Mikaelson Family

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## Family heritage

### Species

* Witch
* Original Vampire
* Hybrid
* Tribrid
* Werewolf
* Ghost (Formerly)
* Ancestral Spirit (Formerly)

### Notable family members

* Mikael † (Original Vampire)
* Esther Mikaelson † (Witch)
* Freya Mikaelson (Witch)
* Kai Parker (Hybrid, Freya's Husband)
* Finn Mikaelson † (Original Vampire)
* Elijah Mikaelson (Original Vampire)
* Katherine Pierce (Vampire, Elijah's Wife)
* Niklaus Mikaelson (Original Hybrid)
* Caroline Forbes (Vampire, Klaus' Wife)
* Kol Mikaelson (Original Vampire)
* Bonnie Bennett (Witch, Kol's Wife)
* Rebekah Mikaelson (Original Vampire)
* Stefan Salvatore (Vampire, Rebekah's Husband)
* Henrik Mikaelson † (Human)
* Hope Mikaelson (Tribrid)
* Aleksander Mikaelson-Bennett (Witch)
* Abigail Mikaelson-Bennett (Witch)
* Thalia Mikaelson-Parker (Witch)

## Relationships

### Related families

* Dahlia and Esther's Family Bloodline
* Ansel and Niklaus Mikaelson's Family Bloodline
* Labonair Family
* Petrova Family
* Gilbert Family
* Salvatore Family
* Parker Family

## Affiliation

### Property

* Klaus' Family Mansion
* Mikaelson Mansion
* The Abattoir

The **Mikaelson Family** *(Elder Futhark: ᛗᛁᚲᚨᛖᛚᛋᛟᚾ)* is an 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 are known as some of the most powerful supernatural beings in the world. The Mikaelson family is currently also known for having members who are witches, hybrids, and tribrids.

The family (excluding Freya, Henrik, Hope, Ace, Abby, and Tali) were the main antagonists of Book 3 of Part 1 of the series.

## 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
>
> **Elijah** to **Adrianna** about his family

The 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 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 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, 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 four more children: Niklaus, Kol, Rebekah, and Henrik. Mikael often clashed with his middle son, Niklaus, with whom he had an antagonistic and abusive relationship which only became worse 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 whonwould 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 made his first kill after being turned into a vampire, it triggered his werewolf gene, which ultimately revealed the truth of his parentage to his family - Klaus was not Mikael's son but was instead the son 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' 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' werewolf heritage, Esther was convinced by Mikael to curse Klaus in order to make his werewolf nature dormant so that he would not upset nature further by possessing so much power. However, Klaus felt betrayed by this punishment, and in retaliation, Klaus murdered his mother and framed Mikael for the act.

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 is a hybrid and the silver daggers do not affect him. Klaus could, however, be neutralized by a Gold Dagger, which was created by Kol and Davina. 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. This stake was then stolen by the recently-resurrected Esther and Alaric Saltzman's dark alter-ego in 2010, the former of whom melted down Alaric's Gilbert Ring to make the stake indestructible and prevent it from being burned after an Original was staked with it.

After Esther's death at Klaus' hands in the 11th century, Elijah and Rebekah swore tp stick with Klaus. 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 900 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 was Elijah who revealed to the Mystic Falls Gang that the other Original vampires were his siblings.

Between mid-late 2010 and early 2011, three of the Mikaelson family members were killed in Mystic Falls; first, Mikael was killed by Klaus, while Finn was killed by Matt Donovan. It was the latter's death that revealed to many that when an Original vampire is killed, every vampire in their bloodline (ie: any vampire they have ever sired) dies along with them, as evidenced by Sage and Troy dying just an hour or so after Finn was killed. Months later, Kol was killed by Jeremy Gilbert in order to finish his Hunter's Mark, as his death would result in the deaths of thousands of vampires who were sired by him.

