The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim offers a number of ways for players to embrace the fantasy elements of the game, one of which is becoming a vampire. Being a vampire in Skyrim comes with a number of pros and cons, ranging from increased spell abilities to vulnerability in sunlight. It's fairly easy for determined players to become vampires, especially in Skyrim's Dawnguard expansion, and there are a few specific ways to reverse the change as well.
Skyrim's vampirism can be healed, as it's merely a disease called Sanguinare Vampiris that can be contracted by fighting any infected creature. There is a three-day incubation period, after which players become full-fledged vampires. Vampirism itself has four stages of severity which progresses the longer players go without feeding; those at the higher stages will find their vampiric abilities stronger, but the accompanying weaknesses will also be more powerful.
Being a vampire in Skyrim may not be for everyone, especially for those whose gameplay focuses on the more charismatic elements of the game. As with most of the diseases in Skyrim, it is possible to cure a character of vampirism. However, the method of doing so differs depending on whether the disease is in its incubation phase or if Skyrim players are fully-fledged vampires.
Skyrim: Curing Vampirism
Those who were accidentally infected with Sanguinare Vampiris in Skyrim while fighting through dungeons have three in-game days to purge themselves of the disease before officially becoming a vampire. Fortunately, at this stage it's a relatively quick fix. All players have to do is either drink one of Skyrim's many Potions of Cure Disease, or pray at a shrine, and they will not become a vampire.
Skyrim players who weren't able to stop the infection from taking hold, or those who wanted to try being a vampire and found it wasn't for them, still have an option to cure the vampiric infection - albeit via a much more involved process. Players must travel to Morthal and speak to Falion, a vampire scholar who will instruct players to fill a Black Soul Gem and return. Even Falion will attack stage four vampires on sight, so players should be sure to feed before going to see him. Once completing the Black Soul Gem quest, players must meet Falion in a stone circle outside the town at dawn, and he will perform a ritual curing players of vampirism. If players have already killed Falion and can't use his skills, or if they want to use a less-conventional method of curing the disease, they can either become a Skyrim werewolf or use console commands to end their character's time as a vampire.