Vampire (Prime)

Vampires are undead beings.

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## Powers and Abilities

* Immortality: Vampires are undead magical beings that have been reincarnated into their bodies and are therefore immortal.
* Regeneration: Vampires heal in seconds.
* Invulnerability: Vampires can withstand a lot.
* Superhuman Strength: Vampires possess superhuman strength that is 10 to 20 times greater than in their mortal lives. Their strength increases with age to a certain degree; older vampires are stronger than younger, weaker vampires.
* Super Speed: Vampires possess enhanced speed enabling them to be faster than the human eye.
* Super Senses: A vampire's senses of sight, smell and hearing are enhanced to superhuman levels. All vampires have exceptional night vision and can see with perfect clarity in near total darkness. They can also perceive sounds that normal humans cannot, even from a great distance.
* Mind Compulsion: Vampires have the ability to influence and control thoughts, emotions, and behavior, and can alter or erase memories.
* Clairvoyance / Supernatural Perception: Like other supernatural species, vampires, as supernatural beings, can constantly perceive spirits.
* Fangs retraction: vampires can retract and pull out their fangs.
* Sleepless: Vampires don't have to sleep, but they can.
* Invisibility: Vampires can make their physical form invisible if they want to, but this requires a lot of practice to use it in a controlled way.
* Healing: When a human takes the blood of a vampire, it heals them until the blood is degraded, but if you still die, they become a vampire.
* Super Senses: Vampires have extremely keen senses that are superior to those of humans. They can see in the dark, hear a human's heartbeat, and have an enhanced sense of smell.
* Eidetic Memory: Vampires are said to have a perfect memory and are unable to forget. Their minds are often referred to as "vaults" where they permanently store all information.
* Shapeshifting: Vampires can change their physical form, but it takes decades for them to do so.
* True Face: The true face of a vampire is the appearance it hides beneath its normal human face. When a vampire's true face appears, the sclera of the eyes turns blood red, dark veins appear under the eyes as they are heavily perfused, and the canines become razor-sharp fangs. The true face of a vampire is the appearance it hides under its normal human face. When a vampire's true face is revealed, the sclera of the eyes turns blood red, dark veins appear under the eyes as they are heavily perfused with blood, and the canines become razor-sharp fangs.

## Weaknesses

* Sunlight: Sunlight can burn and kill vampires.
* Wood: Wooden weapons can make vampires weaker and longer incapable of action. If it hits a vital organ it can kill a vampire.
* Access to Houses: Vampires cannot enter private homes unless invited by the owner of the home. Vampires do not have to be invited to public places (such as bars or restaurants). Humans can revoke their invitations from vampires, which causes the vampire to leave the house immediately. Vampires can get around this by casting a spell on a person to invite them (assuming the occupant makes eye contact or is not otherwise immune to glorification).  The death of the human owner of a dwelling allows any vampire to enter even without an invitation.
* Fire: Fire can kill vampires.
* Dehydration: If vampires do not drink blood, they can dehydrate until they drink again.

* Holy items: Sacred items cause vampires pain but not as blatant as in folklore besides they are not harmful to holy water.

## Sociology

### Government

Vampires have their own system of government.

* **The Authority**: The highest governing body is the Authority, which has existed for several centuries and oversees all vampires. All vampires, regardless of age, must respect the Authority.
* **Magisters:** Magisters give rulings directly under the Authority. They rule over entire continents.

* **Vampire monarch:** Directly under the Magister are the vampire Kings and Queens. Vampire Territories are divided into kingdoms and queendoms, which are ruled by a king or a queen, or both. Each kingdom or queendom is furthermore split into areas.

* **Vampire Sheriff:** Vampire kingdoms are divided into smaller territories called area's. These areas are each overseen by a Sheriff. A sheriff is mostly the oldest and most powerful vampire in the area. His/her duties include maintaining order among the regular vampires and reporting back to the monarch.
* **Nests:** Within areas, vampires can arrange themselves into nests, in which a group of vampires live together. The hierarchy of a vampire nest follows by age. Ranging from oldest to youngest.

### Social Interactions

Within vampire communities, most vampires live in harmony, and racism and homophobia are virtually nonexistent.

Some people display bigoted and racist attitudes toward vampires out of fear and/or prejudice. Others support the Vampire Rights Amendment (which advocates equal rights for humans and vampires).

 Damon Salvatore | Damon Salvatore is a vampire who is 182 years old and the brother of Stefan Salvatore and the distant relative of Silas and the son of Giuseppe Salvatore.