Leyawinn, a Khajiit city?

Post » Mon Jun 20, 2011 8:09 am

I just found the following text on UESP about the city of Leyawinn:

Leyawiin is a Cyrodiilic city in the extreme southeast of the province, by the mouth of the Niben River where it opens into Topal Bay. Located on the small strip of land between the provinces of Elsweyr and Black Marsh, the recently ceded Trans-Niben, it has a sizable population that includes many Khajiit and Argonians. Marius Caro is the Count of Leyawiin. Leyawiin used to be a primarily Khajiit city that was part of Elsweyr, but was later annexed into Cyrodiil due to an agreement between the Mane and the Empire. The Renrijra Krin, a group of bandits and freedom fighters, prime objective is to reclaim Leyawiin and other parts of Cyrodiil that they believe rightfully belong to Elsweyr.


Since when did Leyawinn belong to Elsweyr? I thought it had always been a Cyrodillic city. If this article is talking about the Trans-Niben, that wasn't the annexation of a whole city righ? The Trans-Niben was only a small patch of borderlands.

Does anyone know where this info came from?
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Jordan Fletcher
 
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Post » Mon Jun 20, 2011 8:53 am

One of the NPC's talks about how so and so is mad because leyawinn used to belong to where ever but it's imperial now.
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Post » Tue Jun 21, 2011 12:12 am

During the game of Arena, Leyawiin was known as Alabaster and belonged to Elsweyr (they don't correspond completely, but given that Alabaster disappeared as Leyawiin appeared I'd say its a safe bet). The annexation was probably made up to explain this change.
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Post » Mon Jun 20, 2011 11:00 am

Yep, the Trans-Niben (presumably the west bank) used to belong to Elsweyr. Congratulations on stumbling across the sole instance of politics in TES IV.
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