This was the guard before he took an arrow to the knee

PLEASE KEEP THE BUILDS COMING. I STILL PLAY SKYRIM EVERYDAY FOR 10 YEARS STRONG. AND THESE BY FAR ARE THE BEST BUILDS IVE SEEN ON KZfaq! GREAT JOB!

I've just noticed than the Volkihar Knight backstory is cleary heavily inspired by the jarl Balgruuf familly in Skyrim. He have tree childrens, all from differents mothers. The older is a young warrior and the youngest, Nelkir, is creepy and silenced like the Knight. It reminds me there is a cut quest in Skyrim where the Dragonborn should return Balgruuf kid's against him to make them kill their father.

I tend not to play vampires or “evil” characters but still I’m impressed with the creativity of this build. As always, I loved the lore and backstory. Your use of the guard helmet in conjunction with the vampire royal armor gives the character an intimidating and even menacing presence. Likewise, the Bloodskal Blade completes the aesthetic. The combination of shouts and spells you've chosen fit this character perfectly. I love the nod to Darth Vader with the theme for this character.

Great build 👍 I especially like how you mentioned who the character is personality wise as not all build channels do that, makes roleplaying a lot more fun when u know who your character is lol

“We take what we desire because we can. We can because we have power. We have power because we are Vampire Lords.” - The Volkihar Knight

Really liked that frenzy rune and throw voice combo, really does give the vibe of a vampire lord playing with mere mortals, also the cool interation between the blades beam and become etherial.

After putting Skyrim down for a month or two I finally returned and wanted to give this build another go. Although I wanted an Orc playthrough so I decided to mix things up. My version of the Volkihar Knight was a member of The Daedric Warchief clan, an Orc Hunter. Although the illness did nearly take his life it was a vampire that got him first. So after catching Vampirism he returned to his tribe only to see everyone dead and he knew Malacath turned his back on them. The vampire who turned him was a member of the Volkihar Court so he went to Skyrim in the search for them. We all know what happen from there and start the world of Skyrim! He learn the more magical skills and speech skills from the other vampires in the court, quickly learning and becoming a threat to the others. While once the major court figures sought to use the Orc Volkihar Knight, it quickly became apparently he larned far too quickly, and was far too dangerous with a sword.

Hmm, I wonder if the Volkihar Knight, Mystic Knight, and Dawn Knight will ever meet? I imagine the Eldest Brother would be horrified and swear to end the abomination of his Baby Brother's existence, while the Middle Brother would be more interested in the Volkihar's unsavory use of illusion to manipulate the masses. I could see the Mystic Knight investigating arcane crimes that ultimately lead to the Volkihar's web of influence, while the Dawn Knight independantly tracks the rising vampire activities, both unwittingly drawing closer to a "family reunion" ultimately orchestrated by their vampiric little brother who wishes to prove that it was he, not his elder brothers, who took up their father's mantle. Muhahahaha

There’s a glitch that allows you to use vampiric grip (basically telekinesis on living targets) in human form, it really suits the force sith thing they’ve got going

This is my 2nd build from you guys. Already have a Sunfire Herald build going, but will take a break from that build for a while to get my Volkihar Knight going. It's fun switching it up. You guys literally make Skyrim fun again for me. Will support all I can!

I like to imagine that one day, within Skyrim, The Dawn Knight and The Volkihar Knight will meet, and when that happens, the sun itself will tremble at their battle, a battle of blood and brightness, a battle of undead and undying, and as the sun sets, Fort Dawnguard reigns supreme over the land (I tend to side with the dawnguard in all my playthroughs) Only the light of dawn may blot out the darkest night.

This reminds me of my never published Viscount build. Aside from the higher emphasis on stealth (and 1H for the high sneak attack damage), the main difference between them is in the role-playing. Where the Volkihar Knight arrogantly seeks domination and control, the Viscount has survived for thousands of years by staying in the lower upper class of society. (As his build title suggests, he usually serves as a viscount, or thane in Skyrim, to ambitious mortals.)

I truly think you guys have the best Skyrim builds out there now, and this one is no exception! These builds are so well thought out with their roleplaying, special moves, and playstyle. I find myself anxiously awaiting each Friday now, extremely excited to see the next build! I kept thinking about what the next build would be last night, and when I woke up I immediately came to check it out! Amazing work, and keep it up! I can't wait for more Skyrim Builds, and to eventually see your take on other games builds like Fallout!

I’ve never played a Vampire in Skyrim...honestly I’ve never played anything but “good” characters. Even my their PCs were, at worst, chaotic neutral. This build inspired me to start my first evil character, and my first vampire. It’s breathed new life into the game for me, and that’s pretty awesome, in itself! Keep up the great work, y’all!

