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I was curious about the architecture of Issgard because the ancient nordic architecture of Skyrim didn't seem so "advanced" (best word I could think of). Like did it just develop over time like Skyrim did or was there outside influence?

 

I had a theory about Atmora a while back, that it was much more culturally diverse than we expect it which would explain the differences in the nordic ruins and castle volkihar which may date back to the same period.

 

Or is all this still just a secret? :P

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No secret , I think I have wrote it also already somewhere .

 

First settling of Issgard was by Nedes from Atmora , so we have ancient sites that are more ancient than the ones in skyrim with a similar but more ancient architecture for nordic ruins .

 

Now some of those ruins are more preserved because a part of the Issgard population ( sker ) did not drop the ancient customs and behaviours, surely influenced and more similar to the skyrim ones, but not so keen to drop their ancient totemic pantheons .

think of them as ancient Barbarians that live in huts and round domes of Nordic style .

 

then there is the other part of the population that can be compared to the Normans , those are more advanced as the more developed parts of Skyrim as Solitude or Windhelm , Their influence is based on Nedes, skyrim and Breton .

 

Guess what , Talos was believed to be a Nede from Atmora , but also some say was a breton of Origin , So Issgard has some ties to those legends and to Ysmir , beein there the first and most important ancient Nord temple dedicated to him .

 

Some legends say that one day he will be back to claim his throne .

 

The primeval populations are also divided into 2 types mostly sharing the same culture , but one is nomadic on the flat ice lands and the other is stantial as Sker , Husvalur , falls etc .

The developed one is instead a seafaring one and has settled the main bays , Varheim and Brynnvik m with Vindgard as a way in between .

 

The seafaring population so got influenced by many other cultures and had and has contacts with even very far distant populations of Tamriel . Notable are the travels to Morrowind , Hammerfell, High rock , Vvanderfell and Cyrodill . They raid the coasts of Summerset , Valenvood as well, while on the east they had traveled up to Akavir .

 

Issgard reign extends over the Islands of roscrea , Cathnoquey and Yneslea with attempts to conquer Esroniet and Solstheim .

the people of Solstheim for example share some similarities with the primeval populations of the inner regions of Issgard .

 

http://www.cartographersguild.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=65255&d=1403876138

 

To the North Issgardeans have also seldomly traveled back to Atmora and have acompanied the very few expeditions as scientific one from Cyrodill , but all what is found there is Ice and snow with unspokeable horrors . The only time when its reacheable its when the "Iceleid" forms , a natural phenomen that in a certain period of time ( only on very veryharsh winters ) forms a ice path up to the shores of Atmora .

All who have traveled there , only reached the coast and eventually explored from far , the ones that ventured inland never returned . This is why its also called the White Abysses of Atmora as it swallows every explorers while ships are usually stormed away by the Maelstorm .

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