Inns are located in every hold’s major city and in some smaller towns scattered throughout each hold, including Riverwood, Ivarstead, and Rorikstead. If you can’t get an innkeeper to give you the quest, go to another inn or rest for a night. Their answers will reset with time. If you’re at stage 4 vampirism (by going too long without feeding), all townsfolk will attack you on sight. Feed or use a blood potion to lower your vampirism level so you can speak to an innkeeper for the quest.
This is especially helpful if you’re at stage 4 vampirism but don’t like feeding on people in Skyrim. The Dawnguard won’t attack you on sight as villagers will.
If you’ve never been to Morthal before, you’ll find it north of Whiterun. If you’ve been there before, you can always fast travel. Falion’s house will be labeled on your map once you mark the “Rising at Dawn” quest active. If he’s not there, walk around the town briefly to find him outside. You won’t be able to speak with Falion if you’re a stage 4 vampire. Once again, lower the stage of your vampirism by feeding or drinking blood potions.
There are many soul gem spawning points across Skyrim, including Fellglow Keep, Shroud Hearth barrow, Broken Fang cave, and the hidden room in Hjerim. You can’t use The Black Star as a substitute! Buy the soul trap spellbook from either the court mages at Whiterun and Windhelm or one of the mages at the College of Winterhold. Enchant a weapon with Soul Trap if you already disenchanted one with the same property. If you can’t find or make a weapon, speak with Tyranus in Markarth. You’ll get the Mace of Molag Bal for completing the “House of Horrors” quest.
Falion won’t perform the ritual without you there, so you don’t need to go to the summoning stones immediately if you’d rather do something else first.
If Falion dies at any point before you complete the quest, simply proceed with either becoming a werewolf or using console commands to cure yourself. If you’re having doubts, remember that Falion will do this ritual as often as you want. So, if you go right back out and become a vampire again, just return to him when you’re ready, and he’ll help you.
You can also have your first interaction with the Companions on the Pelagia farm outside of Whiterun. If you talk to Aela there, she’ll invite you to see Kodlak about joining the faction.
The Underforge is right outside Jorrvaskr, and Skjor will have a quest marker on him once you mark “The Silver Hand” active.
This is a viable cure for vampirism (both Sanguinare Vampiris and full vampirism) because being a werewolf makes you immune to all diseases. It cancels out the vampirism and makes you a lycanthrope only. If you don’t want to stay a werewolf, don’t worry! Just finish the Companion’s questline; the choice to cure your lycanthropy will be given naturally in the final quest, “Glory of the Dead. ”
Gamers usually consider this tactic a last resort, since you’re technically using cheat codes to fix the problem. Nonetheless, you’re free to use console commands whenever you need them! Note that this cure works on computers only. You won’t have access to console commands on an Xbox, PlayStation, or Switch.
This handy line of code also removes poisons and any other permanent debuffs affecting your character too!
Since Skyrim (like many Bethesda games) is notorious for glitches, use the code “setstage 0005C625 200” if you can’t get the “Rising at Dawn” quest to start.
During this 3-day window, you can use any of the following cures to get rid of the disease. Once you’re a full vampire, they won’t work; you’ll need to see Falion or become a werewolf. If you begin to see messages that you hunger for blood or your skin burns in the light, it means you’ve become a full vampire. If you fight a vampire and aren’t sure whether you got the disease or not, it never hurts to use one of these basic cures to be safe!
Find the recipe for the cure disease potion by buying Honeyside, the Riften player home, or buy it from an alchemist. To craft the potion, you’ll need mudcrab chitin and vampire dust. Shop supplies are semi-random and will not always have cure disease potions in stock. Check stores like Arcadia’s Cauldron (Whiterun), Angeline’s Aromatics (Solitude), and The Hag’s Cure (Markarth).
For example, there’s the Temple of Mara (Riften), the Temple of Dibella (Markarth), the Temple of Kynareth (Whiterun), and the Temple of the Divines (Solitude).
Note that once you begin the Dawnguard questline, the Hall of the Vigilant will be destroyed, and you won’t be able to find Vigilants there regularly.
