The Magic Purification Spell

The Magic Purification Spell was a ritual used for the purpose of purging the world of magic save the one practiced by the Travelers 2,000 years ago which they deemed 'pure'. It was performed by the Travelers using the combined blood of the last pair of Doppelgängers, Stefan Salvatore and Elena Gilbert.
The spell was a plan conceived by Markos with the intention of breaking the curse cast upon them 2,000 years prior by a coven of witches. It began in the Town Square of Mystic Falls and its effects radiated outward from there until the spell was ultimately halted by the death of one of its doppelgänger, Stefan, at Julian's hands. As a result, this series of events made Mystic Falls a magic-free zone, whereby any object or supernatural being created by magic were quickly depowered upon crossing its borders.
It was eventually reversed when Malachai Parker, a siphoner, managed to absorb the power of the spell thereby unraveling the Magic Purification Spell and negating its effects on the supernatural community of the town.
==History==
After Qetsiyah and Silas created The Immortality Spell in approximately 100 B.C., which was then ingested by Silas and his lover Amara, other witch covens deemed the Travelers and their affinity for pushing the boundaries of magic far too dangerous to continue on as they were. In order to stop them from further disrupting the balance of Nature, a witch coven (believed to be the Gemini Coven) placed a curse upon the Travelers that cut them off from Nature to such an extent that attempting to draw upon Nature to fuel their magic or practicing magic in groups caused natural disasters to occur wherever they had settled as a people. According to legend, a prophecy was made that predicted the last pair of doppelgängers would help them bring their curse to an end, but in reality, the leader of the Travelers, Markos, cast a spell in the 5th century A.D. that would allow them to break their curse with the last pair of doppelgängers' blood by casting the Magic Purification Spell and undoing the Spirit Magic that created the curse in the first place.
Unfortunately for the Travelers, in order for them to break the curse in this manner, they needed to eliminate the rest of the doppelgängers and their progenitors, which was made impossible by several factors: first, the Travelers only had one of the two progenitors, Amara, in their possession; second, both Silas and Amara were truly immortal and invulnerable to any weapon, making them unkillable, and third, the only way to rid them of their immortality was to use the Cure, which was hidden in the tomb where Silas was desiccated and hidden that could only be found with the help of a Bennett witch who practices Expression magic and a Brotherhood of the Five vampire hunter with a completed Hunter's Mark to lead them to the tomb. Because of these complications, the Travelers were unable to enact their plan to break their curse using the Magic Purification Spell until after Silas was awakened and freed from his tomb in 2011. From then on, the Travelers put their plan to break their curse into motion by sending out their own people with orders to kill Silas and Amara (by forcing them to ingest the cure beforehand), as well as Katherine Pierce and Tom Avery, whose continued existence left Stefan and Elena's blood worthless to them. Once the aforementioned four doppelgängers were killed, Elena and Stefan became the only remaining doppelgängers on earth, which activated Marko's spell on their respective lines and gave their combined blood the properties necessary to cast the Magic Purification Spell. The Travelers then began using Passenger spells on the Mystic Falls residents to possess their bodies in order to get around their restriction regarding performing magic in groups. Finally, the Travelers captured Elena and Stefan to steal a significant amount of their blood volume for their use the night before they planned to perform the spell.
==Throughout The Vampire Diaries Series==
===Season Five===
In Promised Land, all the Travelers in Mystic Falls who had taken control over the citizens' bodies made their way to the Town Square, where they began chanting the incantation to the spell while each of them clutched vials of doppelgänger blood in their hands. Once the spell had begun, the Travelers crushed the vials of blood in their hands, which caused the magic-nullifying effects to spread throughout the town. Witches lost their ability to do magic, vampires' daylight rings began to malfunction, and as the spell became stronger, the magic that reanimated their bodies began to strip away, causing them to relive their deaths. After a long moment, the Travelers' vessels began to fall unconscious to the ground, one after another, only to then wake up in their original bodies that were being kept at the Salvatore Boarding House. The spell was moving past the borders of Mystic Falls when Julian, a Traveler who was permanently trapped in Tyler Lockwood's hybrid body, killed Stefan by ripping his heart out, making the combined doppelgänger blood ineffective and causing the spell to stop in its tracks. However, the spell remained within Mystic Falls, and the borders of the town were readjusted to accommodate the anti-magic "force-field."