The family largely relocated to the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana, after it was revealed that Adrianna was pregnant with Klaus' child. Adrianna and Klaus reunited in the city after he and Elijah returned there for the first time in over a century to investigate a claim of potential threat from a witch named Jane-Ann Deveraux. They were soon joined by Rebekah and began to regain control over the city they had worked to build in the 18th century, with Klaus eventually taking leadership from his surrogate son Marcel Gerard. After an intense war between the five supernatural factions of the city, the Guerrera werewolves, who had been living undercover as humans for decades and who had allied with the French Quarter Coven of witches, staged a coup against the Originals and the vampires and seized control over the city. Part of the Guerrera's alliance with the witches involved handing over the pregnant Adrianna so that they could sacrifice Adrianna and Klaus' baby daughter to gain more power for the coven. Fortunately, the child was rescued by her parents, uncle, aunt, step father, and surrogate brother, but was ultimately sent away to live with Rebekah and Stefan after they faked her death to ensure that she would no longer be pursued by their enemies. While Klaus, Elijah, Hayley, Damon, and Katherine work together to regain control over the Quarter once again, they are forced to fight against the newly-resurrected Mikael in his fight to kill Klaus, as well as Esther and Kol an Finn, all of whom have returned to life by possessing the bodies of witches and who plan to get the three to rejoin their family in mortal bodies.

## Family Members

> It has been said that all love begins and ends with she who gave us life. A thousand years ago, my mother turned us into monsters, yet still, she claimed to love us even as she vowed to destroy us. The noble Elijah, tormented by long buried shameful secrets. Kol, the wily troublemaker out for no one by himself. Finn, the devoted acolyte, his love all too easily warped by our mother's sick hate. Fierce Rebekah, willing to risk everything on the chance that she might one day find happiness. And me, the bastard child, my mother's greatest shame. Now finally we have defeated her, giving her the choice she never thought to give us: to live on as one of the monsters she created or to suffer an agonizing death she so deserves..
>
> **Niklaus Mikaelson**

