Lore:Jylkurfyk

Jylkurfyk
Type	Settlement
Continent	Atmora

Jylkurfyk was a coastal city in southern Atmora. It was known for its large shipyard and was active in the Merethic Era.

History

Following the events of the Night of Tears and Ysgramor's retreat to Atmora, and before the Return of Five Hundred Companions, Ysgramor expressed a desire to travel to Jylkurfyk and take a ship back to Tamriel to avenge his kin. However, before he returned to Skyrim, he codified the written language in Atmora to preserve human history.

Ylgar commissioned two ships for himself and his brother Yngol, the Darumzu and the Harakk, named after the stars favored by the Atmorans from the local shipyard for Ysgramor's legendary voyage to Skyrim.

Due to an inexplicable shift in the climate of Atmora territories once known as a green, albeit cold land were gradually overcome by "the frost fall" and rendered largely barren and uninhabitable, becoming a "frozen continent".

Although there is some suggestion that, as of the early Third Era, Atmora was still inhabited, the fate of Jylkurfyk is unknown. It is believed that Atmora no longer supports any civilized life, and those people who did not leave it for Tamriel ultimately succumbed to the ever-worsening climate.

The Ship of Ice tells the story of the crew of the last ship to leave Atmora. As they were preparing to leave Jylkurfyk, on the day they were ready to sail, a Snow Elf came to them. A child dressed in a thin robe, unbothered by the cold, announced that the frostfall of Atmora was their revenge for the destruction of the Snow Elves by the Nords.