Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-85.74.137.231-20130605091958/@comment-80.216.220.93-20130803034709

Dmoontear wrote: Doesn't matter that a mer or beastrace can absorb a dragon soul, nope. They're still totally not dragonborn.

I would like to point out the lore of TES, about interracial children. An interracial child will almost always look like their mother. That being said, if being dragonborn was truly a bloodline thing(Which I doubt.) could be that a Septim or another dragonborn boinked a mer or beast race.

Certinly happened before, with Barenziah and a Septim - though that child was aborted. Sarcasm?

Anyway, the point would be that anyone playing with a non-human dragonborn is doing so non-canonically ie if future games reference the Dragonborn and mentions Race it'll be Human races.

Of course when playing non-human dragonborns are absorbing dragon souls, cause they'd complain otherwise, still won't make it into the lore.