User blog comment:Zippertrain85/The reasons why Serana is not from the First Era./@comment-9156240-20130508234036/@comment-5709731-20130509072438

Ever heard of paintings, hmm?

If he had a painting of Serana he could easily have shown them that. Or, he could've used magic to interpret the image in his followers heads (It is called illusion, friends, and vampires excell at illusion). As for the architecture. How about dark magic combined with ancient knolwedge handed down by Molag Bal? And don't come tell me something like that is too advanced for nords.

The nords made gateways that opened if you sliced a magickal sword in a certain way (Bloodskal Barrow). The nords made incredible feats of engineering (Just look at every single trap in a draugr dungeon and think of how old that is). The nords were capable of making soul gems fire spells at intruders. The nords made the dragon-claw doors. Well, all of that was likely handed down to them by the dragons, but Serana's thingy certainly ISN'T too advanced to be nordic. Open the gate in Bloodskal barrow and you'll see how ancient engineering and magic easily can do such things. Besides, as I said, Molag maybe gave them a hint on how to build it, hmm?