# 40 - Skyrim DLC Chat: Dawnguard, Dragonborn, Vampires, Miraak

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Podcast: [Mythic Mind Games](https://stenobird.com/podcast/mythic-mind-games-7349259)
Published: 2026-02-20T01:37:22+00:00
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## Resource

Watch the video: https://youtu.be/BRyGEMc2I58 Skyrim's Dawnguard pits rebuilt vampire hunters against Harkon's Volkihar clan and the Tyranny of the Sun, while Dragonborn sends you to Solstheim against Miraak: All-Maker thralls, Apocrypha's Black Books, and Hermaeus Mora's bargain. Across both DLCs the chat turns to vampires, Boethius, and Faustian bargains: what power costs when immortality, knowledge, or domination is the price. In this Elder Scrolls & Philosophy live conversation (~104 min), Dr. Andrew Snyder and the Mythic Mind Games community dig into Skyrim's expansions together: Dawnguard and Dragonborn plots, vampire ethics, Miraak's false prophecy, and where the Games podcast goes next after this final (for now) Elder Scrolls unit. Related: Skyrim Chat: Civil War, Dragonborn, Talos, Northern Mythos (ep. 38) https://youtu.be/JKbtu8VYciE ; The Story of Skyrim: Dawnguard, Vampires, and Tyranny of the Sun (ep. 39) https://youtu.be/k-FEFvAcT44 ; The Story of Skyrim: Dragonborn, Miraak, and Solstheim (ep. 39 twin) https://youtu.be/3wKIrE8yjLU ; Skyrim and the Northern Mythos: Dragon, Doom, and Northern Courage (ep. 36) https://youtu.be/C907wJJN8l8 ; The Story of Skyrim: Dragonborn, Civil War, and Destiny (ep. 35) https://youtu.be/1dPXdcZxzm8.<... /> Join the Mythic Mind Fellowship: https://mythicmindfellowship.c... Listen to/watch the Mythic Mind podcasts: - Mythic Mind - Mythic Mind Games - Mythic Mind Movies

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