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{{Lore Link|Atmora}} (meaning '''Elder Wood''' in [[Lore:Ehlnofex|Ehlnofex]]{{ref|name=MA|{{Cite book|Mysterious Akavir}}}}) is a continent to the north of [[Lore:Tamriel|Tamriel]], and tradition holds that it was from here that the first humans came to Tamriel.{{ref|name=PGE1Pro|{{Cite book|PGE|1|Prologue}}}}{{ref|name=PGE3Sky|{{Cite book|PGE|3|Skyrim}}}} The name is a corrupted form of the [[Lore:Aldmeris|Aldmeris]] title '''"Altmora"''', a designation for the northernmost landmass inhabited by [[Lore:Mer|mer]].{{ref|name=TM|{{Cite book|The Monomyth}}}} The ancient {{Lore Link|Nord}}s called Atmora "the land of truth".{{ref|name=NOYB|{{Cite book|Notes on Yngol Barrow}}}} It was the homeland of the [[Lore:Nede|Nedic peoples]], who were the ancestors of the modern Nords, {{Lore Link|Imperial}}s, and {{Lore Link|Breton}}s.{{ref|name=FC|{{Cite book|Frontier, Conquest}}}}<noinclude>
==History==
What little is known of Atmora is derived mainly from ancient myths. One creation myth suggests that Atmora was once a part of Tamriel, and became a separate landmass as a result of war among the {{Lore Link|Ehlnofey}}.{{ref|name=TAA|{{Cite book|The Annotated Anuad}}}} Another {{Lore Link|Altmer}}i myth asserts that {{Lore Link|Auri-El}} established one of the first Elven kingdoms, "Altmora", there before ascending to heaven.{{ref|name=VOF|{{Cite book|Varieties of Faith...}}}} According to Nordic tradition, after men were formed when {{Lore Link|Kyne}} breathed onto the {{Lore Link|Throat of the World}}, they then migrated north to Atmora.{{ref|name=PGE1Sky|{{Cite book|PGE|1|Skyrim}}}} With the help of {{Lore Link|Shor}} and others, men eventually overthrew the elves, expelled them from Atmora, and claimed the land for themselves.{{ref|name=VOF}}{{ref|name=TM}}
It is unknown when the Atmorans discovered or rediscovered Tamriel and began to migrate there, only that they came in waves over an extended period of time.{{ref|name=PGE3Sky}} For centuries, Tamriel served as a "safety valve" for people who, for whatever reason, could not stay in Atmora.{{ref|name=FC}} The last known major migration occurred in the late [[Lore:Merethic Era|Merethic Era]] while a civil war raged in Atmora. Many Atmorans, among them the king [[Lore:Ysgramor|Ysgramor]] and his two sons {{Lore Link|Yngol}} and {{Lore Link|Ylgar}}, departed their homeland and sought refuge from the conflict in Tamriel.{{ref|name=BAM|{{Cite book|Before the Ages of Man}}}}
Not long after founding the city of {{Lore Link|Saarthal}}, the Atmoran settlers were massacred by the {{Lore Link|Snow Elf|Snow Elves}} in what became known as the {{Lore Link|Night of Tears}}.{{ref|name=BAM}} Ysgramor and his sons escaped and fled back to Atmora, where they assembled the Five Hundred {{Lore Link|Companions}} to seek vengeance upon the elves.{{ref|name=BAM}}{{ref|name=PGE1Sky}} The massive shipyards of the Atmoran port of {{Lore Link|Jylkurfyk}} were commissioned to build a fleet that would carry the Companions across the {{Lore Link|Sea of Ghosts}}.{{ref|name=SOTR2|{{Cite book|Songs of the Return, Vol 2}}}} When Ysgramor and his Companions finally landed at {{Lore Link|Hsaarik Head}} on Tamriel's northern coast, they drove the elves from northern Tamriel and then went on to defeat them on the island of {{Lore Link|Solstheim}}.{{ref|name=FOTSP|{{Cite book|Fall of the Snow Prince}}}} The territory the Companions conquered formed the precursor of modern-day {{Lore Link|Skyrim}}.
