I vaguely remember hearing/reading somewhere that Vampires can only feed on the blood of the living, freezing the blood would technically make it dead blood which is deadly to Vampires.

Another aspect of vampires is the dust that is produced when they die, which can be used as an alchemical ingredient. It is unknown from documents what the dust consists of, or what causes it; though, because of the skin's ability to burn under sunlight, the dust might actually be an ash that results from burning of vampire skin. It's more likely however that the skin and internal organs in a vampire are so dry and withered that it turns to dust once a vampire dies; this seems to be the more accurate cause as documents describe vampires being turned to dust without being slain by flame.

Yeah, I was dissapointed to see the " Volkihar" having vampiric seduction, since its mostly a Cyrodiilic power. I expected some paralysis spells that " freeze the blood of victims", and then feeding on them.

So they'd feed on frozen blood? Solid blood? How would they they get it out of the vessels? I suppose the blood drain spell would still work. Or would they wait for it to thaw? Otherwise, would it be like one of those crushed ice drinks? I think some vampires in Black Dog's "Montreal by Night" made some of that at a small, late opening supermarket.

In older games iron/steel weapons did nothing to them if I recall correctly, they obviously changed that in the newer games because it would have made the game way too easy for low level character since everyone uses iron/steel weapons and becoming a Vampire is much easier than how it used to be, it was like a 10% chance of getting Vampirism..and 90% of catching an instant death in a day or two disease if you didn't make it to a temple from them.


One can only imagine how things would have been if iron/steel weapons still did nothing to Vampires since even at level 81 I find bandits and random enemies using iron/steel weapons, rarely I find an ebony weapon or such among them.

...and if I recall only silver weapons did actual damage to werewolves/wereboars, while granted they did make it so silver weapons do double damage to werebeasts.

Ah, if only.

The which is an interesting term. "Undead". I've always been kinda fascinated by it because if you're not alive, then you're dead. But if your not dead, then your alive.

It bottles the mind

Aye, most games have undead characters not requiring Waterbreathing - but I like it, because in my role play Vampires are not dead (I don't remember having to die to become a Vampire, just catch a disease), so needing Waterbreathing suits how I play.

I'll add this lil conundrum, My main is a vampire/VL..but can eat corpses too! dont really need too but the ring of Namira is too much fun

You actually do die when you become a Vampire. In TES II: Daggerfall, once you had Vampirism for 3 days, your char would die, and you'd wake up in a crypt some time later. All of your guild affiliations/ranks would be gone, because technically you died so the guilds would strike you from their roster.
My Argonian Necromage (VL) doesn't have a problem with breathing underwater, lol.

"I can't remember the dreams I had that night -- only that I was doing something horrible and I couldn't stop myself. I woke up screaming. The next night, at an inn a little closer to my destination, my sleep was deep and dreamless. On the third night, I died. Of course, I didn't know that I died. I had gone to sleep in a nice warm feathered bed and I woke on a cold wet stone mortuary slab."

Violated and comatose, Lamae was found by nomads, and cared for. A fortnight hence, the nomad wyrd-woman enshrouded Lamae in pall for she had passed into death. In their way, the nomads built a bonfire to immolate the husk. That night, Lamae rose from her funeral pyre, and set upon the coven, still aflame. She ripped the throats of the women, ate the eyes of the children, and [censored] their men as cruelly as Bal had ravished her."-

There was but one tribe in Cyrodiil, a powerful clan who had ousted all other competitors, much like the http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Imperial themselves had done. Their true name was unknown, lost in history, but they were experts at concealment. If they kept themselves well-fed, they were indistinguishable from living persons. They were cultured, more civilized than the vampires of the provinces, preferring to feed on victims while they were asleep, unaware.

And shall we tolerate the hidden hosts of the undead, the arrogant princes of necromancers, the ancient vampire demons who creep from their lairs in the West, seeking refuge in profane Daedric shrines, abandoned Dunmer strongholds, and corrupted subterranean labyrinths of the detested http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Dwemer race? For ages the http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Great_Houses and the Temple have kept our land clean of the vampire's taint, but now these undead lords and their vile cattle have returned. These vampires must die, and their corrupt cattle with them, and their blood taint must be forever erased by fire and stake.

I'd be interested to know how many players actually role play that they die and rise again as an undead after they are vampirised - since the game mechanics don't give you anything like a death scene, you just get an update while you're running around or whatever.

I assumed that what happened in Oblivion as you could only progress through the stages by sleeping. I assumed you died in your sleep and then woke up revived in a state of undeath.

Vampires of Illiac Bay.

The disease does kill you. It is part of the process of becoming a vampire in ES. Look http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Vampire.