User blog comment:Zippertrain85/Harkon's backstory?/@comment-7749170-20130506234845

He could mean something different all together maybe because he was a vampire lord he thought that he was superior and no one could challange him he could think he could take land with ease. The wealth part could mean him and his followers they could search the land for as long as they wanted without any trouble at all so they could of made and found mines, ore deposits, gems, and  very rare artifacts probly from daedric and normal gods. The people could be other vampires from all over tamriel coming to skyrim not knowing that they would be sacrificed.Then with the nords coming over from atmora settleing all over skyrim making there own culture and way of life the vampires might of found this interesting, finding a new food source an easier one but because the more vampires eat the less powerful they become and soon after could not do anything they did before and settled on an island that soon became castle volkihar.(thats just what I think.)