I was wondering if Vampirism can be passed onto the offspring(or if Vampires can even procreate at all).

Any ideas or speculation?

If I'm remembering Oblivion correctly, and the Grey Prince is anything to go by, it appears Vampires can indeed produce offspring, albeit it seems to be a rare event, or one that no one in their right mind would go tell the world to. As for the acutally producing a new born vampire...I don't think so, as vampires do not seem to age at all. Look at Babette. That is not to say that offspring of a vampire and a mortal do not have unique qualites...or at least I think it was mentioned that the grey prince was a bit tougher then your average orc for that reason.

I believe the mother side rule applies. Mother is a vampire, the baby is one too. Father is a vampire, we get a really strong dude like the Grey Prince.

Not sure about that because vampirism isn't a racial trait, it's a disease. Since a vampire is undead and unaging, a vampire offspring would never develop. Babette shows also that vampirism can affect the very young.

Personally I'd say vampirism isn't hereditary and the Grey Prince was a one-off fluke, maybe a practical joke by the gods (even the vampire father couldn't believe it happened). A vampire is undead, and it strains believability that one is functional enough to have kids.

If we understand the mother to have the primary role in the transmission of morphic and biological traits, I would theorize that if a female vampire coupled with a male mortal, there would be no offspring as the stunted development common to most strains would prohibit any embryonic growth from the very start. However, if a male vampire were to impregnate a female mortal, there could conceivably (as it were) be a child, although for reasons of vitality (or rather lack thereof), the functionality and performance of the virile agent might be inadequate to successfully penetrate the ovum.

Maybe the Gray Prince's mother wasn't entirely truthful? Perhaps there was a third donor who actually impregnated her, while her vampiric lover provided some additional transformative agent.

Given lycanthropy as a similar "morphic or biological trait", its transmission to offspring isn't dependent on the mother. In Daggerfall, there's a quest where you need to deal with a child who inherited the disease from their father.

Maybe the children can be born with the disease pory-something, not actual vampirism?

They certainly don't go at it much, otherwise the world would be teeming with the immortal bastards.

I think it just produces the http://www.fightingmaster.com/actors/snipes/photos/snipes.jpg http://images.wikia.com/castlevania/images/2/27/Alucard_002.jpg http://images.wikia.com/buffy/images/f/fb/Connorsword.jpg

Werewolves aren't vampires. Lycanthropy doesn't stunt physiological development.

But it does affect physiological development, heightening senses and possibly prolonging life (Tharsten Heart-Fang ruled the Skaal for "generations" because of his lycanthropy), along with forced (and willed) physical changes. Lycanthropy is a hereditary disease but isn't dependent on the mother, so it would make sense that if vampirism is a hereditary disease, it also wouldn't be dependent on the mother.

Though it is a bit of an academic point, since I don't think vampirism can be a hereditary disease and there's no cases of it happening.

Vampires generally don't feel or express love. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that feeling love for anybody gets cemented when someone turns into a vampire (see: The Count Skingrad), and it is very rare for a Vampire to overcome their lust for feeding enough to feel love for a non-vampire.