Something interesting about the Heresay s that it doesn't specify race, which means that if it is true he could still have been a Nord, though Breton is also a possibility.

I still get images of Hjalti Early-Beard in my head sometimes. A 7-year old sitting around in Alcaire with a full on Gimli-beard putting on shadow puppet shows for the other kids.

The ghost of Old Hroldan was there, and they were really quite good (the puppet shows, that is).

This will all be cleared up when we visit Alcaire in Q4.

Everyone's wrong. TS was a dragon.

More like,

A Dragon was TS.

He wore people clothes and everything.

...on his horns!!!

Tiber Septim's outfits consumed the entire silk output of the moths for years.

He is every race that thinks of him as one of them. His apotheosis at Rimmen makes this possible; moving upwards in subgradient leads to a dragon break. So Talos IS Ysmir IS TIber IS Hijalti IS anything else any culture claims. So i'd think he's Breton, Nordic, Imperial, and Altmoran

and Khajiit and Orc.

Also, Sload, Kothri, and in one account, a Snow Whale.

Hagraven.

A couple of things jump out at me.

First off, his first battle is against the Forsworn/Reachmen of Falkreath which at the time was in Colovia. He at least claims to have met Ysmir in a storm, though it could be some sort of inspiration for a new technique -- such things happen. But this points to a connection with Colovia, which is actually a breakaway republic of Cyrodiil, so Geographically, it's Cyrodiil, not High Rock or Skyrim. But bear in mind, Tiber at this point is allied with Colovians of either Cyrod or Nordish stock, thus I think it's likely that he's more aligned with Nord/Cryod culture rather than Bretons. It seems unlikely given the deep divisions of that era that one could ally against kinsmen and in favor of enemies of kinsmen in a war.

The fact that Ysmir is the god mentioned as teaching him "voice" in a storm, while I think it's propaganda, it's a very telling propaganda, considering that he's ruling from Cyrodiil, rather than Skyrim. Again even when political expediency would dictate that Tiber choose to speak in terms of the Eight, he chooses a specifically Nordic god as his patron, rather than Akatosh or one of the other 7. Later he does ally with the Cyrods agaisnt the Nords and Bretons, but only under the orders of his liege lord, not because of cultural identity.

My best guess is a Colovian of Nordish decent.

Tiber Septim was the largest, most sap-filled Hist to ever exist.

Tiber Septim was the Sload who spell-murdered and thralled the whole of Tamriel?

No. He was a dreugh.

Nah man, he was a cloud! Filled to the brim with clowns!

He belonged to whatever race the most current game is set in. When TES6 comes out set in Summerset, Bethesda will say he was a High Elf. When TES7 comes out set on Kronos, they will say he was actually a Klingon, etc...

He was numerous personalities and a deity. NUMIDEITY.


Bah! High elves would say this, not Bethesda. And high elves would not say this, they hate him.

Instead, it will be the subject of a breton tavern tune.

A forbidden one.

I just hope they hire actually singers if they're going to have bards, next time around.

Ah. We have exactly the same problem with our localized version. I hate that girl from tavern in Solitude.

If you don't mind the song being in english, the modding community has circulated a couple of mods with redone versions of the various songs.

They do in this game. But Bethesda that will not stop Bethesda from retconning it all for the next game and pretending it never happened. Like how Cyrodiil is a jungle...

MAH BREFF IS LOOOONG WINTAH...