User blog comment:Zippertrain85/The reasons why Serana is not from the First Era./@comment-26474238-20130514055034/@comment-3217145-20130515014515

You know, "Volkihar" doesn't sound French to me. It sounds Russian. I don't know of any Russia-based culture in Tamriel. So where did their name come from?

And I wonder if you can point me to any buildings you know to be of Breton design. The specific Gothic style of the castle, as I've asserted, is aesthetic and needs to basis in any culture. Are other Breton buildings Gothic?

And the Soul Cairn argument is relevant, because you're saying a style of building can't come into existence until mortals think it up. Buildings have existed since before mortals, and they don't follow any real-world model of development over time. New styles just pop up out of nowhere whenever a new group of people appears, and none if it is based on any previous culture. The style of Castle Volkihar is therefore not an argument, because there are perfectly reasonable ways for it to appear long before the Bretons became a race.