History Characters / SkyrimDLC

* DrivenToMadness: His obsession with the realm of the Mad God naturally leads to this.

* NakedPeopleAreFunny: He wears nothing except his helmet and a loincloth, consequence of him wearing the "Ring of Disrobing", an joke item originally from Oblivion's Shivering Isles DLC, which unequips any armor.

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%%A Breton mage whose meddling between the barriers between Nirn and the Shivering Isles threatened to plunge Skyrim into madness.
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* MightyRoar: While not exactly a roar, Dusty’s moans can be heard across the southeast end of Solstheim.

* NonHumanSidekick: Can become this for the player.
* SummonMagic: He is able to summon a Storm Atronach with his spear

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A Breton mage whose meddling between the barriers between Nirn and the Shivering Isles threatened to plunge Skyrim into madness.
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* NakedPeopleAreFunny: A consequence of him wearing the "Ring of Disrobing".
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[[folder:Thoron]]
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A Breton mage whose meddling between the barriers between Nirn and the Shivering Isles threatened to plunge Skyrim into madness.

[[folder: Revus Sarvani & Dusty]]

* RatedMForManly: A big, muscular Nord blacksmith who hunts down ''bears'' in his spare time. He also wears a unique [[SleevesAreForWimps sleeveless]] version of the Dawnguard armor.

* MakeMeWannaShout: Like any other Dragonborn, he has the power of the Thu'um, and he uses the power liberally when fought.

* HearingVoices: Claims it's Arkay talking to him. The game hints he might be right, as he often displays knowledge he should not otherwise possess -- like how to access the original Dawnguard's stashes, or when vampires kidnap the friends or loved ones of the Dovahkiin. When you rescue the kidnapped person, they'll occasionally wonder how you knew to rescue them.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: It's not clear if he's ''actually'' speaking to Arkay or just suffering from a mental disorder. On one hand, he's barely aware of his surroundings at best. On the other hand, some of the things he claims Arkay told him are pieces of information that he couldn't otherwise know.

* BadassBaritone: His voice is deep and rough, but with a grandfatherly air about it.

* BadassBaritone: The PowerEchoes effect to his voice helps.

* BadassBaritone: His voice is among the deepest of all the Dawnguard members, and in fact one of the deepest in the game, period.

* OverprotectiveDad: To the point where he will tell Captain Veleth to stay away from his daughter, reasoning that though the captain's intentions are good, he might not always be around to protect his daughter.

* BadassArmy: A whopping five of them - Ingjard, Durak, Celann, Isran and Gunmar - have no level cap, so they'll usually clean up well if you side with them in attacking Castle Volkihar. Three of the above are available as followers as well.

** Florentius says that [[PalsWithJesus Arkay]] told him the Dawnguard would raid civilian villages and blame vampires for it. Unlike the others, he can somewhat back up his claim, as he mentions caches of loot they left behind which can only be opened by their spells - and these can indeed be found.

* VanHelsingHateCrimes: He believes all vampires should be destroyed, even those who are trying to help him, or are rather benign. [[spoiler:Despite this, he allows Serana to stay as a member of the Dawnguard and even [[CharacterDevelopment thanks]] her for helping the Dawnguard defeat Harkon's mad scheme - if you're following the Dawnguard's questline, of course. In this way, he's similar to Delphine, but slightly less narrow-minded.]]

* HearingVoices: Claims it's Arkay talking to him. The game hints he might be right, as he often displays knowledge he should not otherwise possess - like how to access the original Dawnguard's stashes, or when vampires kidnap the friends or loved ones of the Dovahkiin. When you rescue the kidnapped person, they'll occasionally wonder how you knew to rescue them.

* PowerHigh: Downplayed, but when you heal her, she'll be surprised - then say in a sultry voice, "Oh! That felt nice."

* {{Irony}}: Although they get their powers from Molag Bal, they reside in the hold of Haafingar, which happens to be home to the shrine of the Daedric Prince most hostile towards vampires - Meridia. For that matter, Solitude having the Temple of the Divines means that the clan (whose powers come from Molag Bal) also share a hold with the city that has a temple dedicated to both Stendarr and Arkay (the two Aedra to whom Molag Bal is ArchEnemy). The only way that their location could be more ironic would be if the Sacellum of Boethiah was also found in the Hold.

* FriendlessBackground: Whilst growing up and, to a lesser extent, still true. It's implied that the Dragonborn is her first real friend in centuries - or possibly ever.

* InTheHood: When outside in the daylight, she will ditch whatever headgear she might have on her to wear a hood to conceal herself from the sun. The hood is notably not an actual piece of equipment; rather, it's in her programming - even if the player uses console commands to strip Serana of all her other equipment (including the items that normally cannot be removed), the hood remains floating where it ought to line up with her outfit.

* FauxAffablyEvil: He's ''very'' happy you returned his daughter to him, and offers the ''greatest'' "reward" - turning you into a vampire. Refuse and he'll essentially tell you to piss off and die. Accept and he'll later muse that not everyone actually ''survives'' becoming a Volkihar vampire. He has an interesting definition of reward.

