I have seen a few posters asking about the Altmer and what people think attitudes towards the Thalmor.


I was just wondering a similar thing with the Bretons and the Forsworn.


To my understanding the Forsworn are Bretons who are trying to take the reach as their own territory and are trying to wipe out many of the local Nord population that live there.

We should be able to join the Forsworn too.

I wonder if Forsworn armor is a good example of some of the local armor seen more commonly in High Rock?

The Forsworn are savages who protect hagravens, i want nothing to do with them

The Forsworn were native to The Reach, not Nords.

The Forsworn are mere barbarians and savages, the Manmer of Highrock will not associate with those backward animals.

You don't need to be native to be considered apart of the local population and some of the Nords are native to the Reach anyway.

Not too mention that many Bretons and Imperials are also native to the whole of Skyrim, not just the Reach, after all Skyrim was the birthplace of the other humans (apart from the redguards who are from Yakuda)

No... High Rock uses practical armor... but their clothes are another matter entirely.

The Forsworn were natives of the Reach before the Nords returned from Atmora.

My little Breton is conflicted about the Forsworn but there aren't many options for her. She tends to think Nords are hypocritical about whose land belongs to whom and wonders why Ulfric hasn't fought for the Forsworn to recover their land too. I think it's a nice bit of irony to the story and anything that gets people to think about it is good.

Go skipping into a Forsworn camp with your Breton just to get a feel of what they really think of you.

Actually, dwemer were native to The Reach.

How are the Forsworn native and the Nords aren't?

Okay, so what's people's ideas about this question?

Well my personal opinion is the foresworn are very satisfying to slaughter. They dont belong in skyrim. Original settlers or not. They practice black magic, and constantly prattle on about how they will take me on and then all the nords and skyrim, to which i always answer with the business end of my weapon.

This. I don't care how immoral or savage they are; they have peaked my interest as something different, and that's all that matters. Nords bore me. They mummify their dead and pay their respects. Reachmen turn their honored dead into war machines with open chest cavities and some type of spiky plant in place of their hearts. That is why I like them.

Also, High Rock is essentially medieval England if we are going off of in-game Daggerfall.

EDIT: So much boring 'civilization' in this thread. Boring, boring, BORING!

I'll agree that it wouldn't be a bad idea for them to have included them as a faction, but then that would require adding two new major quest-lines to the game, comparable to the Civil War - one for people playing the Forsworn, one for people playing against the Forsworn. I suppose they had to limit the number of major quests-lines.

Well, the Bretons always struck me as being somewhat like the ancient Britons, but not the Anglo-Saxons.

They are somewhat inspired by real world celts, yes. I feel the Reachmen are Bretons without the Aldmeri influence.

Possibly so.

I'm curious, though, why do some people consider the Forsworn native to the Reach but not the Nords?

Your edit smells of Sheogorath.

Wait, what? Then Cyrodiill turned into medieval England for nothing?

Because they aren't. The Reach was originally a sort of independent state, somewhat connected to High Rock but still really it's own kingdom. Nords came in and owned everybody, stamped their culture out. This cycle has been going sense the First Era.

Yup. Retcon is great, isn't it?

Oh and Commandant, I do believe I was channeling him.

As a player who has always used Breton since Oblivion, I did have a question towards my allegence. After playing through many quests, I have decided that the forsworn do not represent the Breton people anymore than the Mythic Dawn represent the Imperials. They are a gang of savages who are native to the reach and I do not have to show them any type of loyalty. I am, however, sympathetic to their struggles, and feel that Ulric has treated them unfairly, but it is not my problem. Fact is, everytime I come across the forswon they attack me and thus they are my enemy. Ulric allowed me to join him and even promoted me to the rank of Stormblade. If Ulric was attacking High Rock, it might be a different story, but the forsworn are savages who do not wish to make compromises, and that is why they are not treated as equals.

Who lived in that part of the world before the Forsworn?