Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-68.45.229.57-20130720115140/@comment-11444045-20131226162312

Everyone in the castle get's killed if you sided with Dawnguard(except Valerica), if you side with Castle Volkihaar you become the new leader of the castle and the bow is used how you see fit. None of the other people in the castle can touch you because you're so powerful defeating harkon. Some people wanted to Usurp harkon but had not the power to do so yet you managed to do so. So regardless having the bow pretty much means you're the badass who cannot be touched on either side although dawnguard would prefer to keep the bow for themselves in hiding which I find BS really.

There's only 2 daughters of Coldharbor atm: Valerica and Serana and neither of them want world domination, so the bow is effectlvely useless to them. Valerica task was to tell us the more detailed truth about the prophecy and encouraged+requested us to keep serana safe. With Harkon and vyrthur killed(and outside the Castle Volkihaar that's alive if you're a vampire) no one else knows the prophecy. In fact you could say the prophecy dies with Harkon and Vyrthur. And as I said previous since you're badass and the other vamps can't touch you it seems irrelevant to worry about "Harkon rolls with a big posse". None of them for the most part liked Harkon and when you kill him Garan Marethi mentions you're the superior vampire and new leader of the castle, plus i'm pretty sure the majority even likes the dragonborn over harkon anyway.

Namless vampires are ferals and have no clue what the prophecy is let alone any desire to complete it. Also this only matters if you're a vampire if you're not, castle volkihaar are all killed of inhabitants(outside of valerica in soul cairn) and dawnguard wins. It's pretty easy, non confusing quest in the dlc. You're making it more confusing than what the game states lol

You don't even need to use the blood cursed arrows at all from serana either. You could just use the bow for your own personal goals. end of the day the prophecy dies with both Vyrthur and Harkon. That's it and that's the point of dawnguard outside of joining the faction and having a different experience in the sidequests n how the mainquests are handled.

With that line of logic why trust the dragonborn? He too has an elder scroll(Dragon) and could easily be doing this for his own personal gain as well. Serana makes it clear the first time you meet her she doesn't trust you and wants to be taken to the castle, you go there and have a choice: become a brother with the vampires or an enemy. Eventually serana thinks things over and comes to you at dawnguard to ask for your help stopping her father. I think the DLC is making a point that after so many years of dealing with the BS that comes with her fathers obsession with this prophecy, and her mothers obsession of opposing her father and sealing serana away with no life, no friends and nothing she comes to the only person she has met that actually gave a damn to her(dragonborn) who helped her out. So in the DLC Serana is the one taking life by the horns and dealing with her father. While she lacks the strength to stop him on her own the dragonborn doesn't and she recognizes that. The Bow, the two other elder scrolls were destined by the gods to be found. The elder scrolls has power that no one comprehends they have a consciousness of their own and if they don't want to be found they won't be. The game hints that they only appear when there's a need for them to and the person who gets the scrolls will obtain them. Dragonborn soul of a dragon(Chosen from Akatosh) body of a mortal is destined for alot of stuff. Which includes stopping alduin, stopping harkon and stopping Miraak before they destroy the world of nirn.

As I said, you're turning the simple story of dawnguard more into covolution than it needs to be.