Board Thread:Other TES Titles/@comment-67.171.74.199-20140717215229/@comment-29458028-20141001144342

Nah, Paarthurnax has the easy excuse of being old and forgetful, plus you'd never ever have to take off your helm before him, so he can say "a dragon under armor, like the star made knight". He can further say the dragonborn was not very trusting of dragons, thus the excuse not to take off the helmet. Same for Odahviing.

Serana would have saw your face, because lorewise, it makes no sense for Harkon to bite you with your helmet still on (sure, u can do the dawnguard path, but surely some people will do the Volkihar path and feel wierd as heck). By extension, she would definitely know how the dragonborn looks, which means it's hard to be ambiguous. Sure, she could do it on purpose, but that begs the question because people would be like "there's no reason for her to hide it, given her admiration and love for the dragonborn (not carnal love, just like how you'd love a good friend)"

I rarely write stuff that I overthink, but yeah, seemed like I just did.

(As I already said, I'd like to have Serana again, but it does not make sense. She is the closest one to the dragonborn, in a way, which makes it difficult for her to deny the appearance of the dragonborn.)

(We could always say the dragonborn died so violently, Serana saw him go and was so sad she didn't want to talk about it, but it defeats the purpose of her even talking of the dragonborn.)