Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-68.45.229.57-20130720115140/@comment-11444045-20131225234535

Brodawg wrote: StealthBlade98 wrote: You being a DBH assassin in the DLC isn't really canon. You could have been a good guy with no affiliation to the DBH, Thieves Guild when you did dawnguard. The issue is Harkon's ideals is quite radical with a prophecy that isn't even accurate since he knew nothing about it other than some information here and there, plus on both storylines though different leads you to stop harkon by changing the prophecy that benefits the dragonborn and Serana. It was also predestined to some extent for the bow to be found. Gelebor and Vyrthur hints at this when you meet them.

I'm not expecting my personal decisions to be canon I'm just pointing out that if you fill a game with every possibility for a character to be behave in a certain way then you can't really pigeonhole them to a contradictory role in dlc. If the bow was destined to be found killing Serana is still the smartest possible move. 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. Killing her 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 rewriting history. 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).