#skyrim dawnguard

[caverncrooner]

This is my Serana From Skyrim Fan Club application. *Big watery puppy eyes gaze at you from afar. They are my eyes. Sopping.*

The fact that Necromancy is green in the Elder Scrolls is the coolest. I hope I did her justice. I'm including shots of the lineart too because those details were really fun, and her armor isn't 100% faithful here, but just don't look too hard and we'll get along fine still. Actually, if you look REALLY hard, you might notice I only used one brush for every layer. This is always true. Until next time.

[tragerfcks]

THE ELDER SCROLLS V: SKYRIM 💭

Fort Dawnguard

[vampiresmashorpass]

[killjo-q]

Exploring the Soul Cairn Commission done for @/1898_isc_1899

[dragonjadearts]

i'm so behind on revenges, I'm trying to get them done lol

mistyegg || Torrentpath || PurpleZekromLotus

@nottogetpoliticalbutwtfisoatmeal || Icewing_Official || 0spreyz

[fallen-faerie]

༺Skyrim: Finding Serana༻

🎮console: my nintendo switch

[darkvioletcloud]

Serana of Clan Volkihar for Pride Month! She made me realize I was bisexual when I was a kid. 💗💜💙

[miitopiaoutofcontext]

[thatone-churro]

harkon kicks me out of his castle for not becoming a vampire and then walks outside later to see that i’ve just been fishing at his dock for the past hour

[stymshots]

Incoming!

[stonecoldaries]

saw a kitty cat video with this sound and immediately thought of both serana and redwater den

[caverncrooner]

My favorite Dawnguard moment is probably Knight-Paladin Expositiondevice standing in his special cave spilling his dearest secrets to a blase vampire noble and a man who has already experienced several world-tearing tragedies before this, and just came to hang out really. This is so stupid but I'm not sorry

[actual-skyrim-quotes]

Sequel poll. Don't vote if you've only played one of these.

[konahrics]

I once made a post about the DG dlc and how it didn't live up to its potential, but every time i read it i feel like it's just a wall of disjointed text lmao so here's a better version for those interested:

- Harkon should have been more insane. His personality is fine, he should just be more obviously bonkers while being a haughty power-hungry mf, and it would come into play later for the radiant quests

- I wish the Volkihar members were more interesting. I haven't really counted how many npcs have backstories/unique lines in the Dawnguard vs the Volkihar so i won't talk numbers, but the Dawnguard npcs are just more memorable overall imo.

- Serana should lead the Volkihar at the end if you side with the vamps, not the pc. I know every questline in Skyrim ends up making the pc the leader of their faction, with the Dawnguard being an exception, but Serana just fits the bill better: she's a pure-blood while the pc is a half-blood, she's much more experienced in vampire politics and she's Harkon's daughter.

- For players who actually want to lead, it could be an option once you've done a lot of radiant quests, like how you restore the Ratway to its former glory in the Thieves' Guild questline, except instead Serana goes "hey yknow what? I don't even want to lead and you've been doing a lot. Here's your new crown."

- THE RADIANT QUESTS. Omg the potential. For the Volkihar: that's the part where Harkon having become obsessed with the prophecy would play a role. He's been neglecting his territory, other clans are encroaching and he either didn't even notice or didn't care. Now it's your problem. Also, you need to cull vamp numbers in the province so people don't make Dawnguard 2: electric boogaloo, both because of vampires invading from other provinces to take you territory and because of newly-formed covens, and you need to recruit more actual Volkihar by turning people (i like the quests that are already there for turning npcs tbh). For the Dawnguard: oh shit turns out the Volkihar were keeping other clans at bay and culling their own numbers, and now that they're gone, it's your job ig. The in-game quests are already pretty good, but introducing foreign clans would add to the world, essentially.

- Why does it feel so much like a good vs evil plotline? The Dawnguard admittedly has some nuance to it (they're good people who want to protect others from the vampire menace, but their leader has a torture chamber next to his bedroom...), but the Volkihar literally live in a castle whose floors are splattered with blood and have human cattle in the basement. I wish at least once Harkon is defeated, if you were on the vamps' side, you could choose how to run the faction. Maybe the "cattle" could be volunteers only and not kept in cages, or something, my point being that it should be left up to the player. Ngl, every time i side with the Volkihar, i feel bad about it.

- While the Dawnguard are making moves and recruiting in preparation for their fight against the Volkihar, the vamps are kinda just sitting there. There could be an internal struggle between those who are loyal to Harkon and those who believe he isn't fit to rule anymore (instead of the Vingalmo vs Orthjolf feud being about which of them can lick boots better, they could each represent the pro- and anti-Harkon sides), the result being that they're still not really reacting to the Dawnguard threat, but now there's a reason; they're too busy plotting against each other. And once Harkon's dead, the surviving vampires can work together and be less likely to stab each other in the back, which in turn sounds less exhausting for whoever ends up leading them.

Tbh the whole reason behind this rant (i guess "these rants" now...) is that some custom followers don't trust or react badly to a vampire pc, and with the game as it is, it makes total sense, so i wish Skyrim vampires weren't mustache-twirling villains. Also maybe i'm planning a fanfic with this Volkihar headcanon and wanted something to reference so people wouldn't think i'm misremembering the hell out of this game lol

[fallen-faerie]

༺some photos i took of serana in the soul cairn༻

🎮console: my nintendo switch

[rosette-dragonborn]