The Arlen Family

Intro
==History==
Lorna Winchell was 25 when she became one of the few surviving members of the Arlen Bloodline after May had killed off most of her family. With her parents, younger sister Mary and her niece Christine presumed dead, Lorna took her daughters Alexandra and Ellis and hid them from the rest of the magical community. While a 5 year old Alexandria was raised in Chicago, 3 year old Ellis was raised in Florida. Being on opposite sides of the country, caused the sisters to be estranged but safe from being found together.
Alexandra grew up in Chicago, being raised by her mom's friend Michelle. Later she started dating Michelle's son Conrad, and the two had a daughter together, Calliope.
In Florida, Ellis grew up with her paternal grandparents. She married a guy called Richard Grey, and together they had a daughter, Meredith.
Shortly after Meredith's birth, Lorna died leaving Alexandra and Ellis to assume they were the last members of their bloodline.
Alexandra decided not to raise her daughter without magic, however Ellis believed that their family could recover and that they would be stronger together so she raised Meredith to embrace her power. 
The task of reuniting their family fell onto Meredith when her mother suffered from cancer. Meredith wrote a letter to her aunt inviting her to her mom's funeral, but Alexandra said it was too dangerous to attend. The next attempt to communicate with her aunt failed, as the adress turned out invalid. 
Losing communications with her aunt, Meredith tried to figure out her grandmother's history. Soon she found out that her great-aunt Mary also survived the genocide unlike what Lorna had believed. Meredith tracked down Christine and showed her a picture of Lorna, Mary and a toddler girl, which Christina confirmed was her at age 3, weeks before the genocide. 
Inviting Meredith in, she introduces her to her twin teenagers Jessica Winchell and Ty Winchell. When Christine asks if anyone else survived, Meredith said that her grandmother had two daughters who both survived, but that her own mother had died and that Alexandra had cut off communications.
When asked if Meredith was raised with magic, Meredith performed a water spell. The twins watch in awe, as they have never seen magic like that.
Seeing her twins in awe, Christine allowed her children to join Meredith in their attempt to look for the rest of their family. When Meredith mentions Christine should reclaim their throne in Aerqua, Christine tells her they would need help. She tells Meredith to go to Waterfall Creek and find The Silverstones, as they are the only ones who might be able to help.
===Season Three===
While travelling to Waterfall Creek, Jess and Ty are sceptical hearing that there's vampires in the town. However Meredith says that Christine wouldn't have sent them if the Silverstones couldn't be trusted. 
They arrive at the town and the strong magical pressence makes Ty and Jessica's power increase. They get on board with the plan once they realize what they could accomplish working together with the other witches.
Payton and Claire agree to let them stay despite having their own set of difficulties dealing with their brother.
However that decision doesn't go by well within the magical community where Peter Thornton claims that imposters are trying to reclaim the throne to Aerqua. Payton and Claire defend the Arlen witches, both in the human world and in the magical dimension.
Payton talks to Meredith who informs them that Christine is the oldest living member of their family. However when Meredith tries to reach out to her to tell her that the Silverstones will help them, she learns that Christine died in a housefire. Unable to prove that the Hainasoni bloodline was behind this, Payton encourages Meredith to take the throne sooner rather than later.
Meredith then realizes it's up to her, and she joins Payton and Claire in going to Divitia. There she states to being the leader of the Arlen Bloodline.
Payton and Claire approve and support Meredith's claim, which puts the majority of the magical dimension at their side. Meredith gets coronated and vows to restore Aerqua to it's former reign. Unable to prove the injustice that his family caused to hers, Meredith is forced to be civil with Peter Thornton and she allows irrigation from Aerqua into Sanguis.
When Payton asks Meredith for a favor in return, Meredith agrees for her and her cousins to fight alongside Claire and Payton against Jared. After the fight, Meredith introduces herself to Alyssa who avoids her. When Payton confronts Alyssa, and Meredith asks Payton if she did anything wrong, Payton explains that Alyssa's mom killed off most of the Arlen Witches as a favor to The Thornton Family.
===Season Five===
In a nostalgic mood, Meredith decides to go through some of her grandmother's letters. There she finds the letter in which Alexandra announced the birth of Calliope 10 months before Meredith was born. Meredith, Jessica and Ty set out to find Calliope, the rightful leader of their family.
When they track Calliope down they find out she is an ordinary CSI working at Chicago PD.
Meredith eases her into the fact that she is magical royalty and the rightful queen of Aerqua. After hearing this news, Calliope finds out in her mother's journals that her powers were dampened since birth. 
Meredith teaches Calliope about magic and after a while Calliope gets the hang of her powers. She then gets coronated as the new queen of Aerqua, and she asks Meredith to be her right hand. Meredith says she can't stay in the magical dimension because she has a lead to more members of their bloodline potentially being alive. However Meredith says that Calliope can trust House Swann to help her. As they say goodbye, Meredith tells Calliope not to trust Peter Thornton and his family.
Meredith, Jessica and Ty eventually end up in London, where they find Ruby Lennox. Ruby reveals to them that she is a double agent with the hunters, and informs the Arlen Family of a network of witches from the Arlen bloodline who have survived. Tracking down the network, they find 14 more witches and wizards of all ages.
Gathering all of them in Istanbul, Meredith convinces them to get justice for their family and they plan to take down Peter Thornton. When Jessica points out to Meredith that it would start a civil war, which the other royals wouldn't appreciate, Meredith replies saying that there has been a civil war for decades and that everyone chose to look the other way. 
At the end of the season they track down Louis Ignatius. After being ambushed by the Arlen witches, Louis arranges a meeting between his sisters and the arlen witches, realizing they want the same thing which is for their father to pay. The Arlen witches are a key element in the plan for Laura and her cousins to escape the compound. 
During the escape a fight occurs in which Peter Thornton and Bryan Thornton overpower the Arlen witches. That's when Calliope arrives through the Sanguis portal informing Peter that the Aerqua fleet has taken control over Fire Island and they're keeping Sanguis hostage. Eventually Peter gives in and puts down arms.
===Season Six===
Later Calliope and Meredith watch how Peter Thornton gets imprisoned for breaching the accords and they are present at Kendall Hagano's coronation.
==Members==
===Alexandra's Family===
AlexandraWinchell.gif|Alexandra Winchell
CalliopeWinchell.gif|Calliope Winchell
Alxandra Shipp fc
===Ellis' Family===
EllisWinchell.gif|Ellis Winchell
MeredithWinchell.gif|Meredith Winchell
Amandla Stenberg FC
===Christine's Family===
ChristineWinchell.gif|Christine Winchell
JessicaWinchell.gif|Jessica Winchell
TyWinchell.gif|Ty Winchell
Sydney Park FC (Ty's daughter)
==Properties==
Category:Families
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