Original Vampire

Original Vampires

Vampires

*"The Originals, the first generations of vampires. The oldest vampires in the world. The Originals are too strong, too cruel. They would destroy humanity if they could, would enslave the world in darkness and evil. They are the Original Vampires, and from them all, vampires were created."*

The **Original Vampires**, also called The Mikaelsons or simply **The Originals** for short, refers to a family of ancient and powerful vampires who are known the very first of their bloodline and the first-existing generation of vampires, making them the oldest, strongest, and most powerful vampires in the world. These vampires are created through supernatural means rather than through an exchange of blood.

## Known Origin Vampires

These are all the members of the Original Vampires.

* **Cynfael** - The oldest and strongest of the Original Vampires, as well as the original vampire hunter as he hunts his children who are the titular originals and hunts Klaus above all.
* **Finn Cynfaelson** - The oldest of the Cynfaelson Original Vampires. He is calm and quiet, even induring confrontations.
* **Elijah Cynfaelson** - The second oldest of the Cynfaelson Original Vampires. He's the noblest member of the Originals and is "A Man of his word."
* **Niklaus Cynfaelson** - More commonly known as Klaus, he is the third oldest member of the Mikaelson Original Vampires, and later became the Original Werewolf-Vampire Hybrid. With this ability he was able to create hybrids and pro-create He is the most feared and hated of the Originals and is second to strongest.
* **Kol Cynfaelson** - The second youngest Original Vampire. He was known to continually feed and it is unknown if he is a ripper.
* **Rebekah Cynfaelson** - The youngest member of the Original Vampires and the only female Original Vampire. She's also the most free-spirited of the Originals. She was formerly a ripper.
* **Alaric Saltzman** - A hunter who was human, but then turned into an enhanced original to end the vampire species. After his death, his enhanced abilities were gone so he was an Original vampire.
* **Marcel Gerard** - He was a vampire who was then turned in to an Upgraded Original vampire by being killed and now is second to strongest.

## Powers and Abilities

As the first and oldest vampires in the world, the Original Vampires powers and abilities are the most advanced and, as their advanced age grants them much more strength and power than subsequent generations, by far superior to any other species. It is possible that their powers grow stronger with time. Some of these abilities are exclusive to them, making them among the most powerful supernatural creatures on Earth. In addition to having no sires, the Originals are also stronger than even the oldest of their "children." These are their standard abilities as the first generation of vampires.

### Powers

* **Immortality** - Originals possess eternal life and are exempt from old age as seen with the Mikaelsons as they look as if they are in their 20s but they are in fact over 1,000 years old, and existed since the late 10th century. They are unaffected by disease or poisons.
* **Invulnerability** - Their accelerated healing makes them unharmed by conventional weapons that would easily kill a human.
* **Superhuman Strength** - Originals possess considerable superhuman strength, and are immensely physically stronger than all humans, lesser demons, normal vampires, immortals, supernatural hunters, witches, and all sorts of shapeshifters, hybrids, and other monsters. They are among the strongest creatures in the supernatural world. Newly created Originals possess strength equivalent to that of a 1,000-year-old vampire as shown with Alaric.
* **Superhuman Speed** - Originals possess immense superhuman speed, are tremendously faster than all humans, normal vampires, and all sorts of shapeshifters, hybrids, and other monsters. moving so fast, akin to teleportation. They grow faster with time.
* **Superhuman Agility** - Originals are endowed with much more agility than normal vampires. These abilities improve over time.
* **Superhuman Senses** - Original vampires have extremely keen senses of hearing, sight and smell that far exceed those of immortals, supernatural hunters, non-Original vampires, werewolves, evolved werewolves, non-Original werewolf-vampire hybrids and humans.
* **Healing Factor** - Originals possess remarkable recuperative abilities; able to regrow lost limbs.
* **Superhuman Durability** - Originals can take far more trauma than normal vampires.
* **Hypnosis** - Originals can control, alter and manipulate the minds of humans and even other vampires and hybrids. This is also called 'compulsion'.
* **Fire Immunity** - Originals are unaffected by fire, corrosives, or extreme heat.
* **Sire Bond** - Although rare among them, Sire Bonds can be formed when a human is turned with the blood of the vampire whom they had strong human feelings for.
* **Telepathy** - Original vampires have the ability to enter the minds of others as long as theirs is stronger than them although, as Original vampires, they have one of the strongest minds in the world.
	+ **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.

### Abilities

* **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.

## Weaknesses

* **Sunlight** - Sunlight will burn an Original vampire, but cannot kill them. All members of the Original Family possess lapis lazuli rings to combat this. Klaus is not affected by sunlight due to being a werewolf-vampire hybrid.
* **The Cure** - f an Original Vampire takes the cure, they will revert back to being mortal again. Once taken, the cure prevents them from being immortal again, causing the body to reject vampire blood.
* **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.
* **White Oak Stake** - A stake fashioned from the wood of an ancient White Oak tree can permanently kill an Original.
* **Vervain** - Vervain burns an Original's skin on contact.
* **Invitations** - Originals cannot enter a house unless they are invited in.
* **Witchcraft** - Witches can perform a wide range of spells that can have a variety of effects upon an Original vampire. For example, there is a spell that can be used to effect supernatural hearing with the use of burning sage. A witch with enough power can dangerously affect and even kill a being as powerful as an Original vampire.
* **Physical Trauma** - While any physical trauma can slow an Original down, minor ones such as cuts and bruises, are essentially ineffective due to the healing factor of an Original vampire. More significant injuries along the lines of gunshots, stab wounds, broken bones, and organ damage can incapacitate one due to the combination of pain and lack of their bodies proper function. However, the most effective way to neutralize an Original is to inflict injury normally fatal to a human such as breaking their neck. However, this is temporarily as they will completely heal in a short amount of time.
* **Werewolf Bite** - It won't kill them like other vampires, but it causes hallucinations and serves as a mild irritant to an Original.
* **Wood** - It cant kill them, but a wooden stake through their hearts will immobilize them for a short time.
* **Advanced Werewolf Bite** - This potent venom can kill an Original Vampire but not Klaus as seen when he was captured and bitten by Marcel, who can produce the venom.