Vampires

**Vampires** are magically reanimated human corpses which are inhabited by the spirits of the deceased person and who closely resemble the living human they were before their transformation. Vampires feed and survive on the blood of the living, typically on that of humans, and they can also transform other humans into more of their kind by sharing their own blood with them.

## Types of Vampires

* Original Vampires (smith)
* Original Vampires (Mikaelsons)
* Hybrids
* Lunar vampire
* upgraded original vampire

## Powers and Abilities

* **Super Strength:** Vampires are noticeably much stronger than Supernatural Hunters, immortals and humans and slowly grow stronger as they grow older. Even new vampires who are still in transition can toss an average-size, fully-grown human across a room with great speed and force. Their other feats include single-handedly lifting grown men high off the ground by the throat and snapping their necks, cutting off a person's head with their bare hands, and ripping out internal organs such as hearts with little to no effort. Their strength is also more powerful than that of werewolves in their human form and, depending on the age of the vampire, can be equal to that of Evolved werewolves. Their strength allows them to jump higher and further than any natural creature. Vampires who feed on humans are stronger than those who feed on animal blood. The age of a vampire deterimes their strength, for example, Samantha Valez a 913 year old vampire, was able to comepletly smack the head of another vampire off their body. Vampires who are 900 years old and over are strong enough to pose a challenge for Originals, however the Original vampire would win. Vampires who are enhanced through magic, i.e strength spells etc. may pose a challange for vampires much older than them. Although noted that a vampire's strength enhances with age, it can also be noted that the emotional status of the vampire takes a toll on the strength. For example, when Rebekah was fighting on par with Nadia (during their training time) afrter being 200 years younger than her, this was because she was engraged.
* **Super Speed**: Vampires are much faster than various other human and supernatural beings such as supernatural hunters, immortals, and werewolves in human form. Vampires can accelerate their movements to cover short distances in an instant, usually faster than the human eye can see. When running across long distances, they appear as vibrating blurs of motion allowing them to appear or vanish quickly and quietly. Their reflexes and dexterity are similarly heightened, allowing them to catch certain projectiles such as arrows and thrown stakes in the air with ease. Katherine was able to completly through Grayson through a stone wall, using her speed.
* **Super Agility:** Vampires possess super-human agility, such that they can react quickly, jump very high, climb, and run incredibly fast without difficulty or exhaustion.

## Weaknesses

* **Vervain:** Vervain is a potent herb and a vampires most well-known weakness. If a vampire makes physical contact with vervain in anyway, it will burn them. If a vampire ingests vervain their throat, and digestive track will burned and a vampire will become feverish, and extremely weak, even to the point where it can hinder their healing abilities
* **Broken Neck:** While a broken neck doesn't kill them, it renders a vampire into a death-like state for various amounts of time. Nadia was able to recover from a broken neck (initiated by Nickolas) rather quickly due to her age.
* **Decapitation:** dismembering or manually removing a vampires head will cause in permanent death
* **Sunlight:** Sunlight and UV rays burn vampires on contact, and prolonged exposure will cause them to burst into flames and die. However, this weakness can be mitigated by the use of a lapis lazuli stone enchanted with a specific protection spell by a witch for a particular vampire, which is usually affixed to jewelry, though it requires the vampire to wear the stone at all times
* **Vampire Bloodline:** if an original vampire dies, their entire sireline dies with them. Unless this line has been broken.
* **Werewolf Bite:** a bite from a werewolf is toxic to a vampire.The bite of a werewolf, which involves injecting toxic venom into the wound, is extremely lethal to vampires. It will cause them to hallucinate, grow severely weak, and go rabid until it kills them.
* **Lunar Vampire Bite:** A bite from a lunar vampire is extremely toxic to a vampire. They might be able to push through the pain, but the toxic venom will eventually cause extreme pain, numbness, and hallucinations. the wound looks very similar to a werewolf bite. The bite releases toxins into the vampire's bloodstream, leaving the vampire incapacitated. Unlike a werewolf bite, the vampire does not become rabid. But rather remains in a good headspace, letting vampire make peace with their death. There is only one cure to a lunar bite; and that is the original lunar vampires blood. A regular lunar vampire's blood only slows down the toxins.
* **Wood**: Wounding a vampire with a wooden weapon such as wooden bullets will incapacitate them, and it will take longer for them to heal their injuries than if the wounds were caused by any other substance. Stabbing a vampire through the heart with a wooden stake will result in instantaneous and permanent death.
* **Magic:** Vampires are susceptible to witch craft powers. Witches use their telekinetic powers to give aneurysms in the brain, and muscle spasms. Due to their accelerated healing, witches and do this over and over again. They can also telekinetically rip out hearts or snapping their neck, magically increasing their hunger for blood to unbearable levels. They can also set them ablaze without a second thought, and/or desiccating them.
* **Zombie Bite:** A zombie bite is fatal to a vampire, the magic can be siphoned away by a siphoner, however, when a zombie bites a vampire, the vampires immortal life force flows into the zombie. This is what causes the bite to be toxic. Due to the fact that the vampires immortal life force leaving their body, they will return to their original stage before they turned. Death. Ultimately killing them.