Archetype:Alpha Vampire

Alpha Vampire
Carmilla (Castlevania: Lords of Shadow) served as a Dark Lord of Vampires, ruling from Castlevania itself.
Archetype of:	an alpha vampire.

"When your kind first huddled around the fire... I was the thing in the dark."

― The Alpha Vampire to Sam and Dean Winchester (Supernatural)

The archetype of a character who is an alpha vampire, an undead being vastly superior to other members of their group or society who leads through brute strength and force of personality. Variation of Undead Alpha with Vampire Physiology.

Also Called

• Elder Vampire Physiology
• Homo/Hominēs Lamia/Succo Dominus (Humans Only)
• Master Vampire
• Methuselah (World of Darkness)
• Vampire Lord Physiology

Capabilities

The user either is or can transform into a alpha vampire, the most powerful form of vampire. Unlike lesser vampires, the vampire lord possesses inherent skill in dark magic and may command legions of undead minions/vampires.

Also, alpha vampire are known to have a certain resistance to sunlight for prolonged periods of time and have the fewest weaknesses; on top of that, even if they die, they are powerful enough to be reborn after a specific time period has past. This is because of a supernatural tether binding them to the physical plane as long as its not separated in certain possible ways. Furthermore, depending on the user, they may have a demonic nature, thus granting them access to the most unholy of powers.

Applications

• Alpha Physiology/Alpha Monster Physiology
  • Trait:Natural Superior Powers
• Alpha Esper/Superior Esper (Varies between the vampire)
  • Psionics/Esoteric Psionics/Magical Psionics
    • Hypnosis
    • Illusion Manipulation - Powerful vampires can trick, fool, and/or confuse others by creating illusions
    • Mind's Eye
      • Spiritual Awareness
    • Mind Control
    • Psionic Energy Conversion
    • Telekinesis
    • Telepathy - Users can speak to other vampires, speak to others in the dark, speak to others without being seen, or manipulate lesser beings to forget their encounters.
    • Teleportation
• Authority over servants and lesser vampires.
• Bat Manipulation
  • Bat Swarming
• Blood Power
  • Blood Manipulation
• Blue Blood
• Dark Magician (Varies)
• Dark Power
  • Dark Force Manipulation
    • Esoteric Darkness Manipulation
• Daytime Walking
• Echolocation
• Enhanced Sex Appeal
  • Enhanced Visibility
  • Social Attraction/Social Magnetism
  • Seductive Magnetism
  • Supernatural Voice - A vampire's voice can entice others.
• Enhanced Synesthesia
• Esoteric Power

Evil Sorcerer (varies)

• Fog/Shadow Generation - Some vampire lords can create shadows or fog, cloaking an area in darkness or obscuring the area within the fog.
• Flight
• Impale
• Inaudibility
• Intangibility
• Invisibility
• Immortality/Nigh-Absolute Immortality
  • Regenerative Healing Factor
    • Supernatural Regeneration/Ultimate Regeneration/Nigh-Absolute Regeneration
• Magic Power
• Mythical Power (varies)
• Necromancer (varies)
  • Necro Power
• Night Manipulation
• Sanitized Metabolism
  • Pleasant Scent
• Supernatural Condition
  • Supernatural Agility
  • Supernatural Beauty
  • Supernatural Bodily Capacity
  • Supernatural Durability
  • Supernatural Endurance
  • Supernatural Eye
  • Supernatural Mind
  • Supernatural Reflexes
  • Supernatural Senses
  • Supernatural Speed
  • Supernatural Stamina
  • Supernatural Stealth
    • Supernatural Concealment
  • Supernatural Strength
• Superior Mystic Vampire - the alpha can be a superior vampire with potent mystic powers.
• Psychic Power
• Shapeshifting
  • Animal Morphing - Vampire lords have the ability to transform into various animals.
  • Vapor Mimicry
• Umbramancer (varies)
• Vampiric Arts
  • Vampiric Combat
• Vampire Physiology - Obviously, the user is a vampire.
• Vampire Lordship - Vampire lords have control over those they sired and over lesser and ordinary vampires only.
  • Sire Bond
  • Vampire Manipulation - Vampire lords have a superiority over ordinary vampires.
• Vampire Magic
  • Dark Arts - Like all other dark lords, the user is skilled in dark magic.
    • Necromancy
  • Occultism Mastery
  • Romani Magic (Rare)
• Visualization
• Weakness Resistance/Immunity
• Weather Manipulation
• Werebat Physiology - the Alpha has the ability to transform into a giant bat. (Varies)
• Wing Manifestation
  • Wing Blades

Techniques

• Dark Lord - The user is among the most powerful lords of darkness.
• Blood Transcendency - Gain infinite power from blood.
  • Killing Empowerment - Grow more powerful by the death toll.
  • Murderous Possession - Whatever kills the user, becomes the user.
  • Soul Manipulation - Manipulating its physical essence.
• Daytime Walking - Vampire lords are able to withstand daylight for certain amounts of time.
• Demonic Force Manipulation - Might gain control over demonic forces.
• Infinite Resurrection - Even if the user dies, they can still return.
• Invulnerability - Be impervious to many forms of damage.