You guys nailed this build aesthetic! Keep them builds coming

Beautifully put together video, you have my sub instantly. Thoroughly enjoyable watch and a great character concept. And I'm pretty sure I know where you got the inspiration for the armor combo. Great work, look forward to seeing more. Really well done.

Hall of Mirrors is such a cool concept I love it

I love your explanation of lore for the characters you do. Very cool and immersive.

Great stuff keep up the work

Best Skyrim intro of all time. Well done 👏

Why does this not have thousands of likes! The special moves was such an awesome addition to build guides!!

This is, yet again, another great build. I’ve recently started using the “sacrosanct”mod. Very fun mod! This build will go nicely with my play through.

So side story idea, the Volkihar Knight after taking into consideration that their could be a day he would be slain makes preparations in insuring his name is carried on if he were to ever perish, so he goes on the search for an ideal spouse and ideal children but are simply his property to do with as he needs turning his spouse into a vampire as a “gift” but in reality is just another way to keep them oppressed under his control and protection. Pretty much becomes Tywin Lannister

I love the aesthetic, great work!

Just found your channel, the builds are great, and I love the way you make the videos. 💯

Would love to see this remastered for Anniversary, new armor and weapons

Thank you what an epic build

This is by far my favorite breton build that I've come across.

Such a great build, good job guys and thank you !

This was such a good build! I miss you guys

I always love your character asthetics.

Trying this build now, and I have to say that taking Master illusion is definitely worth it, if only for the ability to walk into Fort Dawnguard and cast Mayhem.

I absolutely love THIS! I agree with ya'll, I love to play Skyrim without mods! I always have more fun that way, I can't explain why though, I just do! I usually play a Vampire Mage type but never have I thought about using the Bloodskal Blade in my build! Ya'll always do a great job with these videos! I just need to pick one & play it all the way through, LOL! I think this is definitely it for sure! Great vid, keep up the great work! ;)

Guys, your builds are amazing. Both vanilla and AE.

Might do this with dark brotherhood gloves to reach 4x sneak damage with the blade. Great build, you guys are the best!

Dam a good old fashioned vampire king, great video

What a great build I would add the bonewolf and deathhound as pets but otherwise a perfect build and great background as always 👍😊

This build is incredible.

Just found this channel and already love the builds looking forward to see what you do next, also interested in your take on a imperial build. Great work

I'm sold, molding my thief into a vampire as soon as i kill mercer frey

I reccomend meditating on feim with Paarthurnax for the health regeneration with bloodlash

I found that a lot of the Volkihar clan traits are similar to that of Clan Tzimisce from Vampire the Masquerade, so what I like to do is use illusion (same as how one might use Dominate), Restoration for the necromage perk (which can serve as vicissitude) and shouts like aura whisper and animal allegiance for auspex and animalism. I figure the Lord form takes care of Protean

That esthetic is sick! Wish I would’ve thought of the Solitude helmet and the vampire armor together like that

Nightingale strife would be a really good power for this build... Really any vampire build, but this one in particular since it's a character that emits the feeling of being powerful.

Finally get to try that awesome build. My most favourite one so far. I personally would go with speech skills, only the ones on the right side. I would use intimidate a lot, role playing this as some dark Jedi Mind Trick (like the one Obi-Wan uses.) So instead of pursuate always try to intimidate. And, after the Anniversary Edition dropped, I think using choking Gasp as a way to heal Yourself up would be a really dark and cool idea. Even though it's already used in the shroud of cold-harbour, I'd like to imagine, that the Shroud teached this spell to the Volkihar Knight.

We see the youngest brother become the most powerful Vampire Lord (Volkihar Knight). We see the oldest brother become the most powerful Dawnguard (Dawn Knight). Let's see what the middle brother becomes!?! Can't wait to see it! Come on Skypothisis!!! 🤪👍🏻

You guys made me reinstall skyrim! Thank you for the builds!

You guys rock keep um coming

Dawg.. BLOODLASH?! That combo is a winner 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

I feel like going for the Ebony Blade early on would be good role play. Unless there's an RP excuse to go to Solstheim early the Ebony Blade is a good weapon to pick up early on and use until you go there and find the Bloodskall Blade, plus its a Daedric artefact, which you collect for RP reasons.

🤯 just subscribe that was awesome, keep up the gold work!

Fucking yes!!!! Totally doing this because I love being a vampire anyway, you guys rock, I love this build idea almost as much as the Sentinel one you did. Good job guys!!

Great stuff! This has my gears turning because I'm both indecisive and a sucker (pardon the pun) for good vampire builds. Also, since I tend to play female characters, I'm thinking this one could be like Cersei Lannister, feeling she's more capable than her brothers of carrying her father's legacy.

Very good!

