Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-186.215.22.127-20130215011559/@comment-6707115-20131230205942

I tend to think of him as a Nord born in High Rock (as it's perfectly reasonable) since the Septims had deep roots in Skyrim, and if he was a Breton, wouldn't you think the Thalmor might have an out on the whole "Talos is a God" ordeal. They could just say, "It's only his half elven self which allowed him to ascend. But I've never heard of an account saying that Talos was racially an Imperial, only that he was half Imperial, or with that ancestry.