Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-71.61.178.23-20130722105712/@comment-10056803-20130919014647

UselessArgonianMage wrote: To be honest. Should the Dawnguard be a joinable faction? No. Should there be a Vampire Hunter faction? Yes. Should the Volkahir be a faction? No. Should there be a Vampire faction? Yes, more than one if possible. How about we go with the Vigil of Stendarr? Even if they lost their Skyrim HQ, they'd still have whatever other heardquarters in the entirety of Tamriel (likely the Cyrodiil branch, as that's the heart of the Empire where Mehrunes Dagon himself showed up to be slapped by Akatosh in the Oblivion Crisis), and maybe even regional ones to deal with vampires and daedra and witches and stuff. I think the Vigil of Stendarr would be a great vampire hunting faction.

But first, we'd have to plead our case to the local leader and explain that Jygallag isn't trying to kill everyone with his daedric prince powers and arguably is much safer to side with, considering the current state of things. I mean, you're the Blessed of Jygallag, not the Blessed of Mehrunes Dagon or anything. And the Vigil are fairly relaxed about daedra who aren't actively doing anything they find problematic (They don't kill Areana Ienith, priestess of Azura, on sight, and it's possible to wear a full set of daedric armor sans helmet wielding Dawnbreaker and Spellbreaker and not get killed but only asked to hand over the artifacts because the full body-obscuring set is mistakable for an armed and dangerous dremora, and they don't seem to be carrying banish-daedra weapons much, etc.), so assumably Stendarr's Mercy extends even to the nonharmful daedra if the local leader can be persuaded.

It would likely require you to do some questing (likely a quest to slay several abominations such as vampires, daedra, and the odd werewolf, priest of daedra, etc.), but eventually they'd relax their stance and aid you to some extent by allowing you to store daedric artifacts and reclaim them freely.

For main quest involvement, you could have them send up mass prayer to Stendarr to have him grant his blessing as part of some larger quest to get the authorization of the aedra so that Jygallag can resort to 'drastic measures' and basically make it somewhat easier to do things because the aedra are on your side. Joining the Vigil of Stendarr already means they agree quickly. If you haven't joined, you basically plead your case but for the Message To Stendarr or something instead, which later allows you to join the Vigil of Stendarr much faster.