I've been playing with Dawnguard installed for about three hours. Guards have passed along rumors of the Dawnguard, and I have their fort on my map, but it's blackened out and the roads are all (still) blocked with "You cannot go this way."

I noticed the Hall of the Vigilant is destroyed, and I have a quest marker ("Speak with the leader of the Dawnguard") pointing just south of Stendarr's Beacon by Riften, but I can't figure out how to advance in the first quest. There is no one at the quest marker.

Any tips? Or should I just play more and hope something happens?

I'm level 60, BTW.

The marker is wrong. Look for a cave entrance on the side of the road near Stendarr's Beacon.

Had you visited the General Forum for Dawnguard, you'd have seen that Gstaff posted a pinned topic about starting Dawnguard.

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