Vampire

A vampire is a powerful demon created in two ways: 1) they drink blood of the fallen on the battlefield when they are in a state of near-death; or 2) a human virgin has their blood drained by a preexistent vampire of the opposite sex. This is the most common method to create vampires as this resurrects said corpse as a newborn undead, perpetuating a lineage or ‘bloodline/family’ (called by vampires) or ‘nest’ (called by demon hunters).

Before Blackbird
Any and all vampires and their offspring originate from Valerie Nosferatu, the first and original vampire in which vampirism came from. From her came the Țepeș Bloodline in Eastern Europe and the Kreisler Bloodline in Scandinavia. It is unknown as to how or when she became the first vampire, but Valerie and her children came to dominate humanity alongside Jürgen Wolfblood and his subjects and fought and fought against demon hunters regularly for thousands of years. In the late medieval period, Nosferatu fell in love with Wolfblood and married him in secret, conceiving Lemar Wolfblood shortly after. After her son was born, to keep him safe from the dangers of the supernatural realm, Nosferatu and Wolfblood gave him up to Klaus Milson and his family who adopted him. Upon adoption, the Milsons managed to render his vampiric-lycanthropic heritage dormant that turned him from a demon to a homo magi. He later became a sorcerer like the Milsons at sixteen years old and began hunting demons of all kinds. After becoming a young man, however, Lemar’s latent vampiric and werewolf heritage awakened under a blood moon. He slaughtered an entire village, curbing his enormous hunger and bloodlust that was held back since his birth. Over the next couple of centuries, following the family’s journey and new life in America along with the First and Second World War, Lemar used his vampiric and lycanthropic powers in conjunction with magic to protect his family and continue battling against the supernatural. At some point, he legally changed his name to ‘Lemar’ and discovered his birth name and kept the last name ‘Wolfblood’. Shortly after, Klaus and Over the next couple of centuries, following the family’s journey and new life in America along with the First and Second World War, Lemar used his vampiric and lycanthropic powers in conjunction with magic to protect his family and continue battling against the supernatural. At some point, he legally changed his name to ‘Lemar’ and discovered his birth name and kept the last name ‘Wolfblood’. Shortly after, Klaus and Maria died, Kelly and Lemar would protect and take care of one another. In World War II, the Nazis used vampires amongst their ranks along with other forms of demons and used them on the Western Front before they were decimated by Lemar after he teamed up with Johan Birch and other demons hunters that would later form the Blackbird Organization. Their enemies, unbeknownst to them, would create the Phoenix Organization and begin planning on world domination over humanity.

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Characteristics
Vampires are a staple of folklore, and are said to be the most abundant species than werewolves and ghouls. They possess bloody red eyes, four razor-sharp canines, and pale skin. Vampires have two default forms: their human selves since they are reanimated corpses, and a nebulous otherworldly substance which is black in center with reddish edges and tips that are immune to all conventional weaponry. This form is the catalyst for their ability to reform themselves after being extensively damaged, even regrowing limbs through this darkness. But they can do this only if they have at least one familiar inside themselves in which to exchange their soul for. Their diet is solely the life-force of humans contained in their blood. Once they drink the blood which contains it, that said human’s élan vital, or soul, is converted into a familiar and can be summoned at will by their vampiric master for various purposes like assisting them in battle, a personal means of entertainment, etc. They are estimated to be at least six times stronger than humans upon reanimation, but their strength can grow as much as twenty times than that of mortals depending on their rank, maturity, and the amount of familiars they contain within themselves. If a vampire drinks an entire person of their blood, and they are not a virgin of the opposite sex (especially if they are given permission to be vampirized), that said human will become a zombie which is a soulless demon with a perpetual hunger for human flesh, and those bitten or scratched by zombies will become zombies themselves. Even though vampires are demons, they still possess a familial bond with those they vampirize, such as Wren’s reaction to the death of his fledglings died at Lemar’s hands. Valerie too expressed familial love towards her newborn son before she died, calling him her “sweet child” affectionately. Lemar also shows affection towards close to him like Kelly Milson and Hannah Sommers. Unlike their originator, Valerie’s descendants cannot reproduce sexually since they are already dead, and cannot die from old age. Typically, vampires populate their species by converting virgin humans of opposite sexes into their kind, creating multiple different lineages, or ‘families’ altogether. They do this by draining the blood of a virgin’s blood while delivering theirs in exchange. It is unknown, however, how or why humans still have a soul after they become vampires.

