Lycan

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**Lycan** is a sub species of werewolves and is created by Ella Bennett as means to be her army to battle the Mikaelson Family

## Creation

Lycans was created in 2020 when Ella Bennett needed an army to battle the Mikaelson's. Ella used the blood of an untriggered werewolf and triggered werewolf, Advanced Werewolf venom, Black wolfbane.

To make an lycan you need an triggered werewolf to ingest the Lycan Curse Serum and then after drinking it the werewolf will have a lust to kill someone and when it kills someone it will at the next full moon will turn again like it was the first time and then turn into a beast wolf form instead of an normal wolf.

## Physiology

### Appearance

Lycans doesn't turn into a wolf anymore but their have a beast wolf form where they turn into an humanoid wolf man form where they have black eyes and have a lot of hair on the whole body and they have big claws almost talons. They are around 8 feet high and they have a lot of muscle on them when they turn.

### Lycan venom

Lycans venom is made of Marcel's venom and Ella's black magic so it can kill an Original and it will do it faster then Marcel can do.

## Powers and Abilities

* **Super Strength:** Lycans possess supernatural strength that makes them far stronger than immortals, Hybrids, Non-Original Vampires, Supernatural Hunters, and humans, such as when Tyler pulled the door off his locker or when Diego ripped apart a bully. There have been several occasions to suggest that untriggered werewolves possess more strength than any average humans, which would indicate some form of enhanced strength even before the activation of their curse. However, werewolves in their human form are not as strong as a vampire and have even been shown to be far weaker on several occasions. They've also shown to be strong enough to at least defend themselves, such as when Mason punched Damon across the room or when Hayley pinned Diego up against a wall. When they are in their wolf form, their powers amplify to a degree that excels of the non-Original vampires, making them more powerful than non-Original vampires. In wolf form, a werewolf can overpower and kill any non-original vampire with ease, and are strong enough to overpower an Original vampire in small groups. Such examples in wolf form include: when Mason tackled and overpowered at the time newly-turned vampire Caroline; when Tyler overpowered Damon, a vampire over 170 years old; when Jules tackled and bit Rose, a 560-year-old vampire; or when four werewolves took down Rebekah, an Original vampire.

* **Super Speed:** Lycans are much faster than humans and some other supernatural beings. They possess this ability both in and out of transformation, with an animalistic quickness. For example, while in human form, Rafael Waithe scaled up and down the side of a building in under twenty-seconds. Another example, Mason, while transformed was able to easily hunt down Caroline and Stefan in the woods, despite their vampire-enhanced speed. Some werewolves are shown to become nearly a blur like their vampire enemies; others have not.

* **Super Agility:** Lycans possess superhuman agility. In both human and wolf form, they have demonstrated that they can move, jump very high, climb, flip, and run incredibly fast without difficulty or exhaustion. They can also jump down from incredible heights with almost gravity-defying grace.
* **Super Durability:** Lycans can take far more trauma than humans without nearly as much discomfort or injury, however, not as much as vampires. They can also exert themselves for longer periods without tiring.
* **Healing Factor:** Lycans possess superhuman regenerative abilities, meaning that if they are physically injured, their bodies will heal rapidly. Like vampires, Lycans can heal from the most grievous of injuries, even in human form, albeit more slowly in comparison to vampires. However, unlike vampires, when a Lycans neck is broken, they stay dead.
	+ **Immortality:** Lycans stop aging the moment they transition. They become immune to all conventional diseases, toxins, poisons, viruses, illness, infections. They will live forever but they will die if the Lycans neck is broken or if they heart is ripped out or crushed, impaled, Decapitation.
* **Super Senses:** Lycans have extremely keen and heightened senses of smell, sight, taste, hearing, and touch that exceed their wolf counterparts and that of regular canines. With this, experienced werewolves such as Jules could sniff out vampires - something vampires themselves are incapable of - and Tyler could taste vervain placed in his coffee, which would otherwise be impossible since coffee's intense flavor typically masks the taste of the herb. Untriggered werewolves are also gifted with more sensitive hearing such as when Tyler Lockwood was able to hear the Gilbert Device. When Jules first met Caroline in *Daddy Issues*, she knew Caroline was lying about Tyler's whereabouts, revealing it was another "wolf trick". This ability wasn’t expanded upon until *This is What It Takes*, when Hope reveals that Pinky was lying when his heart began to race.
* **Lycanthrope Enhancement:** Lycans are able to make their eyes glow blue with a black outline when angry or threatened, but only for a short amount of time. When a werewolf is furious or forced to defend themselves, their anger increases all their power and abilities for a short period of time, which allows them to access some of the power of their wolf form to give them an edge.
* **Shapeshifting/Transformation Control:** Lycans have the ability to transform into their werewolf forms at will. Most of them avoid transforming at all due to the pain it causes. They can also perform partial transformations, manifesting single features of their werewolf forms. An Lycan can stay in werewolf as long as they want to.
* **Lycan Bite:** A Lycan venom is extremely lethal to non-original vampires and Original vampire can die from the venom, Lycans venom is made of Marcel's venom and Ella's magic and it will work faster then Marcel's venom because it is imbued with Black magic.
* **Full Moon:** A werewolf's strength, speed, agility, and all their powers are enhanced to their peak during a full moon.
* **Semi-Immunity to Silver:** Lycans are not fully immune to silver because it will burn them in human form and almost kill them in their wolf form.
* **Power Granting:** Lycans has the power to turn humans into Half Lycans but it can only turn a small amount of the humans.

## Weaknesses

* **Magic:** Lycans are susceptible to the powers of witchcraft. This is inclusive of mystical objects as well as spells that can speed up or slow down their transformations, or force them to transform on the spot. Siphoners can siphon magic from werewolves as well as the magic of a werewolf bite; this can extend to Evolved werewolves, though never shown.
* **Physical Trauma:** Minor physical injuries such as gunshots, stab wounds and broken bones will cause an Lycan pain and will also slow them down. However, this is only temporary, as they will heal completely within minutes.
* **Wolfsbane:** When ingested, wolfsbane causes an Lycan to become severely weak and feverish. Exposure to their skin will burn them.
* **First Transformation:** Lycans must undertake their first transformation, despite their ability to control shapeshifting. Klaus explains that this is a rite of passage and cannot be avoided.
* **Link to Ella Bennett:** Freya thinks that the Lycans will turn back to normal werewolves or die if Ella dies, it is not seen yet