Alaric K. Saltzman is a fictional character in L. J. Smith's The Vampire Diaries series. Alaric is the new, young and attractive and extremely annoying History teacher at Robert E. Lee High School that was in suspicion of being a vampire hunter when he was in fact studying vampire ever since he discovered that they were real. He's an experimental psychologist from Duke University, specialising in the research of psychic powers. His research took a sideways step upon the discovery of the victim of a vampire. He focused his research on vampire victims, becoming the foremost expert in the field. Alaric is good-looking with an athletic build, hazel eyes, and sandy brown hair (which he wears a little long). He has a boyish smile, and Elena observes that he's not really much older than the students in his class. Later on, in The Fury, Elena assesses him to be around two atau 3 years older than she is, which would age him at around 22 years old at the puncak, atas end.