Suddenly lost Sanguinare Vampiris?

[Drhankey]

So I'm playing a more evil, necromancy-ish mage that should become a vampire. I went out on my way to look for vampires a while back and while getting attacked by one the game said I contracted the "Sanguinare Vampiris" disease. So all was good, I thought.

Few days later I realized that I didn't get any message related to being a vampire or this disease and I checked my spellbook (under passive effects) and I couldn't see any disease related to vampirism at all. As if I didn't get it after all, or for some reason the game removed the disease!

So what happened? How can one lose this disease? I'm pretty disappointed, guess I'll have to look for some vampires again.

[Shrapnel]

clicking a shrine/ drinking a cure disease potion gets rid of it

[Drhankey]

Also according to the wiki (http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Vampirism_%28Skyrim%29), there's two different kind of sanguinare vampiris diseases? One "vanilla version" and one "dawnguard version".. what's the difference between them exactly..?

-> An alternative method to doing so is to type in the command player.addspell 000B8780. This will infect the player with the vanilla version of Sanguinare Vampiris. If one wants to be infected with the same disease, but wants the Dawnguard version, they should instead type in the command, player.addspell xx0037E9. Obviously, this will only work if the Dawnguard add-on must be installed.

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There are even Alchemical ingredients that will cure diseases if you eat them.

[Drhankey]

Hm oops, I might have used a shrine or two along the way. Stupid, I believe in Oblivion it worked the same way, should've thought about that. Then again I'm also an alchemist and I'm not sure if I made/ drank a cure diseases potion.

Oh well off to find some more vampires.

[gnewna]

Probably an evil necromancer wouldn't go round using shrines anyway, so you can work that into your roleplay :) (I mean, he might, if the Divines are silly enough to give him their blessing, might as well take advantage, I suppose.)

[Tacosupreme]

yes but what if someone becomes a full blown vampire? these thing will still cure it? I am assuming under effects it would say Vampire right instead of the 3 day desease?.. i am just curious as I saw the question above.. thought i would ask this one too

[gnewna]

No, once you're a vampire cure disease potions, shrines etc won't cure you. I don't think Vampire is an active effect per se, although it probably has a 'stage' active effect (each stage is 1 day since you last fed, up until stage 4, after which you stay at that level until you feed.)

The difference between the vanilla and Dawnguard versions of SV is, I think, that with the vanilla disease, after you're at stage four, guards and citizens will attack you on sight, whereas in Dawnguard that doesn't happen - I *believe* you can still occasionally due to a bug get the original version when you have Dawnguard installed, so you'll once in a while have someone come here asking for help because they're being attacked on sight even though they have Dawnguard.

[Drhankey]

Originally posted by gnewna:

Probably an evil necromancer wouldn't go round using shrines anyway, so you can work that into your roleplay :) (I mean, he might, if the Divines are silly enough to give him their blessing, might as well take advantage, I suppose.)

Good call, I was using the shrines to "gain as much power as possible", as I'm roleplaying a power hungry necromancer, but thinking about it.. I should probably leave shrines untouched from now on.

Originally posted by gnewna:

NThe difference between the vanilla and Dawnguard versions of SV is, I think, that with the vanilla disease, after you're at stage four, guards and citizens will attack you on sight, whereas in Dawnguard that doesn't happen - I *believe* you can still occasionally due to a bug get the original version when you have Dawnguard installed, so you'll once in a while have someone come here asking for help because they're being attacked on sight even though they have Dawnguard.

Thanks! I couldn't find anywhere what the difference between the two versions was.

[MaximumEffort]

*minor spoilers*

You can get both. Just with DG vampirism you get the Vampir Lord form. Everything else is the same.
There a vampire specific locations if you need to be 'diseased'. Then just wait 3 ingame days and you'll be a vampire. Though I recomend getting it through Dawnguard, either by Harkon or later Serana, as it much more powerful