Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-24339224-20150816215930/@comment-1470368-20160225134825

Dapoculos13 wrote: Ifnsman wrote: None of them, to be honest.

Atmoran, Nord, Imperial, and Breton are all just as likely to have been Tiber Septim's race (only if you believe certain sources, and the Lore is quite contradictory)

To put it simply, Race doesn't matter in the context of the Dragonborn. You're a mortal gifted by Akatosh with the same power of the Dragons. You make a very good point, and yet I do have to disagree to an extent. In canon and lore, any Dragonborn in Nirn's history has always been depicted as Man, chiefly an Imperial, Breton, or most commonly, a Nord. The primary reason for this is because Kynareth pitied Man during the Dragon War, and called upon Paarthunax to teach ancient Atmorans the Thu'um. Over time, Akatosh eventually gave Men the prodigious gift of having a Dragonborn, typically one or two per Era.

As for Tiber Septim's race, Atmoran is impossible. The reason for this is becuase by the time Tiber Septim was born, not only was the race of Atmorans consdiered extinct in terms of a singular race, instead evolving into modern-day Nords, but the continent of Atmora had froze nearly four thousand years prior to Tiber Septim being born. Atmoran being impossible is actually part of the point I was making about his race.

How a Dragonborn is depicted in Lore & history is insignificant, as a Dragonborn can be of any Race and still have the same potential.

One might recall Miraak, an Atmoran Dragonborn who was born into the world before the Thu'um was taught to Nords during the Dragon War. Hakon and the others originally sought him out, before they were forced to rely on Paarthurnax.

His race certainly doesn't matter so much as his tyrannical deeds and negligence concerning Alduin.