About this mod

This mod improves the visual appearance of the female&male Vampire Lords. New armors, glowing eyes, bigger wings, 8K skin retexture, new hairs, new wing texture, glowing Daedric Runes on the body and more!
Compatible with Sacrosanct and Better Vampire Lords.

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V1.4b Released - Now compatible with Sacrosanct!
Available on Xbox thanks to Snipey360



"Behold the power!"

Does vanilla Vampire Lord overwhelm you and you always find yourself siding with Dawnguard or being a werewolf companion? You may want to reconsider that because now you have a new and intimidating appearance. Weak, pale looking and chick winged Vampire Lords are bygone.




It is funny that in vanilla game a "Vampire Lord" does not look as much intimidating as an ordinary troll.

This mod adds armor variants, bigger wings, 8K skin retexture, new hairs, new wing texture, glowing Daedric Runes on body, crown, amulet and rings while also making Vampire Lord's (VL) eyes compatible with the player's vampire eyes. So, if you install a vampire eye mod for your character you can see them on VL too. Body is also adjusted to look more muscular and strong especially the upper arms and forearms. This mod even allows you to be invisible while using your bats power, contrary to some other mods changing its appearance. Installation is available via a FOMOD, you can choose what features you want. Most changes are restricted to player VL as I wanted some diversity between the two lord. Harkon has new wings, body and eyes but with vanilla armor and no jewelry.


"Men will tremble at your approach."


Thanks to DoctorNostalgia for this great video!


5 Armor variants:
4 armors total for both genders plus an extra variant for female (Ahzidal armor).
More variants will be added in the future updates.


Wings are really small and look like chick wings in vanilla game. This is immersion breaking especially if you are using a flying mod. I aimed to make them look better and more immersive by increasing their size and then reducing the unnecessarily thick bone sizes. Bones were moved behind the wings to make them less noticeable from front. Note: Some screenshots include older wing versions so their wing bones may seem thicker but this is not the case in current version don't worry.



Wings Comparison:

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Eyes are almost pitch black and they use dremora lord eye textures in vanilla game. Using vampire eye textures is much more fitting since the player is not a dremora lord. Eye textures are now linked with vampire eye textures of the player character, so they will look and glow accordingly while you are in VL form. (You need a separate vampire eye mod if you want different eye color than vanilla. A few of them are stated down below in the description.)
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Crown of the Lord Harkon was added to the armor set.
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As a devoted disciple of Molag Bal and a noble vampire, carry its Amulet and blessing? with you.


I thought enabling the player to see these magical instruments in action would be a good idea, since the rings of blood magic are tools for enhancing the Vampire Lord's powers. (now they glow with v1.4)


8K Skin Retexture:
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New Hairs:
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Daedric Runes:
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 Reveal your magical and dreadful nature with evil markings on your body.
Besides, these are not meaningless and randomly placed rune letters. I improvised them and each separate sentence has a meaning. The first post translating these sentences will be pinned. Don't forget to indicate in your translation that in what body part your translated sentences are located. (Done.)

For example: Vampire (Arms)
You can translate them using this tool


Body appearance was one more thing feeling vague in vanilla game. Vampire Lord looks weak and skinny despite its powers. For this reason, some adjustments were made on the body. These are just slight improvements from my point of view. Female face adjusted to be more feminine and body parts were improved to fix the weak look of it. I could not increase sizes further to prevent any clipping between body and armor. I can make even more muscular body with unarmored or vanilla armored versions in the future.

Male Body Comparison:
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Female Body Comparison:
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Some mods break Bats Power or Mist Form powers and makes you still visible or transparent while using them. You will not have this problem using my mod:
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This mod does not require any mod.
  • Install/uninstall whenever you want with any mod manager just like any other mod.
  • If you have other mods making changes on Vampire Lord, let this mod overwrite their files.
  • Load/installation order have to be after any other Vampire Lord or vampire related mod.
  • Safe to install mid-game. You don't need to start a new game or install this mod while you are not a vampire.
This mod does not contain an esp plugin.

Compatibility:
Compatible with Vampire Lord gameplay mods because this mod only changes the VL's appearance, not the skills, perks, powers or stats. As long as a vampire/Vampire Lord related mod doesn't change the player VL's armor/model, or give Lord Harkon's armor set to the player with a perk, there will not be any compatibility issue. I will try to create patches for incompatible mods in the future upon request.