Associations

• Alpha Undead Physiology
  • Alpha Ghoul Physiology
• Alpha Werepire Physiology
• Transcendent Vampire Physiology (Extremely Rare;Can Ascend to this status through various means.)
• True Vampire Physiology

Limitations

• Are subservient to those who are or become a Transcendent Vampire Physiology/Transcendent Werepire Physiology or other vampires of older age and power.
• Still posses all of the natural vampire weaknesses but to a lesser degree.
• Supernatural Hunter are match against even the strongest of vampires.
• Though the user can walk in daylight, they need to wear heavy clothing, as the sunlight hinders their regenerative ability.
• May be vulnerable to those with Alpha Werebeast Physiology; assuming that vampires and werebeasts are natural enemies.
• May be able to be defeated by an Alpha Werepire Physiology.

Known Users

Cartoons/Comics

• Marceline (Adventure Time); after killing the prior Vampire King.
• Marshall Lee (Adventure Time)
• The Vampire King (Adventure Time)
• Medlock (Archie's Weird Mysteries)
• Dracula (Ash vs. Dracula)
• Dracula (Dracula vs King Arthur)
• Lothos (Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Origins)
• Maloker (Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Nine)
• Lilith (Buffy The Vampire Slayer: The Dust Waltz)
• NOS-4-A2 (Buzz Lightyear of Star Command)
• Dracula (Castlevania TV series)
• Erzsebet Bathory (Castlevania Nocturne)
• Dracula (DC Comics)
• Andrew Bennett (DC Comics)
• Cain, Sire of All Vampires (DC Comics)
• King of the Vampires (DC Comics)
• Empress D'uh (EV Comics)
• Count Dracula (Hotel Transylvania)
• Vlad Dracula (Marvel Comics)
• Varnae (Marvel Comics)
• Wolverine (Marvel Comics: What If?)
• Count Chokott/Von Kreepsula (Mona the Vampire)
• Anthony, King of the Vampires (Ultimate Marvel Comics)
• Nerd Hulk (Ultimate Marvel Comics); after killing Anthony
• Count Dracula (Vampirella)
• King of the Nosferatu (Vampirella)
  • Lord Drago
  • Prince Iago
  • Vampirella; temporarily after killing Drago

Literature

• Tatiana "Tanya" Demidova (Demon Accords)
• Kurt Barlow (Salem's Lot)
• Akasha (The Vampire Chronicles)

Live Television/Movies

• Prince of Lies (Angel)
• La Magra/The Blood God (Blade)
• Dagon/Dracula/Drake (Blade III: Trinity)
• Dracula (Buffy The Vampire Slayer)
• The Master (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• Kakistos (Buffy The Vampire Slayer)
• The Vampire Queen (Charmed)
• Barnabas Collins (Dark Shadows)
• Dracula/Judas Iscariot (Dracula 2000, Dracula II: Ascension, and Dracula III: The Legacy)
• The Nine Lords (From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series)
• Jerry Dandriges (Fright Night 1985/Friday Night 2010)
• Regina Dandriges (Fright Night Part II)
• Vampire Counsel (My Babysitter's a Vampire)
• Count Orlok (Nosferatu)
• Dr. Alexander Sweet/Dracula (Penny Dreadful)
• Master Vampire (Penny Dreadful)
• Necrolai (Power Rangers Mystic Force)
• The Master (The Strain)
• The Ancients (The Strain)
• Radu (Subspecies)
• Alpha Vampire (Supernatural)
• Vampire Elders (Underworld)
• Selene (Underworld)
• The Old Ones/Original Vampires (The Vampire Diaries/The Originals)
• Count Dracula (Van Helsing)

Anime/Manga/Manhwa

• GranDracmon (Digimon)
• Alucard (Hellsing)
• Incognito (Hellsing)
• DIO Brando (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure)
• True Vampires (KILLER VAMP)
• Shuma Kusanagi (Libra of the Vampire Princess); called Progenitor or No-Life King
• Iris Pumila (Libra of the Vampire Princess); called Progenitor or No-Life King
• Shalltear Bloodfallen (Overlord)
• Abel (Shiki)
• Father Abel (Trinity Blood)
• Most of The Twenty-seven Dead Apostle Ancestors (TYPE-MOON)
• Camula (Yu-Gi-Oh! GX)
• Vampire Lord (Yu-Gi-Oh! GX)
• Lord Lucifer (The Werewolf Rebellion)

