Their elven blood is heavily diluted, due to their ancestors intermingling with the Nordic population in Skyrim and High Rock. The great diversity in their appearance is to be expected from their politically fractured society, though their clothes, accents, customs and names are fairly uniform.īretons are the descendants of either an Aldmeri-Nedic or Aldmeri-Atmoran hybrid race of the 1st Era and are consequently termed as 'the mongrel race of Tamriel'. Their Elvish ancestry is usually only detectable upon a closer inspection of their eyebrows, ears, or high cheekbones, though many individual Bretons appear to be more Nordic or Imperial than anything else.

They are usually slight of build and not as muscular as Nords or Redguards. Bretons appear, by and large, much like other pale-skinned humans. They are known for a proficiency in abstract thinking and unique customs. Many are capable mages with innate resistance to magicka. Bretons make up the peasantry, soldiery, and magical elite of the feudal kingdoms that compete for power.

They are united in culture and language, even though they are divided politically, for High Rock is a fractious region. Bretons are the human descendants of the Aldmeri-Nedic Manmer of the Merethic Era and are now the inhabitants of the province of High Rock.

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