In some legends they are the natural enemies of werewolves or loup garous. It is quite similar to the Russian/Ukrainian legend of the upyr, the Slavic upior, and the Byelorussian upor. These species start out as seemingly regular humans, though they seem to have a greater tolerance to pain and the ability of mesmerization. Using this power, however, puts a visible strain on their bodies, as they bleed from their noses each time they use it. Roman after killing Olivia when rising as a Full upir after cutting his arms and dying.

After death by suicide, they become full upir, biologically immortal creatures with greatly enhanced strength, accelerated healing capabilities, as well as unnatural jaw flexibility, iron- strong teeth, toxic enyzmes, and a nearly insatiable, rabid appetite for blood and raw tissue. Upirs can become sick or have diseases only on the rarest of occasions, such as having a congenital heart defect, which is fatal to them. Once a human has transformed via suicide into the immortal your, they spend months or even years adapting to and controlling their thirst for blood or raw tissue. The new Upir has almost no self- control over their hunger and is prone to dangerously aggressive behavior.

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Even as they age and learn to exercise some self- control they will revert to instinct during dangerous or violent. This can make them act brutal and even feral. They often act cruel or inhumane towards others. There are instances in which their emotions can overwhelm and debilitate them, such as cases of extreme sadness, but it lasts for a very short time. Poor feeding habits can cause extremely heightened, raw, intense, negative, and aggressive feelings, to the point of the upir becoming dangerously short tempered and even homicidal. They will instinctively react with violence and kill if pushed to their limits.

They can continue living or be killed by extreme mutilation dismemberment of the heart, chest, or head. To make certain an upir does not heal from mortal injury, the heart or head is usually removed. They can also be killed by cremation. Scientifically, the upir gene is identified as a heritable retroviral anomaly.

This anomaly in the certain genomes is what turns people into upir, but it can only be genetically inherited. It appears that those that are not full upir but are a portion of it or have strong demonic gene in their bloodline will be prone to develop strange Roman attacking a guard on instinct with his enhanced jaws, protecting Annie. Olivia's corpse coming back to life with blue bloodless skin after bleeding out and freezing in the cold, and develops fangs, which were excluded in season 2 and replaced with enhanced jaws and growing mouth deformities, such as Olivia being born with a short tail like appendage on her back. Roman bites Dr Arnold Spivak, exposing him to the Upir Toxin. While not a birth defect or deformity, Roman and Nadia were both born with a thick membrane made of a portion of the amniotic sac, or a caul over their faces. In the Polish language, the idiom w czepku urodzony/a ('born in a bonnet'), and, in Italian, nato/a con la camicia/a ('born with a shirt'), they both mean a person who is always very lucky. The Russian phrase .

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It is often applied to someone who is oblivious to a pending disaster that is avoided only through luck as if the birth caul persists as supernatural armor throughout the persons life. Not all cultural beliefs about cauls are positive. In Romanian folklore, babies born with a caul are said to become vampires upon death. Criminal Minds Series 9. Upirs still produce waste and can become pregnant, as upir are still living creatures like Roman showing off his stretching mouth humans and werewolves and with similar traits to them.

Roman as a full upir has shown the ability urinate and produce sweat as upir are still living creatures. Pryce stated that he could turn upir blood is shown to be darker in color than human blood an upir into a human through stem cell research by exchanging their tissues and blood for that of a human's and remove the cells with upir genetics to that of humans. This was not demonstrated when Roman went through treatments that required his tissues being stripped from him and his blood drained from him, both being Gaber dying of his bite wound from Roman exchanged for that of humans. Pryce said that enough of these would make him fully human.

Since they are different in genotypes from human, their body, specifically at the nervous system, they are incapable of reacting to anaesthesia, rendering it useless in their system. Also, the treatments of purging the upir gene from the upir can cause puss to come from their ears as the body is primed to upir suffer from insatiable hunger that eventually consumes them and makes them feral and suffer from hazed senses and overwhelming hunger attacks purge itself of anything it recognizes as the upir gene.

The six treatments must be taken day after day to prime the bodies genetics to accept the human gene and reject the upir gene. If one is missed, especially the last one, then the upir will return to its original state. If the final treatment is missed, the smallest semblance of the upir gene will become infectious in the body, rebinding the gene to the body and causing mutations with unpredictable and possibly catastrophic results.

By then, the upir gene will become impossible to eradicate. These creatures possess a highly degenerative venom in their mouths, which is powerful enough to kill someone of their own kind. The Upir Toxin, also described as Upir Neurotoxin, is shown in the form of excess sinus in the maxilla of the mouth and is created inside a venom gland. While it has little to no effect on humans, it only has negative effects on other upir, as not many humans bitten by an upir in the show have shown any signs of venom. The enzyme can be used for medicinal purposes, breaking down the immune system and weakening an upir's cellular defenses to allow for further treatments. It was used in Olivia's recovery after being killed by Roman, as she could not recover on her own.

It was said to have almost killed her in the process. It also caused her to become more human, giving her tissue dystrophy, chemically enhanced emotions and empathy, which was hard to overcome, accelerated aging and decay and even human like vulnerability to cancers, which is a possible side effect of the accelerated aging.

Olivia had severe muscular dystrophy after being drained of blood by Roman and being given the Neurotoxin in her treatments, all of which caused her to become so weak that she needed a cane to walk which she got over in months following. She took medication such as methotrexate, cyclophosphamide, carboplatin, and etoposide.

This could all be immediately reversed if an afflicted Upir feeds off a Humanoid grown at the Godfrey Labs. It should be noted that an upir's strength is the only physical ability that is not affected by the Neurotoxin, as she was shown to only be as fragile as a human, spraining herself after falling off a chair, though she still ripped out Marie Godfrey's throat and lifted Roman several feet above her head with one hand. Her immune system was shut down, physically making her weak and making her age at an accelerated rate and develop the side effects of ageing such as cancer development due to a decaying bodily system. The Upir Feeding Tanks were designed to develop Humanoids, but the project only succeeded in creating plasma and tissue supplements to fully control an upir's hunger and sustain them. A fully developed Humanoid can completely repair and enhance an Upir's self- reparation capabilities to unnatural levels to help them rejuvenate and restore themselves from damage or abnormal conditions caused by Upir Neurotoxins. In addition, the venom was able to kill a Jarmungandr, as they are sulfur- based life form and the Upir toxin has an extremely high concentration of nitrogen oxide. Exposure to it causes a robust reaction capable of incinerating the Jarmungandr exposed to it.