While it is true that things that appear in lore did not make it into Skyrim, I see this as restrictions inherent in the medium of games rather than mutilating lore.
Sure, I would have loved to have seen Volikhar vampires reaching through ice and more types of werecreatures, but their absence from the game does not mean that lore-wise Skyrim does not have them.
As I recall, vampires (like horses) were originally not in the game at all, but were added later due to massive fan demand.
It seems logical that due to time constraints they went with what they knew would work.

Im also not one of those people that invents lore explanations to explain these things, as I think that would be silly.
The game is not the world.

Yes, Nord hating magic makes no sense.
Dwemer were not short. I havent seen anything in Skyrim to suggest they were.

Im quite sure twilight has nothing to do with it.
Winged vampires go as far back as Bram Stoker, its part of the vampire trope.

While I agree Skyrim lore is rather abyssmal, (Hardly anything new, motivations for Alduin absent, zero mention of past events, atrocious dialogue.) I just dont think that the addition of a winged vampire is something to despair about.

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Only Cyrodiilic vamps are supposed to be subtle. Remember that.

Hm, A mutated strain of Vampirisim. Or it could be after a vampire has lived a certain amount of time. They could spin it off new or old, and do a good job of it, if they were careful.

This is the first I've heard of actual vampire lords though? Is this going to be in the new DLC?

But it still seems cheesy and it's the way they're adding it.

As it's been said, where the HELL are the Volikhar? We had a description for them and the "Volikhar" we've gotten are nothing like them. Hell, they're almost exactly the same as Cyrodiil's. You can sit and say "well obviously the Cyrodiilic race of vampires had some influence over Skyrim in the past 200 years," but no, the reality is the devs were just lazy or didn't give a [censored]. Skyrim is also supposed to be known for werebears, but there are none. Again we can say "oh there wuz a Nordic version of St. Jiub that drove them out so ya they're gone now" but no, again the truth is it's just laziness.
Meanwhile, we supposedly have an entirely new breed of vampire introduced that looks like it was ripped straight out of popular movies just to appease people OR they will be the Volikhar and we're supposed to believe no one mentioned they had wings for millenia.

The point is it's sad that their own original ideas they once had simply aren't being developed despite them being capable of developing them, whereas cliché forms of lore are getting plenty of attention and addition, such as Nords hating magic (barbarians hate magic, it's the RPG rule!), dwemer must be short cause they're dwarves (pretty sad a dev missed this...) and vampires must look like that movie that was released a couple years ago.
The writers should be laying the foundation, the developers bringing their ideas to life. Instead it's working the other way around: the devs are doing whatever the hell they want or whatever's easiest and the writers are in charge of coming up with excuses for their existence. This is clear as day.

"and, though i use the word loosely" i did not mean that all vampires hide in the public eye, i mean that no vampire goes flying around screaming "i iz evuls!! lololololol" which, as i said, are the only reason these vampire lords would be added to anything at all. this is just my opinion, but, everyone hates vampires that do that kind of stuff (even the sparkly fake vampires are better)


ancient vampires ecome ancient vampires, not winged abominations that would be so brutaly obvious that every vampire hunter in the world would be able to find it in less than a few minutes of being in the same area (which would also make a mutation out, natural selection would weed the disease out rather quickly). i highly doubt there is any way to make these things not svck. also, i also want to know if we have it for fact that these creatures are actually being included as we are thinking.

Maybe it's not obvious. Maybe we haven't heard about abominable vamps yet because when people see them, they aren't associated with vampires but instead with some other monster. There are a lot of monsters in TES.

I like how you are calling Bethesda lazy. Actually I don't it kinda pisses me off. If Bethesda added everything they wanted to the game wouldnt even be in the beta stage yet.

And we don't know what Vampire Lords will look like yet. Who said they have wings? Did Todd Howard descend from the heavens and personally tell you they are going to use the gamejam vampire lords?

The Dwemer weren't short. They were elves not dwarves.

Dude, pretty much every single statement that spews forth from you is false. It's pathetic.

We also don't know if the wings will be included, but probably not.

The wings also looked extremely unconvincing.

i dont see the problem. unless they force the vampirism on me i dont care.
its not lore breaking to me because most vampires in the lore were real monsters, the cyrodilics were the ones who could blend with society, which leads me to believe that the ones in skyrim are an offshoot of that clan.
vampires in popular media were always REAL MONSTERS just about until the ann rice novels got popular. i believe there were a few of dracula looking mostly human, but he was still a very revered creature.
vampires in elder-scrolls come in all shapes. so i dont care if they make one has some really monstrous state.

oh and whoever said that some adventurer would have found the vampire lord i ask you this question. who could find something that does not wish to be seen, has been hidden for centuries for a reason? oh yeah, a dragon-born or other great hero like in previous games.
only a sith deals in absolutes

an obvious reminder that the original writers and creators of the TES series are basically all gone now and the new ones don't know how to do jack except rip off existing ideas.

It's not that I dislike Vampire lords or vampires or that I don't want them getting more content. It's that I don't really want the first expansion to be about them. I was hoping for another travel into Oblivion, or to Atmora, or something more interesting... But I'm sure when it comes out I'm going to like it.

"They will be difficult to surprise," Movarth frowned. "But I will seek one out, and tell you what I learn. And then you will tell me of the vampires of http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:High_Rock, and http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Hammerfell, and http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Elsweyr, and http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Black_Marsh, and http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Morrowind, and the http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Summerset_Isles, yes?" From Immortal Blood We know almost nothing of the vampires in the surrounding provinces of Skyrim. We could be going to High Rock for this DLC.