True Blood Eric Northman
True Blood Star Eric Northman is an over 1000 years old and powerful vampire, who is the vampire sheriff of Area 5 in Louisiana, which includes Bon Temps. He owns a vamp nightclub called Fangtasia in Shreveport. Because of his age he is one of the strongest Vampires in True Blood. So far only two Vampires in the series are more powerful than him. One is his maker Godric. The other is Russell Edgington, a vampire nearly two thousand years older than him. Besides the common powers of vampires such as superhuman strength, speed, senses, immortality and healing Eric has the ability to fly.
The person closest to Eric is his vampire progeny called Pam. She was made into a vampire by Eric himself about a hundred years ago. She is his loyal assistant and the bouncer at Fangtasia.
In his human life Eric was a Viking. His father was a Viking King. From the small glimpse we got in his human life, it seems Eric was a rebel. Despite the wishes of his father and mother for him to get married, he rather enjoyed the pleasures of single life. In one dreadful night his entire family got killed by a pack of werewolves, commanded by Russell Edgington. The goal of the attack was to obtain the Kings crown to enlarge Russell`s collection of crowns. During the attack Eric was having sex with a maid. By the time Eric arrived his family was already dead, and his father dying. Before he dies, his father declares him king and makes him promise to avenge his family. A promise that Eric kept, and was finally fulfilled in True Blood's Season three finale.
Eric became a vampire somewhere in Scandinavia. He was wounded from battle and on the way home with his Viking companions. He knew that he would not survive the journey home, and against his wishes his Viking companions decide to stay with him. During the night a mysterious man murdered his comrades, and left him for dead. In the same night tattooed young man who introduces himself as "Death" comes to Eric. Impressed by the fighting skills and the warrior heart of Eric, the 1000 year-old Godric offers him immortality through life as an undead. Eric asks what he gets out of it, the mysterious boy says "Life". With a desire for life that he is renowned for, Eric Northman agrees and Godric turns him into a vampire.
I am looking forward to learn more about Eric in True Blood's Season 4.
