Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-2165692-20140531154239/@comment-24804528-20141008191541

I can remember once reading that Bretons came about first as proto-Bretons After the Druids, Nede and Altmer assimilated eachother in invasion and migration. Around this time they would have looked something like the Chimer and were refered as 'Manmer' but that changed when the Nordic empire reached High Rock. The Nords built the most well known cities in High Rock around that time, such as Daggerfall. The proto-Bretons assimilated the Nords through acculturism and migration, but no invasion,and the Nordic empire retreated, with the Nordic cities claimed. This is when the Bretons will have got their full on human appearance, pale skin and fairer colours of hair and eyes. At some point, two groups of Bretons diverged, one that believed that they should believe in the old pagan gods, and one that believed it should stick with Imperial beleifs. The latter stayed in mainland High Rock and pushed the pagans(later known as Forsworn) into the reaches of Skyrim and High Rock. The Forsworn eventually started breeding with the Orsimer and the Nords(even more). As for the Nords, they're mostly Atmoran with little bit of Nede. And the Imperials are a little bit of everything, but mostly Nedic.