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{{Lore Place Summary
|continent=Tamriel
|province=Skyrim
|region=Eastmarch
|settlement=Windhelm
|image=SR-place-Windhelm.jpg
|imgdesc=Windhelm circa {{Year|4E 201}}
|appears=[[Arena:Windhelm|Arena]], [[Skyrim:Windhelm|Skyrim]], [[Online:Windhelm|ESO]]
}}__NOTOC__</noinclude>
{{Lore Link|Windhelm}} is a city in northeastern {{Lore Link|Skyrim}}, close to the border with {{Lore Link|Morrowind}}, and is the only substantial city in the {{Lore Link|Hold}} of {{Lore Link|Eastmarch}}. It is not only the oldest city in Skyrim,{{Ref|name=PGE1S|{{Cite book|PGE|1|Skyrim}}}} but is the oldest continuously inhabited human settlement in {{Lore Link|Tamriel}}.{{ref|name=ESOLoading|[[Online:Loading Screens|Loading screen]] in [[Online:Online|ESO]].}} Windhelm was once the capital of the [[Lore:First Empire of the Nords|First Empire of the Nords]] and the old palace of the [[Lore:Ysgramor|Ysgramor]] dynasty, the Palace of the Kings, still stands in the center of the city.{{Ref|name=PGE1S}} {{Lore Link|Fort Morvunskar|Morvunskar}} is located on the strategic high ground southwest of Windhelm, overlooking the main roads leading to the city. Like most Nord cities, Windhelm has a Hall of the Dead where bodies are interred, overseen by a Priest of {{Lore Link|Arkay}} who ensures that corpses are properly consecrated and cared for.{{ref|name=ESOLoading}}{{ref|name=Skyrim|Events of [[Skyrim:Skyrim|Skyrim]]}} The city's arena is known as the Hall of Trials.{{ref|name=ESOLoading}}<noinclude>
==History==
[[File:Skyrim map Oblivion.jpg|thumb|right|A map of Skyrim showing Windhelm in the northeast.]]
Windhelm was founded by the legendary {{Lore Link|Ysgramor}} and the crew of his ship, the Ylgermet, following the {{Lore Link|Battle of the Moesring}} in the late {{Lore Link|Merethic Era}}. According to Nordic tradition, after the Five Hundred {{Lore Link|Companions}} disbanded, the Ylgermet's crew stumbled upon the barrow of {{Lore Link|Yngol}}, Ysgramor's son. When Ysgramor looked south and saw where the {{Lore Link|White River}} flowed into the {{Lore Link|Sea of Ghosts}}, he decreed that a great city should be built there to serve as a monument to the glories of mankind, a place from where he could gaze upon the hill of Yngol's barrow, and a gateway to guard Skyrim's interior against incursion via the river.{{Ref|name=SotR|{{Cite book|Songs of the Return}}}}
Captive elves were forced to build the city in the architectural style of their captors, and it is alleged that as many elves died during Windhelm's construction as were killed by the Ylgermet's crew before they had arrived at the site. The city's great bridge was designed to allow a vigilant watch on the White River for elven attacks, and Ysgramor's palace, the Palace of the Kings, towered over the city to show man's dominion over the very winds that had caused Yngol's death on the voyage from {{Lore Link|Atmora}}. An elaborate tomb was built in the catacombs beneath Windhelm to serve as Ysgramor's final resting place upon his death, but was never used because he chose to be buried [[Skyrim:Ysgramor's Tomb|by the sea]].{{Ref|name=SotR}}
Ysgramor's descendants would rule the burgeoning territory of the Nords from Windhelm. When {{Lore Link|Harald}} assumed the mantle of High King in {{Year|1E 143}}, he relinquished his holdings in Atmora and established Skyrim as an independent kingdom with Windhelm as its capital.{{ref|name=FC|{{Cite book|Frontier, Conquest}}}}{{Ref|name=PGE1S}} During the time of {{Lore Link|Vrage|Vrage the Gifted}}, the city became the capital of not just Skyrim, but the {{Lore Link|First Empire of the Nords}} that also encompassed {{Lore Link|High Rock}}, {{Lore Link|Morrowind}}, and parts of {{Lore Link|Cyrodiil}}.{{Ref|name=PGE1S}}
