The Winchell Family

Intro
==History==
1960's
During the 60's  May Miller slaughtered many known royals of the Arlen Bloodline. In the Winchell family, a 25 year old Lorna came home from her new job as a secretary in the city to find most of her family brutally murdered. She returned to the city, knowing it was only a matter of time before the people who killed her family would come after her. She took her two young daughters, Alexandra and Ellis and went into hiding, saying goodbye to her husband in a letter adressed to him on the kitchen counter. In this letter, Lorna expresses the most sadness about the death of her younger sister Mary and her niece Christine. Unbeknown to Lorna, the family risked everything to let Mary escape because she was pregnant, and she managed to get herself, her daughter Christine and her unborn son to safety.
1970's
For their safety, Lorna sent her two daughters away to seperate locations while she herself moved to New York.
After being abruptly separated from her sister at the age of 5, Alexandra grew up in Chicago by her mom's high school friend Michelle. Alexandra started dating Michelle's son Conrad.
At the same time a young Ellis, separated from her sister when she was 3, found safety in the home of her maternal grandparents. She later went on to marry surgeon Richard Grey.
1980's
Upon her declining health, Lorna wrote letters to both her daughters to say goodbye, and provided each with the adress of the other in hope that in their lifetime it would become safe enough to see each other again. 
Alexandra did not share that sentiment, and thought a potential reunion with her sister was dangerous. Believing she and her sister were the last witches of their bloodline, Alexandra chose not to tell her husband Conrad about magic. Ellis tried to reach out to her sister several times, wanting to reunite sharing her mother's hopeful optimism, but failed to get a reply. 
Meanwhile Christine and Benjamin, Mary's children, stayed in touch with each other and grew up in Detroit. When their mother Mary eventually passed too, they wondered if any of their extended family would have survived the massacre their mother so closely escaped. Christine, who witnessed part of it, said it was unlikely that they did.
1990's
During the 90's the family expanded as Alexandra welcomed her daughter, Calliope. Soon after, Ellis had a daughter, Meredith. Alexandra chose not to raise her daughter with magic, and hid her powers until her 18th birthday. Ellis believed it was her duty to uphold her family's legacy, and raised Meredith to be a keeper of the Arlen Bloodline legacy. Ellis told Meredith to reclaim the throne of Aerqua, which had been lost to them since the war with the Hainasoni bloodline escalated in the 60's. Ellis told Meredith the throne was rightfully hers as oldest living descendant of her generation, as she had never been informed of Calliope's birth.
Meanwhile Christine had twins, Jessica and Ty. They were raised in Detroit, but a suspicious car accident that took the life of Christine's husband made her scared for the life of her teenage kids. Chrstine moved with her kids to Canada after the loss of her husband, living in a small remote cabin. Benjamin did not understand Christine's decision to willingly split up, and stayed in Detroit with his young family. Eventually his sister's suspicions were right and he was murdered. Ben's wife, pregnant at the time, named their son after her husband, Benjamin Jr.
2010's
Now young adults, Meredith leads the search to reunite her long lost cousins, realizing it is the only way they will regain Aerqua. She does research on the Winchell family name and in doing so discovers Christine and her kids' names in an article about the death of her husband. Meredith goes to verify with her mother if she had a cousin named Christine, which then leads Ellis to further search in family records, discovering it's the name of Mary's daughter. With this confirmation, Meredith heads to the cabin in the woods and arrives at Christine's door. She takes the risk to show her magic openly, to make sure Christine does not precieve her as a threat. 
Upon learning that her aunt made it out of the city, and that her two cousins survived, Christine regains faith in the unity of family. She tells Meredith about her brother, and allows her two children to go with Meredith to Detroit where they grow up. 
