Deveraux Family

The **Deveraux Family** is a family featured in The Royal Bond book on Wattpad, and a royal bloodline of werewolves that has been referred to as having existed since the beginning of the werewolf species. The family once lived in the French Quarter of New Orleans, but now mostly live in the Bayou outside of the city.

## History

The Deveraux family are one of the two great families of the Crescent Wolf Pack, along with the Salvatore Family. According to Jackson, the two royal bloodlines came to be at the genesis of the werewolf species. The two families were considered royalty among the werewolves due to this birthright, which has also led both the Deverauxs and the Salvatores to have many enemies, even among their fellow werewolves. In the 1980s to the 1990s, their clan took control of New Orleans.

However, dissent had begun to grow between the Salvatores and the other bloodlines in their clan when the Salvatores made it known that they sought peace between the werewolves and the vampires led by Marcel Gerard, leading to internal strife among the werewolves. It was this strife that made the New Orleans werewolves as a whole vulnerable to Marcel's vampires, to whom control of the Quarter eventually fell.

In order to unite the Crescent Clan against their enemies, the Salvatores had arranged to have their daughter Ariana marry Jackson, a werewolf from the Deveraux bloodline of their pack, when they came of age. However, a member of the Deveraux bloodline, Richard Xavier Dumas, who was a radical werewolf and former Alpha of his time, was so upset at the Crescents and the vampires that the Salvatores were pushing for that he killed Andréa's mother and father while baby Andréa laid in her cradle. Richard was then declared a traitor to the Crescent Wolf Clan, and upon his death, he was buried in a graveyard meant for such traitors, rather than having a Viking funeral on the lake as per Crescent tradition. Afterward, Andréa was adopted, renamed Ariana Salvatore, and was moved outside of New Orleans. Though her betrothal to Jackson was essentially broken, Jackson still grew up dreaming of the day he would eventually meet the woman who was meant to be his wife. The secret of what Richard did to Ariana's parents was known to very few following the downfall of the werewolves' reign, but decades later, Richard's wife, Mary Dumas, informed her grandson Jackson, who had become the pack's Alpha, prior to his marriage to Ariana in 2013.

All of the surviving members of the Crescent Wolf Clan were cursed in the 1990s by a witch named Brynne Deveraux, who was being possessed by Céleste Dubois and who was acting on the vampire leader Marcel's orders following the dissolution of the truce that resulted after the murders of Ariana's parents. The cursed wolves were forced to live in their werewolf form at all times, with the exception of the hours that the Full Moon was in the sky, during which time they were returned to their human forms. This curse was lifted in 2012 thanks to Ariana's efforts to force Celeste to remove the curse, and the members of the pack lived more than a year free of the curse's effects. Once Jackson married Ariana in the Unification Ceremony, the members of the Deveraux bloodline became evolved werewolves who could control their ability to shift in and out of their wolf form at will without the presence of a full moon, and also gained access to all facets of their abilities at all times, including even further augmented strength, speed, reflexes and senses than as regular werewolves, along with venomous bites that are lethal to vampires even while not in their wolf forms.

However, in early-mid 2013, the Deveraux werewolves were once again oppressed by the Crescent Curse, this time cast by the powerful witch Diana on Christopher Mikaelson's orders, after Jackson and his new wife Ariana tried to run away from him with Ariana and Christopher' DaughtersMia and , with the intention of protecting her from Diana's influence. They continued to be bound to their wolf forms by the curse until, when Juliette Claire temporarily disabled the curse in exchange for Ariana's help in dealing with a fellow witch. The curse was finally removed altogether by Juliette, as part of an effort to form a friendship with Ariana and an alliance with the Crescent wolves.

## Family Members

* **Richard Xavier Dumas:** Richard was one the Alphas of the Crescent Wolf Pack, and the maternal grandfather of Jackson.
* **Mary Dumas:** Mary was a member of the Crescent Wolf Pack, and the maternal grandmother of Jackson.
* **Jackson's father and Jackson's mother:** These werewolves were former leaders of the Crescent Wolf Pack and led New Orleans in early 1990's.
* **Jackson Deveraux:** Jackson is the Alpha of the Crescent Wolf Pack in the early 20th century.
* **Ariana Salvatore-Deveraux:** Ariana is Jackson's wife and Co-Alpha of the Crescent Wolf Pack. Both of their families have a long history together.
* **Max Deveraux**: Max is the son of Jackson and Ariana Salvatore-Deveraux, that's makes him a werewolf.
* Josephine Mikaelson: Josephine is Jackson's Step-daughter, but he would off loved her as his own.

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## Relatives

### Through Ariana Salvatore-Deveraux

* **Josie Mikaelson:**

Josie is the tribrid (werewolf-vampire-witch) daughter of Christopher and Ariana. Her mother fell pregnant with her during a one-night-stand with Christopher Mikaelson in Mystic Falls and discovered her pregnancy after her coming to Alicante. Soon after, she discovered that her baby was a girl and even noticed that, like her, her daughter is already a "tough one". Ariana gave birth to her while she was being held captive by the New Orleans witches who wanted to sacrifice Josie. Fortunately, Josie was saved by her parents, uncle and adoptive brother, and her family made the difficult decision to send her to live with her aunt Amelia while they worked to make the city safe for her to live. She is one of the last living Salvatores, as well a member of the powerful Mikaelson Family and the North East Atlantic Pack, giving her legacies to three powerful groups. She also has ties to the French Quarter Coven through the magical heritage she inherited from her paternal grandmother, Grace.

### Through Josie Spellman

* Christopher Mikaelson: Josie's father, he is the Original Hybrid and the most powerful immortal/supernatural being. His paternal werewolf bloodline came to Alicante, to see by themselves Ariana's miraculous pregnancy and contacted Eve.
* Nicolette Mikaelson: Josie's paternal aunt and also a witch.
* Adam Mikaelson: Josie's paternal uncle; he was one of the Original Vampires.
* Christopher Mikaelson: Josie's paternal uncle; he is one of the Original Vampires. Christopher protected Ariana's fellow wolves when Christopher had given permission to the vampires to kill them all.
* Dominic Mikaelson: Josie's paternal uncle; he is one of the Original Vampires.
* Amelia Mikaelson: Josie's paternal aunt; she is one of the Original Vampires.
* Daniel Mikaelson: Josie's paternal uncle; ironically, he was killed by a werewolf before his family was turned into vampires. Although Daniel was later resurrected by his mother Grace.