Enhanced Vampire

### Distinction

* an augmented vampire engineered to hunt down and kill other Original Vampires and non-original vampires

The 'Enhanced Vampire' is the term to describe the type of vampire that Katherine Catlyon was turned into when she was resurrected by the ancestors. The ancestors enhanced Katherines vampiric side, to make her the ultimate vampire hunter. The leader of the Ancestors (Kristin Smith), enhanced her because she wanted to end the Vampiric race as a whole. Katherine was linked to the ancestral realm so, everytime she died her soul would enter the realm. This would make Katherine truly immortal, due to the fact that her soul went into the realm, the ancestors would bring her back to her body, and resurrect her again. The ancestors gave Katherine a weapon. A red oak stake, the last thing on the earth that can kill an original.

## Creation

Katherine was sacrificed to bring Brandon back to life. This made the ancestors furious. So the ancestors made a plan of their own. Katherines heart was used in the resurrection spell to bring Brandon back. So, the ancestors used a modified spell, the spell wouldn't turn her into an original, but would make her blood thirsty, to kill vampires. Kristin used the opportunity to seize power, she binded her life to the ancestral realm. So, as long as the ancestral realm remained, Katherine would stay alive.

In the second book, Katherine would fight Brandon many times, she overpowered him easily, and won multiple times, but she could never kill him. Brandon being the original lunar vampire, he was incredibly powerful. Her attempts to kill him were short lived, Everytime Katherine died, her power grew stronger. Katherine fought Rebekah, and her team, and she effortlessly defeated Rebekah, by grabbing her fist and crushing it, and snapping her neck in the process.

In one final battle, Brandon and the Dreadful, with the help of Rebekah and her team, they would lure Katherine out, and fight her. While a Witch named Ingrid, made a circle bound by magic, to hold Katherine in. The ancestors called upon their magics, and rose hundreds of dead vampires to fight them to get Katherine out. Ingrid finished her spell. But, Katherine couldn't be cured, but the ancestors hold on her was gone.

## Powers and Abilities

* **Super Strength:** Enhanced vampires are much stronger than Immortals, Supernatural Hunters, non-Original vampires, werewolves, non-Original hybrids, and humans. They even possess enough strength to overpower an Original vampire, and even the Original Hybrid. Katherine even possess the ability fight off and even kill Brandon (temporarily). she overpowered him multiple times. She is even able to over power Mark (the original vampire). She also possessed the only weapon able to kill an original. Katherines strength is unparrell to anyone in the Secrets lie within universe, the power she contains is unlike anyone, Katherine was able to hold back Nick, and Samantha even snapping their necks almost instantly. However, Katherine has a much harder time controlling Brandon. His Lunar Vampire enhancement makes it much harder for Katherine. In Book 2 Katherine was bitten by Brandon almost three times, however she continued to fight (the bite of the original lunar vampire is much worse and the posion travels much quicker than a non-original). the Fight scene lasted many pages; and Katherine fought and killed almost every member of the Dreadful and mamanged to incapacitate Brandon during it all.
* **Super speed:** Enhanced vampires are much faster than immortals, non-Original vampires, werewolves, non-Original hybrids, and humans. They are also slightly faster than regular Original vampires, and possibly the Original hybrid. They are able to stop other supernatural species in their tracks and run miles in mere minutes. It is unknown if they grow faster with time. Katherine incapacitated both Nick and Samantha within seconds with her superior strength and speed, as the two vampires could not even hold Katherine longer than a few seconds before both were neutralized instantly.

* **Super Agility:** Enhanced vampires possess more superhuman agility, flexibility, and dexterity than Immortals, Original vampires, non-Original vampires, werewolves, non-original hybrids, and humans. They can move, jump, climb, and run incredibly fast without difficulty or exhaustion.
* **Super Senses:** Enhanced vampires have extremely keen senses of hearing, sight, and smell. Enhanced vampires have even greater senses than vampires and Original vampires.
* **Super Durability:** Enhanced vampires can take far more trauma than other vampires, werewolves, and humans can without much discomfort or injury. Enhanced vampires can heal faster than normal vampires when exposed to vervain, and sunlight. Wood does not seem to weaken them; even the Red Oak Stake, a powerful enchanted object, will not affect the Enhanced vampire.