* **Mikael:** Mikael was an Original vampire who was once a Viking and a wealthy landowner in Norway. He is the patriarch of the Mikaelson family and is the father of Freya, Finn, Elijah, Kol, Rebekah, and Henrik, and the step-father of Niklaus. He was in his early 50s when he was turned into a vampire and was seen to be strong, controlling, domineering, strict, and authoritarian in nature, qualities that were only magnified upon his transition. After moving to the New World, his wife bore more children, and his family was quite close, though he and Klaus didn't get along well at all, due to the fact that Klaus as the product of an affair with the Alpha of the werewolf clan in their village. His wife had been unfaithful many years before and when he found out about her affair, he hunted down and killed Klaus' father and his entire family, not realizing that he was igniting a war between species that rages to this day between vampires and the werewolves. Mikael was the one who asked his wife Esther, a powerful witch, to turn the family into vampires. In Part 1 of the series, he was killed by Niklaus and with the only weapon that could be used to kill or destroy an Original Vampire, the White Oak Stake, after centuries of hunting Klaus down with the intent to kill him. However, he was resurrected in Part 2 of the series by Davina Claire in hope that they could work together to kill Klaus. While he was under Davina's control using The Bracelet of Obedience, he was able to break free with his son Kol's help and was living of his own free will. Mikael briefly teamed up with his son Finn but was used as Finn's power source and was left desiccated. Once he awoke, he was reunited with Freya, his firstborn child and favorite of his children. Mikael later leaves town to find ingredient for a weapon to kill Dahlia, his sister-in-law, who wanted to kill freya from running from her. After he returned, Mikael teamed up with Klaus to fight Dahlia for both their daughters' sakes.    After slaughtering Dahlia's minion army, the witch bested them and destroyed their weapon. Klaus later kills Mikael without a fight to get more Viking ash, as his corpse would produce the missing ingredient needed to make more weapons. Thus, Mikael dies by Klaus' hand a second time without fighting back.
* **Esther Mikaelson:** Esther was the Original Witch (the witch of the Original family), who was married to a wealthy landowner from Norway, Mikael. She is the mother of Freya, Finn, Elijah, Niklaus, Kol, Rebekah, and Henrik. She was in her mid to late '40s when she was killed. Esther was the one who turned her family into vampires by using a modified version of the immortality spell that involved drawing on the sun and the White Oak Tree. She was also the witch who placed The Hybrid Curse on Klaus. It is assumed that Klaus strangled her to death after she cursed him, but it was later revealed that Esther's body was preserved by Ayana and kept in one of Klaus' coffins. She was later brought back to life by Abby and Bonnie Bennett in Book 3 of Part 1 and pretended as though she wanted to reunite her family when in reality, she was actually plotting their deaths, as she believed vampires to be an abomination to nature that needed to be ridden from the Earth. She was later killed by Alaric Saltzman; however, in Part 2 of the series, her remains were consecrated by an Elder of the French Quarter Coven so that she and her living descendants could be New Orleans' witches and be able to share in the coven's Ancestral Magic. Because of this connection, Esther and her deceased son Finn were able to join the witch ancestors and eventually returned as spirits to the living world so they could possess living witches in order to fulfill their plans. Esther also kidnapped Kol and placed his spirit in the body of a young witch before brainwashing him to go along with her plans. Esther first possessed the young Harvest witch Cassie but jumped into another witch, Lenore, when it became convenient for her. However, the Mikaelson children (via Rebekah's quick thinking) were able to turn Esther/Lenore into a vampire in order to keep her from body-jumping and being able to practice magic against them.
* **Freya Mikaelson:** Freya is Mikael and Esther's firstborn child, and the oldest sister of Finn, Elijah, Kol, Rebekah, and Henrik, and the half-sister of Niklaus. It was said that the oldest original sibling had died in the Old World (specifically Norway) because of the plague. However, it was later revealed that Esther made a deal with her sister, a witch named Dahlia, in order to magically give her the ability to have children. However, Dahlia required that Esther gives her payment for this magic - Esther must give Dahlia her first-born child Freya, as well as every subsequent first-born as long as her line may live. In order to cover up what had really happened, Dahlia demanded that Esther lie to Mikael when he returned from battle and say that Freya perished from the plague. The death of their first-born caused Esther and Mikael, along