Distinction. Enhanced Original Vampire Is a Term Used to Describe the Type of Original Vampire Alaric Saltzman Became When Esther Recast the Immortality Spell...
Distinction. Enhanced Original Vampire is a term used to describe the type of Original vampire Alaric Saltzman became when Esther recast the Immortality Spell to turn him. She made changes such as binding Alaric's life to a doppelgänger, whereas the other Originals' immortality was granted by the white oak tree.
Is Alaric a original vampire?
Alaric became an Enhanced Original Vampire through Esther's magic so he could kill her children with the last, and indestructible, White Oak Stake, to make the vampire species extinct before his death, his life having been linked to Elena's.
A few days before the end of season 3, Alaric, who had been a traditional vampire, became an enhanced original vampire after Esther transformed him into one, feeding off Bonnie and taking the White Oak Stake from her.