On the Day of Final Passage, the Five Hundred Companions left the port of Jylkurfyk to return to Skyrim. After Ysgramor was set to return to Skyrim with an army known as the ' Five Hundred Companions', composed of the heroes of the Atmoran Civil War. When Ysgramor and his sons returned to Atmora, they told stories of the events that occurred in Skyrim, and gathered many around them for a return to retake Skyrim and avenge Saarthal. According to legend, only Ysgramor and his two sons were able to escape back to Atmora. Other sources are less certain in their pronouncements, but also point to a very focused attack on locations that are not of strategic importance, lending weight to the theory that the Eye of Magnus, not the extermination of the Nords was the primary reason for the attack. Another theory suggests that the sacking of Saarthal was brought on by the Atmoran discovery of the Eye of Magnus beneath the city.

Some say the Snow Elves saw that the Nords, with their considerably shorter life expectancy, fast rates of physical maturation and expedient (by Elvish standards) reproductive cycle, would eventually overtake them if left unchecked. There are a variety of accounts as to why this happened. The Night of Tears is the name of the sacking of Saarthal by the Snow Elves. Night of Tears Main article: Night of Tears For a long while, relations between the Snow Elves and the Atmorans were relatively peaceful.

The Atmorans settled the area that in the future would be known as Winterhold hold they eventually built a city in the region and called it Saarthal.

Ysgramor formed the Five Hundred Companions. It is said that he and his companions were fleeing the civil war in Atmora, which at that time had a sizable population. According to legend, Ysgramor landed first at Hsaarik Head, at the extreme northern tip of Skyrim's Broken Cape. It was the first region of Tamriel to be settled by humans, who migrated there from the land of Atmora in the far north, across the Sea of Ghosts. They called the land Mereth, in recognition of the vast number of Mer that lived there. Skyrim, also known as the Old Kingdom or the Fatherland is the home of the Nords.ĭuring the Merethic Era, a legendary Atmoran leader named Ysgramor, led an expedition from Atmora to the land that would later be known as Skyrim. History Merethic Era Main article: Merethic Era

1.3.3 The Second Akaviri Invasion of Tamriel.

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