The Hollow

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## Hera

* Hera
* Adella McCall
* Athena Beaumont

## Biographical Information

### Occupation

* Member of the Gemini Coven  (Formerly)
* Member of the Divine Coven  (Formerly)

### Species

* Witch
* Spirit  (Currently)
* Tribrid  (Werewolf/Werejaguar, Kitsune, Witch) (by Possessing Adella McCall)
* Hybrid  (Spirit Kitsune, Witch) (by Possessing Athena Beaumont)

## Family Information

### Family Members

* Ms. Raven †  (Mother)
* Jezebel Raven †  (Maternal Descendant)
* Athena Beaumont †  (Maternal Descendant)
* Rebekah Beaumont  (Maternal Descendant)
* Aviva Raven †  (Maternal Descendant)
* Adella McCall  (Maternal Descendant)
* Kratos Lahey  (Maternal Descendant)
* Athena Lahey  (Maternal Descendant)

## Supernatural Information

### Cause Of Death

* Dismemberment  (1st time)
* Stabbed  (2nd time)
* Vessel's Death  (3rd time; indirectly through Athena)

### Killed By

* Her Mother  (1st time)
* Athena Beaumont  (2nd and 3rd time)

## Physical Appearance

### Eye Color

* Brown
* Glowing Blue

## Appearance

### Played By

* Alyssa Milano
* Danielle Campbell  (in Adella's body)
* Genevieve Padalecki  (in Athena's body)

**Hera Raven**, better known as **The Hollow**, was a powerful French American witch that grew even more powerful in death, plaguing Beacon Hills as a spirit. She was summoned forth when the Anuk-ite was killed and was set free.

She has since returned, taking advantage of the desperation felt by humans, werewolves, and witches who want to take down Scott and Adella McCall. After being freed from her prison, the Hollow sought power created from the sacrifice of supernaturals. The Hollow continued to crave more powerful sacrifices from beings created and tainted by powerful magic, including Scott, Adella, and Lydia Martin. Though she was unsuccessful in this attempt, she obtained enough power to physically materialize in the living world, eventually culminating in her resurrection.

According to Athena Beaumont, the Hollow is much older than she is and is one of "the most powerful witches in all of history". Following her original death, she obtained followers to perform her dark deeds. Since her resurrection, her followers claim that she is more powerful than The Chosen One.

Due to the death of her body, the Hollow, using her mastery over possession, inhabited Adella until her spirit was put into Athena to which she sacrificed herself to save her daughter and her pack mates.

**Hera** was a member of the **Raven Family**. By birthright she is a member of the **Gemini Coven** and **Divine Coven**.

## Personality

True to her title as "The Hollow", Hera, as a mortal or spirit, is ruthless and only cares about gaining more power, and even killed covens in her area with a faint smirk at the destruction and death she was causing, showing a sadistic nature. She is shown to be vindictive as she cursed the covens to become supernatural wolves upon the full moon. She is not biased toward those that she hurts or kills as she is willing to sacrifice any to gain power. Hera is proficient at influencing and corrupting people by taking what is "dark" inside someone's heart and twisting it against them, regardless of the person's morality, to do her bidding.

## Powers and Abilities

### Witch

The Hollow is the offspring of the union of two powerful French witch covens, who was granted power by her coven Elders during her mother's pregnancy. Throughout her life, she craved more power, channeling life in all its forms. This was evident even at her birth, where she nearly quenched the flames of the surrounding torches and withered plant-life. This would later became her signature trait. Also, she was able to emit a visible blue aura around her entire body, a unique phenomenon no other witch has demonstrated. As time went on, her power became insatiable and could not be stopped by her coven of witches. This culminated in her magically laying waste to her village, killing its animals and setting it on fire. At the height of her evil, her coven united to defeat her, but she was powerful and skilled enough to telekinetically snap the necks of multiple targets all at once. The coven's Elders managed to capture her using mystical bindings, however, they realized that even with all their magic, she was too strong; killing her was the only solution. Four of the strongest Elders imbued a part of their magic into an axe that was then used to kill her. It was in this moment that she casted a curse, which was powered by her own death, to fall upon all those that were present that night. This gave rise to the first Werewolves and the were-like species as a whole.

With her resurrection in modern times, she has since regained full control over her magic; as such, she can manipulate plant life, i.e. flowers in proximity to her will wither and die, seemingly, able to turn her blood toxic to Marcel Gerard, and to channel telekinesis through a scream, powerful enough to knock out Marcel. While her own resurrection utilized a powerful sacrifice, she was proficient enough to resurrect Erica Reyes from the Bright World, though how remains unknown, and trapped her behind a Bone-Bound Boundary Spell. She then demonstrated to Isaac that she linked Erica to her as a fail-safe so that he would not risk Erica's life to harm her. Binding her spells to a totem, she was able to physically manifest illusions of Vernon Boyd, Aiden Steiner, and Gerard Argent so that they were able to physically harm Adella, like stabbing her in the chest with a knife.

### Spirit

As a spirit, her dark magic can influence mental faculties making her quite formidable. As such she can create powerful illusions strong enough to make Athena and Rebekah Beaumont, believe that they were dying. She can also convince her victims to do her bidding. As a witch, even in spirit form, she was capable of possessing a host.
While possessing Adella, and even in spirit form, she continues to showcase her proficiency over telekinesis, easily subduing the McCall Pack and Marcel alike: such as impaling Athena and Rebekah with wood, enough to knock them out. She would later overpower Athena and Rebekah's salt binding circle as he attempted to banish her spirit.

## Weaknesses

* **Raven Bloodline:** The only people that have the power to destroy her are those who are born of her bloodline, i.e. Athena, Rebekah, and Adella. It is shown that Athena's blood can harm the vessel she possesses as a spirit. In her resurrected form, she was able to utilize it into a spell to make her stronger by possessing Adella.
* **Magic:** The Hollow is susceptible to the powers of witchcraft, such as mystical bindings and imbued weaponry. As a spirit, massive amounts of mystical energy, like the collective power of the Spirits or the sacrifice of a powerful creature, can seal her spirit away in an unknown dimension.
* **Vessel Death:** When the Hollow is fully contained within a single vessel, she is vulnerable to destruction if the vessel dies. When Athena, after having absorbed the Hollow, is killed by herself with Adella's magical katana, the Hollow is destroyed along with he.