Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-186.215.22.127-20130215011559/@comment-6707115-20130407180027

Talos seems to translate to "Stormcrown", and was given to Hjalti Early-Beard after her shouted down the walls ot Old Hroldan while a storm cloud was supposedly following him around over his head. Hjalti was at the time a general under the King/Jarl of Falkreath and was fighting the Reachmen. Hjalti would then adopt the name Talos for himself and was known as General Talos. Later once he became Emperor of Tamriel he would change it to Tiber Septim. The Greybeards would also give him the name Ysmir which had been originally created for Wulfharth after he saved Skyrim by summoning Shor's ghost to fight Alduin's ghost. Once Tiber Septim died he was added to the Pantheon under his old title of Talos of "Stormcrown". Wulfharth of Atmora mentions all of this in his book "The Arcturian Heresy". The only name which might have concrete proof that Talos was a Nord was his name "Hjalti-Early-Beard" (and even then on other forums I've read that he might have been half-Imperial though I'm not exactly sure where the source for that came from).