The thought of always being hunted by vampires, not being able to stay in one place long for the fear he might lose the ones he loved, or getting other innocent people killed for something he did. It had not always been like this, there was still danger and death, but not as bad. Rao was Dovahkiin, the Harbinger for the Companions, the listener for the Dark Brotherhood, a nightingale and a student at the College of Winterhold, death followed him and he regrets some of the things hes done, the Dark Brotherhood , the things he has done scar him for life, but one day...changed his life forever.
Rao yanked as he pulled his deadric great-sword from the dragons skull. "Tough son of a bitch" he mumbled to himself, Rao was a fair man, around his mid-twenties, his father was a nord, his mother a redguard, he had tanned skin from his fathers side, but it was a tad darker from her mothers side. His hair was black and medium in length. Many women though he was good-looking and handsome, and the fact that he was dragonborn and known through out the many guilds he was in also made him a well known man. He doesn't like to be treated like royalty when he enters a city, he grew up a dark and hard life as a child and knows there are still people who suffer. He tries to forget those things, by using his good sense of humor. He cleaned the blood of his his great-sword, and placed it on his back, he headed to Riften on his trusty horse shadowmere, he could use a decent bed and some mead. It was about a 2 hour ride and arrived there about about dusk. Riften wasn't his favorite city, he mainly just came here for the thieves guild when they needed him. He pushed open the door to the bee and barb and sat down at a table. Talen-Jei came over next to his table, "you got a lot of nerve showing your face around here after what you did." "Please, I just want some mead and a bed." He seemed a little surprised, but it quickly disappeared of his face as he went to get the mead. A well-built orc came over to him, "Looking for some extra work?" "What kind of work" Rao asked uneasy, he's had bad experiences with random people asking him if he needed work. "Killing Vampires" he replied quickly. Rao thought about it amount and the decided "Sure, where do I start" "Israns gonna like you" he said with a smirk "Fort Dawnguard in Dayspring canyon, here's a map, hope to see you there...and my names Durak." Durak turned and went out the door. He looked at the map for a few minutes, got up and left before he even got his mead.
It was maybe about an hours ride from riften, it was around midnight now when he finally got to the stair of Fort Dawnguard. "Damn, you could fit a whole army in here," he said as entered the fort. He saw Durak and give a quick nod before continuing farther in. He stopped when he saw what must have been Isran fighting with what looked like a Vigilant of Stendarr. He waited till they finished to approach them, Isran noticed him and eyed him head-to-toe, "you must be the one Durak told me about" "I'm am, so where do I begin" "Quick tot he point I see, I like that. Go to dimhallow crypt, theres been a lot of vampire activity as told by Vigilant Tolan here." He nodded to his left where Tolan was standing. "Im coming too,"he said "I've lost too many comrades to let them get away, I'll meet you there tomorrow," He walked off out the door. "I'm going to rest up first, been a long day" Rao said as he felt himself yawn. "Good idea, you'll need all your strength tomorrow, the beds are the left." Rao nodded and went to the beds. He plopped down on the soft furs, its been a while since hes had a nice, cozy place to sleep, he took off his dragon bone armor along with his dragon priest mask(Volsung) and sat there wondering about what would happen tomorrow. He soon drifted off to a deep sleep.
-20 years earlier-
It'd been forever since he got one bite of food or a tiny sip of water, he had been forced to come to the mine last year when he was 5 because slavers and bandits killed his family and burned his house and had forced him to work the mines. "Can I please have some water and food, I haven't eaten forever" he asked a slaver as he passed, the slaver just stopped and looked at him and nailed him across the face, "Shut brat" he said then spat at him. The side of his face was bleeding from the punch and he had to get up or he'd get whipped, he grabbed his pickaxe and started to mine. The next 7 years he spent in that hell hole had been the worst years of his life. He had gotten so many scars and burns that you can see them on his skin. He jolted when he woke up remembering his life as slave. He pushed that thought aside and got back into his armor and headed for dimhallow crypt. Before he left Isran gave him a Cross-Bow "Take those vampires out in a few hits" is what Isran said. But Rao was fine with his Deadric bow and great-sword. It was about a days trip to the crypt, killing a few bandits on the way there that got in his way. When he entered the crypt he saw Tolan's body dead as some vampires talked about their "fresh kill". Rao pulled out his bow and quickly and quietly dispatched of them, one of his arrows going right threw their eye. He neglected to see the death hound until he attacked him biting his arm, he felt a chill go through his arm, it felt like his veins were freezing in his arm. He quickly tore the hound off his arm, ground the hound of round its throat and slit it using his ebony dagger. The hound yelped and he felt the warm flow of blood going over his hand. He wiped it off and looked at his arm, the dog bit into a muscle, he could see the blood trickling out of it. He wrapped it in a leather strap and continued to Talons dead body. "Such a fool, you should have waited for me to come." He continued on until he got to a open room with circular platform in the middle. There were only a vampire and his thralls, he quickly dispatched of them as he severed the head of a thrall coming towards him. There was a pedestal in the middle with a button. He placed his hand on the button and a spike pierced his hand. "Gah, son of bitch!" He screamed. He's had worse but it still hurt like hell, he bandaged it and noticed the braizers started glowing. "Dammit, a puzzle, whenever I complete a puzzle a draugr usually ends up attacking me." He moved the braizers into position, the circle platforms sunk into the ground, there was a strange monolith in the center, when he got near it opened up and a woman fell out of it.