Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-8248675-20130606043855/@comment-13446185-20130913001528

77.172.125.107 wrote: The region where Hjalti was born consists of Bretons with gaelic names, where most other Bretons have french names. If he was born with Breton blood he should share the same ancestry as todays Reachmen (also Bretons with gaelic names). Given the fact that Tiber waged war against these people and decimated them, would seemingly make it unlikely that he was Breton. Why on earth would anyone decimate his own people? Tamriel was anything but unified at the time and many of "his people" were fighting amongst themselves. I find it very hard to believe Tiber would say "no, I'm not going to attack these guys" just because he is the same race.

Also being a nordic-breton doesn't automatically make you a Reachman, the Reachman were born after generation upon generation of breeding between Elves, Bretons, Nords, and I'm pretty sure even Redguards. Tiber was raised in Skyrim so he would probably consider himself Nordic over anything else anyways.