Veritas is the Roman goddess of truth. She has appeared in chapter 'You Can't Handle The Truth', in which she made people say the truth so they would kill each other to pay her fee. She is played by Serinda Swan.
Story
In "You Can't Handle the Truth", she is summoned by a young woman named Corey using a cat's skull, grains of paradise seed, and Devil's Shoestring. As a result of her summoning, anyone in Calumet City, Illinois who asks aloud for the truth, invokes her curse. Dean Winchester inadvertently invokes the curse and is suddenly bombarded by truths from everyone he encounters, including phone calls.
Sam and Dean learn that Veritas is posing as Ashley Frank. She drives what appears to be a Jaguar E-Type or XK-E, a British automobile manufactured by Jaguar between 1961 and 1975, which is appropriate given her character's connection with cats. They go to her home to kill her, but she captures them and, before eating them, decides to play "Truth or Truth." She forces Dean to admit that he wanted to kill Sam in his sleep because he thought he was monster; however, when she questions Sam, she becomes agitated because she can tell that Sam is lying to her. She asks Sam what he is--he can't be human if he can lie to her. Sam and Dean use this distraction to free themselves and kill her with a knife dipped in dog's blood.
Appearance
She appears to be a young woman who works as an investigative reporter, who addreses herself as Ashley Frank. She was identified as a goddess due of a white retinal flash in her eyes. She also was able to shapeshift into form with unhuman features, such as cat-like eyes, spiky teeth when threatened.
Known Abilities
- Truth - As the goddess of truth, her signature ability is force humans to speak the truth. Wherever town she is at, if someone asks aloud for the truth, they will invoke her curse. Nobody can lie when under her curse, to her or to anybody, excluding soulless people - as they have a special resistance against the curse (like Sam).
- Immortality - As a pagan god, she has immortality and near invulnerabillity. However, she can be killed if using the appropiate elements.
- Telekinesis - She can control and move objects with her mind.
- Superhuman Agility & Speed - She has cat-like speed and agility.
- Superhuman Strength - She has enchanced strength and she can knock down her enemies with one strike.
- Shape-shiffting - She can change her body. When she defeated, she turned to true body like cat with spiky teeth and big cat-like eyes.
Weaknesses
She can be killed with a knife dripped in a dog's blood .
Victims
Whenever she is called upon, she will curse the people who invoke the truth aloud. They ultimately die as if they were sacrifices, and when that happens she shall feast on their bodies, as other pagan gods do.
- Corey
- Jane Peterson - A waitress at Biggerson's Resturant who shot herself after being bombarded by harsh truths, the worst from which her sister, Olivia.
- Dr. Paul Connelly - A dentist who killed Kenny by driving his drill into Kenny's mouth. He later committed suicide in prison, and his body is seen later being eaten by Veritas.
- Kenny - A friend of Dr. Connelly who admits the dentist, as he is preparing for dental surgery, that he has grown weary of his own wife and that he had sexual relations with Dr. Connelly's daughter, Melissa. He was killed and then eaten by Veritas, who accepted his body as a tribute to her.
- Dean - Dean accidentally invokes Veritas' curse when he replies to a waitress "I just want the freaking truth".
Mythology
In Roman mythology, Veritas, meaning truth, was the goddess of truth, a daughter of Saturn and the mother of Virtue. It was believed that she hid in the bottom of a holy well because she was so elusive. Her image is shown as a young virgin dressed in white. Veritas is also the name given to the Roman virtue of truthfulness, which was considered one of the main virtues any good Roman should possess. In Greek mythology, Veritas was known as Aletheia.