Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-8248675-20130606043855/@comment-8248675-20130808200047

Early lifeEdit
Tiber Septim was born on the island kingdom Alcaire, as Hjalti Early-Beard. He was brought up in Skyrim, where he learned the ways of the warrior and the strategies of war from the chieftains there.

According to this snipet from Tiber Septim's article, he was actually born as Hjalti Early-Beard in Alcaire. The only inacurate thing is that Alcaire wasn't really an island. If you look at the map of Iliac Bay, you can see that Alcaire is on a mainland, arround the place where Illiac Bay makes a bend between High Rock and Hammerfell. Anyways, that's besides the point, seems like he was brought up in Skyrim, but he already had name Hjalti. That could posibly mean that he had Nordic Ancestry, and chose to grow up in the land of his origins. His race might had still be Breton though. Imagin him being born along with his brother Agnorith to a Nord father and Breton mother in Alcaire. In that way, he could still still have Nordic name, while being a Breton, since he would have inherited most of his racial feautures from his mother.

Just like in Oblivion, Speaker for the Dark Brotherhood, Lucien Lachance. The combination of names suggests that he was mixed origins. Although seemingly how his last name was Breton, he would probably looked more like his Imperial mother and his Imperial names sugest that he had such a mother.

You think that would explain much.