Under the reign of Ysgramor's descendant {{Lore Link|Harald|High King Harald}} in the second and third centuries of the {{Lore Link|First Era}}, Skyrim was consolidated as an independent kingdom. Harald relinquished all of his holdings in Atmora, and Atmoran mercenaries left Skyrim and purportedly returned to their homeland.{{ref|name=FC}}{{ref|name=PGE1Sky}} Atmorans would continue to travel to Skyrim over the following centuries, notably including {{Lore Link|Wulfharth|Ysmir Wulfharth}}, but in declining numbers.{{ref|name=FSOKW|{{Cite book|Five Songs of King Wulfharth}}}}{{ref|name=RTR|{{Cite book|Rislav The Righteous}}}} The last Atmoran "invasion" of Tamriel was recorded in {{Year|1E 68}}, when two Atmoran ships laden with corpses begged to make port in Tamriel.{{ref|name=PGE3Other}} The last purported emigrant from Atmora known to history is [[Lore:Tiber Septim|Tiber Septim]] in the ninth century of the {{Lore Link|Second Era}}; legends relate that he sailed to Skyrim and spent his youth among the Nords.{{ref|name=PGE1C|{{Cite book|PGE|1|Cyrodiil}}}}{{ref|name=TAH|{{Cite book|The Arcturian Heresy}}}}
It was around the time of Ysgramor's migration that Atmora began to undergo an inexplicable shift in climate, the harbinger of the continent's demise.{{ref|name=SOTR7|{{Cite book|Songs of the Return, Vol 7}}}} Once known as a green, albeit colder land, Atmora was gradually overcome by "the frost fall" and rendered largely uninhabitable.{{ref|name=PGE1Sky}}{{ref|name=PGE3Other|{{Cite book|PGE|3|Other Lands}}}} There is some suggestion that, as of the early {{Lore Link|Third Era}}, Atmora was still inhabited,{{ref|name=TWQ4|{{Cite book|The Wolf Queen, v4}}}} but expeditions there in the mid- to late-Third Era only found a place of permanent winter with little life and no sign of human habitation. It is believed that Atmora no longer supports any civilized life, and those people who did not leave it for Tamriel ultimately succumbed to the ever-worsening climate.{{ref|name=PGE3Other}}
==Society==
Early Nordic society is reflective of Atmoran society. Many Nordic customs were inherited from Atmora, and the continent's culture has been highly influential on Tamriel.{{ref|name=PGE3Other}} Atmorans were a sea-faring people, much like modern-day Nords, but they purportedly had no knowledge of agriculture and survived off of hunting, a way of life which likely encouraged their purportedly ceaseless warfare.{{ref|name=FC}}{{ref|name=PGE3Other}}{{ref|name=SOTR19|{{Cite book|Songs of the Return, Vol 19}}}} Atmorans were also a pre-literate society and lacked a formal writing system of their own; Ysgramor is credited with developing a runic transcription of Nord speech based on Elvish principles, and is consequently considered the first human historian.{{ref|name=BAM}} While Atmorans were considered one race, it is implied that there were regionally-distinct racial groups, such as the "sinewy long folk" whose "ruddy skin matched the dawn" that inhabited the eastern edge of Atmora.{{ref|name=SOTR24|{{Cite book|Songs of the Return, vol 24}}}}
Atmoran settlers of Tamriel brought with them traditions such as naming ceremonies and their religion of animal worship.{{ref|name=SOTR2}}{{ref|name=THOTR|{{Cite book|The Hope of the Redoran}}}}{{ref|name=TDW|{{Cite book|The Dragon War}}}} They deified the hawk, wolf, snake, moth, owl, whale, bear, and fox, but preeminent among all animals were the {{Lore Link|dragons}}.{{ref|name=TDW}} At the height of the {{Lore Link|Dragon Cult}}'s influence, before the {{Lore Link|Dragon War}}, the {{Lore Link|Dragon Priest|dragon priests}} held as much power as kings, ruling in the stead of the aloof dragons they worshipped. In Atmora, the priests demanded tribute and set down laws and codes of living that kept peace between dragons and men. In Tamriel, however, they reigned as tyrants and made virtual slaves of the rest of the population.{{ref|name=TDW}} Atmorans also passed down myths involving demons, especially {{Lore Link|Herma-Mora}}, "the Woodland Man", who would become a part of the Nordic pantheon.{{ref|name=VOF}}
==Notes==
*In the {{Lore Link|36 Lessons of Vivec, Sermon 17}}, [[Lore:Vivec (god)|Vivec]] wrote that he and {{Lore Link|Nerevar}} journeyed to Elder Wood, where they "found nothing but frozen bearded kings".
