Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-186.215.22.127-20130215011559/@comment-17114085-20140627171049

DivineTedrius wrote: Yes it does. Repeating your own argument doesn't get you anywhere. While I agree there are exceptions, those are, as I said previously, rare, compared to the "lore accurate" names. And how can origin be anymore valid than names? That's almost contradicting yourself. This is the same as the Interbreeding in TES. There is a general rule, but there are obvious exceptions. The naming conventions for each race exist but just because a person has a name of a race doesn't mean they are of that race.

Things that point to Hjalti being a Nord, his name.

Things that point to Hjalti being a Breton, his birth place and his family relatives. The Lariat family is a relative of Hjalti's family, and they are a Noble family from High Rock.

The most accurate prediction is that Hjalti's father was a Nord, because of his birth name, and his mother was a Breton (most likely from the Lariat family), because of his nobility and family relations and birthplace. Though following the rule of interbreeding in TES that would make Hjalti a Breton, not a Nord. Since the child generally is the race of the mother.

Though we can only assume, since there is no solid evidence of his race and Bethesda will likely never state what it is.