The Dragonborn (born 4E 179), also known as the Dovahkiin, was a Dragonborn Nord hero. Among his many accomplishments, he brought an end to the Skyrim Civil War and the even more threatening Dragon Crisis of the Fourth Era, restoring peace throughout Skyrim.

Born to Nord parents who's names have surely also been lost to history, the Dragonborn was raised much like any other Nordic child in Skyrim during the unstable period following the end of the Great War. Shortly after his birth, in an attempt to escape from the rising tensions between the Nords of Skyrim, his family relocated to the city of Blacklight in the neighboring nation of Morrowind. Having spent only his first three years in Skyrim, he would continue to grow with no recollection of his old home in the rural settlement in which he was born. To say that he was raised would be an overstatement. At the age of twelve, his mother died in a short, yet deadly outbreak of the Northern Plague. His father, a dirt-poor blacksmith, was always occupied with work. After the death of his wife, however, the father's profit became barely enough to sustain both him and the boy.

The Dragonborn, still a child, left home to find work in the hopes that he could support himself and his father. The townsfolk, being a generally unfriendly people, however, payed the boy no heed and refused to find him any work. After months of trying, and still, an empty stomach, he gave up. In such a filthy city, despite his values, he was not opposed to making a dishonest living. He was swiftly inducted into gang of human teens with similar misfortunes, and banded together, they entered a life of petty thievery. After trying himself at stealth and larceny, however, he decided to put his skills to better use. By the age of fourteen, the Dragonborn was a recognized child-hunter, who hunted for both sport and independently, in order to obtain food. He was putting out more than enough food for both him and his father, and he regularly distributed the surplus amongst the friends he made during his time as a child thief. In doing so, he inspired many of his old friends to follow his lead.