Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-8248675-20130606043855/@comment-8248675-20130824204730

I was able to find out that Hjalti in fact an Icelandic name, or at least there was a chiftain by that name in Iceland. So, that possibly means that Talos was born in the Kingdom of Alcair within High Rock and given a Nordic name, Hialty Early-Beard. Early-Beard could have been a nickname given to Talos, but it could also have been a Nordic Clan name. There is a posibility that he had Nordic Ancestry, there is also possibility that both of his parents were Nords, living in Highrock. However, more probable to me, is that his father was a Nord and he gave his son a traditional Nordic name. His mother, more then likely was a Breton. If ofcourse, the claim of Lariat family was true that they were distant cousins of Septims. More then likely, even if Talos had a Nord father, he and his brother, would be considered Bretons because of their mother. The Atmoran part came only with matling the Avataras of Shor, such as Wulfheart of Atmora. Also, it would seem that both Hialti and Agnorith had married an Imperial, since that only explanation for their descendants being Impeirals. Both Pelagius I (grandson of Hjalti) and Kintyra I (daugher of Agnorith) were considered Imperials on the wiki in the list of Septim Dynasty. That ony means that both brothers married an Imperial. Also, Hjalti might have been the only Dovahkin of the family, but obviously Dragonblood ran deep within the family, as not only the descendants of his brother, which were all of the rulers after Pelagius I; who had dragonblood within them, but also members of Lariat family as well. Katariah could not have passed Dragonblood to Uriel Septim-Lariat IV, she was definetly not related by blood to Septims and yet Uriel IV was able to wear Amulet of Kings quite fine. Appearnalty the more we look at Talos' origins, the more confusing it gets.