Vampire

Vampires are supernaturally corpses, inhabited by a human soul, that drink blood to survive and maintain their powers. They were originally humans converted by a into a vampire by a "maker". Being technically deceased, their primary characteristics include a lack of a heartbeat, brainwaves, electrical impulses, need to breathe, and other bodily functions.

Powers & Abilities
The supernatural forces that give vampires their "life" also endows them with heightened senses as well as superhuman abilities which make them physically superior to humans.

Common abilities

 * Superhuman Strength
 * Superhuman Speed
 * Superhuman Senses
 * Superhuman Durability
 * Eidetic Memory
 * Healing Factor
 * Glamour
 * Flight
 * Voice Imitation
 * Fangs

Unique abilities
Lilith, the sirens and Bill (Bilith) showed some abilities not possessed by other vampires.
 * Advanced Vampiric Abilities
 * Longer Fangs
 * Self-Control
 * Hemokinesis
 * Astral Projection
 * Teleportation
 * Blood abilities
 * Stake, Fire & Invitation Immunity
 * Species Detection
 * Advanced Progeny Calling
 * Telekinesis
 * Precognition
 * Glamour Advanced
 * Intangibility/Invisibility

Weaknesses
Vampires have a number of weaknesses, which range from irritating to fatal (it should be noted that the death of a vampire is referred to as the "true death").

Common weaknesses

 * Entry to homes
 * Excess blood
 * Exsanguination
 * Fire
 * Hepatitis D
 * Hepatitis V
 * Maenad blood
 * Magic
 * Garlic
 * Silver
 * Sleep or blood deprivation
 * Sunlight
 * Wood
 * Decapitation

Enhancements
Vampires can achieve a temporary invulnerability to at least some of their weaknesses consuming the blood of a Faerie.

Faerie blood
Depending on the amount of blood drank, vampires grow immune to their weakness to sunlight after drinking fairy blood. The effects last shortly, however, and the pureness of the blood is a factor too; after drinking a hybrid's blood, Russell Edgington burned in the sun quite shortly afterwards (though the blood did prevent him from bursting into blue flames like Godric), while Eric Northman spent at least an hour in the sun after completely draining a full-blooded faerie. RussDelayed true death of Russell. Niksolina

Russell Edgington has been shown to be able to resist for a short time at the stakeout after drinking the blood of Fairy. At first his wounds begin to expel a bright light, because of the blood Faerie, shocking everyone including Russell, who thinks the fairy blood would allow him to survive. However, in light of the fairies expulsion from him soon wears off and proceed to decompose and implodes meeting the true death. It is further to be doubted that Faerie blood renders a vampire immune to staking when even Warlow, a vampire over 2,600 years older and Faerie-vampire was not able to resist the staking.

Also, when a vampire has drunk the blood of a fairy, become immune to the magic of the fairies including photoknesis and are able to see them when transmitting invisible.

Faerie-vampire blood
Blood of a Faerie-vampire will allow a vampire to walk the sun indefinatly. The effect of faerie-vampire blood disappears immediately upon the death of the source, regardless of distance. It can be both felt and has a visible light expulsion effect when it occurs.

Faerie-Vampire
A Faerie-vampire is a combination of a vampire and a faerie which has both traits and also have both abilities. These type of hybrid are created when a faerie is bitten and turn by a vampire. They will become a vampire with both powers of a faerie and a vampire which make them even more powerful.

Infected Vampire
Infected Vampires is the term that the writers have used to describe the vampires who have survived being infected with Hepatitis V. In addition to having some physical characteristics slightly different from normal vampires, vampires infected have a greater thirst for blood and their attitude is more animalistic than other vampires.