There is no way the vampires in Skyrim are the Volkihar. How : V - Skyrim

» Sun Jun 03, 2012 2:10 am

Pit a "Sanguinare" Master Vampire against a Volkihar Vampire, and the "Sanguinare" Master Vampire gets his ass beat, hard. Now pit a "Sanguinare" Master Vampire against a Volkihar Master Vampire, and it's no contest. The "Sanguinare" are in for a VERY hard time if they plan on trying to wipe out the Volkihar. From what it looks like, the Volkihar could easily wipe the "Sanguinare" out, but just don't care to. Probably due to the fact that the "Sanguinare" keep themselves in or near towns, while the Volkihar are way out in the wilderness. The Volkihar couldn't care less about "city life", while the "Sanguinare" don't care for living out in the boonies, so to speak.

Still, we can't discredit the Cyrodiilic's vampire reputation for wiping out other clans. In any way, a DLC would be amazing, pitting these two against each other.

» Sun Jun 03, 2012 5:26 am

So it's only a coincidence then that the book mentions Volkihar vampires and they appear in Skyrim? Or that the man in the book also appears in Skyrim as a vampire? It's easy to make excuses, it really is, but this is enough. Bethesda was lazy and that's all there is to it. You can come up with any number of explanations for why things turned out how they did -- some logical, some not -- but the truth is that Bethesda themselves decided on copypasting the vampires from Oblivion into Skyrim. Subtle changes were made, and they are a bit more powerful, but that's it. It's an entirely new region with a brand new environment, and vampires are pretty much the same -- or worse -- than they were before. You can't justify that.

history books are often written with a bias towards the authors agenda...... and lies can be included in the history books if the author heard something that they wanted to believe so they wrote it as fact and a hundred or so years later is is just accepted as fact because it was written in a history book....... i never understood why everything written in every book in TES is considered 100% true facts that have no bias or outright made up facts because of the bias of the author.......

there is no reason to have to justify anything.. it is what it is.. just because a person doesnt understand the hows or why doesnt mean that it wrong or an error........

it would be like screaming "lore says dragons no longer exist!" while being bathed in the fire of frost of the dragon you are screaming at.......