Turok-Han

Turok-Han's History

Background

The Turok-Han was a race of ancient powerful vampires, comparable to what Neanderthals are to humans. According to Rupert Giles, they were feared amongst vampires.

Sunnydale

The First Evil, via its Harbingers of Death, initially used the combined blood of Jonathan Levinson and Spike to open the Seal of Danzalthar, thus releasing the first Turok-Han.

Buffy Summers's first encounter with the Turok-Han nearly killed her as she was caught off-guard, tired from two days lack of sleep and worried about the fate of her friends. Their second encounter happened after the Turok-Han killed one of the first Potential Slayers, Annabelle, sent to Sunnydale for protection. Buffy spent most of this time avoiding the vampire rather than fighting it, but it nevertheless beat her, causing her to flee.

In between its fights with Buffy, the Turok-Han spent most of its time torturing a captive Spike. After Buffy discovered the First's infiltration of the Potential Slayers, he told them that he would have the Turok-Han go after them. The Turok-Han broke into the Summers residence and fought through a force field created by Willow Rosenberg. Buffy, her friends and Potential Slayers then fled to the streets.

As the Turok-Han caught up with them, Buffy tried to hold it off, though the Turok-Han directed its attention to the Potentials after a brief struggle. Following them to the construction site, the Turok-Han was pursued by Buffy who, after a long battle, managed to the kill the vampire in front of the Potential Slayers.

Several weeks after, Lissa attempted to release a Turok-Han using Alexander Harris' blood. She was only successful in opening the seal long enough for a Turok-Han to stick its arm out before the ritual was disrupted.

The Shadowmen later showed Buffy a vision of thousands of Turok-Han living below the seal. The First Evil apparently planned to open the Hellmouth and release them all, allowing them to conquer the world. The First would have taken physical form when its forces outnumbered humanity in this world.

Eventually, a few more Turok-Han were released.

Extinction

Buffy and the other Slayers went into the Hellmouth itself to fight the Turok-Han. In the end, all of them were apparently killed, including thousands by the mystical amulet that entrapped Spike. Spike would later remark that the Turok-Han was part of a list of "things that just [didn't] exist anymore."