==References==
<references/>
{{Provinces}}</noinclude>
{{Lore Place Summary
|continent=Atmora
}}</noinclude>
{{Lore Link|Atmora}} (meaning '''Elder Wood''' in [[Lore:Ehlnofex|Ehlnofex]]{{ref|name=MA|{{Cite book|Mysterious Akavir}}}}) is a continent to the north of [[Lore:Tamriel|Tamriel]], and tradition holds that it was from here that the first humans came to Tamriel.{{ref|name=PGE1Pro|{{Cite book|PGE|1|Prologue}}}}{{ref|name=PGE3Sky|{{Cite book|PGE|3|Skyrim}}}} The name is a corrupted form of the [[Lore:Aldmeris|Aldmeris]] title '''"Altmora"''', a designation for the northernmost landmass inhabited by [[Lore:Mer|mer]].{{ref|name=TM|{{Cite book|The Monomyth}}}} The ancient {{Lore Link|Nord}}s called Atmora "the land of truth".{{ref|name=NOYB|{{Cite book|Notes on Yngol Barrow}}}} It was the homeland of the [[Lore:Nede|Nedic peoples]], who were the ancestors of the modern Nords, {{Lore Link|Imperial}}s, and {{Lore Link|Breton}}s.{{ref|name=FC|{{Cite book|Frontier, Conquest}}}}<noinclude>
==History==
What little is known of Atmora is derived mainly from ancient myths. One creation myth suggests that Atmora was once a part of Tamriel, and became a separate landmass as a result of war among the {{Lore Link|Ehlnofey}}.{{ref|name=TAA|{{Cite book|The Annotated Anuad}}}} Another {{Lore Link|Altmer}}i myth asserts that {{Lore Link|Auri-El}} established one of the first Elven kingdoms, "Altmora", there before ascending to heaven.{{ref|name=VOF|{{Cite book|Varieties of Faith...}}}} According to Nordic tradition, after men were formed when {{Lore Link|Kyne}} breathed onto the {{Lore Link|Throat of the World}}, they then migrated north to Atmora.{{ref|name=PGE1Sky|{{Cite book|PGE|1|Skyrim}}}} With the help of {{Lore Link|Shor}} and others, men eventually overthrew the elves, expelled them from Atmora, and claimed the land for themselves.{{ref|name=VOF}}{{ref|name=TM}}
It is unknown when the Atmorans discovered or rediscovered Tamriel and began to migrate there, only that they came in waves over an extended period of time.{{ref|name=PGE3Sky}} For centuries, Tamriel served as a "safety valve" for people who, for whatever reason, could not stay in Atmora.{{ref|name=FC}} The last known major migration occurred in the late [[Lore:Merethic Era|Merethic Era]] while a civil war raged in Atmora. Many Atmorans, among them the king [[Lore:Ysgramor|Ysgramor]] and his two sons {{Lore Link|Yngol}} and {{Lore Link|Ylgar}}, departed their homeland and sought refuge from the conflict in Tamriel.{{ref|name=BAM|{{Cite book|Before the Ages of Man}}}}
Not long after founding the city of {{Lore Link|Saarthal}}, the Atmoran settlers were massacred by the {{Lore Link|Snow Elf|Snow Elves}} in what became known as the {{Lore Link|Night of Tears}}.{{ref|name=BAM}} Ysgramor and his sons escaped and fled back to Atmora, where they assembled the Five Hundred {{Lore Link|Companions}} to seek vengeance upon the elves.{{ref|name=BAM}}{{ref|name=PGE1Sky}} The massive shipyards of the Atmoran port of {{Lore Link|Jylkurfyk}} were commissioned to build a fleet that would carry the Companions across the {{Lore Link|Sea of Ghosts}}.{{ref|name=SOTR2|{{Cite book|Songs of the Return, Vol 2}}}} When Ysgramor and his Companions finally landed at {{Lore Link|Hsaarik Head}} on Tamriel's northern coast, they drove the elves from northern Tamriel and then went on to defeat them on the island of {{Lore Link|Solstheim}}.{{ref|name=FOTSP|{{Cite book|Fall of the Snow Prince}}}} The territory the Companions conquered formed the precursor of modern-day {{Lore Link|Skyrim}}.
