I'm gonna defend Markarth here and say that the Markarthan Nords are colonizers and the Forsworn are colonized only to the extent that, say, Morocco was colonized by Arabs. Over a millennium of cultural entrenchment and a large-scale integration and continuation of the native population is not suddenly negated by some disaffected rural citizens in the hills suddenly acting rowdy and affecting an imagined cultural history they haven't really cared that much about until economic times were suddenly harsh in the middle of a war.
Several of them live peacefully integrated into Markarth and surrounding villages (well technically Reachmen I guess, not Forsworn) and Madenach's rebellion is explicitly talked about as a new unusual thing.
I'm gonna defend Markarth here and say that the Markarthan Nords are colonizers and the Forsworn are colonized only to the extent that, say, Morocco was colonized by Arabs. Over a millennium of cultural entrenchment and a large-scale integration and continuation of the native population is not suddenly negated by some disaffected rural citizens in the hills suddenly acting rowdy and affecting an imagined cultural history they haven't really cared that much about until economic times were suddenly harsh in the middle of a war.
Ethnonationalism is in fact bad.
The foresworn have been in open rebellion since before the war with the altemari dominion.
Open rebellion? I thought Madenach's rebellion came about as a direct result of the Markarth Incident?
madenach's may have been, but I'm pretty sure they've been fighting for forever.
Several of them live peacefully integrated into Markarth and surrounding villages (well technically Reachmen I guess, not Forsworn) and Madenach's rebellion is explicitly talked about as a new unusual thing.