Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-8248675-20130606043855/@comment-10207438-20130915201831

Harrison1983 wrote: Here's my theory... Hjalti Early-Beard was a NORD. Why? Nords are based off Norse literature. Vikings. Nords and Norse have too much in common when it comes to surnames as Nords didn't use them and only took on titles, I mean, and some did take surnames but not at birth, often it being after a hero or an event like with some great battle. Like the Grey-Manes and the Battle-Borns, these are not actual surnames but titles. Hjati was probably given the name as Early-Beard due to a quick growth through puberty... that would make it sound even more like a Nord huh? Anyways, the name Hjalti is a Norse name, umm with references such as King Hrolf's Champoins, 13th century litature... I'm just saying though, now knowing what was used to inspire the creation of so many races in the elder Scrolls, you really do learn what races were based off in RL and you do come to understand, yes, Hjalti was a Nord, who was named Talos by the Greybeards, and then to further legitmize his claim as Emperor, took the name as Tiber Septim, a roman name, an Imperial name... taking on that name was the first step into farthering his claim as emperor... So that's me lol, go read! while that is a common and likely theory, Hjalti Early-Beard was a name given to him at birth, so it's not a title he earned, and he was raised mostly in Skyrim, so he definitly had Nordic roots, but that doesn't necessarily mean he was a nord, due to the way inter-racial children are born in mundus, they are born the race of the mother, so while Hjalti could have been born to a Nord father who had him raised in traditional Nordic fashion, he could have been any human race.