DISCLAIMER: This is only to get the ball rolling on what you think the weapons will look like when Dawnguard is released. We all know they'll be stronger than the Daedric weapon set, but what about the aesthetic qualities? Will they be ugly and ridiculous looking like the Dragonplate and Daedric armors and weapons? Or will they have a sleeker, more refined look to them like the Ebony weapons?

I realize a lot of details are slowly leaking out everyday, but I'm curious to see if people are actually looking at the screenshots like I have been, primarily the screenshots of the members of the Dawnguard and the weapons they hold.

Look first at the screenshot of the mounted combat, of the Dawnguard member swinging the axe (if someone could please post an image that would be great, being a new member it seems I'm not allowed to do so.)

This is certainly a new kind of axe. The handle is made out of something that doesn't resemble the dark wood of the iron axe, and the axe head doesn't follow any in-game shape. Therefore it must be a new type of weapon. There's even an encircled cross on the axe head that matches the same design on the Dawnguard helmet. Could be a silver war axe? I highly doubt it though.

I think what really gives us a good handle on what the Dragonbone weapons will look like is the image of the female Dawnguard member wielding a warhammer of some type. If you zoom in on the screenshot you can see the head of the hammer looks as if its forged out of ebony, but the handle looks as if its carved out of dragon bone.

I hope the weapons follow this aesthetic pattern. Searching Google for the latest news on the new in-game stuff I saw an article that supposedly had images of the new weapons. They looked nothing like the weapons in the screenshots you can find on the Elder Scrolls wiki. The blades were made out of dragonbone, and the hilts/handles were made out of what appeared to be ebony. I don't think this is right.

Anyways, hope this stirs some discussion, if anyone can post photos of the screenshots I mentioned I think that would help out a lot. If I had permission to I would have myself. Let's get this discussion rolling.

Well.. Didn't know there were images leaked. Someone is getting in trooooooouuuuuuble.

I think it's just the stuff from the trailer where dragon bone weapons could be seen
edit: nevermind just saw the spoiler photos

theres always that one guy in beta who leaks everything and because of that we learned of 3 NEW dragon shouts a new bow and some storyline elements,and dog bless his soul

i have seen the images...unfortunately

I just hope that the dragon-bone weapons DO look like the armor. hoping that it actually looks like its made from bone.

i saw them and i saw what you need to make them and they look alright,nothing too flashy but from making it out of dragon bones it looks alright

I honestly think the dragon bone weapons mod looks better than the ones in those photos, they just look really bland and uncreative
I mean you're making a sword out of a giant lizards bones you could be a bit more creative and decorative and add teeth or scales to it or something

so you wanted something like the forsworn blade?

kind of, something that gave it a rough look to it, like you actually carved it by hand out of your enemies bones
like here
http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/14701

Meh..I like the look of the dragonbone weapons bethesda made better. But to each his own.

even if were in fantasy times we dont have to make everything club like,we can have sophistication

NOT. IN. SKYRIM.

I saw them..

They look like they fit right in to vanilla Skyrim.

you cant run from tophats young sir,they WILL take skyrim by rage

i hope they are savage and ugly like the dragonbone weapons featured in this mod http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/17162

there not

Yeah, I'm hoping they look nothing like the PC mods. If you want brutal-looking aesthetics use Forsworn, Orcish or Daedric weapons. I personally use Steel Plate armor because I like that clean-cut, knight look to it. I don't even use the Ebony armor because I hate the shoulder pauldrons on it. I'm the same way with my weapons. Skyforge weapons all the way. After seeing the screenshots though, I'm keeping my fingers crossed for clean looking weapons. I know my character is getting a Dawnguard armor facelift, that helmet looks beast. I just hope the armor is Heavy instead of Light.

yeah.. that axe the dude was swinging from the horse wasnt dragonbone

I for one do share some concerns and if your Xbox or Ps3 player i am sure this is a relevant conversation, but as a PC player it does not really matter one way or the other as i have mods to change what ever i want. I live this game, i love the developers who released a tool kit, and i love the mod community for making my favorite mods. Skyrim, FO3, FONV simply the best games in a long long time.

So i hope the developers do manage to make some stuff for the Xbox and Ps3 players that does not look too much like trash, but if they do then really you have only yourself to blame, play on PC as such you can play your way, or not and play with someone else's vision and hope it fits.

@Xerxan - What do you think it is then? Dawnguard specific weapons similar to Skyforge? I think that's a possibility.

I think they look pretty good, seen the leaked images... not complaining.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v55/xaraan/skyrim/Skyrim_Dawnguard_Screenshots_13389552286011.jpg

My money's on that being a Dragonbone weapon.

And this:

http://www.whatthechrist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/skyrim_mounted_combat.jpg

all i know is that its not the dragon axe
probably just some dawnguard faction specific weap, like how the silver hands the only group with silver weapons
the axe had spiral patterns on dark steel, it was completely different than the design of the dragonbone weaps though, so probably not that at least

Yeah i see what you're saying. That's the only thing that has me confused. The handle certainly looks like bone, and the head looks like a dark metal, but the spiral patterns throw it all off.

We'll see next week hopefully, I'm just trying to curtail my excitement just a bit until then with all this speculating.