A thought on why Vampires look the way they do in this game.
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A thought occurred to me earlier while I was watching a documentary based upon mythological vampires and how they were depicted as bloated corpses, I began to think about the depiction of Vampires in ESO and I saw some similarities between the 2 and I came to a conclusion.
Vampires in this game look the way they do because they must be based on them, they were the original depiction or one of the earliest that people remeber and the vampires in this game are of the original Vampire Clan, the vampires in ESO also look like bloated corpses at stage 4, they take no damage from sunlight and have no fangs just like these mythological vampires.
The concept of being effected by sunlight came along with Bram Stokers Dracula where he was merely weakened by Sunlight just as the Volkihar Vampires are merely weakened by sunlight, they came after Lamae's Clan and are clearly a "Dracula Style" type of Vampire, so don't complain that the vampires in this game are not true vampires because they lack fangs as the true depiction of a vampire didn't have any either and they as well literally looked dead.
Vampires in this game look the way they do because they must be based on them, they were the original depiction or one of the earliest that people remeber and the vampires in this game are of the original Vampire Clan, the vampires in ESO also look like bloated corpses at stage 4, they take no damage from sunlight and have no fangs just like these mythological vampires.
The concept of being effected by sunlight came along with Bram Stokers Dracula where he was merely weakened by Sunlight just as the Volkihar Vampires are merely weakened by sunlight, they came after Lamae's Clan and are clearly a "Dracula Style" type of Vampire, so don't complain that the vampires in this game are not true vampires because they lack fangs as the true depiction of a vampire didn't have any either and they as well literally looked dead.
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✭✭Yeah I understand what you mean but then when you look at the Lycan, they're depicted as humanoid werewolves so isn't that fitting the mythological looks too? I suppose they wanted to give characters a proper vampire look with the fangs showing, etc but it was probably too much texture work for something that acts as a buff, or I don't know...--ϟ-- Crows_Descend - Templar - Ebonheart Pact [PS4]&[PC] [EU] --ϟ--
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✭✭✭✭✭The vampires in this game are supposed to have fangs. They are described by in game books and by npcs as having fangs.
If the books and npcs are talking exclusively about vampires that are not from Lamae's bloodline, I'm unable to tell.
By the way, for them to "literally look dead" they shouldn't have a completely white skin over them, disregarding their skin tone and body marks completely. That's not how a corpse looks like (unless they were already incredibly pale when alive).Edited by Abeille on May 3, 2016 5:48PMJust so that everyone knows, my Altmer still can't have black hair. About a dozen of Altmer NPCs in the game have black hair. Just saying.
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At stage 4 you look dead.The vampires in this game are supposed to have fangs. They are described by in game books and by npcs as having fangs.
If the books and npcs are talking exclusively about vampires that are not from Lamae's bloodline, I'm unable to tell.
By the way, for them to "literally look dead" they shouldn't have a completely white skin over them, disregarding their skin tone and body marks completely. That's not how a corpse looks like (unless they were already incredibly pale when alive).
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Ethromelb14_ESO✭✭✭✭✭rfennell_ESO wrote: »I guess they all need to catch some sun.
I see what you did there, buuuut ... you shouldn't have.
Edited by Ethromelb14_ESO on May 3, 2016 7:20PMMotto: Make deceivers believers.
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