User blog comment:Zippertrain85/The reasons why Serana is not from the First Era./@comment-9156240-20130508234036/@comment-9156240-20130510013603

Really quick, just to clear this up:


 * Valerica entered the Soul Cairn from Castle Volikar. It is said that she entered the Soul Cairn in the First Era, so one would assume that that is the only castle Harkon has or at least the only one at the time.


 * Harkon actually WAS Nordic king. I forget if it was Harkon or Serana who told the story, but it is actually said ingame. He was a king who was very rich and powerful, but he wanted to be immortal.


 * HE MOST LIKELY KNOW HOW TO PAINT.

"So Harkon is just a master painter all the sudden? It would take him a long time to get good enough. And he has a while clan to run so he would have little time to practice."

Are you kidding me?

He's a VAMPIRE. V-A-M-P-I-R-E. Immortal! He has all the time in the world to paint, and it's not that he necessarily had to know how to paint. In our world, long ago, Royalty and other wealthy people would have artists paint their portaits all the time! How is it so unlikely that Royalty in Skyrim could have portaits painted of them as well? Harkon was a king, after all!

Also, he has had plenty of time to describe how his daughter looks. So even if there aren't any paintings or spells or anything, there are things called adjectives that are used to describe how people and things look. Living for thousands of years gives him plenty of time to master the English language. I'd be surprised if there was anything he didn't know how to do.


 * Really quick, because you didn't seem to read all the words, I said this Wiki and OTHER PAGES. Most people seem to agree that he was from the first era. They aren't exactly 100% accurate, but I have found 5 forum topics discussing this and in every one there are people who say that they became vampires over thousands of years ago and that Serana was imprisoned just before 1E 700.


 * People don't need to get in contact with other races just to see what their architecture looks like. A perfect exaple of that is the Dwemer Ruins! We know what their architecture is but we don't know who the Dwemer are on a personal level. Whether or not is was Akaviri (which I never said it was, I said it was a possibility) you just admitted yourself that Serana was supposed to be locked up before the Akavir came in contact with Tamriel. But besides that, Harkon and his family were beyond wealthy. They could have traveled anywhere they wanted to. Including Akavir. Again, your argument on the architecture is ALL SPECULATION. And once again you've come full circle trying to convince people that it is too advanced. It is not, as explained by Tholanar, who gave evidence that the Nordic people weer very advanced, even long ago.