On this trip to Detroit, Jessica and Ty go to visit their aunt and they discover she had a son shortly after their uncle Benjamin was murdered. The teenage boy is unaware of magic, despite his powers starting to grow. Jessica and Ty convince their aunt to let them take young Benjamin Jr with them. Meredith, Jessica and Ty teach Benjamin how to control his magic and how to hide it from his human mother because she is traumatised by the murder of her husband. 
When Benjamin asks if they still have their parents, Jessica and Ty admit they lost their dad and Meredith mentions the death of Lillian and Christopher to warn him to be cautious with his magic. This brings Jessica to the idea of visiting Waterfall Creek as she s sure that the Silverstones would have the type of magic and foothold in the magical dimension they would need to reclaim the throne of Aerqua.
Meredith is sceptical of this plan, and Ty is reluctant to ask the Silverstones for help since their parents got targeted too but they have since turned to vampires as allies. The cousins consider their options for a while, Meredith tells her side of the family story including her aunt Alexandra which she has never met. They decide to go to Waterfall Creek despite the vampires, trusting that the Silverstones are safe.
===Season Three===
Meredith, Jessica and Ty arrive in [[Waterfall Creek and immediatly feel the affects of being in proximity to the Silverstone House once they arrive. Despite having to deal with their brother, Payton and Claire welcome the Arlen Bloodline. 
When it's announced to the other leaders in the magical dimension that the Arlen Bloodline survived, Peter Thornton claims they're imposters but he is quickly proven wrong by his own bloodmagic spell, put forward by his daughter. Payton and Claire protect the Arlen witches from this bullying and support them in their claim to the Aerqua throne.
Meredith, despite being prepared to rule, tells Payton that Christine is the oldest living member of their family and should become queen. However when Jessica and Ty try to reach their mother, they learn she died in a suspicious housefire. Unable to prove the Hainasoni bloodline was behind it, Payton warns Meredith that they need to claim the throne fast.
Meredith agrees to travel with Payton and Claire to Divitia, where she makes her first appearance as soon-to-be coronated queen and the leader of the Arlen Bloodline. Through Payton and Claire's vote, Meredith gets majority approval and her first act after the coronation is to provide Sanguis with more water, in an attempt to stop the war with the Hainasoni Bloodline.
===Season Five ===
After five years of being queen at Aerqua and restoring the kingdom, Meredith meets up with her cousins, including Benjamin, and they try to formalize a family tree to commemorate the lost members, now including her own mother. In doing so, Meredith recalls her aunt Alexandra and in an attempt to make the most of her time in the human dimension she travels to Chicago to find out from the population archives if she had died. When instead she finds out Alexandra died but had a daughter, who was older than Meredith, she calls her cousins with the news.
Jessica, Ty an Benjamin agree they should find Callope as she is the rightful heir to the Aerqua throne. Benjamin eventually finds Calliope working as a CSI at Chicago PD through chance, and he gives her the same speech about magic that Jessica, Ty and Meredith gave him sis years ago.
Despite not believing a word Benjamin is saying, Calliope has a dream of her mother writing in her journals. When she goes to the attic to read those journals, she finds mentions of magic and is forced to believe Benjamin told the truth and she is a witch. Calliope takes the reversal spell for her bound powers and asks Benjamin to cast it. When he does, Calliope's true magical potential unfolds itself undeniably.
Calliope is then sent to Meredith in the magical dimension, who greets her warmly in the throneroom and tells her that it belongs to her.
===Season Six===
After being coronated and getting the hang of her new powers, Calliope asks Meredith to stay as her right hand. Meredith says she can't stay because she has uncovered another branch of their family, the Lennox family. She tells Calliope and her cousins that she wants to try to bring more members of their bloodline together. Calliope agrees they need all their strength as a family as Peter Thronton is still furious at them.
Meredith travels to London with Benjamin, and they find Ruby Lennox, who is working as a double agent with the hunters. Ruby informs Meredith about the Underground, where they find the remaining members of the Lennox family in hiding; Ruby's cousin Michelle, her aunt Pamela and her other cousin Tasha.
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