Brandon Smith

" I was picking flowers and herbs for my mother and her spells. Then, he came. I was ripped apart by a blue moon werewolf, I still remember the pain, the terrible agonizing pain. Imagine how it feels to have every limb ripped off one by one."- Brandon in chapter 19 in book two to Rebekah

Brandon Smith (or Брэндон Рус), was on the original vampires, (excluding the Mikaelsons). Brandon is a recurring character in the "Secrets Lie Within" series, he is the main antagonist in the first book, Brandon was an original lunar vampire, and a witch, making him an original hybrid, and the original lunar vampire.

Brandon was the biological son of Mark, and Kristin Smith. At a young age, Brandon began experiencing witchcraft powers. Brandon was trained by his mother for the first 16 years of his life. Brandon was considerably one of the strongest witches of all time.

Brandon was a member of the Smitheyos family

Biography
When Brandon was 16, he was killed by a blue moon werewolf. This caused his family to create a curse, also known as the curse of vampirism. This caused His parents to kill their children and themselves to become vampires. They are different creatures than the Mikaelsons vampire curse. They are the first, and the original.

In Brandon's 16th year, his family married him and a witch named Estrid, to grant their two powerful witch lines immense strength. This matrimony is what caused the dopplegangers to exist. When Brandon died months later, this broke their matrimony and caused their new found powerful magic to fade away. Brandon however, retained this ability, which is what allowed him to use the Astra Blockage spell every 200 years in the Ancestral well.

Brandon was consecrated, and soon became a witch of the Ancestral Realm. The ancestors began to hate Brandon, due to his anger, and his thirst for revenge. Every few centuries, Brandon would gain enough power, and strength to break free, and roam the earth for only days. Brandon to cloak himself as his brother Blake, turning humans into vampires, then creating his sire line. For centuries, Vampires from this line, would think that they are sired to Blake, but rather, they were sired to Brandon. The first member of Brandon's Sire line was Nickolas Johnson. A 1000 year old vampire. From Nick, more and more vampires would be sired to Brandon. Creating Brandon's sire line.

Brandon was noted as a very powerful witch, creating many spells, his most notable, was his lunar curse. This curse would only allow certain supernatural beings to the lunar moon. These creatures are different that werewolves. They are witches. They could only use their witchcraft on a lunar eclipse. This curse would soon become 'extinct' after Brandon died.

The ancestors hated Brandon because of his curses and spells that he created. The ancestors would try to hinder Brandons magic many times, but were unsuccessful. Brandon was known for his ability to fight off supernatural creatures.

2018
Brandon was resurrected in July. He is considered the main antagonist of the first book. He is considered to be one of the strongest characters in the series. Being both an original, and a witch. Rebekah wanted to kill Brandon because she learned of how bad it would be if he returned to life. 2018 was the year of fighting and death. Brandon and his new lunar vampires would fight rebekahs team, and loose. After his loss, Rebekah with the help of Ingrid, would lock him into a vampire tomb. Trapping him inside. He would spend over 50 years locked in the tomb. (but he escaped twice)

2020
Brandon is still stuck within the tomb, but was set free once to help Rebekah's team fight off Aurelia, and Astrid Clara. Brandon would help defeat them, but would be staked and sent back into the tomb. From then, Rebekah and her team would communicate with Brandon while he is still in the tomb. He would then dessicate until 2036.

In 2037, Brandon's body became possessed by a powerful witch named Christopher (a 300 year old dead witch) with the help of Jade, Christopher would only possess Brandon for days before he hijacked Grayson's body and created the first Quadbrid

Personality
Brandon is considered to be evil, conniving, manipulative, and mean. He treated everyone with anger, and was not respectful. But he wasn't like this towards his mother, he loved his mother dearly.

Powers and Abilities
Brandon has the powers of a original lunar vampire, and witch, both physically enhanced powers and abilities of mind compulsion. His strength and speed will also increase during a lunar eclipse. Brandon is slightly more physically powerful than his siblings. Brandon is considered to be one of if not the most powerful character due to him being an extremely powerful witch, which was caused by a marriage back in the 5th century.

Being the original lunar vampire he has immense strength, and is able overpower almost anything, he is even slightly physically superior to his siblings and his father.

He is able to fight Rebekah, Samantha, Jackson, and Nadia with ease. When Nick joined the fight against him, the battle became more difficult for him, however, he is still physically more powerful than all of them.

In the beginning of the first book, before he was a lunar vampire, Nadia was able to hold off Brandon for a relatively long time, however, Brandon was just resurrected, and had only fed once.

Weaknesses

 * Broken Neck: Breaking an original lunar vampire-witch hybrid's neck will result in the Original lunar vampire-witch hybrid's unconsciousness.
 * The Cure: If an original lunar vampire-witch takes the cure, they will revert back to being a witch again. Once taken, the cure prevents them from being immortal again, causing the body to reject vampire blood.
 * Huntress' Blood: Consumption of a supernatural huntress' blood will cause a Original witch-lunar vampire hybrid to lose their ability to use magic. Prolong exposure poisons them, leading them to get sick and some brands will appear in their body and may eventually lead to death. However, Brandon's healing processes is much quicker than that of a non-original vampire and a non-original lunar vampire
 * Desiccation: Being completely drained of blood or the heart-stopping will cause an original lunar vampire-witch hybrid to desiccate due to their vampire side, losing most of it's strength and any ability to move. This process can be replicated artificially by magic.
 * Invitation: Due to their vampire heritage, original lunar vampire-witch hybrids are unable to enter a home without an invitation.
 * Magic: Original lunar vampire-witch hybrids are susceptible to the powers of witchcraft. This is inclusive of mystical objects such as the Starling Necklace, Gilbert Device, Papa Tunde's Blade, Cursed Stake and Dark Objects. It is possible, but equally as unlikely that a Siphoner can also siphon the magic from an original hybrid. even with being a witch, they are still susceptible
 * Physical Trauma: Minor physical injuries such as gunshots, stab wounds, and broken bones will cause an original lunar vampire-witch hybrid pain and also slow them down. However, this is momentary as they will heal completely within seconds. It seems physical trauma can hurt them anywhere on the body (ex-eye gauging, drowning).
 * Poison: There are various poisons invented by Dr. Wes Maxfield and Aya, to name a few, that are capable of incapacitating or desiccating a vampire when administered.
 * Vervain: Vervain prevents an Original lunar vampire-witch hybrid from compelling anyone who takes it and burns them on touch. Original lunar vampire-witch hybrids will heal very quickly from vervain wounds, however.
 * Sunlight: Brandon even though he is a hybrid, sunlight still is still harmful to him. He is still burned by sunlight. but this can be migrated by the use of a daylight ring. Although Brandon still burns from the sunlight, he cannot permanently die from this. Being an original Brandon can only be killed by one thing. Sunlight can temporarily kill him, but he will die. He will however light up in fire, and die. But he will awake soon after. Brandon is harmed by sunlight because nature made weaknesses on him due to the fact that he became a witch, without being a siphoner.

Trivia

 * Brandon Smith's real name is Brandyon Smitheyos
 * Brandon one of the only vampire-witch hybrids. (without being a siphoner.) Brandon casted many spells to make this happen. One of them was to balance out the power, his resurrection. "a life for a life" he says. he used Jackson's death to fuel that.
 * The lunar vampire curse was a way for him to gain the upper hand against his siblings.
 * Brandon has an immunity to vervain.
 * in the "Secrets lie within" series, the Smitheyos originals replace the Mikaelsons, and Brandon replaces Kol Mikaelson.
 * The name Brandon means "little Raven" a name Brandon's mother calls him in the series.]