This continent is not short of half-breeds; they're an exceptional group.
There are many types of half-breeds. When different races within the human species combine, it's considered half-blood in a broad sense, and Bartlett is one of them.
His father is a pure Norde Barbarian, a retired royal Nordic Guard, the strongest guard of the Emperor of Norde; his mother, on the other hand, is from the Desert Kingdom of Takara, rumored to have come from a rather affluent merchant family.
That woman left when Bartlett was still young, so our barbaric adventurer doesn't know much about his mother—only that due to some trouble in her relationship with his father, she returned to her homeland alone.
