Dahlia

Dahlia (Elder Futhark: ᛞᚨᚺᛚᛁᚨ) was "one of the most powerful witches in history"The Brothers That Care Forgot and the main antagonist of the second season of The Originals. She was the older sister of Esther, the sister-in-law of Mikael, the maternal aunt of Freya, Finn, Elijah, Niklaus, Kol, Rebekah and Henrik, and also the great-aunt of Freya's deceased unborn son and Hope Mikaelson.
Described by Freya as the most powerful witch she has ever seen, Dahlia first gained her enhanced powers by linking her magic to the magic possessed by her then five-year-old niece Freya. Once Freya reached adulthood, Dahlia then cast a spell that allowed them both to gain pseudo-immortality by leap-frogging through time; the women were put into a magically-induced sleep for nearly a century, only to awaken for one single year of life and aging with all of the magic they accrued over their hundred-year-long slumber, before they would once again return to their sleep after the year had passed.
Dahlia also made a deal with Esther, her sister, when she casted the Fertility Spell on her. The deal was that Dahlia owned all the firstborn in the Mikaelson line.
Dahlia's understanding of magic after so many years of study was extensive enough that she was able to create her own form of Connective Magic in the 10th century. She also had the ability to sense the magic of other witches, especially those of the first-born children of her and her sister Esther's bloodline, as the first-born witches of their lineage possess devastating amounts of power. According to Freya, Dahlia aimed to be truly immortal without having to sleep for centuries, and would not hesitate to come and claim the first-born Mikaelson witches to achieve this goal, even if it meant destroying anyone who stood in her way.
Dahlia was a member of an unnamed Norwegian family of powerful witches and a relative to the Mikaelson Family via her sister, Esther.
==Early History==
==Throughout The Originals Series==
===Season Two===
==Personality==
==Physical Appearance==
Dahlia was a brunette with brown eyes, which contrasted greatly with her younger sister Esther's light blonde hair. Her cold brown eyes were an indicator of her cruel, apathetic personality. She shared some resemblance with her nephews Finn, Elijah, Kol and Henrik in their coloring. When she appeared, in the modern day, she had shown a fondness for the color black, as a majority of her clothes were in this color. In her youth in the 10th and 11th centuries, she was shown wearing the simple wool and cotton dresses of the period, while in the modern-day, she was usually seen in long, flowing coats, long-sleeved blouses, fitted pants, and high heeled boots. Her medium-length brown hair was styled in gentle waves, and she had an affinity for wearing multiple rings with large gemstones.
==Powers and Abilities==
==Weaknesses==
Dahlia was susceptible to the forces of witchcraft. Like all creatures, Dahlia could be undone by powerful magic, however, according to Freya Mikaelson, it would require power equivalent to Dahlia's (or greater) to defeat her.
Shortly after her arrival in New Orleans, Freya gave her father a spell with the necessary ingredients to kill Dahlia. Apparently, the combination of sacred soil from her homeland (Norway), along with the ash from her oppressors (Vikings) and the blood of the one person she loves most (Esther) can be combined to create Dahlia's sole weakness and forged into a powerful weapon against her. However, it appears that this combination of ingredients only had the power to render her mortal, and could not kill her outright;  Freya's plan was to use them to create a "killing field" to strip away her pseudo-immortality and make it so that she could be killed by conventional means.
While linked to Klaus, she overcame her need to be forced to sleep for 100 years by drawing on the power of his immortal body. But that power came at the cost of sharing Klaus' fate. When Klaus daggered himself with the Golden White Oak Ash dagger, Dahlia was also incapacitated. Should Klaus be killed by having his heart stabbed by the White Oak Stake while Dahlia were still linked to Klaus, Dahlia would have also died.
It should be noted that when she was strangled with the cursed shackles by Esther, Dahlia did not fight back or break free from this hold. One can assume it was most likely due to the psychological hold Esther had over her sister and this delay is what ultimately allowed Klaus to kill her. 
==Relationships==
===Esther Mikaelson===
Dahlia's relationship with her younger sister is a seemingly complicated one. Dahlia seemed to be disappointed and angered that Esther chose to devote her life to being a wife and mother instead of devoting life to witchcraft. In spite of that, she seemed to care about her sister when Esther begged Dahlia to use her magic to help her get pregnant and agreed to help her. However, Dahlia tricked Esther and took her oldest daughter and even went so far as to threaten taking all of her children if she did not cooperate.