with Freya's brother Finn and their newest baby Elijah to move themselves to a "mystical land" where a witch told them the inhabitants had the gift of perfect health, increased strength, and speed. Years later, Henrik, the youngest of the family, died when he and the curious Klaus went out to watch the villagers transform into werewolves and was attacked, reminding Mikael, Esther, and Finn of the loss of Freya and motivating them to turn the family into vampires to ensure they would never feel the pain of losing a child again. It was later revealed that Freya is alive trapped in a coffin in the attic at Dowager Fauline's Mansion, along with her sister Rebekah. Later, Freya and Rebekah left the asylum after Freya saved Rebekah and killed most of The Kindred. Freya is extremely dedicated to the protection of her family, especially after she fought so hard to be reunited with them. Any time her family is in danger, she believes, as the oldest sibling, that it's her job to protect them, no matter the cost, and shoulders the burdens.
* **Finn Mikaelson:** Finn was the second child born to Mikael and Esther, the younger brother of Freya, and the oldest brother of Elijah, Kol, Rebekah, and Henrik, and the half-brother of Niklaus. Finn was in his late 20s when he was turned and was handsome, tall, and physically imposing. Quiet, calm, even-tempered, and introverted, but ashamed of what he and his siblings became, he was one of the moral of the Originals, along with Elijah, and was prone to self-hatred of his vampire existence. Before Finn was undaggered, Elijah stated that Finn had been neutralized for nine hundred years. Elijah later removed the dagger from his body, allowing Finn to experience how much the world had changed in the time he was incapacitated. Before being daggered, Finn had fallen deeply in love with a woman in his village named Sage, and later turned her into a vampire despite his distaste for his own species. Finn was killed by Matt Donovan with a White Oak Stake after the Mystic Falls Gang plotted to kill the Originals while they were still magically linked together. It was revealed in Book 2 of Part 2 of the series that Finn was "resurrected" when his mother magically placed his spirit into the body of a witch named Vincent Griffith. He was later killed by Lucien Castle.
* **Elijah Mikaelson:** Elijah is the third-born child of Mikael and Esther, the younger brother of Freya and Finn, and the elder brother of Kol, Rebekah, and Henrik, and the elder half-brother of Niklaus. Elijah is described to be noble, honorable, moral, and compassionate, qualities that were only amplified when he was turned into a vampire. Although he loved his younger brother, Niklaus, dearly, he became vengeful when he was led to believe that Klaus had hunted down and daggered his siblings before tossing them into the ocean to never be found again. Unfortunately, John Gilbert came to Mystic Falls with the white oak ash and the dagger and Elijah was neutralized by Elena, though she later removed the dagger from his body. Elijah returned to fight against Klaus upon being awakened, though when he was about to kill Klaus, he was turned back to his side at the last moment when Klaus admitted that he hadn't thrown their siblings into the ocean as he had claimed. Elijah, believing Klaus to be sincere, decided not to kill him after all, but he was ultimately rewarded for his change of heart by Klaus daggering him once again to ensure he wouldn't interfere with his plan to create more hybrids. Elijah resided in the Mikaelson Compound in New Orleans with his brother Klaus and the mother of his niece, Adrianna. He currently resides with his wife.
* **Niklaus Mikaelson:** Niklaus (known to most as Klaus, and to his siblings as Nik) is the fourth child born to Esther and the child of a werewolf named Ansel, the step-son of Mikael, the maternal younger half-brother of Freya, Finn, and Elijah, and the maternal older half-brother of Kol, Rebekah, and Henrik. He is the Original vampire-werewolf hybrid, the first and only werewolf to be turned into a hybrid by magic rather than the blood of a hybrid, who is said to be the most hated and feared of all the Original vampires, as well as one of the most powerful creatures on earth. During his mortal life, Klaus was described as impulsive, reckless, careless, adventurous, and a risk-taker, a daredevil at heart, which was magnified upon being turned into a hybrid. He was so resolute to punish those who wronged hi, that he hunted Katherine Pierce, Rose, and Trevor for over 500 years in order to get revenge after they sabotaged his first attempt to break his curse. He spent so much of his life seeking out the ingredients to break his curse, most important of which was the last human Petrova Doppelgänger, Elena, whose blood was needed to break the spell sealed within the moonstone. Upon his introduction in the *An Epic Kind of Love* series, Klaus used Alaric's body to educate himself on his new enemies in the Mystic Falls Gang. He succeeds in breaking the 1000-year-old curse