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From the UESP timeline.
The original First Era High Elven wizard towers along the coasts of Tamriel are also abandoned about this time. Pre-literate humans, the so-called “Nedic Peoples”, from the continent of Atmora (also ‘Altmora’ or ‘the Elder Wood’ in Aldmeris) migrate and settle in northern Tamriel. Nordic hero Ysgramor, leader of a great colonizing fleet to Tamriel, develops a runic transcription of Nordic speech based on Elvish principles, and is the first human historian. Ysgramor’s fleet lands at Hsaarik Head at the extreme northern tip of Skyrim’s Broken Cape. The Nords build there the legendary city of Saarthal. The Elves drive the Men away during the Night of Tears, but Ysgramor soon returns with his Five Hundred Companions.
Find a highly evolved (artificial ok) runic writing system whose pale shadows look like Nordic runes. Tolkein’s Elvish words in Dwarven runes, or Dwarven speech if it’s elvish enough (not black speech). If we have 500 or more runes, each rune can be a concept, and a collection of runes can tell a story like chinese characters.
Write excerpts from this text in this language, painfully and incompletely translated by a rosetta-stone like marker with P.Q. (Falmer) above and Old Norse (Atmorans taught by Falmer) below, to demonstrate the limited grasp and different view of the Nords.
Bethesda lore thread, and a related one.
Use this as the Falmer’s worldview, after splitting from Aldmer. What little ancient runic writing survives, from the people who taught the Nords to write, tells this story.
lore: Lorkhan’s death severed the connection to the Waters of Oblivion.
Falmer transliteration: world-artificer act-of-death dried-up spirit issue-of-water
Primitive Quendian: mbartano wanwe doro phaja ektele
Old Norse: skapari doudarord brunnr hugr
Nordic transliteration: creator tidings-of-death burn-spring-well mind-thought-heart-spirit
This explains the Elves, Psijics, Psijic Endeavor, Tribunal, power of Lorkhan’s Heart to unmake a race, Umaril’s changing back into his soul’s myth-form, a daedra. Elves just consort with their “fellow” daedra, “I want to be like you…”, Psijics and the Endeavor and the Tribunal all think it’s within them to change into Gods, but all are just Lorkhan’s creation without a blessing from the Duality.