* **Super Healing:** Enhanced vampires injuries heal faster than other vampires, werewolves, and humans. Human blood has also known to make the healing process faster.
* **Emotional Control:** Enhanced vampires can control and manipulate the emotions of one's self.
* **Enhanced Emotions:** Enhanced vampires experience emotions more powerfully than humans. Emotions like love, joy, and happiness are intensified for vampires allowing them to live life more intensely. This ability allows the Enhanced vampires to feel emotions at their peak regardless of their age.
* **Mind Compulsion:** Enhanced vampires can compel the minds of humans, non-Original vampires, and non-Original werewolf-vampire hybrids.
* **Immortality:** Katherine is truly immortal. Nothing is able to kill her, she tried many times, but was unsuccessful in her attempts. She would only be able to die after she ended the vampiric race as a whole. When Katherine would have her head removed, her body would light on fire, restoring it to her natural state.

* **Lunar vampire toxin control:** Katherine was able to fight through the pain of the lunar vampire bite and continue fighting. It wasn't until Katherine was bit four times that she finally grew weak enough that Brandon could fight her and end up snapping her neck.

## Weaknesses

Being immortal Katherine still had weaknesses, But, very little compared to a non-original vampire, and an original vampire.

* **Broken Neck:** Breaking an Enhanced vampire's neck will not kill them, but it will render them unconscious for several hours.

* **Desiccation:** Being completely drained of blood or the heart stopping will cause an Enhanced vampire to desiccate like any other vampire, losing most of its strength and any ability to move. The desiccated vampire will appear as a corpse and can only start functioning again once they feed on blood. This process can be replicated artificially by a witch casting a desiccation spell.
* **Link to the ancestors:** Every time that Katherine would be killed (by means that would kill a non-original vampire) her soul and mind would enter the Ancestral Realm. The ancestors would tell her that her job isn't over, and that she must return to her body. This would make Katherine truly immortal. But, Katherine would soon become aware of how much the Ancestors were using her. Katherine would eventually break free from their mind control, but only temporarily. As she resisted their hold on her, their hold would get stronger and Stronger.
* **Magic:** Katherine was incredibly susceptible to the powers of witchcraft. A witch with enough magical power at their disposal could harm or even kill her. Magic was the one thing that the ancestors used to put her back into place.
* **Physical Trauma:**Minor physical injuries such as gunshots, stab wounds and broken bones will cause an Enhanced vampire pain and also slow them down. However, this is momentary as they will heal completely within seconds. It seems physical trauma can hurt them anywhere on the body (ex-eye gauging, drowning).
* **The cure:** If Katherine would have taken the cure, she would revert back to being human. Brandon searched for the cure, but was unsuccessful in his attempts.
* **Lunar Vampire Bite:** a bite from Brandon couldn't permanently kill her, but she would die. But she would just rise again.

## Unusual weaknesses

* **Doppelgänger Blood Magic:** If blood from the last pair of doppelgängers are used in the Magic Purification Spell, all vampires' abilities will be stripped from them little by little and then they will be brought back to the last stage of their human life: Death. They will then relive the way they died when they transitioned into vampirism.

## Known enhanced vampires

* **Katherine Catlyon:** Katherine is a vampire born in the early 14th century, who was sacrificed by Brandon to resurrect him and create the lunar vampire curse. It was stated that after she killed all living vampires, she would then take her own life. Ending the vampiric race as a whole

## Trivia

* Katherine was powerful enough to fight off and win against Mark Smith
* the enhanced vampire is powerful enough to fight and win against a original
	+ but in a fight between Brandon and Katherine, Brandon won. Due to him being the original lunar vampire. But, there was many times when Katherine did win.