Types of Vampires
Other than the first—i.e. transcendent/divine—vampire Valerie Nosferatu or her son Lemar Wolfblood, there are only two types of vampires: alpha and omega. Omegas are newly vampirized humans who are wholly dependent upon the care and guidance of their ‘master’ who turned them. They require training and understanding so they will mature into fully-fledged vampires, or alphas. Once an omega becomes an alpha, they are equal to their masters in both physicality and maturity and can act independently from them. Because alphas are more mature and experienced with their vampirism, alphas are capable of vampirizing humans and can make armies of undead (zombies and familiars).

Powers and Abilities

 * Immortality/Regeneration: Vampires can live eternally, meaning they are biologically immortal; however, their supernatural, regenerative, physical, and psychic powers originate from the number of souls of living humans and nonhumans they accumulated over time. Whenever they sustain any sort of injury, any life-force they stole is expended to heal themselves, even their clothing and limbs. According to Lemar, vampires can only die by depleting or releasing the entire legion of ‘stolen lives’ they accumulated over their lifetime. This is the point where they are absolutely vulnerable and can be slain by any means.
 * Essence Transfer/Familiar Summoning and Control: Upon drinking the blood or absorbing it telekinetically into themselves, vampires take the entire essence of humans or demons into themselves, including their memories and powers which are at their disposal. They can also release any number of these trapped souls from within1 and use them to fight, completely dominating their will, personality, and overall abilities.
 * Unnatural Strength: Vampires are much stronger than humans, but it all depends on their rank and state of health. Newborn vampires like Anna Gibson and Ashley Kline are about six times to at most ten times more powerful than humans, whereas older vampires like Wren Kreisler and Neil Edda are around twenty. For example, Edda was able to temporarily outmatch and almost defeat Lemar in physical combat thanks to some physical enhancements by Dr. Igor Frankenstein before the latter took the upper hand, defeating him with more brutal attacks. Valerie Nosferatu, the originator of all vampires, had the strength of thousands if not more humans, outmuscled only by her very son Lemar who can also match her blow-for-blow.
 * Super Speed/Reflexes and Agility: Vampires are vastly faster and more agile than humans. With their supernatural speed, they can appear as a flash of light or afterimages to the mortal eye. Vampires can easily dodge automatic gunfire, oftentimes with finesse.
 * High Endurance: Vampires are extremely resistant to conventional weaponry. There are only three known ways to kill a vampire: unconventional weaponry like magic or silver that is blessed and decapitation; however, ancient vampires like Neil Edda or Wren Kreisler are immune to most methods which kill their own kind, along with her son Lemar sharing the same immunity as her.
 * Extrasensory Perception: Vampires have acute sense of smell, touch, taste, and audible range. For example, Wren could hear a person’s living heartrate and blood flow within earshot range, and used his fingers/nails to feel the slightest sensation of both the walls and ceiling when he faced off against Lemar. Wren Kreisler and Neil Edda used his sense of smell to detect Lemar before engaging him in a fight.
 * Telepathy: Vampires can read and speak directly into the minds of those they have converted into their own kind. A vampire can also manipulate the minds of even strong-willed humans, an ability impressed Lemar in Episode IX, Lemar, being half (divine) vampire, was also able to cast effective illusions against Margery who was considered the best until he tricked her enough to devour her.
 * Telekinesis: Vampires can manipulate, move, and lift physical objects and their surrounding environment with their minds; however, they typically use to literally ‘pull’ themselves together after they sustain any form of physical damage like with Edda, Wren, or Lemar who used telekinetic pushes and pulls, hurling objects at his opponents while charging with killing intent.
 * Levitation: Valerie, Lemar, and Wren can levitate and sometimes fly as an extension and more advanced form of telekinesis. It is unknown, however, if they are manipulating physics or just defying gravity.
 * Haemokinesis/Hematophagy: Vampires have the ability to manipulate blood, but this is limited to blood outside the body, as it has never shown to influence blood while targets were still intact. They can also absorb blood into their bodies as was seen with Lemar, Valerie, and later Wren in Episode IX. Vampires require blood to sustain themselves, and they possess four canonical fangs (sometimes they turn into rows of razor-sharp, shark-like teeth) to assist in this job. Their feeding habits vary from the traditional neck biting to completely devouring their targets whole.
 * Form Changing: Shapeshifting, or polymorphing, is an inherent ability for high-tier vampires since low-tier ones were never seen using this ability at their disposal. Lemar, being half primordial-vampire, claims he can change into anything he wan-ted, including demonic dogs, several bats, an amorphous darkness, and even some “default” forms he uses for most occasions. Neil Edda, an alpha vampire, was also able to change, at will, into several bats, a bloody red mist to render physical attacks useless, and even a similar demonic dog like Lemar’s. Wren was able to turn into a sentient puddle of blood which he could control at will, plus a clichéd bat to spy on his enemies.
 * Underlying Authority: Vampires have an innate ability to create and command several kinds of underlings, mainly their fledglings and their Familiars locked within them. They also naturally command zombies of their own creation. Kreisler commanded an army of vampires, including several fledglings like Neil Edda who also commanded his two newborn ‘children’ Anna Gibson and Ashley Kline.

