So who lives there now? Nords or what ? Hows the lanscape like?

From what I recall, no one lives there anymore. Atmora is completely frozen over, a horrible icy wasteland that's like Antartica on steroids.

The Giant ancestors of humans from the future :spotted owl:

Anyway, in the practical sense, DR is right. It's a glacial wasteland that is completely uninhabitable to men. The last ship sailed over in 1E98, and even then Atmora was already completely frozen. If it were not for the spotty historical record, I would argue that it never was inhabitable to begin with, being instead the last dead shreds of the past kalpa or something.

Since all your questions seem to center around the same issue, maybe we can keep everything to this thread? Will make things easier to relate together and neater in general.

Just exploring the possibilities on lore basis for an add on mod based on an extremely ice covered land beyond skyrim ..... What someone could find there ? Living or that lived there in past? Who ruled there? Any famous landmark there?

We don't really know anything about Atmora other than that humans used to live there and that it is now Antarctica (but without penguins). http://imperial-library.info/content/skyrim-volume-2-first-tale-darumzu of the Songs of Return is probably the best source we have on old Atmora, though it is unclear how historical it is. The http://imperial-library.info/content/pocket-guide-empire-third-edition-atmora also has a couple paragraphs.

You might find ruins akin to those in Skyrim (the ones dating from the 'dragon war' era), though it's a bit iffy for hunter-gatherer peoples to construct things of that magnitude. Realistically, I would expect something along the lines of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skara_Brae. As for what's living there, I'd default to huge and/or mythic creatures - giants, ice-age creatures, perhaps some sort of ice undead.

Ice Draugrs.

As a resource efficient alternative, sure. But I've killed enough of those in my first 15 levels to have them become meh. I'm thinking about walking into one of those Scara Brae huts, now deep under the ice and lit with a creepy diffuse glow, and seeing a family curled up and http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/39/OetzitheIceman.jpg together. And then that family rises, and all, including the little children, attack you, tearing at your flesh with their nails. :ninja:

I am a bit confused on who lived there actually , I read it was the homeland of elves ? and the humans fleed from there too ? Alt mora is not the land of high elves? Ayleds? What about the dragons?

So no info much on the place but no landmarks as well no ancient city no ancient culture or whatever?

You are confusing Atmora, the homeland of the nords and now long frozen and abandoned, for Aldmeris, the mythical Elven homeland. The ruins of Almderis are in fact Tamriel. The elves can never find their mythical homeland because they never left.

Atmora is the homeland of the ancient Nords. Aldmeris is the fictional homeland of the Elves, but really it never existed and is just a memory of the Dawn. Dragons reportedly lived on Atmora as well.

so Aldmeris is not Altmora? Seems the same name and I confuse them I guess where is this altmeris? what made the nords flee? dragons come from there?

Nope. They've got nothing in common.


The mythical elven homeland of Aldmeris doesn't exist. THe elves have always been in Tamriel, and have never left.

ah ok so humans and elves come from same ancestors , elves always been in tamriel , humans come from atmora ... some where in tamriel too?

why no ayled ruins in skyrim ? anyway basically so atmora is the land of men ancestors , they come from there ...

what's the original language of them ? draconic ( As I see it in many ancient tombs in skyrim ) , a norse language ? Or common one?

Humans migrated to Atmora later, then returned to Tamriel when it froze over. Notice the fact that their creation myths center on High Hrothgar.

There are no Ayleid ruins in Skyrim because the Ayleids were a group of elves confined to Cyrodiil. The Skyrim elves were Falmer, who now live in Dwemer ruins.

There were a couple "original" languages of men, unless you look all the way back to the Dawn when everyone was just an Ehlnofey. The Nords had a language, as did the Redguards, and the various Cyrodilic tribes had their own as well. The Nord's language was influenced by Draconic, and later Aldmeri. Based solely on what we know from Skyrim, high-caste proto-Nords might speak Draconic. Currently, everyone speaks Tamrielic, which is a combination of Aldmeri, Cyrodiilic, and Nordic tongues.

Ok thanks so ... if I want to make a mod based on a distant region in Atmora I can go for a Draconic language tranlation ...? Pity I can't find any word for Land I found a word for World but is not the same thing , the only think I gould guess out is Kaan after Kaazokaan that should be tamriel ... and the other word for skyrim that is Keizaal are the only two words I found shoging a region name , so making a sort of ethimologic extraction I tought kaan could work better but then kaazo has no meaning and instead keizaal could resemble keen to Kein = war and zaal that is similar to zul = voice so the voice war that coul have some sort of "meaning indicating skyrim .. that's why I excluded zaal ... what do you think ?

according to the Draugr the ancient nord dis spoke dragon tongue?

http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1271111-draugrs/

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According to the loading screens in Skyrim, there is a theory that the draugr are cursed nords who served the dragons in their life. Sounds a bit iffy to me, though..

As I said in another thread, Kaan means Kyne in Draconic. If you want to say Atmora in Draconic, you say Atmora, simply.

No I want to say "land" the translation for this english word .....

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