Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-86.24.50.100-20130623082136/@comment-25047024-20140501171501

Stephenpauljohn wrote: i recently made up some notes (posing as a crazy old conspiracy theorist) on how all dragonborn are directly descended from Miraak. basically Miraak was a test subject of the dragons that went wrong. they made him dragonborn for his dutiful service, but then once he gained this power he got around and impregnated six women (two nords, one redguard, one breton, and two imperials). but there are quite a few holes to patch up with it. i still need to figure out the beast races though...

but thats off topic...

That theory is wrong. Being Dragonborn is not (necessarily) hereditary. Also, there's no evidence suggesting that Miraak ever had children.