It was said that they were brought to the mountains by their Matriarch, Mother Druaga, leading to them sometimes being called Children-of-Druaga. They worship the Daedric Princes, known to them as the Great Spirits. The Reach stretches from the eastern region of the Druidlands to the western part of Skyrim, with the Druadach Mountains running through its center. The Reachmen was a tribe that remaining independent in the Reach, their eponymous homeland. The Ayleids brought the enslaved Keptu all the way to the shores of the Niben.

It harnessed the power of lava flows to smelt ore and heat their metals, though also served a more occult purpose as a temple to worship dark gods and practice dangerous rites of Blood Magic with the use of iron, nirncrux, and lava. With the aid of Hircine, they constructed the Bloodroot Forge atop a large source of nirncrux in a secluded Jerall valley, a massive and powerful magical forge rivaling the architectural feats of the Ayleids and Dwarves. Though unpolished and barbaric, the Keptu were far from primitive, and were able to discover techniques for refining ores, allowing them to craft metal armors and weapons. The Keptu tribe, also known as the Ket Keptu and the Men-of-Ket, which spanned from the center of the Deathlands to the hinterlands of Cyrod, to the Jerall Mountains, was one of the tribes that was conquered by the Ayleids. Only the most secluded or advanced tribes were able to escape the chains of the Ayleids. As they expanded their city-states from the province of Hegathe to Black Marsh, they attacked and conquered various Nedic tribes and used them for all forms of menial labor with little regard for their health or well-being. The Ayleids were the most aggressive in their pursuit for Nedic slaves. Though when manpower became required by the growing elven colonies, they looked to the humans for a source of slave labor. Initially, the Nedes were considered savages by the civilized elves and were ignored. Other scholars argue that the Nedes were aboriginal inhabitants of Tamriel and Topal either failed to mention them or never encountered them since his travels were exclusive to the coastal regions of Tamriel. As the explorer Topal the Pilot had not mentioned them in his journals it is suspected that the Nedes migrated to Tamriel sometime between ME 1200 and ME 1000, possibly from the northern continent of Atmora.

The first mention of the Nedes in Aldmer history books is the encounter between Aldmer colonists and the human tribes in ME 1000.

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