User blog comment:Zippertrain85/The reasons why Serana is not from the First Era./@comment-3217145-20130507120605/@comment-9062114-20130507160613

First: I'm basing it off the fact that the whole city has an Imperial like design. It looks like a Cyordiilic city, you even acknowleged that you can't drastically alter a city unless it was destroyed. But since we never heard anything about Solitude being destroyed, it's unlikely.

Second: How would a group like this not be recognized? A group that finds these amazingly valuable Artifacts that could rival the Gods. This sounds like something that could be noticed. If this group did exist their would probably be more records on them. That's the theme hear, the let of records and evidence are lacking in your arguments (not trying to be rude, just saying).

Third: Vingalmo says "Serana! Is that really you?" when he sees her, I don't think you would say that to some person you don't even know. Actually he probably wouldn't even recognize her if he hadn't seen her before. You could give the argument Harkon explained what she looked like, but could he explain with so much detail that they would know it's her the second they see her? I don't think so.

Second: Garan Marethi says "I am above the petty squables here, I have lived for far to long to be bothered by them". Implying he's been alive for so long that politics in the castle doesn't bother him anymore. That should show he's more then 400. Why would he claim he's 400 in the first place if he was a couple hundred years older before he got turned. If you were a human for thirty years and a Vampire for two would you say you're two years old?

Fourth: So people never evolved their knowledge, they knew as much about building and sewing as we do today (4,000 years later). I find that hard to believe, bakc then most races did not have great relations (remember the Aleyids would enslave the Nedes) it's not that easy to get a group of different races together, your theory about Molag Bal sounds the most likely (I assume that's who you mean because he was the Daedra that created Vampires). But it didn't have to happen in the First Era.

Fifth: They are based on evidence, on common sense. It doesn't take a genius to realize that someone from the First Era shouldn't know what these things are. If she truly was, she wouldn't. Your first point was probably right, that probably different writers tried to do parts of the story and it got messed up.

P.S. If you respond to this, the  "reply" button disappears on my monator for some reason, so I'll just have to type a random comment refuting your points. So if you want to have a debate just check in here every now and then.