of course.

We can empathize with them to the extent that they were mistreated badly in the past - but focus on the natives who decided to peacefully adapt than to fight on ferociously and kidnap foreigners, etc. Witnessing all that brutality in the Western Reach, it's unlikely they'll ever have their lairs in the eastern Reach. But they continue to perpetuate violence regardless, just like their Nord overlords against anyone who isn't a "true son of Skyrim".