Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-68.45.229.57-20130720115140/@comment-24327466-20131226150328

StealthBlade98 wrote: For what possible reason? Serana is literally been abused, violated, tormented and further more used in a plot by harkons obsession for blocking out the sun, which was VYRTHUR's prophecy in the first place. Serana is the victim in this entire DLC and you're supposed to save her from a fate her father wanted to push onto her for his own selfish greed for more power. So much so it blinded him of the plot holes in the prophecy itself, Valerica tells us this at Soul Cairn, and further more it ruined the family as a whole. Harkon Obsession pushed the family into separation, Serana's mother was also obsession with keeping the scrolls AWAY from Harkon and by doing so hid serana for what appears to be a era or two or hundreds of years. This also caused issues with her and the mother for centuries so both were extreme in their own opposing view points. Nothing would have been done unless serana had help and the dragonborn is the help that was necessary. Killing Harkon and Taking out Vyrthur pretty much kills two birds in one go; One the creator of the prophecy going some false assumption his god abandoned him and left him to be infected and Harkon a crazy power obsessed Vampire Lord wanting more power and using the prophecy to block out the sun. You take out the source and that's it. The bow is yours and stops harkon and removes a crazy snowelf vamp more effective than killing a good hearted Gelebor, dumping the bow into a ocean which an argonian can easily get or k illing serana that makes no sense. As I said the bow was destined to be found, much like the scrolls to be given to the dragon born. The scrolls are only obtained when there's a need for them and in this case they allowed themselves to be found to guide the player to the location of the bow for the sole purpose of changing the end result that benefits everyone.

There really isn't any plot holes in Dawnguard it's a very good dlc story wise if there's any plot holes in skyrim it's the main quest in skyrim(before Dawnguard and Dragonborn).

Because Auriel's bow instead of being guarded in an ancient Falmer Castle by a crazy vampire and some ancient initiation ritual is instead guarded the Dragonborn's unlocked door to his largely unprotected home. Harkon rolled with a pretty big posse if the sheer number of nameless vampire carrying out his will. At least some of them have knowledge of the prophecy and were not killed in the Dawnguard offensive and of those some must know the Dragonborn has Auriel's Bow. Instead of the Daughters of Coldharbor being sealed in the Soul Cairn and an ancient ruin they are now hanging out in Fort Dawnguard and alone in a castle. Finding either of them is significantly easier than finding a bow on the ocean floor. Even if the prophecy is completely and totally false you don't want an army of vampires with the weapon of a god and the power to block out the sun at will. Sure maybe there are more daughters of coldharbor but hunting down and killing ancient vampires created by a daedric prince sounds like a better story line than "help a vampire her family problems."

Destiny is a cover for terrible writing. Serana is a vampire with an elder scroll there is no reason to trust her and in the vast majority of the questline when you don't know anything about Vyrthur you're entire line of reasoning implies the Dragonborn is acting on information he doesn't have. Helping Serana might make sense if your just a big sweetheart who doesn't think very tactically but every part of the game has given you the opportunity to be something other than that.