that held his dormant werewolf gene in check, which was the first step in returning to his true hybrid state and being able to sire more hybrids of his own. After many attempts to kill Klaus, Stefan and Damon succeeded in defeating his via a desiccation spell by Bonnie through Stefan when they were able to catch him off-guard. Alaric Saltzman (while under the influence of his dark alter-ego) attempted to kill Niklaus at the end of Book 3 by staking him with a white oak stake. However, Klaus' spirit was placed into Tyler Lockwood's body through a spell conducted by Bonnie Bennett prior to his being staked, and since Alaric closed his coffin and snuffed out the flames after he "killed" him, Klaus' body sustained minimal damage, allowing him yo return to it after Alaric's death. Since moving to New Orleans, discovering he had fathered a child with Adrianna Gilbert, and regaining and losing his title as king of the city, Klaus has reconnected with with humanity and has been shown to be a more kind, thoughtful, merciful person. This could also be due to the influence of his wife, Caroline Forbes. However, he still has no problem punishing those who seek to harm his family. He currently resides with Caroline in New Orleans where they are the King and Queen of the city.
* **Kol Mikaelson:** Kol is the fifth child born to Esther and the fourth child born to Mikael, the younger brother of Freya, Finn, and Elijah, and the younger half-brother of Niklaus, and the elder brother of Rebekah and Henrik. Kol was described as cocky, extroverted, charming, daring, and outspoken. Very little is known about Kol's early history, but it has been revealed throughout the series that Kol was the only Mikaelson child to have tapped into his witch heritage prior to being turned into a vampire, and once he lost his powers, he traveled the world and studied as many forms of witchcraft as he could with various witch communities over his thousand years of life. He has also demonstrated what is often referred to as "middle-child-syndrome," where he seeks the attention of his family due to feeling as though he doesn't fit into the close relationship shared between Elijah, Klaus, and Rebekah. Kol was undaggered for the first time since 1914 by Klaus in 2010 to watch over a humanity-free Adrianna while Klaus and Stefan were preoccupied. Kol and Adrianna became fast friends and Kol taught her how to be a better fighter and how to better use her vampiric abilities. Klaus daggered Kol again before they returned to Mystic Falls but he was later undaggered by Adrianna after she and Stefan stole the coffin holding his body from Klaus, along with three other coffins that held Esther, Elijah, and Finn. His personality was that of an immature, cocky teenager, and he demonstrated an attitude of believing himself better than humans because of his status as an Original vampire. While living in Mystic Falls, Kol constantly clashed with Damon Salvatore, though Kol refrained from killing him after finding out that Adrianna loved him. Kol also seemed to develop feelings for Bonnie Bennett, whom he eventually married. Kol traveled to Denver, Colorado on Klaus' orders in order to pretend to befriend Jeremy Gilbert so he could be used as leverage against Elena. He returned to Mystic Falls and immediately jumped into helping Rebekah learn about the cure for immortality by kidnapping Atticus Shane. However, after he learned that the finding of the cure will raise the first immortal, Silas, whom he feared, he then tried to stop anyone from finding the cure. In the end he was killed by Jeremy with the white oak stake in order to complete his mark, as every vampire Kol sired in his millennia as a vampire would die along with him. This devastated his siblings, Bonnie, and Adrianna, who were now more motivated to raise Silas so that they could bring him back to life. Kol returned from the other side at the end of book 5 of Part 1 of the series. However, Bonnie and Damon were trapped, causing Adrianna and Kol to leave Mystic Falls in search of a way to bring them back. Kol was eventually brainwashed by his mother and had his spirit placed in the body of a young with named Kaleb Westphall before being taken to New Orleans. Kol was eventually returned to his original body, resumed his relationship with Bonnie, eventually fathering twins, and continued to help protect his family from their many enemies. He currently lives in Mystic Falls with Bonnie, though they are currently traveling the world while their children are attending school.
