Salvatore Family

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## Family heritage

### Species

* Immortal (Formerly)
* Progenitor of Salvatore Doppelgängers
* Doppelgänger
* Witch
* Human
* Vampire
* Augustine Vampire (Formerly)
* Tribrid
* Ghost (Formerly)

### Notable family members

* Silas † (Originator of Salvatore Doppelgängers; Witch; Formerly Immortal)
* Silas' Unknown Family and Relatives † (Witches)
* Unidentified Salvatore Doppelgängers † (Human; Doppelgängers)
* Giuseppe Salvatore † (Human)
* Lillian Salvatore † (Vampire)
* Zachariah Salvatore † (Human)
* Zachariah Salvatore's Unnamed Son † (Human)
* Damon Salvatore (Vampire)
* Adrianna Gilbert (Original Tribrid, Damon's Wife)
* Stefan Salvatore (Vampire)
* Rebekah Mikaelson (Original Vampire, Stefan's Wife)
* Joseph Salvatore † (Human)
* Joseph Salvatore's Son † (Human)
* Zach Salvatore † (Human)
* Unnamed Salvatore (Giuseppe's Illegitimate Son) † (Human)
* Tom Avery † (Human, Doppelgänger)
* Alexia Salvatore (Tribrid)

## Relationships

### Related families

* Gilbert Family
* Mikaelson Family
* Petrova Family

## Affiliation

### Property

* Salvatore Boarding House (Formerly)
* Salvatore Estate
* Salvatore Oil Mills

The **Salvatore Family** *(**Ancient Greek:** Σαλβατορε, **Modern Greek:** Salvatoros, **Latin:** Salvatorus, **Late Roman:** Salvator, **Italian:** Salvaturi, Salvatorio, or Salvatore, **Feminine:** Salvatrice or Salvatora; [derivative of Xavier]; translates as "Saviour" in Italian)* is one of the main families in the *An Epic Kind of Love* series. The Salvatore Family is one of the Founding Families in Mystic Falls, Virginia. The family originally comes from Greece as well as Florence, Italy, as evidenced by the Florentine seal on some parts of the Salvatore Boarding House. The Salvatore Family has been linked to both the Petrova and Bennett Families since 1st Century BCE. The Salvatore Family has also been linked with the Gilbert, Lockwood, Fell, and Forbes families since the mid-1800s. The last living member of the Salvatore Family is Alexia Salvatore, due to the other members of her family being undead.

