What happens if you don’t become a vampire Dawnguard?
If you don’t become a vampire in the Dawnguard DLC, you will remain with the Dawnguard side and continue the story without the benefits and drawbacks of being a vampire, allowing you to interact with non-vampire characters and factions without the fear of rejection or hostility. By choosing not to become a vampire, you will have access to better weapons and the ability to align yourself with a more trustworthy faction, providing a different set of experiences and opportunities in the game.
Understanding the Dawnguard and Vampire Factions
The Dawnguard and Vampire factions offer distinct experiences, with the Dawnguard providing access to dwarven crossbows and steel crossbows, as well as the ability to enhance them and create exploding fire/ice/shock bolts. On the other hand, becoming a vampire grants powerful abilities and active effects, such as Nightstalker’s Footsteps, making the player 25 percent harder to detect while sneaking.
Benefits of Not Becoming a Vampire
Not becoming a vampire allows players to maintain relationships with non-vampire characters and factions without the challenges and limitations that come with being a vampire, such as weakness to sunlight and hostility from NPCs. This choice also enables players to access certain areas and quests that may be restricted to non-vampire characters.
FAQs
1. What are the benefits of staying with the Dawnguard?
The benefits of staying with the Dawnguard include access to dwarven crossbows, the ability to enhance them and create exploding fire/ice/shock bolts, and the ability to make steel crossbows that ignore 50% of armor when enhanced.
2. Can you marry Serana after killing Harkon?
Skyrim does not allow players to marry vampires through regular in-game actions, but it is possible to marry Serana using a mod.
3. Will Serana follow you if you side with Dawnguard?
Yes, Serana will follow you and remain a follower if you side with the Dawnguard, and she will even go to Fort Dawnguard while you are away and tell you of the prophecy.
4. Is there a downside to becoming a vampire in Skyrim?
The main downsides to becoming a vampire in Skyrim are the weakness to sunlight, which prevents health, stamina, and magicka regeneration, and the hostility from NPCs, especially if the player is in the fourth stage of vampirism.
5. Will the Dawnguard turn on me if I become a vampire?
The Dawnguard will not attack you unless you feed on somebody in front of them or become aggressive, but they will refuse to talk to you and give you access to their Fort if you become a vampire.
6. Can you lose Serana as a follower?
No, you cannot lose Serana as a follower, and she will continue to adventure with you for as long as you want her to be your active companion.
7. What happens if you go to Castle Volkihar before Dawnguard?
You cannot get into Castle Volkihar without doing the Dawnguard story, and there is a bug that can break the entire questline if you discover the castle before you’re required to go there.
8. Does Serana want to be cured?
Serana does not want to be cured of her vampirism, and she refers to her condition as a gift.
9. Can you cure Serana?
Yes, it is possible to cure Serana of her vampirism after finishing the Dawnguard DLC by bringing her to Falion, who resides in Morthal.
10. Which side is better Dawnguard or vampire?
The choice between Dawnguard and vampire depends on the player’s preferences, with Dawnguard offering access to better weapons and a more trustworthy faction, and vampire providing powerful abilities and active effects.
11. What are the benefits of being a vampire in Skyrim?
The main benefit of being a vampire in Skyrim is the access to powerful abilities and active effects, such as Nightstalker’s Footsteps, which makes the player 25 percent harder to detect while sneaking.
12. Is it worth being a werewolf in Skyrim?
Being a werewolf in Skyrim provides a 100 percent disease resistance bonus and offers a unique set of experiences and opportunities for roleplaying and storytelling.
13. Is Serana in love with the Dragonborn?
Serana develops feelings for the Dragonborn throughout the Dawnguard questline, but they are not especially strong.
14. What to say to Serana to cure her?
To cure Serana, you should choose the option “Are you all right?” instead of asking her about a cure, and then convince her to seek a cure at Fort Dawnguard after her father is dead.
15. Who is the best follower in Skyrim?
Serana is considered one of the best followers in Skyrim, offering powerful necromancy abilities and the ability to raise dead enemies to fight alongside her and the player in battle.