User blog comment:Zippertrain85/The reasons why Serana is not from the First Era./@comment-3217145-20130510005609/@comment-3217145-20130510034708

Well, there you go. If you're willing to call your claim a valid hypothesis and not a fact, I see no problem with that argument. If Serana knew about the previous Empire but thought it was destroyed, it would make sense for her to go "huh? What Empire?" when told that another one existed. She never said she saw the dwarves, and she only confirms that she was in Winterhold before it was wrecked, and that was after Oblivion. Saying she wouldn't have heard about it because she's insulated I think is fallacious; I'm POSITIVE Harkon knows what's going in because his agents are everywhere, and they wouldn't know about anything else either (like the Ancestor Moths, or the Elder Scroll, or Dimhollow) if they had holed up in their castle and never left. I'll leave it to someone else if they want to argue how much sense it makes for Serana to speak that way, or what Harkon was king of, but now you have (as far as I know) a valid alternative theory and I can't complain.