Later years would see Windhelm's fortunes decline considerably. As the First Empire of the Nords collapsed amidst the {{Lore Link|War of Succession}} that raged from {{Year|1E 369}} to {{Year|1E 420}}, the city was sacked.{{Ref|name=PGE1S}} It was sacked a second time in {{Year|2E 572}} by the {{Lore Link|Akaviri}} army of {{Lore Link|Ada'Soom Dir-Kamal}}, and then-ruler of the city {{Lore Link|Mabjaarn Flame-Hair}} was slain in battle along with her daughter Nurnhilde.{{Ref|name=JTSK|{{Cite book|Jorunn the Skald-King (book)}}}} The Palace of the Kings was one of the few of the city's original structures that survived these events.{{Ref|name=PGE1S}} The city also suffered under the disastrous reign of Jarl {{Lore Link|Elgryr the Unminded}}, who taxed his citizens to the point of destitution and eventually forced them to revolt.{{Ref|name=TWL|{{Cite book|The Windhelm Letters}}}}
In the ninth century of the Second Era, during the formation of the {{Lore Link|Empire|Third Empire of Tamriel}}, Windhelm served as a base for Imperial troops guarding the {{Lore Link|Dunmeth Pass}} into Morrowind prior to that region's incorporation into the Empire.{{Ref|name=PGE1S}}
By {{Year|4E 201}}, Windhelm was the center of the {{Lore Link|Stormcloaks|Stormcloak}} {{Lore Link|Stormcloak Rebellion|Rebellion}} against the {{Lore Link|Third Empire}}. Jarl {{Lore Link|Ulfric Stormcloak}}, leader of the rebellion, sought to liberate Skyrim from Imperial control to protect the traditional Nord way of life and restore the right to worship {{Lore Link|Talos}}, which had been banned Empire-wide by the {{Lore Link|White-Gold Concordat}}. In open defiance of the ban, Windhelm's Temple of Talos was kept open throughout the conflict with the Empire. The city had also come to house a substantial population of {{Lore Link|Dunmer}} refugees who had fled Morrowind in the aftermath of the {{Lore Link|Red Year}}. The elves were relegated to the city's run-down Snow Quarter, later named the Gray Quarter after the Dunmer refugees, and faced constant suspicion from the xenophobic local Nords.{{ref|name=Skyrim}}
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==Notes==
*[[Arena:Arena|Arena]] was originally conceived as a fighting game featuring a tournament that took the player to each of Tamriel's cities to challenge different gladiatorial teams. According to a file from that stage of development left behind in the final game, Windhelm's gladiatorial team would have been called "the Paladins".{{Ref|group=oog|[http://www.imperial-library.info/content/go-blades Original TES: Arena texts at the Imperial Library]}}
==See Also==
*For game-specific information, see the [[Skyrim:Windhelm|Skyrim]] and [[Online:Windhelm|ESO]] articles.
==References==
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{{OOG}}
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</noinclude>
{{Lore Place Summary
|continent=Tamriel
|province=Skyrim
|region=Eastmarch
|settlement=Windhelm
|image=SR-place-Windhelm.jpg
|imgdesc=Windhelm circa {{Year|4E 201}}
|appears=[[Arena:Windhelm|Arena]], [[Skyrim:Windhelm|Skyrim]], [[Online:Windhelm|ESO]]
}}__NOTOC__</noinclude>
{{Lore Link|Windhelm}} is a city in northeastern {{Lore Link|Skyrim}}, close to the border with {{Lore Link|Morrowind}}, and is the only substantial city in the {{Lore Link|Hold}} of {{Lore Link|Eastmarch}}. It is not only the oldest city in Skyrim,{{Ref|name=PGE1S|{{Cite book|PGE|1|Skyrim}}}} but is the oldest continuously inhabited human settlement in {{Lore Link|Tamriel}}.{{ref|name=ESOLoading|[[Online:Loading Screens|Loading screen]] in [[Online:Online|ESO]].}} Windhelm was once the capital of the [[Lore:First Empire of the Nords|First Empire of the Nords]] and the old palace of the [[Lore:Ysgramor|Ysgramor]] dynasty, the Palace of the Kings, still stands in the center of the city.{{Ref|name=PGE1S}} {{Lore Link|Fort Morvunskar|Morvunskar}} is located on the strategic high ground southwest of Windhelm, overlooking the main roads leading to the city. Like most Nord cities, Windhelm has a Hall of the Dead where bodies are interred, overseen by a Priest of {{Lore Link|Arkay}} who ensures that corpses are properly consecrated and cared for.{{ref|name=ESOLoading}}{{ref|name=Skyrim|Events of [[Skyrim:Skyrim|Skyrim]]}} The city's arena is known as the Hall of Trials.{{ref|name=ESOLoading}}<noinclude>
==History==
[[File:Skyrim map Oblivion.jpg|thumb|right|A map of Skyrim showing Windhelm in the northeast.]]
