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Issue #26622: Serana unaffected by the various undead-related spells
I'm kind of surprised nobody's reported this before (closest I found is this), but Serana seems to be lacking any kind of keyword or race to make her undead. She cannot be detected with Detect Dead, she cannot be healed using Necromantic Healing, and Aura Whisper doesn't see her as anything at all. While not major issues, Serana does tend to get lost with alarming frequency, so Detect Dead would be useful to find her. Similarly, while she may be unkillable, she can certainly take damage, and healing an NPC is both useful to increase your Restoration skill, plus I believe it'll get them out of recovery faster.
Of course, the obvious issue here is making sure that she isn't affected by things she probably wasn't intended to be affected by, like spells that damage or turn undead. |
According to this Wiki page https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Serana under the title 'Curing Serana's Vampirism', the following paragraph is written:
"If Serana chooses to become human, she will no longer be able to provide you with bloodcursed arrows, nor will she be able to turn you into a vampire. Her eyes will also revert to her mortal blue eyes. She will no longer be undead, which means that she can be healed by your Restoration healing spells, she won't be damaged by Restoration combat spells that target undead, and she appears with Detect Life instead of Detect Dead. Her combat spell usage remains the same; she continues to use a vampiric Drain Life attack along with her other attacks."
This indicates that the bugs you're experiencing are not universal. It should be mentioned that, if these problems you are experiencing were rectified, that they are then undone if the option to make her human again is chosen.
"If Serana chooses to become human, she will no longer be able to provide you with bloodcursed arrows, nor will she be able to turn you into a vampire. Her eyes will also revert to her mortal blue eyes. She will no longer be undead, which means that she can be healed by your Restoration healing spells, she won't be damaged by Restoration combat spells that target undead, and she appears with Detect Life instead of Detect Dead. Her combat spell usage remains the same; she continues to use a vampiric Drain Life attack along with her other attacks."
This indicates that the bugs you're experiencing are not universal. It should be mentioned that, if these problems you are experiencing were rectified, that they are then undone if the option to make her human again is chosen.
The way Serana is set up this is intentional. All of her keywords affecting vampirism and being undead are stored in the ResponsiveNPCVampireKeywords alias on the DLC1NPCMentalModel quest. If she gets removed from that alias then she won't have those settings anymore. The only way this is going to happen under vanilla conditions is if she's cured.
Any attempt to "correct" something here is only going to break how she works (along with Valerica and Harkon too).
Any attempt to "correct" something here is only going to break how she works (along with Valerica and Harkon too).
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