Editing Scrollhammer: Holds of Skyrim (section)

====The Dawn of History====

In the time after the Dawn, when the gods ceased to walk Nirn, the land of Tamriel was wild and mysterious. It was here that the beast people dwelt, their history unrecorded.  The Mer, the Elves and Dwarves, came to Tamriel in this time, and forged great civilizations. Many of the mer dwelt for ages in the south and the west, in the lands of Summurset, Pyandonea, and Valenwood. But other mer spread northwards: a cruel civilization of High Elves dwelt around the Niben, while beyond them to Resdayn journeyed the Chimer, followers of the Prophet Veloth. The Dwemer, or Dwarves, inhabited all the northern half of Tamriel, building great cities of wonder beneath the ground. And the Falmer, the Snow Elves, built above the lands of the north great cities of beauty, carved of ice and stone. This was the golden age of the elves.

But at that time, mankind dwelt in the other reaches of the world; one race of man in Yokuda, and the other, the Nedes, in Atmora. Atmora, a cold isle with green summers, two thousand miles north of Tamriel. Once part of Tamriel in the Dawn Era, this land was torn off in a war between the gods. It was here that the Nedes lived a primitive life, as nomadic hunters, while elves built great cities in the lands to the south. But the Nedes held great faith in Shor, Son of Shor, and his wife Kyne, who had breathed them into existence when they created the world. The other gods, too, they worshiped, often in the shape of animals; the great Dragon Akatosh was among these, and his children, the Dragons, were held in awe and reverence by the warrior men of old. The orders of the Dragon Priests were founded on Atmora, lawgivers, advisors to kings, who sought to act as intermediaries between men and dragons.

But this age of barbarism came to an end as an endless winter came upon Atmora. The land froze, with a dread wind, so that nothing could grow there again. The chieftains of Atmora gathered in council, but could not agree on how to weather such cold. They flew into anger at one another, and raised armies against one another. Mankind flew into a bloody civil war, tearing each other to pieces in their own misery.