Vampire (Noblesse)

The **Nobles** (Kor. 귀족) are an ancient and powerful race that possess great strength, speed and telepathy as well as various blood related abilities, such as the talent to grant similar powers to others via contracts "of blood and soul". They reside on an island nation, known as Lukedonia, that cannot be detected by human senses. They have guarded humans against predators and the forces of nature as long as they have existed, due to a genetic inability to ignore the slaughter of the weak, helpless humans. Thousands of years ago, they were worshipped as gods by various cultures around the world.

## Powers and Abilities

Common traits among the nobles, aside from the strength and speed mentioned above, include extremely long lives, mind control abilities, crimson red eyes, and a shared code of honor and conduct.

From Nobles' perspective, eternity and life are synonymous due to their incredibly long life spans: A noble undergoes their coming of age ceremony when they are 200 years old and, at 500 years old, they appear to be in their early teens. In fact, no noble has been known to die of natural causes; nobles have only gone to "eternal sleep" (self-initiated death) or been sentenced to "forced eternal sleep" by Noble authorities. It is unknown whether eternal sleep is a euphemism for death or if it is separate process from death altogether.

Nobles, while uniformly stronger than humans, display great variance in their powers. Particularly, mind control, the signature ability of nobles, ranges from stopping a single modified human for a few seconds (when used by a young, pre-adult noble) to complete domination over several noble clan leaders at once (when used by the Noblesse, the strongest noble in existence). Additionally, not all nobles possess blood abilities. For example, nobles can grant lesser beings power by making a contract with them, which involves exchanging blood. While it seems many, if not all, Nobles can make contracts, only the Lord and the Noblesse have been shown to truly wield blood abilities in battle, an ability referred to as governing blood.

Another ability possessed only to Pureblood Nobles, they can easily identify a modified humans from the normal humans. Regis, Gejutel and Rael are the examples when they able to identify M-21, Tao and Takeo as modified humans while the knights from the Central Orders couldn't.

However, unlike ordinary humans Nobles' reproductivity seems to be not as active: with the exception of Kertia Clan and Raizel who had an older brother, Nobles shown in the webtoon appear to be only children themselves.

#### *General Abilities*

* **Enhanced Speed:** Nobles have been shown to be able to move at hypersonic speeds & beyond.
* **Enhanced Strength:** Even the weakest and youngest Nobles have the physical strength to demolish buildings with punches and kicks.
* **Enhanced Durability:** Nobles are able to withstand impacts strong enough to destroy entire city blocks, and can survive damages that can obliterate ordinary human bodies.
* **Regeneration:** The Noble race is able to regenerate and heal injuries that would be considered fatal to humans. However, it is inferior to that of Werewolves.
* **Telepathy:** A unique trait of the Noble race. Telepathy encompasses abilities that include: establishing mind links in order to communicate mentally, the power to read minds forcibly, manipulate memories, transfer information, clairvoyance, empathy, hypnosis, induce comas, create illusions and mind control.
* **Telekinesis:** An extension of telepathy that is found within high-ranking Nobles. Through telekinesis, Nobles can manipulate the world around them at a cellular level or lower with their thoughts.
* **Aura Manipulation:** A common power among the purebloods and high-ranking Nobles. They can freely manipulate a phenomenon known as aura, which is the manifestation of the very essence of the soul as a luminous energy field. This can be used for energy beams, bombs, force fields and constructs (such as spears and platforms).

#### *Advanced Abilities*

* **Soul Weapon:** Only used by clan leaders, they can manifest unique weapons which can be summoned by using their spiritual energy and aura.
* **Blood Reign:** Only used by Noblesse and the Lord, they can govern the blood and use the mass of flowing blood to perform unique attack such as Blood Field.