Mikaelson Family

* Original Vampire
* Tribrid
* Triman
* Original Tribrid
* Werewolf
* Hybrid
* Original Hybrid
* Ghost
* Spirit
* Vampire
* Siphoner
* Heretic
 Notable family members | * Mikaelson Johnson † (Original Vampire)
* Esther Mikaelson (Witch)
* Freya Estherdottir (Witch)
* Finn Mikaelson I (Original Vampire)
* Elijah Mikaelson (Original Vampire)
* Niklaus Mikaelson (Original Hybrid)
* Lady Rebekah Estherdottir (Original Vampire)
* Kol Mikaelson (Original Vampire)
* Kaitlyn Estherdottir (Original Tribrid)
* Henrik Mikaelson † (Untapped Witch)
* Keelin Williams (Evolved Werewolf, Freya's Wife)
* Finn Mikaelson II (Werewolf, Freya and Keelin's Son)
* Sage White (Vampire, Finn's Wife)
* Katerina Petrova (Vampire/Doppelgänger, Elijah's Wife)
* Qetsiyah Bennett (Evolved Werewolf-Witch-Hybrid, Niklaus's Wife)
* Princess Amani Mikaelson (Triman, Klaus and Qetsiyah's Daughter)
* Princess Normani Mikaelson (Tribrid, Klaus and Qetsiyah's Daughter)
* Stefan Salvatore (Vampire/Doppelgänger, Rebekah's Husband)
* Lady Lillian Salvatore II (Witch, Rebekah and Stefan's Daughter)
* Bonnie Bennett (Witch, Kol's Wife)
* Stuart Family
* Johnson Family
* Williams Family
* Malraux Family
* White Family
* Petrova Family
* Bennett Family
* Hopkins Family
* Mikaelson Mansion
* Mikaelson Safe House
* The Abattoir
 Loyalty | * Count Family
* Stuart Family
* Johnson Family
* Williams Family
* Malraux Family
* White Family
* Petrova Family
* Bennett Family
* Hopkins Family
* Smith Family

The **Mikaelson Family** or The **Original Family** *(**Elder Futhark:** ᛗᛁᚲᚨᛖᛚᛋᛟᚾ)* is a ancient and powerful family of witches and vampires dating back at least to the then Kingdom of Norway in the late 10th century . At the beginning of the 11th century, the family was mortal until the loss of Esther and Mikael's youngest child, Henrik, to a werewolf attack spurred them to use Esther's magic to turn Mikael and the rest of their living children into the world's first vampires, from whom all vampires are descended. The Original vampires and Original tribrid are known as some of the most powerful supernatural beings in the world, but the Mikaelson family is also known for having members who are witches, Tribrids, Hybrids, Triman, and Werewolves.

The family (excluding Freya, Henrik, Amani, Normani, Maisie, Lillian, and Qetsiyah and Klaus's yet to be born baby boy) are the main antagonists of the third season of *Queen Diaries*, then become main characters or recurring characters*.*

