Lenore was a vampire, and leader of a nest that fed on cattle blood rather than human blood.
Background[]
Season 2[]
Lenore was the leader of a group of vampires who had sworn off consuming human blood; instead choosing to sustain themselves on the blood of cows. She explained to Sam that whilst she found cow blood disgusting, it was worth being able to live in peace and avoid the attention from hunters.
Despite her efforts, though, Lenore and her nest were hunted by an obsessed vampire hunter named Gordon Walker, whom Sam and Dean had just met whilst investigating a case. Lenore’s group kidnapped Sam from his motel room and brought him to their nest. There, Lenore asked Sam to help the vampires escape and stop Walker from killing them.
When Sam was released, he returned to his motel room and pleaded the vampires' case to his brother. Gordon overheard him and went after Lenore's nest on his own. Once the Winchesters realized Gordon overheard them and left to kill them himself, they went to the nest. There, Gordon had Lenore tied up and had been torturing her with a knife dipped in dead man's blood.
When the boys arrived, they attempted to talk Gordon out of killing Lenore, but Gordon argued that all vampires were bloodthirsty killers, even Lenore and her nest. To prove his point, Gordon grabbed Sam's arm and cut it with his knife, and held his arm above Lenore's face. When his blood dripped onto her, Lenore's vampire instincts kicked in and she moved towards the blood. However, after a moment, she was able to overcome it and reverted to normal. After Gordon was defeated, the Winchesters left him to be trapped. With their point proven, Sam escorted Lenore out and helped her leave town.[1]
Season 6[]
While Sam, Dean, Bobby and Castiel are searching for Eve, they require a "good monster", one who can give them inside details on Eve and recall Lenore. Castiel brings Lenore and at first, she attempts to run after seeing them but is cornered. She soon calms herself and tells them she remembers their encounter, angrily bringing up their last meeting when their friend Gordon Walker tried to kill her in that time. To make her feel better, Sam reveals Gordon's eventual fate of being turned into a vampire and Dean mentions Gordon getting decapitated by Sam with razor wire, which somewhat pleases her. She inquires on what they want with her and Sam asks her for Eve's location, but Lenore wants nothing to do with Eve and is still trying to escape her. Sam also asks about her nest and she tells them they could no longer resist Eve's voice and began killing again, due to Eve's voice in their heads and what it does to them. She was forced to hide in a basement and expresses the lust of feeding she battled, remarking that "everyone gives in".
Dean asks again for the location of Eve and Lenore tells them that if she does reveal to them the location, Eve will know they are coming. They still insist, so Lenore finally reveals that Eve is in Grants Pass, Oregon. In return, she asks the brothers to kill her, due to her shame in having relapsed and having fed on a human recently. Sam and Dean are reluctant, but Castiel steps in and smites her.[2]
Personality[]
Despite her vampiric nature, Lenore was quite kind and empathetic as she only sought to protect her nest from hunters and give them a better life than being hunted by hunters to death. She will even shown mercy towards those who wronged her, as after capturing the hunter Sam, she assured him that she wouldn't harm him and even shared info on her nest.
When meeting the Winchesters again, she was initially scared until calming down and catching up with them. She was slightly relieved to hear their vengeful friend was dead before giving them info on Eve.
Powers and Abilities[]
Lenore possessed the standard powers and abilities of a vampire.
- Super Strength - As a vampire, Lenore was stronger than humans, and could contend with other monsters.
- Super Speed - As a vampire, Lenore was much faster than humans; allowing her to suddenly appear and disappear, move and run faster than the human eye could follow, and very quickly hunt down prey.
- Super Senses - As a vampire, Lenore had heightened, predatory senses of sight, smell, taste, and hearing. Lenore could hear a humans heartbeat from a vast distance, see perfectly in darkness, and catch the scent of blood in the air; the smell would cause her fangs to extend.
- Fangs - Lenore possessed superhumanly strong and razor-sharp fangs, that would extend and retract over her teeth.
- Immortality - As a vampire, Lenore was immortal; she was immune to age, decay, disease, toxins, infections, viruses, illnesses, poisons, and natural death, and could not be killed unless by decapitation or certain supernatural means.
- Invulnerability - As a vampire, Lenore was invulnerable to most forms of conventional harm and fatality, such as stabbings, gunshots, and massive blood loss, however, she could still be killed by certain supernatural beings and weapons, as well as decapitation.
Weaknesses[]
- Dead man's blood - It can cause enough pain to incapacitate a vampire and in some cases, knock them unconscious. Gordon used it to torture her after coating some of it on his knife.
- Eve - Lenore stated that she was still trying to escape her. Sam also asks about her nest and she tells them they could no longer resist Eve's voice and began killing again, due to Eve's voice in their heads and what it does to them. She was forced to hide in a basement and expressed the lust of feeding she battled, remarking that "everyone gives in".
- Seraphim - Castiel was able to effortlessly smite her.
Appearances[]
- Season 2
- Season 6
- Bobby Singer's Guide to Hunting (non-canon; mentioned only)
Trivia[]
- She is the first recurring vampire.
- She is, to date, the only known female pack leader; all the other vampire leaders who have been introduced have been men, and unlike Celia who is a "mother" to a family of vampires.
- Her actress, Amber Benson, is best known for portraying the witch Tara Maclay in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which also starred fellow Supernatural guest stars Mercedes McNab, James Marsters, Charisma Carpenter, Harry Groener and Felicia Day.