Cerberus trained the Volkihar tribe to be as vicious as they are today. 4E 179 is when the vampire uprising first started. Because of the Vampire's rise in power, the Humans had no other choice but to pull together and form what is known as the Dawnguard. Mankind put their hope into this select group of people. They fought against the Vampire for years, and only when the threat seemed to vanish, did the group disband and vanish into the night.
No one had expected for the threat to carry on over the years and grow in power.
"If we had known this would be how things would end, we would have stayed away."
Only five survived, and one man whose name was Abddon, stole off into the night with the scroll the vampires had been after. He placed the unknown scroll in an enchanted rock under a spell, and it is said that the Chosen One, the only worthy person to protect man kind - is the only person that will be able to remove the scroll. What nobody knows is that the only person who will be worthy enough is Abddon's ancestor, and the Vampires have been planning ahead.
Needless to say, after the attack that nearly took down all of the Dawnguard and all of the Volkihar tribe, a time of peace fell over the world. The Vampires slinked off to a remote island where they stayed in their castle for many years, slowly building up their lost power, and Abddon closed off the Fort Dawnguard had been using as a home, deciding he would start a family and live the rest of his life in peace.
"If we had known Cerberus was still alive, we would have never given up hunting for peace. We would have trained our children better."
The next night, however, was completely different. The remaining five members pulled themselves away from their lives, and had a meeting in their old cabin in the Mounties. That was the biggest mistake that they've ever made. The vampires were waiting, and in the dark of the night they swept in, and slayed every last member, before setting the lodge aflame.
Dawnguard had finally fallen.
"They killed our parents, it's up to us now to protect mankind. To avenge our fallen."
Because, what is held within the forbidden scroll, sealed within an ancient temple, maybe a gift from the gods, and gift for the children, a turning point in the upcoming war, it maybe the thing that saves them all. However, the only person that can unlock that scroll is Abddons daughter, and she has no knowledge of the Vampires, and much to the new Dawnguards dismay, she's been taken by the Volkihar tribe.
Others must be gathered, enemies will clash, innocents dragged into the fight, and an ancient power unlocked and bestowed upon a group of unlikely heroes. How far will you go to save the world? Will you travel as far as the other side, slip into deaths embrace to protect all that you stand for, or will the sun be destroyed and Vampires rule over all we know? It has just begun.