Video Games

• Kagan (BloodRayne)
• Mathias Cronqvist/Dracula (Castlevania)
• Walter Bernhard (Castlevania: Lament Of Innocence)
• Carmilla (Castlevania: Lords of Shadow)
• Gabriel Belmont/Dracula (Castlevania: Lords of Shadows)
• Brauner (Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin)
• The Countess (Darkest Dungeon: The Crimson Court)
• Demitri Maximoff (Darkstalkers)
• (Diablo)
  • The Countess
  • Lord Zir
• Vampire Lords (The Elder Scrolls V: Dawnguard)
  • Serana
  • Lord Harkon
  • Last Dragonborn; after joining the Volkihar Clan
• Lamae Beolfag (The Elder Scrolls Online)
• Kain (Legacy of Kain)
• Nitara (Mortal Kombat)
• Crimson (Ninja Gaiden)
• Raphael (Soul Calibur 3); After becoming a Vampire Lord by Soul Edge
• Eliza (Tekken Revolution/Tekken 7)
• High Vampire (Valkyrie Crusade)
• Myrddin Wyltt's progeny (Vampyr)
  • Jonathan Reid
  • William Marshall
  • King Arthur
• Kairn (Veil of Darkness)
• Higher Vampires (The Witcher)
  • The Unseen Elder

Tabletop Games

• Abhorash (Warhammer)
• Methuselah Vampires (Vampire: The Masquerade)
• Neferata (Warhammer)
• Mannfred von Carstein (Warhammer)
• Vlad von Carstein (Warhammer)

Gallery

Medlock (Archie's Weird Mysteries)

NOS-4-A2 (Buzz Lightyear of Star Command) is a robotic vampire with superior abilities to take on Buzz Lightyear.

Drake (Blade: Trinity)

Maloker (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) is one of the Old Ones and the creator of the vampires.

The Countess (Darkest Dungeon: The Crimson Court)

King of the Vampires (DC Comics)

Cain, Sire of All Vampires (DC Comics)

GranDracmon (Digimon) is the "king of vampire Digimon" and has enough power that even the Seven Great Demon Lords won't touch him.

Lord Harkon (The Elder Scrolls V: Dawnguard) is a Vampire Lord.

Kain (Legacy of Kain), Vampire ruler of Nosgoth. Kain is "One of the strongest vampires to ever exist," and that is without his Scion of Balance powers, with those powers, he is by far, the most powerful vampire of his universe). Kain is the creator of the fourth generation of vampires, ruling Nosgoth with his army of vampires.

The Master Vampire (Penny Dreadful) is a centuries old Vampire Lord, and the progenitor of the entire Vampire race.

Necrolai (Power Rangers Mystic Force), the Vampire Queen,

Raphael (Soulcalibur) is a Vampire Lord cursed by Soul Edge.

The Alpha Vampire (Supernatural)

Anthony (Ultimate Marvel) was once considered the world's greatest vampire hunter until he was turned into a vampire and gathered all the vampire clans under his control, becoming the undisputed King of the Vampires...

...until he was brutality killed and usurped by Nerd Hulk, the vampirized clone of Bruce Banner.

Akasha (The Vampire Chronicles), the first vampire

Original Vampires (The Vampire Diaries/The Originals)

Lord Drago (Vampirella) is the king and progenitor of the Nosferatu.

Vampirella (Vampirella) briefly became Queen of the Nosferatu after killing Lord Drago before passing down leadership to Drago's Dhampir son Prince Iago.

Camula ('Yu-Gi-Oh! GX) is known to be the queen of Vampires during the medieval era, though her people was wiped clean by the Humans, making her the last Vampire to survive.

Akasha Bloodriver (Rosario + Vampire) is a progenitor of a Shinso bloodline and possess a legendary power described as a "darkness deeper than night".

Alcina Dimitrescu (Resident Evil 8: Village) is a powerful pseudo-vampire serving the main villain Mother Miranda. Like their vampiric inspiration, she and her 3 "daughters" are blood-drinking cannibals.

Count Vladislaus Dracula (Van Helsing) is the most powerful of the vampires and has the abilities of vampire being pure. Only the claws of a werewolf can slow down his healing and the werewolf's cursed saliva can kill permanently kill him.

Neferata (Warhammer Fantasy), the inventor of vampirism & founder of the Lahmian bloodline that uses cunning, seduction and a network of vampire maidens to manipulate humans to her own ends

Abhorash (Warhammer Fantasy), founder of the Blood Dragon bloodline. The Greatest vampiric warrior to ever exist, he's also the only vampire to ever cure their vampiric bloodthirst, which he did by drinking the blood of a dragon.

Vlad Von Carstein/Vashanesh (Warhammer Fantasy) was the 1st Vampire Count of Sylvania and founder of the Von Carstein bloodline. He turned Sylvania into a vampiric haven and waged the 1st Vampire War against the Empire of Man. Also, the best ruler the province of Sylvania ever had (that's saying something).

Mannfred Von Carstein (Warhammer Fantasy) was the most devious & sorcerous of the Vampire Counts. He betrayed his maker Vlad and blood-brother Conrad to steal their throne, making the vampires lose their 1st and 2nd wars with the Old World, but was killed in the 3rd Vampire War.

Arcueid Brunestud/Archetype Earth (Type-MOON) is the princess as well as the strongest of the true ancestors, capable of nearly killing Ciel as well as almost killing a fellow True Ancestor Roa.

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