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Iccotak wrote: »

@SidewalkChalk5
there was nothing vague about what they said concerning Vampirism. They made very clear statements.
They said;
- This is a Rework of the existing Vampire skill line
- Blood Scion is the ultimate coming with the rework. A gift from Lamae Bal, the Mother of Vampires
- They want to change up the play style of the skill line so that you actually have to engage at being a vampire
These were explicitly stated. Until the dev build comes out, we are going to have to take what they said at face value.

A single skill line approach would require an unprecedented use of the skill system, would be inconsistent with how similar abilities are handled with existing tools, robs players of numerous character build choices, and robs the devs of an awesome chance to creatively represent two different vampire strains in game.

You can have that opinion but I would wait until the reworked skill line becomes available to test out before judging it

also imo two vampire skill lines sounds redundant.

@TX12001rwb17_ESO
Lamae Bal is the Mother Vampires - she was the first. As far as I am concerned that gives her lots of room in the lore for unique abilities.

Lamae Bal is NOT the mother of all Vampires, she was only the first Vampire which ultimately means nothing because only a few clans are actually descended from her, the Volkihar are a completely different strain of Vampire just like how a Werewolf is different from Werebear.

Harkon, Serana, Valerica, Venrandis Ravenatch, none of them have anything to do with Lamae Bal, they are all Pureblooded Vampires turned directly by Molag Bal, the former would likely try to kill her on sight and use her blood for a certain purpose, infact ever wonder why Lamae Bal just so happens to be in Coldharbour?

It means someone must have already succeeded in slaying her so I guess she isn't that tough, Harkon however was stated by Valerica to have slaughtered hundreds who had tried to slay him and he lived all the way up to the 4th era, he was a King who sacrificed 1000 Souls to Molag Bal to earn that power.

Nope, she is the mother of all vampires.

They literally said every strand of vampirism came from her in the reveal stream.

You did play Dawnguard right? the whole plot of the questline was the Blood of a Daughter of Coldharbour is required to use Auriel's Bow to block out the Sun. Serana and Valerica are both Daughters of Coldharbour meaning they were both offered to Molag Bal and became Pureblooded Vampires after he *** them just as he did to Lamae Bal.

They cannot descend from Lamae Bal because they were turned by Molag Bal just as she was.

Lord Harkon however was not ***, instead his price was that he sacrificed the Souls of 1000 people to Molag Bal, that is how he became a Vampire Lord, had this power been common for all of those turned by Bal then what was the point? he could of just had his Wife or Daughter turn him into a Vampire instead of killing 1000 people.

And by all means Lord Harkon is not weak, when you did battle with him he could erect a shield that required the power of a God Weapon to destroy, and that is not even accounting for the fact his name is almost an Anagram of Lorkhan if you include the first letter of his title and he does just so happen to turn into Red Ash when killed and the God Weapons you use is Auriel's Bow AKA the same bow Auriel Fired Lorkhan's Heart into the Sky with which Created Red Mountain, coincidence perhaps?