The inception of the Skyrim Conquests, began with the first Nordic discoveries of the proto-Breton 'Manmeri' beyond the western border of the Reach. According to Khosey's Tamrilean Tractates, the first sighting of Breton-Manmeri came from a group of Nordic hunters, who, at first, attacked the Bretons believing them some new, undiscovered, strand of Aldmer. Recorded as being "scarcely recognizable as humans," the hunting parties' slaughter only stopped when the oldest of the Manmeri began pleading for his life in some form of broken Nordic dialect. News of this discovery began to spread all across Skyrim, eventually to the capitol city, Windhelm. There, it was concluded that the Manmeri must have been remnants of human slaves taken from Saarthal during its fall and sacking, and that ten gen