Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-1255618-20190427222211

I haven't played The Elder Scrolls Online, and maybe that wouldn't help with my question anyway, but how are werebats created?

I can think of four different possibilities:

(1) All werebats are vampires who contract the werebat strain of lycanthropy/therianthropy, a form of the disease that only affects them.

(2) Anyone (or at least normals and vampires) can contract the werebat disease and become various forms of werebats, but a distinction remains between "living" werebats and "undead" werebats.

(3) Anyone (or at least normals and vampires) can become afflicted with some variant of the werebat condition (blight werebats, twilight werebats, etc.), but all forms are also undead for some reason.

(4) Only normals can become werebats and vampires are immune to it (though I strongly suspect this isn't the case since it appears as if Hircine made these werebeasts to accomodate/afflict vampires, but this is only a hunch).

Can anyone else offer some information that may help determine which of these hypotheses is correct? 