- If your Vampire Lord is looking naked, revert back to human form once to fix this. This only happens when you were in the VL form in your save before you installed my mod, so the game couldn't apply the new changes yet.


"Lion among sheep."

Compatible with Sacrosanct (some issues may occur due to Sacrosanct update. Use sacrosanct 5.17.0 version or don't use my mod with its new version) and Better Vampire Lords mods. Sacrosanct patch is included in the final page of main file's FOMOD.
- For Better Vampire Lords mod:
Let my mod overwrite its files.
You need to unlock the "Sovereign's Armor" perk to equip your armor.

Except texture mods, my mod is not compatible with any mod that make visual changes on the Vampire Lord such as body model, skin textures, wings, armor and eyes.
(If not created correctly, other mods might cause your skin or armor to be visible/transparent while using the Mist Form Power. This is not caused by my mod.)

Tested and compatible eye mods:
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  • Ruby Red Vampire Eyes (I use this. Red eyes, 10x glow option is recommended unless it is overbright for your ENB)
  • Fangs and Eyes - A Vampire Appearance Mod (recommended for blue eyes)
  • The Eyes Of Beauty - Vampire Eyes SSE (For orange eyes. Blue variant looks more like purple in-game idk why)
  • Lamae's Gaze - vampire eyes
  • UHD Dawnguard Vampire Eyes (in this mod eyevampire_01 and eyevampire_02 has different textures but my mod is linked to 02 textures)
  • The Eyes of Beauty - Vampire Eyes Remastered


If you are using Skyrim Outfit System, you may need Skyrim Outfit System SE Revived - Beast Race Disabler

Recommended Mods:

Please feel free to share your screenshots in user images section and don't forget to endorse the mod if you like it.


My other mods:
Vampire Lord Retexture - 8K (has a vanilla friendly skin variant.)
Glowing Dawnguard Jewelry


In order to take screenshots in Vampire Lord form:
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1. Open console
2. Type "tscr"
3. Type "tfc", or "tfc 1" to freeze the time.
4. Take screenshot(s).
5. Type tfc again to leave the "tfc" freecam mode.
6. Type tscr to re-activate script processing.
Additionally you can clear the screen blood with "csb" command.
If you forget to re-activate and disable the script processing again, and become unable to click or attack. Just restart the game.


Known Issues:
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  • Some parts of the armor or body clips through the skin or wings.
  • Some parts of the outfit bend or twist too much when character moves or performs an animation. (In fact, vanilla body has this problem too but there may be something I can do to decrease its degree.)


Possible Future Updates: (no promises :)
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  • Fixing issues stated in known issues section.
  • Compatibility patch for Better Vampire Lords. (will be released in 1.3)
  • More options during install such as vanilla armor, no new wing textures etc. (requires creating a FOMOD)
  • Better skin retexture.
  • Making 8K skin retexture also a separate mod.
  • New optional wing textures.
  • Glow effects for rings of blood magic.
  • New hairs.
  • Removing the Better Vampire Lords file, and providing the compatibility patch with an edited esp, instead of a different file.
  • New male face adjustments and even better wing bones&body adjustments from scratch.
  • Main file for "no crown + jewelry" and also "no crown and no jewelry" options.
  • Different hair variants.
  • New armor variants.
  • Wing animations which also work when you go to combat mode in both stances.
  • Different base armor color variants. (black with orange gems, white with black gems etc.)
  • New base armor.
  • Improving the quality (not resolution) of 8K textures.
  • New skin color variants.
  • New and better animations in general from running to spell casting.
  • A really low possibility but maybe I can make a new mod for werewolves with similar features as my mod.


Some details regarding me and this mod:
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I plan to combine and include Vampire Lord gameplay mods in this mod, this can be an all-in-one mod for everyone in the future, containing everything you need to play as a VL with various options via a FOMOD installer.
This is my first mod. In fact, I was trying to make different Vampire Lord mods work with each other without issues but I kept encountering problems or glitches, so instead of trying to make mods work with each other without problems, I started from scratch to make my own mod. During this period, I learned some basics about modding and started to customize the VL according to my personal taste. In the end, the result was really good from my point of view and wanted to share my work with you. Thank you for your time.