Later inland settlements were founded primarily in fertile lowlands in southwest and central Tamriel. The first colonies were distributed at wide intervals on islands along the entire coast of Tamriel.

In the Middle Merethic Era, the Aldmeri (mortals of Elven origin) refugees left their doomed and now-lost continent of Aldmeris (also known as 'Old Ehlnofey') and settled in southwestern Tamriel. (This corresponds roughly to the earliest historical dates given in various unpublished Elvish chronicles.)ĭuring the early Merethic Era, the aboriginal beastpeoples of Tamriel - the ancestors of the Khajiit, Argonian, Orcish, and other beastfolk - lived in preliterate communities throughout Tamriel. As such, the Merethic Era extends from ME2500 in the distant past to ME1 - the year before the founding of the Camoran Dysnasty and the establishment of the White Gold Tower as an indepenent city-state.Īccording to King Harald's bards, ME2500 was the date of construction of the Adamantine Tower on Balfiera Island in High Rock, the oldest known structure of Tamriel. The earliest Merethic date cited by King Harald's scholars was ME2500 - the Nordic reckoning of the first year of time. The prehistoric events of the Merethic Era are listed here with their traditional Nordic Merethic dates. The Merethic Era was figured by early Nord scholars as a series of years numbered in reverse order backward from the their 'beginning of time' - the founding of the Camoran Dynasty, recorded as Year Zero of the First Era.

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