Indeed, the Forsworn claim The Reach as their homeland. Native monsters that would cheerfully maul any other stand by their side, as if to tell you that the Forsworn are a natural part of this place. Various animal heads and body parts decorate their tents. Their camps are easily distinguishable from any other race. As you follow the region’s few paths, the open blue sky and its distant vistas are consumed by the towering rock, reduced to a dark grey slither far above you.Įverything feels alien in The Reach, not least of all the indigenous Forsworn people. These are abrupt, jagged walls that fence you in and push you into the region’s serpentine belly. These aren’t the sweeping mountains of the rest of the country. But it is the stone that rises up on either side of the path that most vividly distinguishes The Reach from the rest of Skyrim.

The river that carves a path through the region is a murkier colour than the waterways elsewhere in the country, as though the fog has polluted the water itself. There is a suffocating dankness to The Reach that extends from the sky overhead down to the earth underfoot.

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