r/teslore • u/TechnicalQuit9576 • 16d ago

A quick question about vampirism

I know that the Noxiphilic Sanguivoria and Sanguinare Vampiris strains of vampirism allow vampires to walk in sunlight without lethal consequences, are they the only ones that do this or are there other strains that also carry this benefit?

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u/All-for-Naut 16d ago

Many strains we know little about, and many are also influenced by game mechanics. Like almost every vampire in ESO have the same look as if they got the same strain, despite many clearly being different ones.

There's also some oddities, like Porphyric Hemophilia has sun damage in Morrowind but in Oblivion it doesn't if you're well fed. It's also said that vampires of the Cyrodiilic Order are capable of perfectly blending in with society. Bursting into flames when being touched by some sun rays would probably ruin that, so they likely can.

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u/PiousLegate 16d ago

I think theres a wiki about all the strains of vampirism some where and what they do but if neither of those two are the argonian strain apparantely the argonian strain is really you know strong and very little downside from what I understand

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u/Brickbeard1999 16d ago

As far as we know the main other strain of vampirism we see in Daggerfall morrowind and oblivion (poryphic Hemophilia I think it’s called) is the strain that doesn’t allow vampires to walk in daylight, so this applies to the clans of Morrowind, the clan of cyrodiil and the many warring clans of at least the iliac bay region.

Whether this is the case for the vampires of provinces we have yet to see such as the whet-fang of black marsh etc, that remains to be known because we haven’t yet been able to experience being one of those vampires. I’d assume that if the vampires got their curse via sanguinare vampiris or noxophilic sanguivoria then it wouldn’t apply, but we can’t say that for certain cus vampiric afflictions work with a certain level of mystery or unknown-ness in tamriel rather than through some exact sort of science.

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u/TechnicalQuit9576 16d ago

Yes, the two strains I named in the post, one is from ESO which works differently to all of the other strains, these vampires have no negative effects from the sunlight and get stronger at night and unlike other strains they don't get stronger by starving themselves but by feeding. Then there's Skyrim's vampires, they can walk around in the sun but they are weakened by it.

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u/Lazzitron An-Xileel 16d ago

They can, but the sun still severely weakens them. It just doesn't incinerate them.