Ok so Tiber Septim ortherwise known as Talos, which means Storm-Crown, was a Nord right? So how then was his brother Agnorith Septim an Imperial?
What is your basis for asserting Agnorith was an Imperial? The only time he's mentioned is in the book
Brief History of the Empire, Part I and it makes no reference to his race.
The Arcturian Heresy directly conflicts with many other lore sources on a number of subjects and the background of Tiber Septim recognized by the Empire is that contained in the
Pocket Guide to the Empire, and is the basis for the Orthodoxy section of the Lore article PrisonerLizzie cited. Basically it's up to you to decide which version is true but the majority belief of the people of Tamriel is in the orthodoxy.
Mattheau
Posted 11/29/2011 2:42:12 AM
The Imperials originally were Nords, but their bloodline was separated for so long from the Nords that they no longer have the same characteristics. All Imperials, if you go back far enough, are Nords, but they no longer have the Nordic characteristics as part of their bloodlines.
This is simply incorrect. The Imperials are not descended from Nords. Like the Nords and Bretons they're descended from the Nedes, the original proto-humans of Tamriel. While
Before the Ages of Man equates the term Nedic People to Nords it's subsequently been directly refuted in the Elder Scrolls Universe timeline by
Frontier, Conquest, Accommodation, a Social History of Cyrodiil and the Pocket Guide to the Empire, 3rd Edition recognizes the authority of the latter over the former.
Even if one were to incorrectly believe that Nedes is simply another word for Nords, Mattheau's explanation makes absolutely no sense because the schism that separated the Imperial race from the Nordic race would have occurred
thousands of years before Tiber Septim and Agnorith Septim were born
.
One possible explanation if Agnorith in fact was an Imperial is that their parents were of different races. Part of the lore of the Elder Scrolls Universe is that the mating of the current different races doesn't result in hybrids but rather the race of either parent so one parent could have been Nord and the other Imperial. However, unless and until the OP cites an actual lore source for the notion that Agnorith was an Imperial I'll assume that he was a Nord.