How does Vampirism work in Skyrim?

Post » Sat Aug 09, 2014 2:49 am

Does Molag Bal get your spirit when you become a Pure blood/ thin blooded Vampire?

Just wondering. It would sound as though you exchange your spirit for immortality of the flesh if thats how it works.

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Robert Jackson
 
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Post » Sat Aug 09, 2014 8:35 am

It works much better than Oblivion.

And yes, that is pretty much how it works unless you're devote to multiple Princes? Though imo it seems that being a Vampire kind of takes precedence over being the guy who retreived your lucky trinket.

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Post » Sat Aug 09, 2014 10:03 am

Depends. The current Volkahir branch of vampires seem to be Bal's personal strain, but unlike Hircine and his lycanthropes, he doesn't have a monopoly on the trade. Vile has his own strain of vampirism, Varemina dabbles in it given Bal had to pry a cure from her in Morrowind, and given the many different clans showing unique and otherwise strange abilities, you have a whole host of potential sources. Daughters of Coldharbor and kin that pledge their own allegiance to them might get in, but I don't think its a guarantee you'll end up in his clutches.

IIRC, you can still capture their souls, albeit I forget if they're categorized as white or black in Skyrim. I figure you're offering someone elses soul so whatever power at work can purge your own.

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Post » Sat Aug 09, 2014 9:54 am

So vampirism is just something the daedra ( Molag Bal and Clavicus Vile) made to spite Arkay than?

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Post » Sat Aug 09, 2014 5:42 am

Bal's case is in part of his desecration of his original victim, so I don't particularly think he did it for any other reason then because he could, though it could very well be a mockery of the natural life cycle on Nirn. Vile is a different since we don't know what sort of deal prompted him to create/modify his own strain, though I wager it was at a mortals/other vampires behest. Vile doesn't do anything for nothing after all.

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