Pretty much just what it says. I was reading up on them and noticed that they don't share the ancient ancestral home of humans. So... what are they, if not human?

If they can reproduce with Nords and Imperials, that makes them scientifically human.

Of course they're humans. If they weren't humans, they'd have "mer" at the end of their name. Like bosmer, altmer, orsimer, etc... Just because they're not from Skryim doesn't make them a different species.

As far as i know they are human...

I never noticed the mer...

Redguards came from Yokuda. Nords came from Atmora. God knows where Imperials and Bretons came from. Now, see if only one of them share the same ancestral home

tread lightly Dragonborn... but yes they are classed as a Human race what book did you read?

They are human they are from a different continent than the Nedics.

They all came from Tamriel originally, if Nu-Hatta is to be believe (and he probably is).

but what about khajIIT? are you saying they are human?

never even heard about Nu-Hatta before. Looked it up and he said "all mortal life started on Tamriel". Well, don't know about that... but I guess

People keep telling me that no one of that world is Human.

And when you think about it, they aren`t.

Obviously the Khajiit and the Argonians are not Man or Mer, they are the Beast races.

No, they are not Mer either. They are a beast race. Like the Argonians or Hist or Sload.

It makes cosmic sense when you think about it.

Basically like this, if I've got my stuff straight: Nirn is created, Ehlnofey and Hist populate the land. Tamriel is like some mythical mega-continent. Ehlnofey break into Aldmer and Men. Dawn Era ends with Tamriel split across the oceans (and the Hist are said to have mostly sunk under the waters in this time of awful fighting, only remaining in the swamps of Black Marsh). Left-handed Elves and proto-Redguards end up on Yokuda. Some Men leave for Atmora, others stay in Cyrodiil (the Nedes, et al). The Aldmer, spreading out from the Summerset Isles, become Ayleids, Bosmer, Orsimer and Velothi (Chimer, later Dunmer), and those remaining in Summerset become Altmer. The Dwemer split at some unknown point in the far past.
Atmoran Men return to Tamriel, some split off and mix with Altmer in High Rock becoming the Bretons, others become the Nords.
Yokuda is destroyed, Redguards return to Tamriel.
Bosmer and Khajiit come from the same aldmeri forest-people, with Khajiit taking their distinctive form because of a blessing by Azura or somesuch. (not entirely sure on either point)

I think that's everybody.

edit: Oh, the Argonians. Produced by the Hist, the only sentient race of Tamriel that isn't descended from the Ehlnofey.
Pretty sure giants trace back to the Ehlnofey as well, actually.

I think Khajiit are undeniably a species of Elf or "mer". In Daggerfall (I think) my Khajiit was an elf with a tail. The only playable race that really defies the man or mer categories are the Argonians. They seem to be a reptile/mammal that has developed some type of symbiotic relationship with a plant.

imperials come from the nords They are basicly Nords that have lived in cyrodiil for along time and developed different traits. So they came fron Atmora aswell.

Bretons i dont know. They are half elf, (manmer) but where they came from i dont know.

Don't know about all that, and I thought I've read my share of the Lore. Good to know, especially about the French Bretons

Hmm... guess I must have misread, then. I was reading http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Redguard]this[/url] and thought that it meant that all of the races came from Atmora... except for the Redguards. That doesn't appear to be the case.

As far as reproducing with Nords and Imperials, I don't know that I've ever seen a mixed anyone in an Elder Scrolls game.

Am I a human? :s

Make a wood elf and you can get them to look an awful lot like a dark elf or a high elf. You can make cross breeds

That`s probably because Bethesda hadn`t thought that far.

But if you go to Margoth, there`s a smithing couple who are Reguard (and I don`t know what she is, but she`s white) and they have a daughter that could be mixed race.

But it`s amazing how deep people can go with this stuff.

Sometimes I like to think of other peoples of other fantasy worlds who look Human as not human because perhaps they don`t make race such an issue as we do here. Which is just one part of our problems in this world.

The Hist is a beast race?

One of three things is happening:

-You are incorrect

-I misunderstand the Hist

-"Hist" can refer to more than one thing

Which is it?

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Hist

In TES the offspring is the same race as the mother. So, if an Argonian male and a bosmer female have a baby, you get a bosmer baby. So, there could be plenty of cross-species babies. They just don't have any different characteristics than a full blooded child.

Thanks for that post, much more elucidative than the book that explains that (Nirn something). It's amazing how much backstory there is to this game...