Would an ancient nord dragon priest side with the vamps in dawnguard?

[ALV]

I'm playing a lich/dragon priest(modded) and I'm just wondering if a dragon priest would side with the vamps or with the humies?

[peppermint hollows]

Well Dawnguard are mainly vampire hunters but I don't think they would really take too kindly to any Undead, especially considering achieving lichdom is a very intentional form of becoming Undead.

[Liquid Inc]

Probably neither, given that you'd be aligned to a completely different daedra. The hunters would kill you on sight ofcourse, so that one is 100% no.

[jonnin]

unclear? Who were the dragon priests, 'willing' slaves of humanity under the dragon enslavement era, the ones given perks to keep the other humans in line, like a slave overseer? Or was dragon worship a thing, and they were 'priests' who used the voice/dragon language magic? Are they liches in the traditional D&D sense (suicide to become undead via ritual and soul transfer kinda like voldemort) or 'advanced, highest level of draghr' kinda like the deathlords who have the voice and can still talk a little and such?
Maybe some of this is answered somewhere -- I am no expert, but if you want to RP it you have to dig into the lore or make it up for yourself if missing.

Dawnguard, probably wouldn't like you but may tolerate you since you don't prey on humans (?!). What gets me is that vampires in skyrim don't need to drink at all, so some should be 'nice', from not drinking at all to only drinking from criminals/evil that the dawnguard could stomach.

the blades would want to immediately murder you. This should be game-breaking, for the main story.

Everyone else would either run in fear or attack on sight? You look scary to the average person, and experience with corporeal undead in skyrim is generally experienced as an attack. Ghostly undead tend to be more friendly in general, but the average townie may not know that?

And the big question... wouldn't you want to side with alduine?

[ALV]

Originally posted by jonnin:

unclear? Who were the dragon priests, 'willing' slaves of humanity under the dragon enslavement era, the ones given perks to keep the other humans in line, like a slave overseer? Or was dragon worship a thing, and they were 'priests' who used the voice/dragon language magic? Are they liches in the traditional D&D sense (suicide to become undead via ritual and soul transfer kinda like voldemort) or 'advanced, highest level of draghr' kinda like the deathlords who have the voice and can still talk a little and such?
Maybe some of this is answered somewhere -- I am no expert, but if you want to RP it you have to dig into the lore or make it up for yourself if missing.

Dawnguard, probably wouldn't like you but may tolerate you since you don't prey on humans (?!). What gets me is that vampires in skyrim don't need to drink at all, so some should be 'nice', from not drinking at all to only drinking from criminals/evil that the dawnguard could stomach.

the blades would want to immediately murder you. This should be game-breaking, for the main story.

Everyone else would either run in fear or attack on sight? You look scary to the average person, and experience with corporeal undead in skyrim is generally experienced as an attack. Ghostly undead tend to be more friendly in general, but the average townie may not know that?

And the big question... wouldn't you want to side with alduine?

I would say the the first one is correct, that they were willing slaves with perks like learning the voice and being imbued with power. Dragon priests aren't entirely like dnd liches as far as I know none of them use a phylactery but are still high leveled undead who can control hordes of undead.

Technically I kinda do prey on mortals since my character needs souls to strengthen his phylactery and thus his own power but so far I've only really killed bandits and taken their souls.

I don't really care about the blades as delphine kinda ruined them for me plus with the mod I'm using to achieve lichdom (Undeath is the name of the mod) I can "disguise" myself to appear human to use the blades.

I would side with alduin but unfortunately the game doesn't allow that and I don't know of any mod that would either so I'm just using my own story that my lich ,konahrik, rebelled against alduin to achieve dominion over his homeland and to rule HIS people but was beaten and entombed but has returned to kill alduins once faithful (the other dragon priests) and vanquish alduin himself.

[Valden21]

I'd think the Dragon Priests would be opposed to the vampires, because even though they both view mortals as a resource, the nature of that resource is different for either faction. For Harkon's vampires, mortals are food. For the Dragon Priests, mortals are servants and slaves. That, and their patrons would always be in conflict with each other. Both Molag Bal and Alduin view THEMSELVES as the ones in charge, and neither one wants to share that position.

[jonnin]

That is awesome, good job coming up with a backstory and filling in the gaps. I hope you enjoy the playthrough!

[ALV]

Originally posted by jonnin:

That is awesome, good job coming up with a backstory and filling in the gaps. I hope you enjoy the playthrough!

Thank you!

[ALV]

Originally posted by Valden21:

I'd think the Dragon Priests would be opposed to the vampires, because even though they both view mortals as a resource, the nature of that resource is different for either faction. For Harkon's vampires, mortals are food. For the Dragon Priests, mortals are servants and slaves. That, and their patrons would always be in conflict with each other. Both Molag Bal and Alduin view THEMSELVES as the ones in charge, and neither one wants to share that position.

Aight then for the time being I'm gonna fool the dawnguard into serving me (though lets be honest I'm serving them XD) and defeat the vamps

[alexander_dougherty]

Dragonpriests would be opposed to Vampires, because they serve Dragons not Molag Bal.

BUT Dragonpriests would be opposed to Dawnguard as well, since the Dawnguard do not serve the Dragons, and the Dawnguard would probably kill a Dragonpriest as well.....

Dawnguard is less offensive to Dragon religion, which was a religion, they literally worshipped the Dragons..... not entirely sure what else the religion entailed, because the only two known facts about it are they worshipped dragons, and became Draugr on death who somehow empower the Dragonpriests' own undead form