Agreed but how can they be the Volkihar? The ones we know of live under frozen lakes and as far as we can tell that doesn't happen :/ Well sure lore does say they come up to feed so than again who is to say they just don't chill in that castle for a few hours feeding on people there XD Wow never knew till now how basic and just savage I made them out to be......bad me


Anyways I really do hope they switched the broken thing around like feeding gives you MORE powers to a certain extent as a normal vampire and not feeding does the opposite, makes you weaker but also towards the end *say stage 4* makes you crazy somehow like you loose control for a moment and start running towards a NPC if they are close or if not that than ur screen turns brighter for you and you see a trail to any nearby humans....idk :/

Just hate the "get stronger if you don't feed" bs

All we really know is their castle is called Castle Volkihar

In a perfect world:

The Dawnguard vampires would be an entirely new strain
Some of the vampires would be unaltered to be of the Cyrodiilic variety
Others would be altered to be the Volkihar we've read about

And it would be possible to contract all three strains (not at the same time of course).

And then it wuld be MW all over again with 3 Clans fighting

Would that be bad? If done right it just gives alot more options and surprise when you get bite, different powers is never bad I think

I can see the Vampire Lords and the Cyrodiilic vampires fighting each other, but I don't think the Volkihar would lash out unless they were threatened. The text makes them seem solitary and isolated, so I wouldn't imagine they have many clans.

It is not you, it is Bethesda who changed things a bit. And there are still people who tries to argue that the ingame book was a fake. Oh, please. It wasn't fake when they were playing Oblivion, was it?
I second this. And if te player is the Cyrodiilic strain, then can blend in the bloodlines by joining the Volkihar.

Please Bethesds! Just please release an "Immortal Blood" revamp or an "Immortal Blood v2".

Agreed , i know it is their game and they can change things at will but kinda feel a heads up besides like how they have done it is in order, kinda ruins it for people who had a big backstory made up for this thinking "that" would be like "this" and "this" like "that"

Well they will have the power to turn into vampire lords.




As for the whole Volkihar thing, they'll probably do the same thing they did in the Oblivion DLC and explain trough a book or dialog what's going on, maybe the same thing they did with Alduin and say what you heard is just fairy tale.

My Main's backstory goes back to OB and i cant see me being able to say he was Vamp Lord all along or something

Fat chance

How can the current be Cyrodillic when the Cyrodiil disease was called Porphyric Hemophilia but in Skyrim its called Sanguinare Vampiris so they would have to be a different. Not to mention the vampires in general are different.

It is a separate strain adapted to Skyrim

Eh, Jakben did call himself a "Vampire Lord of Blood". But we never saw him transform into a large Jeeper Creeper-Batman.

Since they will overhaul the vampires, what I truly want would be some friendly vampires. I walked into a cave, blood-starved and trying to find a sleeping bandit and I was attacked by vampires who screamed out "vampire, burn it!"

These sort of things annoy me. My vampire Draken is so lonely in Skyrim. Hell, I thought I was going to get a fair treatment with Alva in Morthal, but even she kindly told me to go away because her and her small coven would not share the blood. It would be great to complete the quest in two different parts, like the Redguard one which you could either help the Alik'r warriors or the escaped woman. Maybe even join Alva and overthrow Morvarth and keep the town for yourselves. Then marry her and go on happily. Well, at least we got Seranna. Right, right?

In Skyrim, some vampires should like you if you are a vampire. Like in Oblivion, Janus Hassildor had a 20+ is you are a vampire. In Skyrim, werewolves will not attack the player if he is in beast form. I would like to see some hostile and some friendly vampires.

I confess I did come across two vampire NPC's that were regular fodder, and they did not even attack me or the random farmer that walked by. This was near Whiterun.

Diseases have different names, I suppose. It can mean the same disease, just the name changed throughout the centuries. Afterall, Lycanthropy is Lycanthropy, or Sanies Lupinus. In Morrowind, it was called Porphyric Hemophilia also.

I would like them to BURN in the sunlight, not be restricted from regenerating anything ._.

But to say that there Cyrodillic means that they originated from Cyrodill, my question was how does he know this? Why not Morrowind? I mean the disease would have originated form some where, and the Skyrim disease would likely be adapted from that strain. But I fail to see how that means there Cyrodillic in origin. Just asking?

I prefer burning too, made it more of a challenge... I also think werewolves should be tied to the moon.

Because Movarth was infected by a Cydrodillic Vamp and he is just as all the Vamps that are in Skyrim now

honestly i would like to see improvments to the normal vampire form such as increase in health magicka and stamina for different stages. however i do agree with the weakening of these during day light hours. as for how you look at different stages of vampirism id like to see a heavy change in the way you look at stage 4 because from what i can tell the few times ive actually reached this stage the way you look changes little if at all and i would personally like to be represented as more of a monster in my final stage of vampirism

I just use the term "Cyrodiilic" because the Order has apparently managed to wipe out all of its competition in Cyrodiil. The book makes it seem like they migrated from elsewhere, but as we don't know the term for the Order's particular group outside of the Order (and I doubt all vampires that are of the same strain as the Order are in the Order) "Cyrodiilic" is just a blanket term for that variety of vampire.

I believe the Vampires that we already have integrated into the game are just the Cyrodiilic type, and that the new DLC ones are the Volkihar.
I think the only reason the ones in Skyrim are different from the ones in Oblivion (As in, instead of sun damage, we have decreased stats, non-regenerative magicka, health and stamina, ect.) is because people complained about them in Oblivion. I believe they're the same strain of Vampire in Skyrim as they are in Oblivion, it's just they made the game a little easier for people.
The new DLC vampires for instance have different eye colouration, they can actually transform into a Vampire Lord (a completely new form), plus, they also have the ability to transform into a cloud of Mist like the Volkihar are supposed to be able to do. So in a way, that right there is evidence that the vampires we have now are not Volkihar.
Perhaps they're just Cyrodiilic Skyrim Vampires. Exactly the same as the Cyrodiilic ones, but they have minor changes due to them evolving in Skyrim. Different climate and all...

Agreed, plus all the cool looks as in a vampire in Oblivion

I believe we are indeed cyrodiilic vampires simply for our ability to walk amongst people. Was it not the cyrodiilic that made a deal with vile to be granted their sanity and a control of the thirst?

More or less, He granted the Vampires the ability to hide their Vampire-esque look, so they can blend witht he rest of civilisation.