* **Rebekah Mikaelson:** Rebekah is the sixth child born to Esther and the fifth child born to Mikael, the younger sister of Freya, Finn, Elijah, and Kol, the younger half-sister of Klaus, and the older sister of Henrik. Rebekah was the only female Original Vampire before Adrianna was turned and is described as being beautiful, carefree, adventurous, and free-spirited, though not without a temper. Rebekah has a very close, yet complicated relationship with her elder half-brother Klaus, and has a close, loving relationship with Elijah. Over the course of her life, she was daggered multiple times by Klaus, though only a few dates are known; the first time was in 1835 when she was revealed to be in a relationship with Marcel despite Klaus' orders not to do so. She was awakened in 1887 and conspired with Marcel to bring Mikael to town to chase Klaus away in 1919. In 1922, she and her half-brother Klaus ended up in Chicago after fleeing New Orleans, where she briefly met Stefan Salvatore and fell in love with him. After her father managed to track them down in Chicago, Klaus decided they needed to flee immediately. When Rebekah made it clear that she wanted to stay with Stefan, Klaus daggered her once again for going against his wishes, and she wasn't awakened until 2010. Rebekah, much like Klaus, started out as someone prone to being vindictive, spiteful, and vengeful, but over time she has grown and matured into a caring person. Rebekah also has a tendency to love with all of her heart and has had many love interests over the years, including Alexander of the Five, the Governor of Louisiana's son Emil, Marcel, Stefan, and Matt. When she heard Klaus was killed, she was inconsolable and took out her revenge on Alaric by standing in the middle of the road so that the truck Matt and Elena were driving would run off the bridge and kill Elena so that Alaric, who was linked to her life, would die too. Rebekah and Stefan eventually reunited and began dating again after Rebekah was banished from New Orleans by Klaus. She briefly returned to New Orleans to take Hope to live with her in order to protect the baby from their family's enemies. Rebekah's spirit was later transferred into a witch's body who was currently trapped in the Dowager Fauline's mansion, along with her sister Freya. Later, Freya and Rebekah left the asylum after Freya saved Rebekah and killed most of The Kindred and Rebekah was reunited with her older sister. Rebekah was eventually put back into her body and is currently living in Paris with her husband, Stefan.
* **Henrik Mikaelson:** Henrik was the last and seventh born child of Mikael and Esther, the younger brother of Freya, Finn, Elijah, Kol, and Rebekah and the younger half-brother of Niklaus. Henrik was the youngest sibling and child of the Original family. Henrik was killed after he and Klaus went to watch the men in the village transition from humans to werewolves. Because of this, Klkaus during that time had felt an extreme amount of guilt and responsibility for Henrik's death. Henrik's unexpected death caused Mikael to have the family turned into vampires, to prevent any more of his children from dying.
* **Hope Mikaelson:** Hope was conceived by Adrianna and Klaus during a one-night stand after Adrianna found out that she was a tribrid. Hope is said to be a happy and calm baby, but resilient. Even before she was born, she was described as one of nature's loopholes and she was later confirmed to be a hybrid. Hope was born at the end of Book 1 of Part 2 and was sent to live with her aunt and uncle, Rebekah and Stefan, so she would be safe after her parents faked her death. Hope is a werewolf-vampire-witch tribrid, and the first truly alive vampire/hybrid to exist. She was almost killed by The Hollow when she was seven, which led to the separation of her family members. After this, her mother and step-mother built a school for supernatural children and Hope, along with her sisters and cousins, began attending the school. Hope triggered her werewolf curse when she accidentally killed Bill in 2027. She is currently a fully activated tribrid and is one of the most powerful creatures in existence.
* **Abigail Mikaelson-Bennett:**
* **Aleksander Mikaelson-Bennett:**
* **Thalia Mikaelson-Parker:**

## Surname

* **Mikaelson** *(**Elder Futhark:** ᛗᛁᚲᚨᛖᛚᛋᛟᚾ)* is of Scandinavian origin and means "Son of Mikael".
* Other spellings of the name Mikaelson include *Michaelson*, *Michelson*, *Mikelson*, and *Michaelsen*.
* The name Mikael comes from the Hebrew מִיכָאֵל (Mikha'el), which translates as the question "Who is like God"?
* The name **Mikaelson** is a patronymic surname, or a name constructed using the father's given name and a sufficient indicating either "son" or "daughter". Strictly speaking, Rebekah and Freya would have taken the patronym Mikaelsdotter, or "Daughter of Mikael", in earlier times, but during the 19th century, Scandinavian naming conventions began to evolve, such that families preferred to take a family name rather than a patronymic surname. Mikaelson is an example of a patronymic surname that was "frozen" to become an inherited family name.

## Trivia

* Rebekah says "No one in my family is to be trusted". These words are confirmed by the actions of Mikael, Esther, Finn, Elijah, Niklaus, Kol and Rebekah, all of whom have gone back on their word or have used clever wordplay to create loopholes in their promises.
* If all of the Original vampires were to die, every vampire sired from their bloodline will die as well, effectively eradicating the vampire species.