The sexual violence, not shown on screen, is not handled sensitively, nor is it particularly relevant to the player character's story line. The sexual violence is described by the victim (an NPC in the Thieves Guild) in a graphic way that emphasized the violence of the act. A member of the Thieves Guild, named Sapphire, tells the player a detailed story of how she was captured and violently abused for a fortnight as a child. The book Opusculous Lamae Bal tells the story of how the first vampire was created, during a violent assault by the Daedric God of Rape, and how she sought her revenge against him by doing the same to the tribe of people that tried to save her. In the city of Riften, in Haelga's Bunkhouse, a dark elf named Tythis Ulen frequently catcalls and gropes the maid, Svana, to which she replies threatening to remove his genitals. In the Dawnguard DLC, Serana the vampire explains that she and her mother are also pureblooded vampires, having went through the same violent "ritual" that Lamae Bal is known to have gone through.