Original Vampire

The Original Vampires also known as Originals are the first vampires after Dracula that were created by black magic and can only be killed by a few things.

## Powers and Abilities

* **Super Strength**: They are able to decapitate other species with a single blow of their bare hands, smash windows and doors with small objects, and single-handedly rip out the hearts of younger vampires and other creatures without much effort.
* **Super Speed**: They are able to stop other supernatural species in their tracks, run for miles in a matter of minutes, and can easily catch up with any kind of creature, supernatural or not. Their reflexes are similarly strong. It is not known if they become faster over time.
* **Super Agility**:They can move quickly, jump very high, climb and run incredibly fast without difficulty or exhaustion.
* **Super Senses**: Original vampires have extremely keen senses of hearing, sight, and smell that far exceed those of supernatural hunters, non-original vampires, werewolves, evolved werewolves, non-original werewolf-vampire hybrids, non-original dhampires, and humans.
* **Immortality**: Original vampires are immortal. They do not physically age and are immune to all illnesses, toxins, poisons and human diseases or physical conditions. The only physical weapon that can bring permanent death to an Original is the White Oak Stake
	+ **Regeneration**: Primitive vampires also seem to heal much faster when exposed to verbena or wood. You can heal / recover / regenerate from any injuries in seconds. Even a werewolf bite poses no danger to them, it is just painful for them and causes weakness and hallucinations as they are not entirely immune to the bite, but it subsides. Fluids infused with verbena have also been shown to weaken them, although they will recover from the effects much faster.
	+ **Invulnerability**: No original vampire has ever been dismembered in the entire series, which means that its durability is almost invincible. Wood does not seem to weaken them, although if they are stabbed in the heart, it often incapacitates them for several minutes until they recover. Ordinary bullets, knives and blunt objects can injure an original vampire, as seen in Finn, Kol and Klaus. Rebekah once told Matt that she never gets cold. When she ran away from Mikael, she also told how she and her siblings ran through winter and autumn, sleet and snow.
* **Enhanced Emotions:** Original 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 original vampires to feel emotions at their peak regardless of their age. They have been shown experiencing emotions as powerfully today as they did 1,000 years ago.
* **Emotional Control**: Original vampires have a limited degree of control over their own emotions. It has been stated that Emotional Control fades over time. It is unknown if the Original vampires still possess the ability to "switch off" their emotions completely.
* **Mind Compulsion**: Primal vampires can control and influence the thoughts, feelings, behavior, actions, and memories of humans, non-primal vampires, and non-primal werewolf-vampire hybrids. However, they cannot compel witches, werewolves, or dhampires.
* **Sire Bond**: Although rare, Sire Bonds can occur when a human is turned with the blood of the vampire for whom they had strong human feelings.
* **Telepathy**: Original vampires have the ability to enter the minds of others as long as their own mind is stronger than their own, although as original vampires they have one of the strongest minds in the world. Normally, this ability works in a tactile way, and the vampire needs physical contact for it to work successfully. However, Elijah has been shown to be able to mentally communicate with others at close range by sending distress calls and mental images. Klaus and Elijah have also shared their memories with others.
	+ **Dream Manipulation:** Original vampires can control dreams and subconscious. They can produce and modify dreams, bestow nightmares or lucid dreaming. Other effects of this ability is the ability to distort perceptions of reality and being able to trap someone in their dreams.
	+ **Illusions:** Original vampires have the power to trick the minds of others into seeing/feeling things that aren't actually happening.
* **True Face**: An Original vampire's true face is the appearance they are hiding under their normal human face. When an Original vampire's true face is revealed, the sclera of their eyes turns blood-red, dark veins appear under their eyes as the blood pumps forcefully through them, and their canine teeth extend into razor-sharp fangs. An Original vampire's true face can be revealed whenever they wish, but it will appear against their will whenever they are aroused by the scent of blood, or are feeling intense emotions such as anger, lust, sadness, etc. An Original vampire's fangs are extremely sharp which gives them the ability to tear into almost any substance (including and especially flesh) and tear off limbs. With the fangs come the darkened veins under the eyes as well.

## Weaknesses

* **Sunlight:** Sunlight will burn an Original vampire, but cannot kill them.
* **Desiccation**: Being completely drained of blood or the heart stopping will cause an Original vampire to desiccate like any other vampire, losing most of its strength and any ability to move. The desiccated body of an Original 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.
* **Invitation**: In order to enter any house owned by humans, they need to be invited in by a living person that officially lives there or the person of entitlement. Once invited, the invitation cannot be revoked. Should an Original vampire be in the house without being invited in, such as being in a dessicated state, they will become disoriented and will begin to suffocate upon recovery. If the ownership to a house changes while inside, an original, like normal vampires, would likely become disoriented and pulled from the house against their will.
* **Invitation**: In order to enter any house owned by humans, they need to be invited in by a living person that officially lives there or the person of entitlement. Once invited, the invitation cannot be revoked. Should an Original vampire be in the house without being invited in, such as being in a dessicated state, they will become disoriented and will begin to suffocate upon recovery. If the ownership to a house changes while inside, an original, like normal vampires, would likely become disoriented and pulled from the house against their will.
* **Werewolf Venom:** While werewolf venom can't kill Original vampires, it greatly weakens and incapicates them and causes them to experience hallucinations based on their memories. The effects are temporary and only last for a few hours. Mikael, however, has overcome pain from the venom and fought through the effects rather than suffer and hallucinate given his mental fortitude.
* **Wood**: A wooden stake through the heart lets a primordial vampire dry out and "kills" him temporarily. However, the wood of the white oak can permanently destroy a primordial vampire. When staked with this wood, the stake ignites in flames and engulfs the body of the original so that both of them turn to ashes.
* **White Oak Ash Daggers**: A collection of enchanted silver daggers dipped in white oak ash neutralize an Original Vampire when stabbed in the heart. If the dagger is removed, it must be dipped in white oak ash again to neutralize the Original Vampire once more. Otherwise, it will be ineffective and the Original Vampire will awaken within a few hours.
* **White Oak Stake**: The only weapon on earth that can permanently kill an Original vampire, it comes from an ancient White Oak Tree that existed during the creation of the Original vampires and was used as the source of their immortality.