Esther and Freya

The family relationship between witches, Esther and Freya Mikaelson.
In 972 AD, Esther made a deal with her sister Dahlia, to help her get pregnant when she feared she was barren. However, Dahlia's magic came at a cost, and as payment, she demanded that Esther give her her firstborn child, and every subsequent firstborn child in her bloodline for as long as it lasted. As a result, when Esther's first child and daughter Freya had just turned five years old and was beginning to demonstrate magical abilities, Dahlia came to their family's home in Norway to claim her. When Esther threatened to tell her husband Mikael about what she was doing, Dahlia threatened to take all of Esther's children, including her second child, Finn, and even her third child, Elijah, with whom Esther was still pregnant at the time. Because Esther had willingly allowed Freya to be essentially sent into slavery under the cruel tyranny of Dahlia, who only valued the additional magic that she provided, Freya held a grudge against her mother for the entirety of her unconventionally-immortal life. Because of this resentment, Freya ultimately killed Esther while she was possessing the body of Lenore, a witch whom Klaus turned into a vampire.
==Early History==
Freya's birth was a result of a deal her mother made with her aunt, Dahlia, who used magic to make her able to have children of her own. However, Freya was taken by her aunt as part of Esther's deal after Finn was born, and while Esther was pregnant with Elijah. Esther swore to Dahlia that she would return to the dark arts and grow in magic so that she could make Dahlia pay for taking Freya. Esther was devastated and sobbed as Freya was taken away from her. And she could do nothing to protect her daughter.
Esther claimed that Freya was the victim of a plague in order to cover up the deal what she and Dahlia had made, which caused her and Mikael to move from Norway to a "mystical land" far away in the New World. A village that was later named Mystic Falls by the Founding Families.
It was because of the loss of her firstborn child Freya and the death of her youngest child Henrik that Esther decided to turn her surviving children into the first vampires, both to ensure that they could not be truly harmed again and to transform them into a new species that could neither practice witchcraft nor procreate, which would deny Dahlia any more of the firstborn witches of her bloodline, whom she wanted to create an all-powerful coven from whom she could draw endless power.
==Throughout The Originals Series==
===Season Two===
In They All Asked For You, after Freya tells Finn she wants a few minutes with Mikael, Finn asks if she also wants some time with Esther which Freya declines, telling Finn to let Esther rot.
In Exquisite Corpse, Klaus brings Freya to her mother and they are reunited after 10 centuries of being separated. They exchange words and it is clear that Freya despises Esther for her deal with Dahlia. At the end of the episode, Freya tells her of her plans to turn their family against Klaus before killing her through a magical explosion.
In Ashes to Ashes, Esther is back in her original body where she helps her children kill her big sister Dahlia. Esther shows sympathy towards Freya. She looks at her oldest child with an apologetic look on her face. Freya looks at her mother, knowing she is sorry for not fighting Dahlia to stop her from taking her away.
==Trivia==
==Gallery==
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==See also==
Category:Relationships
Category:The Originals (series)
Category:The Originals Relationships
Category:Family Relationship
Category:Friendly Relationship
Category:Enemy Relationship