## History

"*In the beginning, our family was human, A thousand years ago, now. Although our mother dabbled in the dark arts, we were actually just a family trying to survive in a time when it was quite difficult to do so. And, for better or worse, we were happy. That is, however, until one night, our youngest brother was killed by our village's greatest threat. Men that could transform themselves into wolves during the full moon. Our family was devastated, none more than Niklaus. Desperate to protect the rest of us, our father forced our mother to call upon her black magic in order to make us stronger. Thus, the first vampires were born. But with this speed, this strength, this immortality, came a terrible hunger. No one felt this hunger more than Niklaus, and Kaitlyn.*"
—**Elijah** to **Qetsiyah** about his family in *Always and Forever.*
he first members of this family were a man named Mikael and his wife Esther. Esther longed for a family, though, after over a year of marriage, she found herself barren. She went to her sister, Dahlia, and begged her to use her magic to grant Esther the ability to have children. Dahlia granted this request, but made it clear that the magic had a price, and it was a price that Esther was forced to pay 5 years later her payment to her sister would be her first-born child, and the first-born of her children's children, and their children's children, for as long as Esther's line shall live. She then ordered Esther to pretend that her first-born, Freya, had died of a plague so that Mikael would never know what truly had happened to his daughter when he returned from battle. Afterward, Esther and Mikael heard from a Witch called Ayana, Esther's best friend and mentor, that there was a land where everyone was healthy and strong, a land that ended up being the New World, specifically what is now modern day Mystic Falls. Mikael and Esther with Freya's surviving brother, Finn, and their recently born son Elijah traveled to this paradise with Ayana, where they settled in a village full of the healthy people they had learned about, who were revealed to be werewolves, and lived peacefully for years. In the years to follow, Esther bore 5 more children: Niklaus, Rebekah, Kol, Kaitlyn, and Henrik. Mikael often clashed with his middle son, Niklaus, and youngest daughter, Kaitlyn with whom he had an antagonistic and abusive relationship which only became worse for Klaus when Klaus and Henrik snuck out to watch the werewolves transform one night, where Henrik was accidentally mauled and killed.
Grief-stricken, Mikael decided to search for a way to protect his family from the werewolves. Though their family friend Ayana refused to help him in fear of upsetting the balance of nature, Mikael soon found another witch who would help him his wife, Esther. Somehow, they were able to learn of the immortality spell created by Qetsiyah a thousand years previously, and adapted the spell in order to give their children abilities of superhuman strength, speed, agility and healing that would be even stronger than those of the werewolves. Esther drew on mystic symbols in order to fuel her spell; she called upon the Sun for life, and the white oak tree, long known for being one of the earth's eternal objects, for immortality, so that she and Mikael would never again have to suffer the grief of losing a child. In order to complete the ritual, Mikael had his children drink wine laced with the blood of Tatia, a Petrova doppelgänger and distant descendant of the world's first immortal woman, Amara before he then thrust his sword through their chests. They awoke in transition, and on their father's orders, drank Human blood from a village girl in order to complete their transformation into the Original vampires. Unfortunately for them, there were consequences for this transformation, and Nature sought to try to restore the balance they upset by giving them a weakness for every new strength they had gained.
The sun that gave them life burned them, their thirst for human blood was insatiable, and their neighbors could lose their homes to them by not inviting them inside. Vervain flowers, which grew at the base of the white oak tree, burned them and protected against compulsion. Finally, the White Oak Tree, which gave them immortality, was also the one substance on earth that could actually destroy them for good. In the end, they burned the tree down to ensure their survival, though the ashes were saved to later be used against them. When Klaus, and Kaitlyn killed their first human after being turned into a vampire, it triggered their werewolf gene, which ultimately revealed the truth of their parentage to their family Klaus and Kaitlyn were not Mikael's daughter and son but were instead the children of the chief of their village's werewolf clan, with whom Esther had an affair. Once Mikael learned of Esther's infidelity and realized that her lover's pack were the werewolves who had killed Henrik, Mikael hunted down and killed Klaus and Kaitlyn's father and his entire family, igniting a war between Vampires and werewolves that still exists to this day. Soon after the Mikaelsons were turned into vampires and learned of Klaus and Kaitlyn's werewolf heritage, Esther was obligated to curse them in order to make their werewolf side dormant so that he would not upset nature further by possessing so much power. However, Klaus and Kaitlyn felt betrayed by this punishment, and in retaliation, Klaus murdered his mother and framed Mikael for the act Kaitlyn watched him do it and didn't tell their siblings.
Original vampires can only be neutralized by taking a special silver dagger enchanted by the Witch of the Brotherhood of the Five that is dipped in the ash remains of the original white oak tree and driving it through their hearts. However, Klaus and Kaitlyn are Hybrid, and tribrid as Kaitlyn was a siphoner , and since silver daggers do not affect them (because werewolves heal when wounded by silver and gold) the only way to kill the Original vampires is with the wood from the White Oak Tree. Mikael had carved a stake before the tree was burned down, which caused them to fear him during the centuries that he was active. A new one was created by Damon Salvatore, from parts of the Wickery Bridge which came from the saplings of the original tree. Which was later burned and everything else with white oak.
After Esther's death at Klaus' hands in the 11th century, Elijah and Rebekah swore to stick with Niklaus *"* always and forever*."* However, over the centuries, Klaus started using the silver daggers he stole from the Five to neutralize his siblings whenever they interfered with his life or plans. Finn was the first to be daggered in the 1100s and was left neutralized for nine hundred years, while Kol was daggered on multiple occasions and for various lengths of time, including in 1701, in 1821, and again in 1914. Rebekah also had a similar fate to Kol and was also daggered on various occasions, including in 1835, 1922, and 2010. When his siblings were daggered, he dragged them around in coffins, which he never kept far from wherever he was living. However, for many centuries, Elijah was the only sibling to escape his wrath, and Klaus led Elijah to believe that he had dropped their incapacitated siblings deep in the ocean where they could never be found. For this betrayal, Elijah swore revenge on his brother. Over the years, legends began to surround the Original Vampires as their story became lost to history: all vampires knew that they were descended from the first generation of vampires, but they knew next to nothing about them. Only one was actually known at all: Klaus. He was believed, mistakenly, to be the oldest vampire in the world to the few vampires who knew of him, and while many vampires knew of Elijah, he was mistakenly assumed to be a "foot-soldier" or minion of Klaus' and wasn't revealed to be an Original vampire to most, nor was he known to be Klaus' half-brother. Elijah was, however, serving his own interests: namely, Klaus' destruction in recompense for his lost family. Mikael was also not anonymous in history, but no one knew he was an Original vampire, either, nor did they know his true goal was to slay his step-son Klaus; he was instead infamously known as Mikael the Destroyer, the ancient vampire who hunted vampires. It is unknown if the other Mikaelsons had a famous/infamous history, but vampires did know there were other Original vampires besides Klaus. However, it was Elijah who revealed to the Mystic Falls Gang that the other Original vampires were his siblings. "*Oh Klaus is not my only brother, I had siblings I had a family, once. Klaus hunted them down, one by one and he took them from me."*
As of 2011, the Mikaelson family resides in france with Klaus as king, Rebekah and Lillian II as ladies and Qetsiyah as queen , where Klaus inadvertently started his own family when it was revealed that his Original hybrid nature (being born a werewolf and turned into a vampire by magic) allowed him to father a child with the werewolf-witch hybrid and then princess of france Qetsiyah Bennett he has another child with her and another on the way Rebekah and Stefan married there and had their daughter there along with Kol and Bonnie Finn and Sage live in France in another house along with Rebekah, Stefan, and Lillian II Kol, Maisie, Elijah, Bonnie, and Katherine live together Kaitlyn lives with her brother Klaus, his wife, and children.