Under the reign of Ysgramor's descendant {{Lore Link|Harald|High King Harald}} in the second and third centuries of the {{Lore Link|First Era}}, Skyrim was consolidated as an independent kingdom. Harald relinquished all of his holdings in Atmora, and Atmoran mercenaries left Skyrim and purportedly returned to their homeland.{{ref|name=FC}}{{ref|name=PGE1Sky}} Atmorans would continue to travel to Skyrim over the following centuries, notably including {{Lore Link|Wulfharth|Ysmir Wulfharth}}, but in declining numbers.{{ref|name=FSOKW|{{Cite book|Five Songs of King Wulfharth}}}}{{ref|name=RTR|{{Cite book|Rislav The Righteous}}}} The last Atmoran "invasion" of Tamriel was recorded in {{Year|1E 68}}, when two Atmoran ships laden with corpses begged to make port in Tamriel.{{ref|name=PGE3Other}} The last purported emigrant from Atmora known to history is [[Lore:Tiber Septim|Tiber Septim]] in the ninth century of the {{Lore Link|Second Era}}; legends relate that he sailed to Skyrim and spent his youth among the Nords.{{ref|name=PGE1C|{{Cite book|PGE|1|Cyrodiil}}}}{{ref|name=TAH|{{Cite book|The Arcturian Heresy}}}}
It was around the time of Ysgramor's migration that Atmora began to undergo an inexplicable shift in climate, the harbinger of the continent's demise.{{ref|name=SOTR7|{{Cite book|Songs of the Return, Vol 7}}}} Once known as a green, albeit colder land, Atmora was gradually overcome by "the frost fall" and rendered largely uninhabitable.{{ref|name=PGE1Sky}}{{ref|name=PGE3Other|{{Cite book|PGE|3|Other Lands}}}} There is some suggestion that, as of the early {{Lore Link|Third Era}}, Atmora was still inhabited,{{ref|name=TWQ4|{{Cite book|The Wolf Queen, v4}}}} but expeditions there in the mid- to late-Third Era only found a place of permanent winter with little life and no sign of human habitation. It is believed that Atmora no longer supports any civilized life, and those people who did not leave it for Tamriel ultimately succumbed to the ever-worsening climate.{{ref|name=PGE3Other}}
==Society==
Early Nordic society is reflective of Atmoran society. Many Nordic customs were inherited from Atmora, and the continent's culture has been highly influential on Tamriel.{{ref|name=PGE3Other}} Atmorans were a sea-faring people, much like modern-day Nords, but they purportedly had no knowledge of agriculture and survived off of hunting, a way of life which likely encouraged their purportedly ceaseless warfare.{{ref|name=FC}}{{ref|name=PGE3Other}}{{ref|name=SOTR19|{{Cite book|Songs of the Return, Vol 19}}}} Atmorans were also a pre-literate society and lacked a formal writing system of their own; Ysgramor is credited with developing a runic transcription of Nord speech based on Elvish principles, and is consequently considered the first human historian.{{ref|name=BAM}} While Atmorans were considered one race, it is implied that there were regionally-distinct racial groups, such as the "sinewy long folk" whose "ruddy skin matched the dawn" that inhabited the eastern edge of Atmora.{{ref|name=SOTR24|{{Cite book|Songs of the Return, vol 24}}}}
Atmoran settlers of Tamriel brought with them traditions such as naming ceremonies and their religion of animal worship.{{ref|name=SOTR2}}{{ref|name=THOTR|{{Cite book|The Hope of the Redoran}}}}{{ref|name=TDW|{{Cite book|The Dragon War}}}} They deified the hawk, wolf, snake, moth, owl, whale, bear, and fox, but preeminent among all animals were the {{Lore Link|dragons}}.{{ref|name=TDW}} At the height of the {{Lore Link|Dragon Cult}}'s influence, before the {{Lore Link|Dragon War}}, the {{Lore Link|Dragon Priest|dragon priests}} held as much power as kings, ruling in the stead of the aloof dragons they worshipped. In Atmora, the priests demanded tribute and set down laws and codes of living that kept peace between dragons and men. In Tamriel, however, they reigned as tyrants and made virtual slaves of the rest of the population.{{ref|name=TDW}} Atmorans also passed down myths involving demons, especially {{Lore Link|Herma-Mora}}, "the Woodland Man", who would become a part of the Nordic pantheon.{{ref|name=VOF}}
==Notes==
*In the {{Lore Link|36 Lessons of Vivec, Sermon 17}}, [[Lore:Vivec (god)|Vivec]] wrote that he and {{Lore Link|Nerevar}} journeyed to Elder Wood, where they "found nothing but frozen bearded kings".
==References==
<references/>
{{Provinces}}</noinclude>