Skyrim: Turning the Dawnguard into Vampires

In the Skyrim quest "Destroying the Dawnguard," the Dragonborn is tasked with killing all of the Dawnguard leaders. Using the Better Vampires mod, it is possible to kill all of them and resurrect them as vampires and still complete the quest. This was such a curious thing for me, that I just had to make a video about it.

Some things to note are that in the mod configuration menu under the Better Vampires options, the Dawnguard will be shown as allies despite them continuing to send hunting parties after the Dragonborn.

Additionally, the faces of the newly turned vampires will be a different shade than their body. This happens because they were never meant to become vampires, unlike the Dragonborn and a select few NPCs like your spouse and child. There is no way around this unless you modify their race in the Creation Kit (I haven't done this myself so do this at your own risk). One can temporally fix this by changing the NPC's weight.

This was captured using NVIDIA ShadowPlay.

Link to the mod Better Vampries on the Skyrim Nexus http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/...

Edit: This has also been confirmed to work with the public assassination radiant quests the vampires give you. Should you make it a public killing as instructed, I would recommend you find a way to keep the guards busy with either thralls or paralysis before you feed on the deceased npc. Keep in mind if the npc in question is involved with quests, it would be best to complete those quests before doing the deed. Otherwise, you may break said quests.

As of Better Vampires 7.8 the grey face bug no longer applies to NPCs turned into vampires, but you are limited to turn 30 NPCs into vampires at any given time. You can read the full change log here http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/...