So I made a thread in the mods section about this to a degree. I was just curious was it possible for Bethesda to add in new vampires with Dawnguard without changing the vampires we got in the vanilla game? So that way we could have the more Cyrodiilic vampires of the vanilla game who look somewhat normal, and then have the Volkihar vampires who look more monstrous and ugly like we got with Dawnguard?

I am not asking for Bethesda to change this now, obviously, since they are done with Skyrim, but I am curious if they could have done this when making Dawnguard. I would like to see if a developer could answer this, although that is likely not to happen.

It's entirely possible to make different types of vampirism, sounds like it would take work but wouldn't necessarily be impossible.

Of course it's possible Making each vampire its own seperate race is one way of doing it.

So instead of changing the vampire textures, or meshes that they had in the vanilla game they could have just added new ones, and made them like vampire2facetexture or whatever in the code when they made them? Thus giving us the vanilla vampires we had, and then the new vampires in Dawnguard. I really wish they had done this.

If you would go to the trouble of separating the Vampires into strains as they are in Lore then you would actually need to separate them into 3 groups for Skyrim. Cyrodillic Vampires would be like the vanilla Vamps but with Sun Damage from stage 2 and up, Volkihars (Skyrim Vamps) would be Cryomancer Barbarians with full sun damage and hostility from stage 1 and up, and lastly Purebloods who would have the Vampire Lord form and i suppose weaker versions of all it's powers in "mortal form" while also being able to remove hostility all the way up to stage 4

Visually the Purebloods would look like Harkon and Serana, meaning very human with glowing eyes. Volkihars would look like the ugliest of the Vamps you see in Dawnguard. Cyrodillic Vamps would look very old with Red eyes

I can see what you are saying, but I think only 2 vampire strains are in Skyrim. The Cyrodiilic ones (vanilla Skyrim) and the Volkihar ones which came with Dawnguard. Yes the vampires in Dawnguard are purebloods, but that is only Lord Harkon, Serana, and Valerica the rest are half-bloods and lesser vampires. But all of them I believe are supposed to be Volkihar or other vampire strains other than the Cyrodiilic vampires. Honestly, in lore I am pretty sure there are only a few vampire clans that aren't ugly, like the Cyrodiilic vampires who feed to look like mortals and gradually look worse as they don't feed and I think some High Rock strains are not ugly, but other than that all vampires are ugly and monstrous looking. Therefore, they really only need the two strains in Skyrim, the Volkihar and the Cyrodiilic ones.