Just realized something in the Skyrim theme song.

[Pulserix]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pj7f6L4N1q8 Here's the link to the song and lyrics.

It says that the Dragonborn was both kin to wyrm and the races of men. So, does this mean that the beast races and mer (elves) couldn't be the Dragonborn? O.O Mind Blown

I know in the game you can be Dragonborn with any race and anybody can learn the thu'um as Ulfric showed in game, but lore wise and realistically the song shows that only races of men could be Dragonborn which means only Redguards, Nords, Bretons, and Imperials could be Dovahkiin.

[Torack]

I guess, if anything, the dragonborn is a hereditary thing, so it makes sense that a human would get it. I mean, the first dragonborn was a man, then you got Talos who was also dragonborn, both of them northmen (I think). So it'd make sense that Talos's offsprings just passed it on down and the dragon soul just happened to land in someone years later. Highly unlikely that that would be an elf, uno.

This is just a theory that sprang up on me like right now, so I don't know.

[Dinh AaronMk]

Regardless, Bethesda likes to say, "to hell with consistency!" in order to give as much possible freedom to the player as possible. At least in some respects Oblivion left the matter more open than Skyrim since there was no racial factor to being the Hero of Kvatch.

Last I checked that is.

[Dion]

There wasn't, but then Skyrim canonized that the Hero of Kvatch was a normal human anyway (since you meet Sheogorath, and the Hero of Kvatch is Sheogorath, etc etc.)