## Family Members

* **Silas:** Silas *(**Ancient Greek:** Σίλας, **Modern Greek:** Silouanos, **Latin:** Silvanus)* was born sometime during 1st Century B.C. His origins are form Ancient Greece. Silas was the world's very first immortal being and was the earliest known ancestor of the Salvatore Family bloodline, as well as the progenitor of the Salvatore doppelgänger bloodline. Before becoming an Immortal, he was a very gifted and powerful witch. Silas was deeply and passionately in love with his true love and soulmate, Amara, who was Qetsiyah's handmaiden. After his best friend, Irene, refused to create an Immortality spell for him, Silas manipulated and convinced Qetsiyah that he loved her and wanted to spend an eternity with her and as such she created the immortality spell. However, Silas betrayed her and he and Amara drank the elixir. After becoming immortal, Nature found balance by creating mortal versions of the couple--doppelgängers or shadow selves--that would appear century after century. After Qetsiyah discovered their betrayal, she killed Irene and claimed to have cured Amara and offered Silas the Cure. When he refused she desiccated him with the Cure. After being entombed for two thousand years, he was awakened and planned to destroy the Other Side, take the Cure, die, and join Amara and Irene. Unfortunately, Silas died before he ever had a chance to destroy the Other Side as the Anchor was transferred to Bonnie Bennett.
* **Silas' Unnamed Sibling(s):** Silas told Damon that he was his distant nephew. This implies that Silas did have a sibling to multiple siblings who continued the Salvatore bloodline since it is assumed that Silas dis not have any children of his own before he became immortal.
* **Giuseppe Salvatore:** Giuseppe was Lillian's husband and the father of Damon, Stefan, and an unnamed sibling. He was born October 9, 1810. Giuseppe was a very distant descendant of Silas. Giuseppe raised his sons on his own after his wife died of consumption in the year 1858. After his wife's death, Giuseppe used alcohol as a coping mechanism and became abusive. Giuseppe was very controlling, authoritative, and a stern father. He openly expressed extreme disappointment in his eldest son, Damon, and shared a very tension-filled and strained relationship with him. Lillian openly admitted in a conversation with Damon that Giuseppe would physically abuse and beat Damon repeatedly, especially when Damon would act obnoxious and unruly. Giuseppe had a closer relationship with his youngest son, Stefan. Giuseppe uncovered vampires in Mystic Falls, along with the other Founding Families in the town. He hated vampires with an undying passion, and was a member of the Founders' Council, which was started as a main purpose to kill all the vampires within Mystic Falls. After witnessing his son helping Katherine escape, he shoots and kills them both. Unknown to him, Katherine had already fed them both her blood and he was later visited by Stefan in the middle of his transition. After being injured by Stefan, Stefan loses control, completes his transition, and kills him. Giuseppe also had another child, an unnamed son, by his secret lover, who is said to be a maid.
* **Lillian "Lily" Salvatore:** Lillian was Giuseppe's wife and the mother of Damon and Stefan Salvatore. She was born February 27, 1820 and she is of French-American descent. She died in 1858 when Stefan was 11 years old and when Damon was 17 years old. She was buried alongside Giuseppe in Mystic Falls, Virginia. According to Damon, she died of consumption. However, this was a lie. She had faked her death in 1858 for abandoning her family and her sons. After she transitioned into a vampire, a ripper, she fled to Europe where she was eventually trapped in the 1903 prison world. She was eventually freed by Damon, Adrianna, and Bonnie so that she could help Stefan regain his humanity. Lillian ends up turning Stefan's humanity back on as she is proven to be one of his emotional triggers. However, Lillian had emotionally abandoned her sons and has replaced them with her new family, The Heretics.
* **Damon Salvatore:** Damon is the oldest child of Giuseppe and Lillian and the older brother of Stefan. Damon is a very distant descendant of the world's first immortal man, Silas. He was born on June 18, 1839 in Mystic Falls, Virginia. During his human years, he was rebellious, carefree, emotional, independent, troubled, impulsive, competitive, and irresponsible and seemed to lack a general sense of direction. People of Mystic Falls even described Damon to be irresponsible and cowardly, including his own father. The reason for this is because Damon rebelled against the town's and his own father's wish, by leaving the Confederacy on his own terms during the time of the Civil War. Damon and Giuseppe never got along or had a good, close relationship. Giuseppe frequently expressed extreme disappointment and resentment. However, Damon was very close with his younger brother Stefan and they shared a very close relationship and bond. Damon described Stefan as his best friend or companion and the person who he trusted most. However, the brothers' relationship became strained after Katherine Pierce came into their lives and both brothers started to compete fiercely for her affections, with both of the brothers not being aware of Katherine playing them against one another. He was turned into a vampire in 1864, when he was 25 years old, after he drank Katherine's blood willingly and was shot by his father after attempting to save Katherine during the vampire round up. He meets Adrianna Gilbert after returning to Mystic Falls and the two eventually get married and have a child of their own.
* **Stefan Salvatore:** Stefan is the youngest child of Giuseppe and Lillian and the younger brother of Damon. Stefan is a very distant descendant of the world's first immortal man, Silas, as well as his doppelgänger. He was born on November 1, 1846 in Mystic Falls, Virginia. During his human years, Stefan was seen as being compassionate, kind, noble, honorable, intelligent, academic, and a gentleman. In other words, he was seen as the "golden boy" and he had the admiration and respect of the entire town of Mystic Falls and most of all, of his father Giuseppe. Stefan revealed to Elena that he was an aspiring doctor during his human life and that this was his career of choice before he was turned into a vampire. In his human years, when it came to love and romance, Stefan was liked, admired by, and popular with women. He was seen to be chivalrous, romantic, courteous, and polite, traits which made Katherine Pierce fall deeply for the younger Salvatore. In regards to Katherine, Stefan was much harder to get and challenging unlike Damon, who persistently chased and pursued Katherine as much as possible. Unlike Damon, Stefan had a very close relationship with his father Giuseppe and Stefan was Giuseppe's favorite son. Stefan was turned into a vampire in 1864 along with his brother. He and Damon were extremely close with one another during their human lives. Damon was his best friend during their human lives, until the two had extreme differences concerning their lover, Katherine, who turned them both into vampires. Stefan continued to feel guilt about what happened in 1964 until present day. In 2009, Stefan unexpectedly saves the life of Elena Gilbert, who coincidentally bears a striking resemblance to Katherine. Though he was able to save her, he was unable to save her parents. Stefan eventually reconnected with his lover from the 1920s, Rebekah Mikaelson, and the two eventually got married.
* **Zachariah's Father:** This unnamed Salvatore is the paternal half brother of Damon and Stefan Salvatore. Giuseppe had an illegitimate son with one of the maids and continued the bloodline.
* **Zachariah Salvatore:** Zachariah was the grandson of Giuseppe Salvatore. He was killed by Samantha Gilbert in 1912. Zachariah was a very distant descendant of Silas.
* **Joseph Salvatore:** Joseph was a distant nephew of Stefan and Damon Salvatore. He was Zach Salvatore's grandfather and revealed to be a member of the Augustine Society. He was killed by Damon on June 12, 1953. It is said that he was the main supplier of vervain for the Founders' Council, cultivating it in the basement, and continuing it on as a tradition of the family, according to Zach. Joseph was a very distant descendant of Silas.
* **Joseph's Unnamed Son:** He is the unnamed son of Joseph Salvatore and the father of Zach Salvatore. He is a very distant descendant of Silas.
* **Zach Salvatore:** Zach was a distant nephew of Stefan and Damon Salvatore, although Stefan and Damon used to refer to Zach as their uncle, since he was human and appeared older than the two brothers. In 1994, he had a girlfriend named Gail with whom he was having a baby, but Gail died and his daughter Sarah was adopted by another family. He lived in the Salvatore Boarding House. Zach liked, trusted, and respected Stefan but disliked, distrusted, and disrespected Damon. Zach was also the main vervain supplier for the Founders' Council, but after he died Damon took over his responsibilities within the council. His ancestor and distant great uncle, Damon, was the one that killed him. Zach was a very distant descendant of Silas.
* **Thomas "Tom" Avery:** Tom was the doppelgänger of Stefan and was assumed to be Silas' fourth and final doppelgänger. Tom was born during the 20th century. He was a human who had a personality very similar to Stefan, which is understandable considering that he is Stefan's shadow self. He was nice, kind, and empathetic. He was a paramedic in Atlanta, Georgia. He was the last doppelgänger of Silas, before he was killed by Enzo after he snapped his neck. Tom was a distant relative/descendant of both Stefan and Damon and was a very distant descendant of Silas.
* **Alexia Salvatore:** Alexia is the daughter of Adrianna Gilbert and Damon Salvatore. She is a tribrid, like her mother, though she has not yet become a fully activated tribrid. She is the world's second naturally born tribrid of all three species and the third overall. Alexia is a descendant of the very first immortal being, Silas, as well as a second-born of the Labonair/ Irene's bloodline, giving her a tremendous amount of magical ability. Due to this, she is extremely powerful, rivaled only by her mother and her sister. She is the last living member of the Salvatore Family.

