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Originally posted by Det100
first off, im not to sure how to get vampism, id kinda like to know myself, however i do know that getting vampism is supposed to rock. I mean besides the fact that you can only travel at night and everyone in the world hates you, i think its a good trade off for some kickin high attributes. |
You get vampirism by either being attacked by a vampire or in rare cases looting their dead bodies. Pretty much the same way you catch blight or common diseases. Once you have the disease it takes three days for it to manifest itself. During those three days you can get rid of it by drinking a simple cure disease potion. You will have nightmares for those three nights if you decide to let it take affect on you. Once you have it you will be instantly recognized as being a vampire by anyone you talk to - and trying to find anyone who will talk to you can be a chore (normally only mage guild and Telvanni will even give you the time of day - they are fascinated by vampirism). You will also take damage to your health from sunlight - a couple of points per second, so you can only travel safely between sundown and sun rise (some people make CE healing items to counter this problem). Also you will not be able to travel by boat, silt strider or guild guides. You will have to hoof it anywhere you need to go. You will not be able to buy or sell thing either except to other vampires in your clan.
There are a lot of common unaffliated vampire lairs in the game and there are three great vampire clans. Its probably not worth the effort to become a non-affiliated vampire. These guys are usally in old tombs (there's one due west of Ald Ruhn that I like to raid for vampire dust - and they regenerate over time). One of the three greater clans you will be directed to if you join the Temple and do all the quests for the Molag Mar temple. The other two you will have to find on your own and are pretty well hidden. One is on an island south of Sanctus Shrine and NE of Valenvaryon.. This is a pretty good clan to join. Just go in and let a vampire attack you, healing as necessary but don't fight back. Its okay to use hand to hand on them but stop before you do any serious damage. Once you get the message that you've contracted porphoric hemophilia go outside and rest for three days/nights until you get the message that you're a vampire. Now go back in and talk to the various vamps and find their leader. The leader will give you various quests to do. The third vampire clan in is a dwemer ruin SW of Urshilaku Camp (you can see two dwemer ruins on the game map in the mountains - one of them is the vampire lair). Different clans will give you different bonuses to your various stats. Once you're cured they go away. The three clans hate each other and if you visit another clan they will attack you on sight. There are some vampire quests that are not clan related. To find them you will need to talk to the Tevanni and especially the people in the mage guilds.
I won't tell you how to get cured as that is fun to figure out for yourself. I will only say that you should find and read three books. I think the names of the books are something like Vampires of Vvardenfell Volumes 1 and 2 (Volume 2 has more important clues and is much harder to find). The last book is a journal written by a bouyant arminger who found the cure. I know of only two copies of this journal and both are very well hidden (Highlight to read hint):
(the most I will tell you is that one is somewhere in a Red Mountain citidel and the other in a secret Vivic library - not the main library). This Journal gives very detailed instructions on being cured.