Grant asked Garon Whited:

Did Eric become a wizard when was made a vampire or did he have the ability all along and simply lacked the knowledge and belief needed to do anything with it. I ask because no other vampire in the series gains magic by becoming a vampire unless you count Mary but I am not sure she counts. She did get her powers from Erick's blood and she already had weird psychic voodoo powers of her own right?

Garon Whited Eric hasn't obtained a definitive answer on this, but here goes: He started out as a talented human being. Sadly, in a world with little to no magic, he never had the opportunity to find out! Becoming a vampire put him in breakthrough, temporarily magnifying his mortal abilities, then leveled out into a more regular level of wizard strength. Over time, he's grown in power--as wizards do, and as vampires do.
Mary also had decades of being her own kind of vampire, but no training as a wizard. Many parts of her ability list were magnified by Eric's blood, but she--and all Thessaloniki--have the *capacity* to be wizards. They simply don't have either the training or--as is common with most people--the drive to pursue it. Anyone can be a rocket scientist... but how many people are willing to work that hard to be one?

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