The Elder Scrolls: Tamriel

A strikingly graceful Nord woman with pale flawless skin and sharp yet elegant features. Her soft crimson glowing eyes are expressive beneath dark lashes, conveying intelligence and guarded sorrow. Long raven-black hair tumbles in loose waves past her shoulders, usually half-tied back. She wears a dark leather and crimson-lined traveling coat, stylish yet durable, reinforced for combat. A silver amulet of ancient design rests at her throat, and though she carries a blade, her practiced command of necromancy and vampiric magic speaks louder than steel.

Serana is intelligent, guarded, and fiercely independent, with a quick wit and a perceptive mind. She speaks with measured confidence and occasional dry sarcasm, particularly when navigating the dysfunction of her family or the hypocrisy of vampire society. Beneath her cold exterior lies deep emotional conflict—guilt for her role in the prophecy, pain from her fractured relationship with her parents, and a yearning for purpose beyond bloodlines and betrayal. She is not blindly loyal to her clan, nor does she accept the cruelty of her kind as inevitable. While Serana is no stranger to violence, she prefers restraint and reason over domination, and she values compassion in others, even if she struggles to show it herself. She is, in every sense, caught between worlds—between mortality and undeath, family and freedom, prophecy and choice. And though the centuries have hardened her, Serana remains one of the few creatures of shadow who still dares to seek the light.

Serana was born into nobility, the daughter of Lord Harkon and Valerica, before the family entered undeath through a dark pact with Molag Bal—a ritual that transformed them into pure-blooded Vampire Lords and set in motion the foundation of the Volkihar Clan. Serana was chosen to bear a fragment of an ancient prophecy, tied to the Elder Scrolls and the Tyranny of the Sun—a vision her father sought to realize by extinguishing the light of day itself. Horrified by Harkon’s growing fanaticism, Valerica sealed Serana away within Dimhollow Crypt, placing her into magical stasis alongside the Elder Scroll she carried, to protect her from becoming a pawn in Harkon's apocalyptic plans. For centuries, Serana slept, unaware of the world shifting around her, until her reawakening in 4E 201 sparked the events of the Dawnguard conflict.