Blessed silver and holy weaponry
Most vampires, as well as ghouls and werewolves, are susceptible to injuries caused by weapons containing silver that is blessed by a divine prayer. They are especially vulnerable to it when coming into direct contact with it, such as when Wren’s flesh began to burn after getting struck by silver bullets from Lemar’s guns, forcing him to dodge each bullet afterwards. Mystical and weapons and artifacts are also extremely harmful to vampires, but the exact requirements and effects of various blessed silver-alloyed weapons are not explained. Normal unblessed silver is completely ineffective against all demons as Lemar pointed out that “just plain silver is not enough, unless it has a blessing of some divine nature, it cannot under any circumstance ever truly kill a vampire, or any other demon”. This statement is backed up during Episode IX when Wren held a silver coin in his hands without any physical harm to him, but Lemar’s bullets that had silver heads were blessed and were blessed and were able to finish him off.

Impalation
All vampires can be dispatched through impaling heart, which can be seen when Lemar slew Anna and Ashley (one with a blessed silver bullet and the other with his hand). Lemar, Neil Edda, and Wren have also been successfully impaled, and were able to continue fighting. Lemar, in particular, survived all attempts on his life, and was able to destroy the most amount of enemies than everyone else in the series.

Decapitation
The most common method to kill vampires in both lore and various other media is to remove their head from their bodies. While never seen to destroy transcendent vampires like Valerie or her hybrid son Lemar, it has been seen with lesser vampires through countless engagements between Lemar, Maria, and members of Blackbird and other demon hunters throughout the series. After beheading Lemar during their first engagement, Finster Xavion thought he defeated him and even insulted that the latter was weak. Tiberius Birch, who was present, mentioned it is one way to kill a vampire, but not Lemar who regenerated and reengaged with Xavion in battle, causing the latter to escape but swearing vengeance.

Blood dependency
All vampires must drink blood to maintain their strength and power. It is unknown, however, if they can be starved to death as the vampire Wren Kreisler was reduced to a corpselike state after being starved of blood for a significant amount of time before being restored back to health by Neil Edda. Even Lemar, being half (divine) vampire, becomes visibly weak if he goes a significantly long time without blood as it is the source of most of his supernatural power and vitality.

Essence depletion
Once vampires drink the blood of either a dead or living person, that human’s soul becomes their familiar and is stored within their being. This ‘stolen life’ is the catalyst for the vampiric regenerative powers, as when they are physically injured or destroyed, the damage is repaired using one familiar is enough to heal themselves, even going as far as restoring lost limbs. But once a vampire has no more familiars within themselves, they are completely vulnerable to any and all attack, and can be killed in this state. Most vampires, however, do not waste their reservoir of souls within themselves but instead attempt to finish their enemies off as fast as possible.

Bodies of water
Vampires, according to lore, cannot cross large bodies of water, implicating that this is fatal to them. To compensate, they require some sort of seaworthy vessel or stable bridge to cross. It is never made clear as to why or how this weakness is lethal for them. Even though they can use their other abilities to compensate for this weakness, it is never shown or explained in the series. Lemar boldly claims that large open bodies of water often reduces the potency of a vampire’s powers, but this is never shown nor is it confirmed by anyone else.

Daylight
All lesser vampires (omegas and alphas) have a perceived weakness to sunlight, except for Valerie and her son Lemar as this weakness is completely negligible to some extent. For vampirism as a whole, however, sunlight absolutely weakens their powers and that they are, as a species, noct1urnal. Daylight is not, according to Lemar and other sources of information by Blackbird, fatal to vampires in the slightest, saying that it is “an insult spread by other demons”.

Other vampiric weaknesses
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Known Vampires

 * Valerie Nosferatu (Transcendent Vampire, deceased)
 * Lemar Wolfblood (Vampire-Werewolf Hybrid, Transcendent)
 * Aoreugif (Alpha, deceased)
 * Leumas (Alpha, deceased)
 * Zeugirdor (Alpha, deceased)
 * Ebaneb (Alpha, deceased)
 * Unnamed Vampire (Alpha, deceased)
 * Wren Kreisler (Alpha; Transcendent Vampire (briefly), familiarized)
 * Neil Edda (Alpha, deceased)
 * Ashley Kline (Omega, deceased)
 * Anna Gibson (Omega, deceased)
 * Vampiric Battalion (Omega Vampires, Phoenix Undead, deceased)