The Monsters Of True Blood

I was discussing this with a friend a couple of days ago and I thought I would list them here. I know this is like 4 years late but the show is still on.

I'm giving a standard spoiler warning in case there are people who haven't seen the show yet.
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The Monsters Of True Blood (In No Particular Order)

1.) Vampires - The staple, immortal, blood-drinking monsters. Their weaknesses include sunlight or UV rays and silver. The ritual by which a vampire is created involves the person drinking the blood of a vampire and both the person and the vampire are then buried in the earth. Vampires can be killed with a wooden stake or with a gun that fires wooden bullets. When a vampire is killed it explodes like a water balloon filled with blood. Vampire blood is a highly addictive drug that causes hallucinations similar to LSD and can make a person incredibly strong. People can and do get strung out on it. It's street name is called "V". Vampire blood also can help heal people. Vampires possess the power of "glamour", a power they can use to control people and make them forget things.

2.) Werewolves - Werewolves are born with their ability to shape-shift into wolves. They are not made. They run in packs. When a werewolf transforms it transforms into an actual wolf form and not a wolf-human hybrid.

3.) Were-panthers - Were-panthers are a dying breed and are highly inbreed. They are like werewolves except that they transform into black panthers. They are born, not made.

4.) Maenads - Maenads are the female worshippers of the Greek god of wine and ecstasy, Dionysus. They have evolved to the point where they are immortal. They can only die if they willing give up their immortality or are tricked into doing so. They have supernatural powers such as being able to transform their hands into monster claws. A scratch from their claws is deadly if proper treatment is not available. Maenads have the power to control people. This power is almost a form of possession. Victims under the Maenads spell can be identified from their black eyes and wild, animalistic behavior. The goal of the Maenads is to invoke Dionysus into the flesh and then merge with him. Maenads believe that if they can find the proper ritual that Dionysus will be made flesh once more. At that point they will surrender their immortality and allow themselves to be consumed by their god so that they merge with him. No Maenad has ever been successful so far. Maenads routinely perform sacrifices of supernatural creatures in which they rip the hearts out of their victim. They then offer the hearts to Dionysus. Maenads can be summoned to a specific location. The greenish-black blood of a Maenad is toxic to vampires.

5.) Fairies - Fairies are a dying race. They were made almost driven extinct by vampires. Fairy blood is irresistible to vampires. Vampires claim that fairy blood tastes like "sunshine and rainbows". In their true form fairies are ugly creatures. Fairies possess the power to make themselves appear as beautiful people. Fairies also possess the power to shoot light out of their hands. In some fairies this light is in the form of an energy ball. This light is like a small explosion or like an electrical shock and it can either repel, harm, or even kill. It usually throws the affected person some distance away. In a desperate bid for survival, the majority of fairies have fled earth to live in their own dimension or universe. Various faeries are also pursuing a hybridization program with human beings in order for their species to survive. Fairies can communicate via telepathy.

6.) Fairy-Human Hybrids - There are two types. Both types are considered to be very attractive to the opposite sex. However, only one type has powers. This one type possesses the power of telepathy. The main character of Sookie is this type of hybrid. Sookie also possesses the light-power of purebred fairies. It is unclear if any other fairy-human hybrid has this same power.

7.) Shape-shifters - Shape-shifters are born that way and are not made. They have the power to shape-shift into any animal shape. Unfortunately most shape-shifters have to see the animal before they can take on it's shape. Most shape-shifters have a specific "go to" animal shape they prefer.

8.) Skin-walkers - Skin-walkers are made. A Skin-walker is a shape-shifter who has killed a family member. This gives the shapeshifter the power to shape-shift into another human being. A normal shape-shifter cannot take on the form of another human being. The killing of the family member doesn't have to be murder. At least one character became a skin-walker when her mother died in childbirth. Another skin-walker on the show became one via killing his parents in self-defense.

9.) Mediums - People who can communicate with spirits are real on the show.

10.) Ghosts/Spirits - Duh, if mediums are real then spirits are real.

11.) Witches - Most of the witches on the show are of the Wiccan variety and have little to no true power. There has only been one witch in recorded history who had the power to cause a major blow to the vampire population. Her name was Antonia and as she was burnt at the stake she used her power to draw vampires within a certain mile-radius into the sunlight where they burnt up. Antonia was a necromancer and necromancers are portrayed as being the greatest threat to vampires as they can control the dead. Vampires are technically dead.

12.) Necromancers - A type of powerful witch and the only type of witch that vampires fear as they can control the dead.

13.) Brujas & Brujos - A type of witch. They have more power than the Wiccan variety of witches.

14.)  Rootworker - Only one rootworker appears on the show and she is exposed as a fraud. However, the exorcism ritual she uses appears to work, go figure. Unfortunately a Maenad sacrificed her and cut her heart out.

15.) Demons - Demons are real on the show. They possess people. The face of a possessed person will temporarily transform into a brightly-colored, part-animal, part-human face. The demon face is very tribal in appearance. Having a demon gives the host special powers. The main Brujo on the show was possessed by a demon.