How to Become a Vampire in Skyrim

Do you want a little challenge for your next role in Skyrim? Why not try becoming a vampire? This wikiHow teaches you how to transform, live like a vampire, and become a Vampire Lord in the game.

Table of Contents

Become a regular vampire

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Infected “Sanguinare Vampiris”. This is the disease that will make you a vampire. You can get sick by letting vampire enemies attack. You will have a 10% chance of getting infected every time you are attacked with a vampire’s physical weapon and the spell “Vampiric Drain”.

Morvarth’s Lair is one of the most vulnerable places to Sanguinare Vampiris because the holes in the cave are inhabited by various low-level vampires. You can take a few hits before dying and most likely get infected. Other places include the Bloodlet Throne, Haemar’s Shame, Fellglow Keep, and Broken Fang Cave. ^{[1] X Research Source}

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You need to make sure you are not immune. If infected with Lycanthropy (werewolf), you will be immune to Sanguinare Vampiris. Using Hircine’s Ring will also make you immune. In addition, the Argonians and Wood Elves are rarely infected due to their natural resistance to disease.

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Don’t cure Sanguinare Vampiris. This disease will last 72 hours in the game to transform into a vampire. After this stage, the character will turn into a vampire.

You’ll see notifications with flashing red lights that indicate your 72-hour deadline is near.
The character needs to be exposed to the sun at least once before the game allows you to transform into a vampire.
Sanguinare Vampires can be cured by taking Cure Disease potion or praying at the shrine. Therefore, avoid doing these for 3 days.

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Use the console (PC only). You can quickly become a vampire without infecting Sanguine Vampiris by using the console to cheat. First, open the console by pressing the ~ key.

Type player.setrace playerrace racevampire and press ↵ Enter (remember to replace “playerrace” with the race name). For example, if you are Khajit then enter player.setrace khajitracevampire .

Become a Vampire Lord

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Download Dawnguard. You will need this Skyrim expansion if you want to access the special features of Vampire Lord. Dawnguard is available for all Skyrim playable operating systems. Vampire Lords have noticeably different weaknesses to fire and ice than vampires in the standard Skyrim.

Vampire Lords can transform into fearsome winged monsters. You will be able to cast Blood Magic and unlock many powerful vampire abilities.

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Start the Dawnguard quest. After installing the Dawnguard expansion, guards and innkeepers will start telling players about the group of vampire hunters. At this point the task will begin. You need to move to Fort Dawnguard east of Riften city, southeast corner of the map.

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Start the quest “Awakening”. After mentioning Dawnguard, you will receive this quest and be sent to Dimhplow Crypt. Here you will meet Serana and be escorted by this vampire to meet her father at Castle Vpkihar.

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Take Serana home. Take Serena to Castle Vpkihar to the west of Spitude. Give Serana back to the lord Lord Harkon and he will offer to make you Vampire Lord. This is your first chance to become a Vampire Lord, but if you refuse, you have two more.

During the quest Chasing Echoes, Serana will offer you to be a Vampire Lord. This is because living beings cannot enter the Soul Cairn normally.
After defeating Harkon and completing the quest Kindred Judgment, the last request in the Dawnguard quest line, the player can ask Serana to grant him the title of Vampire Lord.

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Use the console (PC only). If you don’t like doing the quest to become a Vampire Lord, you can overcome it by cheating with the console. Press the ~ key to open the control panel.

If you are not a normal vampire, you can use the command in the first part to transform.
Enter the following command to activate the ability to become a Vampire Lord: player.addspell 300283b . Then enter player.addspell 301462a to get access to Vampire Lord spells.

Living in the form of a vampire

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Balance between positive and negative effects. Every 24 hours after becoming a vampire, you will transform to the next stage. You will probably go through four stages with more and more different positive and negative effects. If you drink blood, you will return to stage 1.

Each stage will increase your tolerance to ice but at the same time you will also be more sensitive to fire.
The damage you are likely to suffer from sun exposure increases with each stage.
Through each stage, you will unlock more spells and increase vampire power.
Machine Characters (NPCs) increase their hostility towards you through each stage and will attack you as soon as they see you in the fourth stage.

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Move at night. Sunlight will hurt you, especially as you progress to the later stages of vampires. Moving at night will also help you avoid most NPCs. Make proper use of the vampire’s abilities to hide from the enemy.

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Sucking blood to quench hunger. If you want to limit most of the disadvantages of vampires, you need to eat right. In the standard Skyrim, you can suck the blood of a sleeping person by approaching them and pressing the interactive button like when using the Pickpocketing skill. The Feed option will appear allowing you to suck blood.

In Dawnguard, you can drain the blood of an awake person if you use the vampire’s Seduction spell first.
The blood sucking will make the witnesses hostile, you will also be deducted 40 gold coins if caught.
Drinking your wife’s blood is one of the easy ways to control bloodlust.

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Heal Vampire Diseases. Once you’ve experienced enough of a vampire’s life, you can take on a special quest to reverse the process. First, ask any bartender about the rumor to hear about Falion, who studies vampires. You can find Falion in Morthal.

Falion will tell you that the vampire attribute can be reversed with a filled Black Soul Gem. You can collect souls for the Black Soul Gem by casting Soul Trap on a human opponent before defeating him. Falion will sell you an empty Black Soul Gem if needed.
Bring back the full Soul Gem to Falion and he will remove your vampire attribute. This process can be repeated as you like, as long as you have the Black Soul Gem.

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Cure the Vampire Disease with the console (PC only). If you can’t do the quest and are desperate about escaping your vampire life, you can use the console to cheat and finish right away. Open the console by pressing the ~ key.

Type player.addspell 301462a and then press ↵ Enter . Then enter showracemenu and change race. Vampire trait will be cured immediately. ^{[2] X Research Source}

Warning

Curing a vampire disease is a bit difficult and takes time. You should save the game before becoming a vampire.
You can’t be a werewolf and a vampire at the same time. The werewolf character will be cured of the wolf trait if he becomes a vampire.

Steps

Become a regular vampire

Become a Vampire Lord

Living in the form of a vampire

Warning

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