YES NOW I CAN FINALLY BE A SITH LORD

Killed it with the Vader vibes 😍

Incredibly late, but I would just like to recommend what I did with this awesome build and the surprising eureka moment I got from it! I added Destruction spells, particularly Shock spells to combine a Palpatine-esque character with Darth Vader for a full Sith build. I play with the Sacrilege mod and that makes my Vampire Lord form even more powerful. I then played the build as intended, looking for the Bloodskal Blade, and to my SHOCK (pun intended), the mask of Zahkriisos not only LOOKS just as good as the Solitude Guard's Helmet, but ALSO makes my Shock spells even more powerful!

Forgive me, Skypothesis, for I have sinned. First, instead of breton, I made the Volk Knight a high elf. It felt wrong to play a Vader-like character that's of medium height. Second, I took some leveling in destruction for lightning magic. I thought it wouldn't hurt to have ranged attacks other than the Bloodskal, especially against dragons, and lightning seemed fitting for a sith character. Yes, I'm aware Vader rarely used lighting because Palpatine made his life-support suit vulnerable to electricity

This is a very cool build idea, please bring more vanillia though, I play on switch

So sweet!

Cool intro!

Dude, what would be a good name for this guy since he's a badass two handed vamp with magic this playthrough for me, which is a first.

I used to be an adventurer like you then I took a vampire bite to the knee

doing this build as a female version but i decided to go along with the dark brotherhood quest as a another form of control but also to use the dark brotherhood prisoners as my own "vampire cattle"

Noice

Probably Skypothesis' coolest looking character! Which mods are you using to have the weapon equipped on your back while casting spells? As far as I know that's not in the vanilla game.

Mara bless you!

I played this character and love it but I added conjuration to it and with the necromanctic grimoire add on from the creation club and gave him an army

"Draw from a variety of sources." Shows only one source 😂

I like how he doesn't even go into vampire lord form

Really loved this build. I am just wondering if you use your vampire powers at all or stay in human form.

That picture looks like Darth Vader 0:49

I'd just once like to see a vampire knight build that is more good aligned.

Thanks for the video! What race is this build? I guess I missed it!

Love the build tho I'm gonna change 1 thing and add another Dark Brotherhood Shrouded hood instead of the helmet (I don't like the look of it personally) And I'm gonna use some Blood Magic via a mod lol I just love the idea of blasting out blood red hp sucking energy at my foes haha

About the enchantments, you can’t put fire resist on an helmet

Time to make a vampire gard

I play Skyrim on the Ninendo Switch. My character is a High elf named Ortaza .He became a vampire lord thanks to Lord Harkan.

Skyrim in a nutshell: It feels good to be bad.

No idea if you still check this video comments but I really want to use this build but I also love sneaking, should I just put a few points into stealth for the dagger damage multiplier, and the rest of the points into the two handed weapon?

Kool build i am gonna try something similar but i am gonna use Heavy Armor not light.

When I was a kid, my cousin told me there was a star wars character who used the force with their tongue since they didn't have arms or something, unrelenting force reminded me of that

i know i'm late to this but since i love this i have to ask, what's the race for this build? maybe i missed it in the video

Can you make a guide on how you choose special moves

Why two handed specifically? Harkons sword would work just as well.

although i think its kinda corny, i have a lot of respect for the path of "ultimate power"

What is the Volkihar Knight's position on the Civil War? I ask this because you can't be thane of Windhelm unless you choose a side in the Cilvil War questline.

Thinking of converting this build into an Enairim version. Any suggestions? Maybe i add destruction to enhance the Bloodmagic of Sacrosanct.

Bit late to the party, but which mod do you use for the display of both the sword and the bow on your back?

Ok but hear me out, what about a palpatine inspired build, someone who is innocent on the surface playing the political game but in the background he pulls the strings of the guilds and uses his natural affinity to shock spells to exert his will. Noone around him knows who he is, his true power. Until he gains the trust of all the holds and in one swoop, takes out the stormcloaks and then kill the emperor.

I kinda wanna see this build 1v1 Isran or the Dawn Knight.

A few random questions, since I’m starting him soon. One, Hadvar or Ralof? Who does he escape with? (I initially think Ralof since he’s been on the run most of his life) Two, would it be in character for him to marry someone? I’m thinking Uthgerd the Unbroken since she’s not only one of the strongest followers you could marry, but you can actually turn her into a vampire. And three, what level do you recommend I go grab the Bloodskaal Blade?

Waaiiittt is this the younger brother of the dawn knight??

I really like this build but I can never get the sword to work.

i don't understand why you should kill the dark brotherhood isn't it useful to have assassin under your order from a roleplay perspective

Also if you go watch a guys channel on KZfaq by the name of rhys, he'll teach you how to get the ebony blade as early as lv.1 using a couple of platters to partially wall breach. And to finish the quest later for finding the sword, you can put the sword on a weapon rack your house and pick it up and mission complete!

can i use the vampire lord form or no?

Who would make a great companion for the knight

What race did you choose for this character