Alternatively, you can activate the Bloodspring in Redwater Den or let Serana infect you, either at the end of the Chasing Echoes quest or after the core Dawnguard questline is complete. If Dawnguard is installed, you can also gain vampirism by letting Lord Harkon infect you during the Bloodline quest. If the disease is not cured within three days, it will progress to full vampirism, and the effects can no longer be reversed with a normal cure (see below). At sunset of that day, 'You feel a strange thirst come over you'. At sunrise of the first day after contracting Sanguinare Vampiris, a message will appear saying 'You feel strangely weakened by the sunrise'. Initially, this is a normal disease that reduces your total health by 25 points and can be easily cured with a potion of Cure Disease, a Vigilant of Stendarr, or by visiting a shrine. Sanguinare Vampiris is contracted from encounters with vampires: whenever a vampire casts Vampiric Drain on you, there is a 10% chance for you to be infected with the disease. If the Dawnguard add-on is installed, and you have been granted vampirism from Serana or Lord Harkon, you will be able to transform into a powerful Vampire Lord with a lesser power. Vampirism in Skyrim is a disease that transforms players infected with Sanguinare Vampiris into vampires: feared, blood-drinking creatures of the night. This article is about the disease Vampirism, in particular the effects it has on the player.

Skyrim becoming a vampire lord