Skyrim: Dawnguard details land, 15 hours of content!

by **Killswitchmad** Fri 8 Jun 2012 - 16:50

Bethesda announced an expansion for Skyrim yesterday. The expansion, titled “Dawnguard” contains roughly 15 hours of content. The expansion will focus on Vampires as they try to put an end to the ‘tyranny of the sun’. You can either fight alongside the vampires, gaining the ability to switch into a Vampire Lord form, or against the Vampires with the anti-Vampire faction, Dawnguard.

If you take the side of the Vampires, you can change into a snarling, spiky winged creature being able to fly across any environment in the world of Skyrim, disappear into a cloud of bats and gain a completely new perk tree. The Vampire Lord form will give you the ability to conjure a gargoyle to fight alongside you. You can also pull enemies, paralyze them, poison them etc. Your health, magic and stamina will be increased as well (by 50%).

If you don’t want to join with the Vampires, you can fight against them with the Dawnguard. You’ll miss out on the cool Vampire Lord form, but you’ll be able to summon an armoured troll to help you and you’ll also gain access to other bonuses. You’ll gain access to multiple tiers of crossbow designs, as well as armor and other weapons.

In case you’re a werewolf, you’ll need to sacrifice your lycanthropic tendencies in order to gain the Vampire Lord form. There will also be another werewolf perk tree, and you can always switch back to the werewolf form if you don’t like the Vampire Lord form.

New areas and quests will also be available for those who purchase the expansion. A new zone called Soul Cairn will be included which contains wild fiery horses, purplish fire and thunder.

Dawnguard will be released first on Xbox 360 this summer, with PlayStation 3 and PC version to follow sometime afterward.