Hulgard was waiting. He was waiting sitting on his chair outside his room as he heard the agonizing sounds of his wife giving birth to their first child. They had been waiting for this moment for a very long time, and after the child was born, they had to go to the Throat of the World to talk to the old Dragon Paarthurnax and wait for him to speak to their ancestor Thorin to choose a name for the new member of the family.

As Hulgard waited, he thought of his ancestor Thorin, he heard that he was the Dovahkiin, a great warrior with the blood and soul of a dragon, but he heard from stories of old that he was as any Nord could ever be, funny, arrogant and strong. But the difference between any Nord warrior he had ever heard of and him was that he was the most intelligent person Skyrim had ever seen, and also the kindest.

The Dragon Blood was in all of the family, Hulgard's father, mother, brother, uncle, aunt, cousin, grandparents, they all had the Dragon Blood, but none of them had what Thorin had when he was alive, the Voice, or the Thu'um, it was a very powerful weapon given by Kynareth and Akatosh themselves to mankind. The last person of the family to have the Dragon Blood as well as the Thu'um was Thorin's grandchild, Fjolnir the Deadly, but Hulgard was the generation number three hundred and twenty-one, so he knew that he would be forever unable to Shout without years if not decades of training. He also knew that his son and his grandson and so on would also be unable to do so without so much time training and meditating. But he was not worried about that.

After about twenty minutes of waiting, he finally heard the crying sounds of a baby, and then heard a female voice.

"It's a boy! It's a boy, Hulgard! Praise Akatosh!" Said Higrid, Hulgard's mother.

"Let me see my son, mother" Said Hulgard excited.

Higrid handed the boy to his father, who said:

"This is a beautiful child, mother, I'm sure he'll be a great son!" Exclaims Hulgard.

"I'm sure, with parents like you and Rostie he'll have a great future ahead of him"

Suddenly, another female voice was heard. Weary and exhausted, but a tone of bliss was heard in her voice.

"Please, Hulgard! Let me see our son!" It was Rostie, the child's mother.

"Here you go my dear, isn't he beautiful?" Asked Hulgard crying of happiness.

"He is… I'm sure the Nine have a great future planned for you sweetheart… You will be big…" Says Rostie crying as well.

The child was taken to the Throat of the World, where Paarthurnax spoke to Thorin, who decided to name the child Hraki.

"Hraki… Very well, Hraki, my son…" Says Hulgard while holding the baby in his arms.

Indeed, Hraki had a great future, but he also had a destiny that would change Skyrim forever.

In another part of the world, another baby was being born, a Khajiit named Kassi was giving birth to her first son, D'khan.