Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-85.74.137.231-20130605091958/@comment-80.216.220.93-20130803122254

No one is questiong that game mechanic wise non-humans can be Dragonborn cause clearly they can, nor is anyone claiming that gods couldn't make them Dragonborn.

As for why exactly why the gods wouldn't do that...

Well, that's all kinds of difficult to spell out.

First off all promos and artwork, trailers and such portray the Dovahkiin as a Nord so that tells us the Developers opinion which would be literal "Word of God".

There is of course Thu'um's intrical connection to Nords.

And Akatosh well I'm stumped there