* AbusiveParent: To save her daughter, Valerica sealed her and put her to sleep for gods know how many ages - with no real plan to ever free her.

** Also her plan to foil her husband's plan was merely delaying the inevitable - Serana was eventually found and Valerica had no way to control the situation.

* {{Necromancer}}: An expert, far beyond simply raising zombies - when hiding herself from her husband's madness, she abandoned the mortal plane altogether for the realm where ''captured black souls'' are drawn. Few mortal necromancers find it, and fewer still return. [[spoiler:She can do both.]]

* BlatantLies: She'll say that she can "slaughter the Companions without a second thought", yet she's easier than most of the other vampires to beat if the player sides with the Dawnguard - not just for the player (who, depending on how far along they are in the companion questline, can be anywhere from the newest member to the Harbinger), but also for Farkas, Vilkas, or Aela. Although considering she's a vampire (and by extension, TheAgeless), it's entirely possible she's LockedOutOfTheLoop in regards to the current strength of the Companions.

* DevelopersForesight: Durnehviir's acknowledgement of you being a Dragonborn is based on how far you are in the main quest. It has three different stages - before absorbing your first Dragon Soul, he will refer to you as a fellow dovah but doesn't know why (see HyperAwareness below). If you have already finished your training with the Greybeards, he will acknowledge you being a Dragonborn and so you are dragon in spirit. If you have finished the main quest, he humors you in that the news of Nirn travels there, and compliments the player for defeating Alduin.

* GoIntoTheLight: Implied at the very end of the quest. However, if "Lost to the Ages" is completed before the main quest chain, she cannot be encountered in Sovngarde, despite the fact that she's a Nord.[[note]]Justified by her DLC status - the base game wasn't engineered to include her.[[/note]]

[[spoiler:A Snow Elf, likely one of the last of his kind.]] He asks the Dovahkiin to kill his brother, fearing he has been irreversibly enthralled by the Falmer - [[spoiler:or, as he calls them, The Betrayed]].

* LastOfHisKind: Well, he's one of [[spoiler:the last known Snow Elves who has not become a sightless, feral monster as the Falmer have. After his brother dies, he acknowledges that he may now indeed be the very last, bu]]t reassures the Dovahkiin that they did not further a genocide - there may be others like him, and [[spoiler:the Falmer may one day regain their sentience.]]

** He can also be summoned on Solstheim, or in Blackreach, the Soul Cairn, and the Forgotten Vale - places other horses aren't able to reach.

* RecurringBoss: An extremely minor example, but Rochelle's quest is repeatable. However, it only repeats once every 50,000 hours - slightly less than six in-game years - so it's unlikely that you'll actually see it more than once.

* HiddenDepths: Appears to be a strong believer in free will and bears animosity towards anything or anyone that takes it away from others or would willingly give it up (including Vampires, Werewolves, and - for some reason - Spriggans, of all things).

** MayflyDecemberRomance: Regardless of which is older, Aphia - being an elf - could outlive her husband by up to a century.

* GreaterScopeVillain: He's built up as an even greater threat than Alduin, with several characters (including Miraak himself) declaring that he could probably kill Alduin himself if you haven't done it yet. The reason is, of course, that Miraak is a Dragonborn like you; but while you're already a OneManArmy capable of slaying dragons and decimating legions of enemies, Miraak is plain ''stronger'' than you (initially), with access to long-forgotten and forbidden Shouts that give him a host of advanced powers, and he's spent thousands of years in Apocrypha studying to hone his abilities and knowledge further. You're the world's best and only hope to stop Miraak from [[TakeOverTheWorld Taking Over The World]], and if you fail there's nothing else that could stand in his way - ''not even Alduin''.

* SmugSuper: Miraak practically [[{{Pride}} oozes]] [[FatalFlaw it]]. The Dragonborn was at first in the dark about their legend, destiny and powers, relying on the Greybeards and the Blades for information; Miraak, by comparison, has millennia of knowledge and experience, and claims that the Dragonborn has only scratched the surface of their potential. A good example is the first Shout he demonstrates - [[SuperMode Dragon Aspect]], meant to mock the Dragonborn with how little they know. [[spoiler:He also thinks he has the capacity to out-gambit and betray the [[TheOmniscient Daedric Lord of Knowledge and Secrets]]. Spoiler alert: He doesn't.]]

* YourSoulIsMine: He's a Dragonborn, so this is his key power. He even steals the souls of the Dragons you kill in Solstheim before you can absorb them. [[spoiler:He also wants to absorb ''your'' draconic soul. After Hermaeus Mora kills him, ''you'' consume ''his'' soul. He even gets turned into a skeleton like other Dragons.]] He uses this to heal himself in the fight against him by summoning one of his Dragons and draining its soul for full health, almost invoking the trope by name in the process - the draconic words he shouts translate to "Your soul is mine to devour."

A famous Imperial officer who was operating on Solstheim in 3E 427, and died when his fort was devastated by the initial eruption of Red Mountain about a decade later. [[spoiler:He is resurrected by Ildari in her experiment to master the Ash Spawn. Believing himself to still be in his own time, he escapes her control and ends up leading Ash Spawn in strategic attacks on Raven Rock. The Dragonborn eventually slays him.]]

