A blood thirsty vampire has found its way into Skyrim. With nothing but her dagger and mastery of illusion she stalks the night enhanced by the power of the necromage, her eyes seeing what others cannot.

It took almost 25 hours to build this character, but it's worth it. Playing stage 4 vamp in vanilla Skyrim is role playing nirvana. I've played a vamp before. This is the first time I've developed illusion and restoration to take advantage of necromage. I sneak because I have to. Hated by everyone. I stay in the night because I have to. With sunlight damage I'll get killed by so much as stubbing my toe. And controlling the mind of the enemy through illusion is so vampirish. No role-breaking comments from guards or anyone else because the only thing anyone will do if they detect you is attack.

Mod? Or did you not download Dawnguard?

What do you do for equipment? Obviously stay out of stores so Im assuming you forge everything or keep what you find in the wild? Im intrigued by your build. Nice job.

Michi said 'Vanilla Skyrim'. In other words, no mods are involved. Not having Dawnguard is a possibility, though.

No DLC's. Just vanilla Skyrim on the Xbox. I'm staying stage 4 to have both the challenge and role play of being an outcast who is attacked on sight.

I leveled my character and acquired my gear before taking on vampirism.

I have a smithed steel dagger (45 damage with one handed leveled to 100). Master Robes of Illusion and shoes (0lbs) enchanted with muffle. Though, I think with the muffle and silence perks in sneak the enchantment is redundant. That's it for equipment.

One handed, sneak, smithing, and illusion are leveled to 100. Restoration is leveled to 75 (level 70 to take necromage perk, and 5 more to get to player level 40 to get master robes to show up in vendor inventories). Sneak is fully perked. Smithing just steel. One handed just the first 5. Illusion all but the magic cost cutters above apprentice level. And restoration just the three needed to take necromage.

I leveled one handed and sneak before getting out of Helgon keep. I leveled illusion and restoration in Bloodlet Throne (the fire trap is handy!) Smithing was leveled in Dawnstar with the aid of the Khajiit chest for materials and gold. Muffle boots were found in the smithy's inventory. And the Khajiits were kind enough to give me the 10K+ in gold I later needed to buy Master Robes of Illusion in Dawnstar. I did all this while staying at player level 1 by not opening up the skills menu.

Still level 1, I headed back to Bloodlet and picked a fight with a vamp till I got infected, and collected fury, fear, and calm spells so conveniently located in my future home. Being level 1 made the job easy. Then the race was on to find me some master robes and boots of muffle before I hit stage 4. Take all the level ups, putting everything into stamina, and the only perks I took for now were the necromage. Fast traveled back to Dawnstar and gave the smithy a sore nose until he gave me muffle boots. Fast traveled to Whiterun Stables and hired a carriage to take me to Solitude. Gave the clerk at the Radiant Raiment a sore nose until she gave me Master Robes of Illusion and I also bought my shoes from her. Fast traveled back to Dawnstar and went to the hall and enchanted my shoes. Fast traveled to the Guardian Stones and waited till vampirism set in. With the vamp/necromage combo now active I took all my perks and equiped my robes. Walked to Riverwood and smithed my steel dagger looted while in Helgon keep. Went back up the river and across the lake and activated The Lady Stone. Went back the Guardian Stones. Waited until stage 4 set in. Fast traveled back to Bloodlet and cleaned my new home of some pesky squatters. Waited 30 days to reset everything but Bloodlet. 4MB save file.

I only use the dagger, calm, fear, and fury. I can dual cast them all with only 100 in magica. The robes combined with the necro/vamp combo makes my magica recharge like it was never depleted. In addition to the spells and dagger I use the night vision lesser power and invisibility greater power. That's it! The necro/vamp combined with perks makes it possible for dual cast calm, fear, and fury to work on anything up to like NPC level 70 or some such thing. Fun stuff!

Sneak, backstab, and silent casting makes it all very potent. Only 100 in health makes it all very dangerous.

As much as I dislike vampires, I also appreciate a good RP build. Very not-bad

Just to point out: you didn't have to get to Level 40 to get the robes. The merchants at the College of Winterhold update their selection of robes based on what level your skill in that school is. For example, I was able to buy Master Robes of Destruction from Faralda well before I hit Level 40 because my Destruction skill had hit 100.

I'm pretty sure the cost of an item is determined based on the base value of the item and your Speech skill. The price should be the same no matter who you are buying from. So they may be expensive when bought from the vendors at the College of Winterhold, but they'd be just as expensive when bought from Radiant Raiment.

Thank you. Disliking vamps would kill the whole nirvana thing. I really enjoy the role play though. And holy cow can I get my but kicked in daylight. The vamp/necro works against you in the daylight - increasing the sun damage. I have 25 health in daylight. And as if health regen really mattered when you have only 25 in health, the regen is magnified too. It's -125% in daylight. The lady stone's +25% leaves me at -100% (ie none). lol There are just 14 hours a day that you don't play in, period.

I read about that. I was so close to player level 40 that I decided to just churn out the extra 5 levels in Restoration instead of joining the college. Might regret it later though. I don't know if I'll be able to calm the gate keeper into letting me enter or not. She may just stare at me instead of opening up dialog? Calm is new to me so I don't know yet what I can and can't do with it. I do know I'd like to loot that college though.

Edit: Come to think of it, I don't think I'll try because guild members wont react to vampirism which would destroy this particular role play.

Speaking of calm, I nailed a wispmother with it tonight. They are cool looking up close. Then the thing turned into a stalker following me around. Started freaking me out! "Get away from me, you freak!" lol