User blog comment:Zippertrain85/The reasons why Serana is not from the First Era./@comment-3217145-20130510005609/@comment-9062114-20130510162502

I'll admit my theory about Serana and the Empire was kind of weak. But let me ask you this, why do you think one quote carries more weight then all the evidence I gave? That quote isn't even part of the plot, you could go through the whole Dawnguard DLC and never hear about it. Why do you think that it has so much truth to it, but my evidence doesn't? It doesn't make sense. I still think it's possible that Harkon could've tried to keep her blind to current events to keep power over her. She even said how she was so lonely and never left the castle in the Dawnguard questline. Their could be Garan, but maybe she was locked up after Garan showed up. He could've been one hundred and it could've been the end of the Third Era. Harkon does have a Mythic Dawn poster in his room, so they were out and about at that time.

So do you just blindly follow everything you hear in the game? Don't question it at all? Because not everything in the game is necessarly correct lore wise. Harkon could've been lying to up an image to you. He probably didn't want to say "I was a farmer and started worshipping Molag Bal one day, then he turned me into a Vampire and I lived in this castle since" because that isn't intimidating. He wants to be like that to keep power. It's not that unlikely based off of his power hungry actions throughout the DLC.