Vampires are physically superior to humans, having improved strength and speed, and inherent invisibility and charm powers.
Most vampires, however, can suppress this transformation through the consumption of blood, which allows them to coexist with the mortal races. As a result of their transformation, a vampire's skin becomes pale or gray-tinted, their eyes turn red (or white in the case of Khajiit and Argonians), and their canines sharpen into fangs. Thus, vampires are not strictly a race themselves, but rather are vampiric forms of nearly all other sentient races. Vampirism is the result of Porphyric Hemophilia, which can infect humans, Mer and even Beastfolk.
