Vampire

"Vampire. Immortal, blood-sucking demons. Vampires are real. They exist in every city and every state...in the Union. Vampires have been in the new world for centuires. Slaughtering native tribes and early settlers. But when the Europeans arrived with their slaves...the dead saw a sinister opporitunity."

Vampires are an undead species of blood-sucking, predatory creatures. They fulfill the role of main antagonist in both the book and screen adaptation of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.

Appearance

Vampires can easely blend in society by assuming human form. However, their true appearance is much more horrific. Their eyes turn completly black, the skin become unnaturally white with black veins visible beneath it, sharp rows of fangs and long claws grow instead of the teeth and nails.

Powers & Abilities

Vampires are faster and stronger than humans, and can travel in a hazy mist like form. They have the ability to adapt to sunlight and the power to render themselves invisible.

• Strength - Vampires are much stronger than humans. They can throw humans and other vampires through wood, toss animals as big and heavy as a full grown horse and kick through wooden beams several feet in width. They can even fling their own kind straight up through the air and lift up a falling train. It is possible that their strength increases with time and age, since Adam easily defeated Sturges, who in turn made short work of Barts.
• Speed - Vampires are faster than humans, both in speed, agility, and reflexes. They can also jump over high and far distances.
• Invulnerability - Vampires are nearly impervious to any form of harm and cannot be killed by any conventional weapons, such as pistols using regular bullets. They have an impressive healing factor, to the point where a vampire was able to recover from a point-blank shot to the eye in seconds.
• Senses - Vampires have all the five senses humans have, only they are enhanced to a higher level.
• Immortality - Being undead beings, Vampires can live forever and do not age or get sick from any form of toxins, diseases, poisons, or cancer.
• Fangs - Vampires can extend a set of fangs from their mouths that allow them to feed on the blood of humans. In addition, if a vampire bites a human, either the human will die or become a vampire.
• Sunlight Adaptation - Vampires have the ability too adapt to sunlight, though it merely causes illness in their skin instead of actual harm.
• Invisibility - Vampires have the power to render themselves invisible.

Weaknesses

In Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, vampires aren't killed by sunlight and they remain unaffected by holy objects or water. They can only be harmed and killed by silver. Also, a vampire is incapable of killing another vampire.

Deviations from vampire myth

• Unlike traditional vampires, these vampires can stay alive in sunlight
• They cannot transform into bats or wolves. They may be able to take the form of a mist.
• They are stronger than many traditional vampires. Some can hold up the weight of a train car.
• They cannot physically kill one another, though they can fight amongst themselves.
• They can turn invisible, which is not common in mythology (though not unheard-of)
• Religious symbols, stakes, and running water have no effect on them.

Known Vampires

• Adam: Powerful leader of the vampire order and Vadoma's brother. He has lived ever since Ancient Egypt and was a slave owner in the Confederate States. He was later killed by Abraham.
• Vadoma: Adam's sister. She is a ruthless enforcer for the vampire order. She was later killed by Mary Todd Lincoln.
• Henry Sturgess: Vampire created by Adam. He trains Abraham to kill off vampires for him. He now lives in modern times
• Jack Barts: Vampire working for Adam. He is responsible for killing Abraham's mother. He was killed by Abraham