===Season Six===
The spell remained in Mystic Falls for the first half of the season, forcing Witches and Supernatural Hunters to forfeit their ability to use their powers while inside the town, and forcing the Vampires to move out of town to avoid death upon crossing the borders. It was also revealed in Welcome to Paradise, that another side effect of the spell over Mystic Falls was that anyone who had been compelled by a vampire would have the compulsion stripped away once they entered the town, returning any lost memories and giving them back their free will.
In Christmas Through Your Eyes, the Siphoner, Malachai Parker, used his ability to siphon magic to absorb the entirety of the Magic Purification Spell from the earth of Mystic Falls, giving him an immense amount of power to use to his own ends and effectively stripping the spell from the town, allowing the vampires and other supernatural beings to return home and negating all of the spell's effects.
==Effects==
In order to break the Travelers' Curse, the group intended to use the Magic Purification Spell to nullify all forms of magic aside from the Travelers' preferred Traditional Magic, which they referred to as the only "pure" magic. This includes any supernatural being or objects enchanted with non-Traditional magic, However, the effects of the spell on magical objects and supernatural beings aren't instantaneous—instead, the magic is stripped away, layer by layer, over a relatively short period of time.
*Vampires and Original Vampires: Since all Original vampires and their sires were created using Dark Magic, the magic that reanimated their deceased bodies will be stripped from them little by little until they are returned to their final state prior to being turned, ie: a corpse. This process will force the vampire to relive the way they died prior to transitioning into a vampire.
thumb|250px|Tyler/Julian getting stripped of their Hybrid Powers in Home
*Hybrids: Similar to vampires, if hybrids are exposed to the spell, all their abilities will be stripped from them piece by piece until they are returned to the state in which they died prior to transitioning to a hybrid, causing them to relive their deaths.
*Witches: All witches who do not practice Traditional Magic will lose access to their magic while within the bounds of the spell, such as when Olivia and Luke were unable to use their magic against Elena and Stefan. Whenever they left the anti-magic border, they regained the use of their non-Traditional magic.
*Werewolves: Though no triggered werewolf has crossed the boundaries of the spell to demonstrate what will happen to them, it is assumed that a werewolf will be reverted to their untriggered state, as demonstrated by Tyler Lockwood as a hybrid. The spell stripped away his activated lycanthropy, followed by his vampirism, allowing him to return to life as an untriggered werewolf when he was subsequently resurrected in Home.
*Brotherhood of the Five: It was stated by in Home that when Jeremy crossed the Mystic Falls borders, he lost the abilities granted to him as a Supernatural Hunter, particularly the urge to kill vampires. Due to this, he was able to mark the borders of the spell based on wherever he hated Damon less, reasoning that there was no magic affecting him.
*The Anchor: In Home Bonnie assumes that if she steps into Mystic Falls the magic that grants her status as Anchor would be stripped, despite the fact that Qetsiyah was the one that created the Anchor, presumeably with Traditional magic.
*Daylight Amulets: When exposed to the spell, daylight rings lose their ability to protect vampires from the sun. Stefan and Elena were forced to flee inside and take the underground tunnels to avoid sun exposure.
==Weaknesses==
*Doppelgängers: If one of the remaining doppelgängers dies, the spell will stop unless the doppelgänger in question was resurrected and the spell rebooted by the Travelers. However, the effect on the lands in which the spell has already taken place shall remain in a "purified" state, and the magic-nullifying effects remain intact. This was demonstrated when Stefan died, which prevented the spell from expanding beyond Mystic Falls, but did not undo the effects within the town itself.
*Siphoners: A siphoner can absorb the effects of the spell from the lands on which it has affected, effectively removing the spell. This was evidenced when Kai was able to completely absorb the spell in Christmas Through Your Eyes, nullifying its effects and returning the town to the way it was prior to the casting of the spell.
==Trivia==
*After this spell was cast by the Travelers, Mystic Falls became a magic-free zone, with the exception of the use of Traditional Magic. This spell was cast on May 1, 2012, and it continued to keep Mystic Falls free of the majority of magic until December 6, 2012, when Kai Parker removed the spell from the town by siphoning it.
*Traveler Magic has also been shown to be unaffected by the spell as Passengers remain whilst within the anti-magic zone. It is possible this due to the fact that the spell is cast using Traveler Magic.
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==See also==
Category:Events
Category:The Vampire Diaries (series)
Category:The Vampire Diaries Season Five Events
Category:Witchcraft
Category:Weaknesses
Category:Witches
Category:Supernatural
Category:Rituals