* ObliviouslyEvil: As far as he is concerned, he is just defending the Empire's position in Solstheim, and Raven Rock's inhabitants are enemy invaders, including you - even if you're also a member of the Imperial Legion. Since he was alive during the Septim dynasty, he probably doesn't recognize the Medes as proper emperors, thinking you serve an usurper.

** Kuvar's disposition toward you will take a hit and he'll refuse to train or talk to you if you let Bujold live but expose her lie to him, causing her to get banished from the mead hall - even though ''he's'' the one who banishes her in the first place.

* BonusBoss: Summoning him requires you to loot Reaper Gem Fragments beneath the floating crystals in the Soul Cairn's sky (something nothing orders you to do), then find the Reaper Temple (a building to which no quest directs you, in the middle of an area without any global map) and put the fragments on the altar. Beating him grants three empty black gems, a Daedra heart, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking an iron battleaxe]] (i.e. four rare and precious items and a tier 1 weapon, but nothing unique.)

* GuideDangIt: As explained under BonusBoss, finding him requires either huge luck, meticulous exploration of the Soul Cairn, following the official strategy guide carefully, or looking to an online guide.

* BonusBoss: He's not tied to any questline in the game, and you have to reach level 81 to even ''meet'' this guy. He's also an extraordinarily difficult opponent.

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* StoryAndGameplaySegregation: Some of the guards' dialogue imply her skills actually ''do'' have unwanted side effects, but this never happens in the game.

* GuideDangIt: His skull does not have a quest marker. Have fun combing the Soul Cairn or consulting a guide.

* HumanoidAbomination: He looks like the ghost of a man, but his nature is never explained. He may be a Daedric entity; he drops a Daedra heart when killed.
* TheSpook: There's no explicit explanation for his presence or his role in the Soul Cairn. Souls wandering in the Cairn have a line which ''may'' be a reference to him ("Shh, he's watching us!"), but that's ambiguous and could just as easily be referring to Durnehviir or an Ideal Master.
* ZombiePukeAttack: One of his attacks consists of spitting some green acid toward the Dragonborn.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: The guy's good. It's to be expected with one of the few [=NPC=]s with no level cap.

* NothingLeftToDoButDie: The reason he seeks out the Dovahkiin for a final battle. Good luck granting his wish, though.

* SeenItAll: His BadassBoast as given above.
* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: There is nothing restricting the Dragonborn in using Soul Trap on him, denying him to Sovngarde and dooming him to the Soul Cairn.

* WorthyOpponent: The reason he chooses the Dragonborn to be his final duel.

* EvilOldFolks: When he says he could have taken on Alduin, he isn't exaggerating. He's one of the most powerful characters fought in-game, using powerful Shouts including some that "normal" Dragonborns up until now never had (Bend Will, Dragon Aspect). He's one of the oldest characters encountered in the series, dating back to before the Dragon War.

* HerosEvilPredecessor: Being the original Dragonborn, that is a given. Unlike most examples, Miraak was ''already'' evil when he became TheChosenOne.

* MortonsFork: The only options he has to deal with his [[TrappedInAnotherWorld situation]] are bad ones. He can do nothing and continue to sit in Apocrypha, [[spoiler:or he can try to betray Hermaeus Mora, the Daedric Prince of ''knowledge'', to escape.]]

* {{Pride}}: He's extremely arrogant, looking down on you as a "false" Dragonborn despite everything you may have accomplished. If you confront him before completing the main quest, his reaction to meeting another Dragonborn is "so you've killed a few Dragons, am I supposed to be impressed?" Post-main quest, he comments that he could have easily killed Alduin himself, but [[OptOut chose another path]]. He also considers himself above servitude to anyone, whether it be Dragons or [[spoiler:Hermaeus Mora. His attempts to double-cross the latter, however, earn him a very ''[[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice painful]]'' reality check.]]
* RefusalOfTheCall: He refused to aid the Heroes of Skyrim in their battle against Alduin, forcing them to [[spoiler:send Alduin forward in time with the Elder Scroll]]. Thus, the call that he refused was passed on to you.

* DidNotThinkThisThrough: He plans to permanently block out the sun so Vampires can hunt whenever they want. He either overlooked or chose to ignore the fact that this would make many more enemies than they already have, as his wife Valerica mentions; it could end the CivilWar by motivating the [[TheEmpire Empire of Cyrodiil]], the [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Stormcloaks]], and maybe even the [[CantArgueWithElves Aldmeri]] [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Dominion]] to work together against vampires. He also hasn't factored in, nor does he even acknowledge, [[TheDragonsComeBack the return of Skyrim's]] [[AlwaysABiggerFish dragons]], despite their return being part of the prophecy he's trying to fulfill ([[OutsideContextProblem and who would not like the bloodsucking upstarts hunting their subjects and defying Akatosh by messing with the sun]]) or [[BeastOfTheApocalypse Alduin]]. On top of all of this, as pointed out by another character, permanently blotting out the sun would inevitably extinguish all life, eventually leaving vampires without any food source.