[quote=darkwolf687]
I am not entirely sure, but I think he did say that the High Elves were descended from the Alyieds. I only ever did the quest line once (Think I remembered his name too, Umbacano?) because the sod makes you go on a massive dungeon crawl for some god forsaken ugly alyeid statues before he gives you a string of quests which culminate in him turning into an alyeid lich king and trying to brutally murder you. Such a great reward for my service eh?When you see the two Alyeid warriors in the thieves guild questline, they basically look like massive High Elves, so I think the Alyied were the ancestors of the high elves and the Alyieds had magic, pretty much built the IC etc. So the high elven claims wouldn't be strictly trueI like how the Orcs are elves, when I first played TES I didn't see that coming until I noticed that only the elves had Mer in their names xD
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Hmm, I don't know, I reserve judgment on that, cause aside from this half remembered quest dialogue, every other source, from books in the games to wiki, to videos, says otherwise...

Not that I don't trust you. :P