» Fri Jun 08, 2012 6:41 am
Forsworn comes from an Old English word forswerian "swear falsely" from for = "completely" plus swerian = "to swear", in other words "abandon or renounce on oath". So it is a political movement, not a race, technically.
The race that's implicated is "natives of the Reach", who are more or less Bretons who happen to be living in Skyrim province. This race, or sub-race I guess from a game point of view since you can't choose it at character generation, must have had children to survive in this region for hundreds of years.
However, if they only had one child in game, that child could rule the whole province due to being unkillable. Actually my Orc character uses the head of the Forsworn rebellion as his personal undead thrall, so go figure.