User blog comment:Zippertrain85/The reasons why Serana is not from the First Era./@comment-4947435-20130514044908/@comment-3217145-20130515013743


 * 1) I don't care what you think. I don't see anything saying what they did or didn't do with the Elder Scrolls. If I'm just an idiot and I missed it, please feel free to patronize me and quote the line. Nothing says they were a cult of moth-worshippers until such-and-such date after the Empire was established, then they picked up the unrelated practice of reading Elder Scrolls as a retirement plan. It describes their traditions, then in a completely unrelated paragraph, says that they read the Elder Scrolls. It doesn't even say when they joined with the Empire, or if they existed prior. The assertion that they weren't around or didn't read or look for the scrolls has no basis. There's no reason to think it conflicts with the First Era theory or that it's a writing error.
 * 2) I don't even care if they were looking for the Elder Scrolls or not. Even if they didn't actively search for them, if they were able to read them, it would make them valuable people, and someone who wanted to read an Elder Scroll would have reason to look for them. Especially if the people doing the searching are vampires (like the ones who have no difficulty spreading all over Skyrim in TESV), who don't need to carry regular food or supplies, and thus the challenges imposed by nomadic travel are irrelevant. Even if I granted that contact was difficult and few people had heard of the Moth Priests, if Harkon sent out squads of vamps to look for a way to read this thing and figure out the prophecy, it's not unreasonable that someone would have heard of them and he would learn that they existed.
 * 3) And please give me a source saying they're "nomads." There are cities and settlements (small things like the Temple of the Elder Moth) throughout the ancient world, so there's no need to assume that they were hunter-gatherers with no homes. We're talking about tiny independent farms and foot- and horse-based travel even in the present day. It seems perfectly easy to get around as a nomad with few resources, because that's what the Dragonborn does, and it's what the Forsworn do, as well as a plethora of Bandits and Hunters and other people all over the continent in every game. I see no indication that it was all that hard to get around, especially if the Moth Priests had the fighting skills they display in Skyrim and Oblivion.

I don't mind a theory based on something suggesting Serana might be from another time. I've repeatedly said that it's possible. I do mind trying to claim that your theory is more valid or likely, or that there are "contradictions" and "writing errors" in the game, based on nothing. I'm still waiting for info that confirms your theory, or disconfirms the alternative, rather than meaningless conjecture and opinions. My opinions are different. Your theory has no power until you find something stronger than that. You can produce all the incidental information you want, but so far nothing has said anything about how likely anything is or isn't.