Spencer Saltzman

Spencer Briar Saltzman is a main character in The Halliwell Diaries series. Spencer is a Witch, and the daughter of Alaric Saltzman and the late Elizabeth Branwell. She originally came to Mystic Falls with her father to find the vampire who killed her adoptive mother, Isobel, but learned that she voluntarily became a vampire and left them. She also learned that Isobel had a child when she was a teenager, a daughter named Elena Gilbert, her friend. At first hating Damon for turning her adoptive mother into a vampire, they eventually became friends and later entered into a romantic relationship. In the beginning of Season Three, Spencer is revealed to be pregnant and later gives birth to their daughter Alexandra.

Basic Powers

 * Spell Casting: The ability to cast spells and perform rituals.
 * Potion Brewing: The ability to brew potions.
 * Scrying: The ability to locate a person or object by the use of a scrying crystal, a map, and sometimes other tools.
 * Mediumship: The ability to see and commune with spirits of the dead.

Active Powers
The power to conjure the elements is to generate and manipulate the elements of nature: earth, water, fire, air, ice and electricity.


 * Aerokinesis: The ability to create and manipulate wind.
 * Cryokinesis: The ability that enables the user to generate and manipulate ice and cold.
 * Electrokinesis: The ability which allows the user to generate and control electricity and lightning.
 * Geokinesis: The magical ability that enables the user to control and manipulate all forms of earth, including sand, rocks and minerals.
 * Hydrokinesis: The magical ability that enables the user to create and manipulate water.
 * Pyrokinesis: The magical ability that enables the user to create and manipulate fire.

Etymology

 * Spencer: A given name of British origin, that means "steward" or "administrator"
 * Briar: A variant of Middle English brere, from Old English brer (Anglian), brær (West Saxon) "brier, bramble, prickly bush".
 * Saltzman: An Ashkenazic Jewish occupational name for a producer or seller of salt, from German Salz "salt" + Mann "man". Altered spelling of German "Salzmann."