Drain Vitality (Dawnguard)

Drain Vitality is a dragon shout in . This shout is used by Durnehviir, Legendary Dragons and Revered Dragons.
==Effects==
*1 Word: 5 points of damage per second to stamina for 30 seconds, and a stagger effect of 0.8
*2 Words: 5 points of damage per second to stamina and magicka for 30 seconds, and a stagger effect of 0.8
*3 Words: 5 points of damage per second to stamina, magicka, and health for 30 seconds, and a stagger effect of 0.8
This shout does not absorb those values; it only causes damage. It is unknown if this is a bug or was intentionally done by the developers.
==Word Wall==
==Trivia==
*Gormlaith Golden-Hilt prefers to use this shout instead of Disarm or Unrelenting Force once is installed.
*The version used by Revered and Legendary Dragons does more damage and will hone in on the Dragonborn from a distance. Damage can only be avoided by standing behind something solid as the creature shouts. It cannot be countered by either spell resistance or spell absorption.
==Bugs==
* If the Dragonborn has acquired at least 1 word of both the Drain Vitality and Marked for Death shouts, a second version (or several more) of one of them, that uses the same words, will appear in the shout menu and will be usable, with all the words having a cooldown of 12. Its description will say "Drains 1 points of Health per second for 20 seconds. Drains 1 point of Magicka per second for 20 seconds. Drains 1 points of Stamina per second for 20 seconds." Spending a soul on Marked for Death also counts as using it on said copy. Each time a new word is learned for Marked for Death, it is learned for this alternate version as well.
**Fix: Start a new game without Dawnguard installed, after acquiring all 3 words of Marked for Death, it is now possible to install Dawnguard, then acquire Drain Vitality, without the glitched duplicate shout.
**Fix: Un-installing Dawnguard (which will remove all of Dawnguard's content and quest progression), then completing the Marked for Death shout. And, finally, re-installing Dawnguard.
** Using the console commands help "drain vitality" and player.removeshout <ID>, one can remove all versions of the bugged shout and then if words of the shout were already discovered, re-add the words with player.teachword <ID> (see IDs above).
==Appearances==
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de:Lebenskraft entziehen (Dawnguard)
es:Absorción de vitalidad (Dawnguard)
ru:Высасывание жизненной энергии (крик)