Board Thread:Skyrim/@comment-11344160-20130802031609/@comment-5569775-20130807162855

@Man od teak: So if a Dragonborn becomes a vampire wouldn't they lose there Soul, and thus not be Dragonborn anymore? That also would mean Fallion is on par with a god, in the sense that he would be giving/returning the Soul of the vampires he cures.

However, that's assuming that Vampires are even dead & lack a soul. In most legends vampires are simply classified as Undead, which many people don't know means Un Death, or Un Dying(immortal). The only Vampires that lack souls are the ones that make a deal with another being(usually a devil) in exchage for the immortality they lose their soul. However, that doen't mean they lose their soul at that time, it simply means when they do die(cause someone will eventually kill them) that their soul will go to whomever made them a Vampire.

So if someone sold their soul to a devil for immortality, even if they did nothing but good deeds to save and protect humanity, when they eventually die they aren't going to whatever afterlife they might have thought they would.People who bcome a Vampire through being bitten or blood transfusions, still have their soul. But because the power of being slightly immortal goes to their heads, they begin to act in ways that Humans assume only those without a soul could act.

And since it's just a way of calling them immortal, that means all the people who condemn any form of "Undead" are also condemning what ever deity they worship.

In the end though, I guess it's up to Bethesda to say how they meant the Vampires in this game to be. False stereotype, somewhat truthful, or other.