Dahlia did not, however, kill Freya after taking her. Instead, the powerful witch groomed Freya and taught her niece to control her vast powers, eventually teaching her a spell that would allow Freya to preserve her life though a hundred years of hibernation and upon awakening only to a year of natural age and repeating the process after that. After learning more, Freya escaped Dahlia after discovering that "her truths were paired with lies" by unknown means and has been running from the older, more powerful witch ever since.
Esther correctly fears that her older sister could return and if her payment isn't given, she would destroy the entire Mikaelson Family.
===Freya Mikaelson===
Dahlia took Freya from Esther due to a pact she made with Esther that gave her claim over Esther's first born child. When Freya came of age, Dahlia cast her a spell on her that would put her in a deep sleep for a hundred years and she would waken for one year of life. Dahlia told Freya that this would allow them both to remain young and beautiful (since witches cannot be truly immortal), but in time Freya learned that Dahlia's stories were also paired with lies. At some point, Freya fled from Dahlia and has been running from Dahlia ever since, fearing that Dahlia would find her and kill her for her "betrayal" (at least what Dahlia would consider to be a betrayal). Freya mentioned that the punishment of Dahlia would be repaid.
===Niklaus Mikaelson===
Klaus and Dahlia were at first enemies when he and Mikael went up against her. She beat them both with ease and tells them all she wants is the child, then she'll let them live. After Klaus is stabbed with the golden dagger meant for him, Dahlia gets the dagger out with magic after Klaus tells her he'll help her get Hope in exchange for having a part in her life and getting vengeance on who wronged him. Klaus later tells her he wants to bound himself to her instead of Hope since he's immortal already and she can link herself to Hope after she gets what she needs.
===Mikael===
Like her nephew Klaus, Dahlia had a negative relationship with Mikael, as he was one of the vikings who killed every person in her village, as well as the fact that his fellow vikings, abused her witchcraft. Even after Mikael married her sister, Esther, her relationship with Mikael did not change at all; in fact, it worsened as Mikael took Esther away from her. This lead her to have a strong distaste for Mikael, so much so that she wanted to see him suffer. Six years later, after Mikael's marriage to Esther, Dahlia took his firstborn child and forced Esther to lie to him, that Freya died from the plague, although she took Freya mainly because Freya is a first-born from a Norwegian family of powerful witches, like herself. When they met again in the present century, Dahlia took time to torture Mikael and relished in the pain she caused him, both physically and emotionally as she was the one who had taken Freya from him.
Although Dahlia was shown to be a confident and prodigious witch, it was hinted that she did fear Mikael, as she forbade Esther from telling him the truth of what happened to Freya and insisted that Esther lie and tell him Freya died from the plague. This seemed to suggest that Dahlia believed, or at least used to believe, that Mikael posed a threat to her and her plans, despite the immense magical power at her disposal.
===Other Relationships===
*Dahlia and Hope (Great-Aunt and Great-Niece/Enemies)
*Dahlia and Rebekah (Aunt and Niece/Enemies)
*Elijah and Dahlia (Aunt and Nephew/Enemies)
==Appearances==
Season Two
*Wheel Inside the Wheel (Flashback)
*Sanctuary (Archive Footage)
*They All Asked For You (Archive Footage)
*Save My Soul (Flashback)
*Night Has A Thousand Eyes (First Modern Day Appearance)
*When the Levee Breaks
*City Beneath The Sea
*Fire with Fire
*Ashes to Ashes (Death)
Season Three
*I'll See You in Hell or New Orleans (Indirectly mentioned) 
*No More Heartbreaks (Mentioned)
*The Bloody Crown (Mentioned)
Season Four
*No Quarter (Indirectly Mentioned)
*A Spirit Here That Won't Be Broken (Mentioned)
Season Five
*Don't It Just Break Your Heart (Mentioned)
==Name==
* Dahlia is a feminine name of Nordic origin (da(h)-lia). The name means "valley". It stems from the flower named for 18th-century Swedish botanist Anders Dahl.https://www.babble.com/baby-names/baby-girl-names/meaning-of-dahlia/
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==References==
==See also==
Category:Characters
Category:The Originals (series)
Category:The Originals Characters
Category:The Originals Season Two Characters
Category:Female Characters
Category:Guest Characters
Category:Recurring Characters
Category:Mikaelson Family
Category:Supernatural
Category:Witches
Category:Antagonists
Category:Deceased
Category:Spirits