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In my opinion Hjalti Early Beard was a Nord or at least Half-Nord (Nord father, Breton Mother) who was born in High Rock and then at early age migrated to Skyrim for unknown reasons. Hjalti in real life is Norse name. There was Icelandic king named Hjalti son of Skegg. So definately Nord.

Talos is probably name derived from epiteth similarly how in some cultures adjectives such as Stephanos (meaning "crowned" in greek) became name of every single crowned Serbian ruler in form of Stefan.

As for Tiber Septim, I personnaly believe it means something like "The seventh king/emperor" in Cyrodilic(which we know is loosely based on Latin,and Septimus means "seventh"). There were 6 kings of Reman Dynasty and Talos undoubtedly wanted to portray himself as continuation of legitimate line of emperors after centuries of potentate rule and interregnum.