Serana's Mum

[StayFrosty05]

I only recently found out you can actually release Serana's mum from the Soul Cairn....Does anyone here deliberately choose not to go back and release her and if not, why not?

 

I have personally chosen to leave her in the Soul Cairn...simply because she is a Vampire and I RP a Dovahkin who really does not like Vamps.

[cycloney911]

I invented a certain fantasy in my mind for that. My character convinces Serana into curing vampirism, few weeks later after Valerica returns to Volikar Castle, she is confronted by her daughter about the cure for vampirsm. The path Valerica chose is unknown and only time will tell.

 

I couldn't leave her alone there... it's not humane for me.

[StayFrosty05]

I invented a certain fantasy in my mind for that. My character convinces Serana into curing vampirism, few weeks later after Valerica returns to Volikar Castle, she is confronted by her daughter about the cure for vampirsm. The path Valerica chose is unknown and only time will tell.

 

I couldn't leave her alone there... it's not humane for me.

 

That is cool....thank you for sharing Cycloney.... :happy: ....I like adding personal stories and imagined extensions myself...adds a lot more to the RP immersion and richness to the story for me.... :happy:

[Stemin]

I thought it was a nice touch that they allow you to release her. I just wish there was more interaction afterwards. I have heard that she may repair the garden if you choose the vamp lord side, but I haven't quite finished that line yet. When I did Dawnguard I got no such option after freeing her.

 

 

Also kinda distracting that the entrance to the soul cairn takes up so much area. The "enter soul cairn" marker should be limited to the staircase.

[TheUninvitedGuest]

I didn't realise this was possible . Seems like a nice touch of depth though. I don't know about anyone else but on my first playthrough of anything I always have to play the obsessive good guy before I go through again with a dark, more realistic and more entertaining character. Its an odd compulsion I know :-P but it probably means I'll go grab her.

[StayFrosty05]

I thought it was a nice touch that they allow you to release her. I just wish there was more interaction afterwards. I have heard that she may repair the garden if you choose the vamp lord side, but I haven't quite finished that line yet. When I did Dawnguard I got no such option after freeing her.

 

 

Also kinda distracting that the entrance to the soul cairn takes up so much area. The "enter soul cairn" marker should be limited to the staircase.

 

Yes, I thought it was a nice touch myself....a little more interaction with Serana in whether you decide to free her mother or nor would have been cool too....but being able to release the mother is definitely a step up in RP value....I haven't played the Vamp side, so have no idea myself...I would be curious to know if you wouldn't mind once you complete it please?....As I won't be playing the Vamp side myself, but am always still curious to hear what's different.

 

I have only had the one initial quest trip to the Soul Cairn....and didn't really look around at how it effected the room.

[Stemin]

Yes, I thought it was a nice touch myself....a little more interaction with Serana in whether you decide to free her mother or nor would have been cool too....but being able to release the mother is definitely a step up in RP value....I haven't played the Vamp side, so have no idea myself...I would be curious to know if you wouldn't mind once you complete it please?....As I won't be playing the Vamp side myself, but am always still curious to hear what's different.

 

I have only had the one initial quest trip to the Soul Cairn....and didn't really look around at how it effected the room.

 

Did this today. I'm almost done with the vampire quests, but I'm waiting on the radiant quest system to give me the ones I haven't done yet :rolleyes:

 

As a vampire, she mentions as soon as she leaves the soul cairn that she planted some new plants in the courtyard and she "hopes they will grow". In addition to the usual deathbell and nightshade, there are some mountain flowers and some dragon tongues, but very little else in the courtyard changes. The one vampire whose name begins with a g and I'm too lazy to look up right now offers to repair the doorway to the courtyard. Beyond that there is no further interaction and the mother never leaves the lab.

 

The complaint about the soul cairn entrance is the message "to soul cairn" follows you around the room in a lot bigger radius than is typical. I mean a LOT bigger.

 

Regarding interaction with Serena... it's funny... Bethesda seemed to do a good job of adding specific dialogue to her whenever a new event in the quest line occurs, but once the quest was over, there was nothing about her mother at all, one way or another. I cannot confirm or deny if there's any "idle conversation" with her mother as I've never had the patience to stand still long enough and also I'm not sure if her being a follower would effect such a conversation. I know when you play as Dawnguard her "home" is Dawnguard Fort, but I would presume as a vampire if you dismiss her she stays in the Castle proper and not where her mother is, since that seems to be where she idles during the brief period when you're without her at the beginning of the quest.

 

All in all she's still one of the better characters in the game, and even though I'm attempting to roleplay a pretty evil character I still found myself taking her with me after the quest without any other motivation beyond the fact that I _LIKE_ her.

 

I do plan on curing myself once I've accumulated all the vampire perks to get the trophy, and I'm curious as to whether or not I will get the option to cure Serana at that point like I did during Dawnguard. Except during Dawnguard if you reacted a certain way, the conversation will go into a loop and you never get the option to cure her. I never got the initial conversation as a vampire that I did with Dawnguard prior to finishing the quest.

 

I find playing as a vampire lord SUPER frustrating as it automatically kills your dead thralls (btw, Dawnguard in general really cripples dead thrall), and a vampire lord isn't very powerful and my character is approaching level 60.

Edited September 4, 2012 by Stemin

[modder3434]

was too lazy to go back and find her again.. let the women rot, she locked up her daughter for centuries. payback is a b*****

[GnatGoSplat]

There's no quest for releasing her, so I wasn't sure if it was possible, but I went to the trouble to get turned back into a vampire just so I could go back to the soul cairn and check.

I was pleasantly surprised to see the option in the dialog.

I released her, because Serana is a friend to my character. As a friend, my character cares about her and thinks family is very important so he thinks she should at least have a chance at starting a relationship with her mother.

[kevkiev]

Unless I'm missing something, it's not really "releasing" her (like from captivity or something - your char breaks her magical confines during the "retrieve mom's ES" quest). It's just that after your char tells her that Harken is dead, she decides it's safe to return to Tamriel and packs up her things.

 

Potatoes/tomatoes though I suppose - sorry, just in a nit-picky mood today I guess :tongue: But, yeah, my char returned to give her the news and the heads' up that it was cool to return. She was a bit torn about doing that, as she still doesn't like vamps too much. But she got kinda sweet on Serana after a while and figured she should do what she could to try and repatch their family.

 

Now if only my char could strike a deal with the townspeople of Arafu to supply her and the other vamps with blood packs so they wouldn't have to feed "manually." (FO3 reference... ha ha ha .. ha ha... ha... er, never mind. :whistling: )