Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-85.74.137.231-20130605091958/@comment-10207438-20130803161552

80.216.220.93 wrote: 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 Now as for why they WOULD: BECAUSE THEY NEEDED A BADASS TO DEFEAT ALDUIN AND THIS PERSON WAS THAT MUCH OF A BADASS, and race had nothing to do with that decision.