Windhelm was founded by the legendary {{Lore Link|Ysgramor}} and the crew of his ship, the Ylgermet, following the {{Lore Link|Battle of the Moesring}} in the late {{Lore Link|Merethic Era}}. According to Nordic tradition, after the Five Hundred {{Lore Link|Companions}} disbanded, the Ylgermet's crew stumbled upon the barrow of {{Lore Link|Yngol}}, Ysgramor's son. When Ysgramor looked south and saw where the {{Lore Link|White River}} flowed into the {{Lore Link|Sea of Ghosts}}, he decreed that a great city should be built there to serve as a monument to the glories of mankind, a place from where he could gaze upon the hill of Yngol's barrow, and a gateway to guard Skyrim's interior against incursion via the river.{{Ref|name=SotR|{{Cite book|Songs of the Return}}}}
Captive elves were forced to build the city in the architectural style of their captors, and it is alleged that as many elves died during Windhelm's construction as were killed by the Ylgermet's crew before they had arrived at the site. The city's great bridge was designed to allow a vigilant watch on the White River for elven attacks, and Ysgramor's palace, the Palace of the Kings, towered over the city to show man's dominion over the very winds that had caused Yngol's death on the voyage from {{Lore Link|Atmora}}. An elaborate tomb was built in the catacombs beneath Windhelm to serve as Ysgramor's final resting place upon his death, but was never used because he chose to be buried [[Skyrim:Ysgramor's Tomb|by the sea]].{{Ref|name=SotR}}
Ysgramor's descendants would rule the burgeoning territory of the Nords from Windhelm. When {{Lore Link|Harald}} assumed the mantle of High King in {{Year|1E 143}}, he relinquished his holdings in Atmora and established Skyrim as an independent kingdom with Windhelm as its capital.{{ref|name=FC|{{Cite book|Frontier, Conquest}}}}{{Ref|name=PGE1S}} During the time of {{Lore Link|Vrage|Vrage the Gifted}}, the city became the capital of not just Skyrim, but the {{Lore Link|First Empire of the Nords}} that also encompassed {{Lore Link|High Rock}}, {{Lore Link|Morrowind}}, and parts of {{Lore Link|Cyrodiil}}.{{Ref|name=PGE1S}}
Later years would see Windhelm's fortunes decline considerably. As the First Empire of the Nords collapsed amidst the {{Lore Link|War of Succession}} that raged from {{Year|1E 369}} to {{Year|1E 420}}, the city was sacked.{{Ref|name=PGE1S}} It was sacked a second time in {{Year|2E 572}} by the {{Lore Link|Akaviri}} army of {{Lore Link|Ada'Soom Dir-Kamal}}, and then-ruler of the city {{Lore Link|Mabjaarn Flame-Hair}} was slain in battle along with her daughter Nurnhilde.{{Ref|name=JTSK|{{Cite book|Jorunn the Skald-King (book)}}}} The Palace of the Kings was one of the few of the city's original structures that survived these events.{{Ref|name=PGE1S}} The city also suffered under the disastrous reign of Jarl {{Lore Link|Elgryr the Unminded}}, who taxed his citizens to the point of destitution and eventually forced them to revolt.{{Ref|name=TWL|{{Cite book|The Windhelm Letters}}}}
In the ninth century of the Second Era, during the formation of the {{Lore Link|Empire|Third Empire of Tamriel}}, Windhelm served as a base for Imperial troops guarding the {{Lore Link|Dunmeth Pass}} into Morrowind prior to that region's incorporation into the Empire.{{Ref|name=PGE1S}}
By {{Year|4E 201}}, Windhelm was the center of the {{Lore Link|Stormcloaks|Stormcloak}} {{Lore Link|Stormcloak Rebellion|Rebellion}} against the {{Lore Link|Third Empire}}. Jarl {{Lore Link|Ulfric Stormcloak}}, leader of the rebellion, sought to liberate Skyrim from Imperial control to protect the traditional Nord way of life and restore the right to worship {{Lore Link|Talos}}, which had been banned Empire-wide by the {{Lore Link|White-Gold Concordat}}. In open defiance of the ban, Windhelm's Temple of Talos was kept open throughout the conflict with the Empire. The city had also come to house a substantial population of {{Lore Link|Dunmer}} refugees who had fled Morrowind in the aftermath of the {{Lore Link|Red Year}}. The elves were relegated to the city's run-down Snow Quarter, later named the Gray Quarter after the Dunmer refugees, and faced constant suspicion from the xenophobic local Nords.{{ref|name=Skyrim}}
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==Notes==
*[[Arena:Arena|Arena]] was originally conceived as a fighting game featuring a tournament that took the player to each of Tamriel's cities to challenge different gladiatorial teams. According to a file from that stage of development left behind in the final game, Windhelm's gladiatorial team would have been called "the Paladins".{{Ref|group=oog|[http://www.imperial-library.info/content/go-blades Original TES: Arena texts at the Imperial Library]}}
==See Also==
*For game-specific information, see the [[Skyrim:Windhelm|Skyrim]] and [[Online:Windhelm|ESO]] articles.
==References==
<references/>
{{OOG}}
<references group=oog/>
</noinclude>