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Perhaps Talos  ( Hjalti  )  was born on the island of Balfiera in High Rock after a conquest by Alcaire?

He could very well be a Breton of Nedic & Elven stock  ( Aldmer &/or Snow Elves ) mixed with Nordic men  ( closer to Atmorans ). His mother was likely Breton, & his father a Nord noble. This would make him very similar to Reachmen in parts of Skyrim.

The Breton-Nedic part of Talos could be proto-Imperial, since there are accounts of Bretons in the earliest days of Skyrim's settlement by Nords. His Nordic descent probably came from being an illegitimate child, or birthed from an unlikely affair, though it is unclear to me if Hjalti spent his childhood around his father or not.

Later actions that crowned him the names of Talos Stormcrown & later Tiber Septim, could have been him merging with prior Shezzarines Ysmir of Atmora & Arctus Zurin respectively.

This may have completed a cycle that mantled him to the Aedra of Shor / Lorkhan.