SilasGiuseppe SalvatoreLillian SalvatoreDamon SalvatoreStefan SalvatoreZach SalvatoreTom AveryAlexia Salvatore
## Relatives

* **Adrianna Gilbert:** Adrianna is the wife of Damon Salvatore and the mother of Alexia Salvatore and Hope Mikaelson. She is the biological daughter of Isobel Flemming and John Gilbert, as well as the adoptive daughter of Grayson and Miranda Gilbert. Adrianna is currently the Original Tribrid.
* **Rebekah Mikaelson:** Rebekah is Stefan Salvatore's wife and an Original vampire. She is the daughter of Esther Mikaelson and Mikael Mikaelson.
* **Hope Mikaelson:** Hope is the daughter of Adrianna Gilbert and Klaus Mikaelson, as well as the half-sister of Alexia Salvatore and the step-daughter of Damon Salvatore. She is currently a fully activated tribrid.

## Family Tree

Note: Vertical dashed lines indicate a span of unknown time between generations of family members. Dashed horizontal lines indicates confirmed parentage out of wedlock.
## Surname

* **Salvatore** means "Savior" in Italian. It is commonly used as a masculine first name, although the name can be used as both a first name and a surname. It means literally "savior save you" and was used in honor of the Christ. The origination is from the Latin word Salvius, which seems to have been in some way used in the Iberian Peninsula, before it became fashionable in Rome.

## Trivia

* The Salvatore Family is of Italian origin and descent.
* From Rebekah's research from Carol Lockwood, wood from the Salvatore Mills helped build most of the town of Mystic Falls.
* The Salvatore Family is part of the most powerful family in the supernatural world, the Mikaelson-Salvatore Family.