The Elder Scroll Skyrim Vampirism Tutorial

Players can contract the vampirism disease, Sanguinare Vampiris, through combat with a vampire. The player will be notified when they have contracted the disease and will have 72 hours to cure his or her self. After 72 hours, the infected player will become a vampire, obtaining the abilities of a stage one vampire.

Vampirism

You can generally find vampires in a cave called Haemar's Shame which is southwest of Ivarstead. Whenever you encounter a vampire in battle, every time they hit you, there is a 10% chance of you contracting Sanguinare Vampiris. This is a disease that slowly turns you into a full blown vampire. After defeating vampires, its best to check your Active Effects list to see if you contracted Sanguinare Vampiris. If you did, quickly drink a Cure Disease potion or go pray at a Shrine.

The first time the sunsets with this disease fully through your body, you will receive an onscreen message: "You feel a strange thirst as the sun sets." At dawn you will receive a second message: "You feel weaker as the sun rises." You have three days to cure this disease by drinking a Cure Disease Potion or by praying at a Shrine. After three days, you will become a full blown vampire.

How to Remove

While you do gain some cool powers as a stage 4 vampire, you cannot interact with the rest of society. To revert to a Stage 1 Vampire from any other stage, you must feed on human blood. To do this, you must find a sleeping human, approach them and you will see the "Feed" option appear onscreen. It's generally pretty easy to finding sleeping Skyrim citizens and guards around towns and cities in their beds, although you can occasionally find the sleeping bandit or warlock which will work as well.

Benefits and Disadvantages of Vampirism

Benefits:

Immune to Disease: As a vampire, you are immune to all diseases (except Lycanthropy).

Immune to Poison: You are also immune to all types of poisons.

Champion of the Night: During the evening hours, any Illusion spells you cast will be 25% more powerful.

Nighstalker's Footsteps: You are 25% harder to detect when Sneaking.

Resist Frost: Your Frost Resistance changes depending on what stage of vampirism you are in.

Stage 1: Resist Frost 25%

Stage 2: Resist Frost 50%

Stage 3: Resist Frost 75%

Stage 4: Resist Frost 100%

Disadvantages:

Hatred: During Stages 1, 2, and 3 of Vampirism, people will not recognized that you are a Vampire. But there is a 25% chance that they will remark about your looks.

Hatred: As a Stage 4 vampire, people will instantly recognize you for what you are and attack you.

Weakness in Sunlight: When outside during daylight hours (5am-7pm), your Health, Stamina and Magicka will not regenerate and will not hit their maximum values. The values change depending on what Stage you are:

Stage 1: Health, Stamina, and Magicka are reduced by 15 points.

Stage 2: Health, Stamina, and Magicka are reduced by 30 points.

Stage 3: Health, Stamina, and Magicka are reduced by 45 points.

Stage 4: Health, Stamina, and Magicka are reduced by 60 points.

Weakness to Fire: Your weakness to fire varies depending on what State you are currently in:

Stage 1: Weakness to Fire 25%

Stage 2: Weakness to Fire 50%

Stage 3: Weakness to Fire 75%

Stage 4: Weakness to Fire 100%

Powers

Stage 1:

• Vampire's Sight: See better in dark environments for one minute. You can use this ability as much as you want with no consequence.
• Vampiric Drain: An exclusive Destruction Spell that absorbs 2 Health points per second from your target.
• Vampire's Servant: Once a day, you can summon a dead creature to fight with your for 60 seconds. Creature must be level 6 and under.

Stage 2:

• All the Powers of Stage 1
• Vampire's Seduction: People and creature up to level 8 will not fight or flee for 30 seconds.
• Vampiric Drain: Increases to drain 3 Health points per second.
• Vampire's Servant: You can resurrect creatures up to level 13.

Stage 3:

• All the Powers of Stage 2
• Vampiric Drain: Increases to drain 4 Health points per second.
• Vampire's Servant: Can now resurrect creatures up to level 21.

Stage 4:

• All the Powers of Stage 1
• Embrace of Shadows: Once a day, you can activate this power to gain Vampire's Sight and Invisibility for 3 minutes.
• Vampiric Drain: Increases to drain 5 Health points per second.
• Vampire's Servant: Can now resurrect creatures up to level 30.

Living with Vampirism

It is difficult to fully operate as a Stage 4 Vampire due to the fact that the people of Skyrim react so negatively to the very sight of you. Because of this, it is a good idea to become self-sufficient by learning how to craft your own equipment and potions. Specifically Fire Resistance potions as you are extremely weak against fire damage.

Curing Vampirism

Make your way to Falkreath . Once there, speak to Valga Vinicia at the Dead Man's Drink and ask about any rumors going around. She will tell you that Falion in Morthal studies vampires. Speak to him and he will tell you that, in order to perform the ritual, a black soul gem must be filled. To get the black soul gem you need to speak to Falion again and he will offer to sell it to you. To fill it, cast a Soul Trap spell on a human target and proceed to kill them. The Soul Trap spellbook can be bought from Falion as long as he is stood in his house, at the jarl's mage in Dragonsreach or most mage shops will sell it. Enchanting a weapon with Soul Trap is also an option. Once done, speak to Falion. He will ask you to meet him at dawn, not far from his house. Once there, he will perform the ritual and you will be cured of vampirism. Be sure you are not in the final stage, if you are they will recognize you as a vampire and try to kill you, feed yourself before you go there. If Valga Vinicia doesn't activate the quest wait until you become a vampire, any inn keeper will provide the same dialouge once you ask for rumors.

While wandering around near Ivanstead, you may also meet a man or woman called a Vigilant of Stendarr, who will cure you of all diseases. The Vigilants are a militant order protecting the Skyrim population from Daedra influence after the events in Oblivion.

Upon becoming a stage 4 vampire, everyone becomes hostile towards you making it nearly impossible to feed and be cured. An easy way to get around this on the PC version is to enter the console (~) and type "tai" then hit Enter. This toggles the games AI. If done at night, one can easily enter any city and feed on any sleeping person causing the disease to recede to stage 1, making it easier to be cured, or continue living happily as a vampire.

To cure Vampirism, you can do one of two things

Contact Lycanthopy during the Silver Hand Companions quest. Becoming a werewolf will cure even vampirism.

Talk to the mage named Falion in Morthal and complete the Rising at Dawn side quest.