Play Skyrim as Vampyr's Dr. Reid would: every townsperson has blood worth drinking, and every bite costs the city.
Read from your own Vampyr install every time Skyrim starts: Vampyr's 53 citizens, its three disease families with their real stages and numbers, its district names and health states, and its XP level table. Nothing from Vampyr ships with the mod.
- Blood twins. Every named townsperson in a Skyrim hold is matched to a Vampyr citizen by occupation (a Whiterun soldier to Pembroke's Oswald Thatcher, a merchant to Carolyn Price...) and takes on their Blood Quality, disease and Mind Resistance.
- Vampire Senses (V). Look at someone and press V: their Blood Quality, blood twin, disease, hints found, Mind Resistance and their hold's health.
- Hints. Each day's conversation with a townsperson reveals a hint, and every hint makes their blood richer: the better you know them, the more they're worth.
- Diseases. Headache, Migraine, Neuralgia; Fatigue, Anemia, Sepsis; Cold, Bronchitis, Pneumonia. They worsen night by night on Vampyr's own timetable, faster in a sicker hold, and lower the blood's worth.
- Treat (B). Use a Cure Disease potion on a sick citizen for Vampyr's cure XP.
- Embrace (G). At night, on someone asleep or whose Mind Resistance your Mesmerize beats: the feeding animation, they die for good, and you bank XP equal to their blood. Witnesses see a murder.
- Rest to evolve. Sleep to spend banked XP on Vampyr's level table: each level is a Skyrim perk point.
- Hold health. Each hold goes Healthy, Stable, Serious, Critical, Hostile as you feed and its people sicken. Feeding spreads grief and sickness to others; Hostile holds have vampires and skeevers in the streets at night. Damnation deepens at Vampyr's own thresholds.
Solo. Keys can be changed in Data/SKSE/Plugins/SkyrimVampyr.ini. Progress is kept per character in Documents/My Games/Skyrim Special Edition/SkyrimVampyr.
Needs Skyrim Special Edition and Vampyr, both on Steam. Works on the current Steam build (1.7.104) and the older versions Address Library covers. No SKSE needed: Melty installs Ultimate ASI Loader.
Credits: Address Library for SKSE Plugins by meh321 (included, with credit); CommonLibSSE-NG (alandtse, CharmedBaryon and contributors); Ultimate ASI Loader by ThirteenAG. Built with AI (Claude).