I remember reading that book and wondering why the Skyirm vampires weren't that cool. It makes me think that the Volkihar did actually disappear somewhere off the Sea of Ghosts. The Cyrodilic Vampires might have just expanded into Skyrim and adapted to its harshness.

Yeah I am sure it was "leaked", Bethesda knows what they are doing.
My guess is it is home to the original Volkihar, and these vampires living there made a pact with Molag Bal to give them their Vampire Lord form. Congrats on learning how to spell it I remember how happy I was when I learned how to spell it.

I was hoping to see them in all of their glory but I somehow doubt it. They are shells of what they once was and they have been reduced to blind psycho goblins.

Again, http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=ZHaNgmHLkD8

It was a magazine scan. Official information that was released a bit early.

Yeah the Falmer at this point are just creepy guys that haunt your dreams and haunt the dwemer ruins. We probably won't get anything with them most likely, but we can hope.

It was a http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nc_LIR5ExIU. Be nice.

Speaking of which, does anyone think the vampiric author of "Immortal Blood" is involved in the DLC?

Pretty sure immortal blood was written way before Skyrim it was written in Oblivion if I remember right.

I also doubt they would bring over somebody from that long ago and stick him here unless its the Count of Skingrad of course.
Somebody correct me if I am wrong.

I doubt it. He was a Cyrodiilic Vampire. But it is possible, since his victim, Movarth, appeared in the game.

I was only kidding, but you find the perfect videos for every occasion haha. I think it is possible the Volkihar through the suspicions onto the Falmer.

You're probably right, but since vampires don't age, it's possible the author is still alive.

Well, considering the author is anonymous, it'd be really difficult to tell if they include him or not.

Not a lot of people caught that, bravo.

It's very possible but I still doubt it.

True but I doubt it vampires are immoral and the mer races can live for a long time, I just do not think they will add the author to the book, it really does not seem that significant enough for them to do so.

Okay, no idea what mumbochumvo is, but it definitely sounds as if there will be cape/cloak physics. Now if only we knew whether or not they'll actually be equipable items or just be attached to armor. Considering the popular demand, they would be smart to implement them as equipable items. I'm guessing the flails will probably be coming in the future as well, possibly as early as Dawnguard.
That's actually another way that they could possibly implement lunar transformations as well, them coming after getting to a certain point in the questline. There are directions that they could take this in as well, and still make it so the people who don't want forced transformations can still "control" the beast and avoid transformation, and the people who want the forced transformations will get the forced transformations. Hircine's ring could play a role for those who wish to control the "beast," though they'd probably want to do a questline that would give the ring that power, though, if they should choose to do anything like that. You definitely cannot say there are no sources of inspiration for any stuff like this, though.

There is one thing I still wonder about as far as the main quest goes in Dawnguard is if the questline requires you to complete the vanilla MQ first like Knights of the Nine did. It better not!

Curious question about Movarth. Since he was infected by a Cyrodilic Vampire, if he were to infect the player, wouldn't we actually catch the strand of vampirism associated with Cyrodil?

Thats the problem that spawned many threads and contreversies on the subject. Higher vampire NPC's are called "Volkihar", but Movarth was bitten by a Cyrodiilic vampire. And Cyrodiilic vampires are the only vampires that can blend in society through feeding. It is possibly they ventured to Skyrim and took over as they did in Cyrodiil, but the "Volkihar" title on their foreheads is extremely concerning.

Agreed because why would they have the Volkihar vampires names maybe they are trying to lay false claim to the name while the true Volkihar have been hiding in the North all along as they are reclusive beast.

I am not sure but the other vampires may have been growing done here while the Volkihar vampires have been in hiding or slumbering or whatever they have been doing.

Yeah, this is one of those things where there definitely needs to be a reasonable explanation, preferably one that doesn't go something like, "Oh, it was just an oversight, that's all!"

They might explain it, or they might not, but seeing as this created much confusion, then it probably should be explained better for the sake of the fanbase.Maybe it's a case of mistaken identity? It could also be possible that the "Volkihar" in vanilla are actually Cyrodiilic vampires, and they just adopted the Volkihar name in order to make themselves sound more threatening than they really are? I'm guessing they'll explain this mess somehow.

I think it is possible that the Cyrodilic Vampires just adapted to the harsh environment of Skyrim, which would explain why we still blend in with society when fed but have a different strand of disease. Vampires don't have the luxury of evolving over generations, so it would make sense for them to adapt on the fly.

I think it could be true and some if the vampires have labeled themselves as Volkihar so them seem more menacing or more powerful or sonething like that, it could be that the vampires are trying to adapt to Skyrim by resurfacing fear of the Volkihar.

I can go with this. Cyrodilic vampires always were cool.

Do they really need to adapt to anything? They are already dead, so I doubt the cold would bother them much.