Antheia Claire

**Antheia Selene Claire** is a witch and a recurring character in *The Originals* and a guest character in *Legacies*. She is the daughter to Chris Reyes and Erika Claire, the younger sister to Athena Claire, and the maternal aunt to Artemis Mikaelson. She had a child before her thousand year slumber as Athena stated that Davina is her very distant niece. Now in the 21st century she has a daughter named Persephone Claire.

**Antheia** is a member of the **Parker Family**, **Reyes Family**, and **Claire Family**. She has ties to the **Mikaelson Family** through her sisters marriage to Finn and their daughter Artemis.

## Early History

### The Middle Ages, 10th Century

Antheia was born in 981 A.D to a powerful witch from the Gemini Coven, Chris Reyes and his wife from the Infinity Coven, Erika Claire. Her parents met in Paris, Neustria, West Francia; which is known in modern day as Paris, France.

## Powers and Abilities

Antheia has proven to be a very capable and powerful witch. Her control over telekinesis was highly advanced being able to throw away an SUV.

She has been practicing and studying witchcraft since she was a child. She mastered very advanced spells when she was 12. She proved powerful enough to be able to cast a privacy spell without any incantations.

Her most powerful feat was able to take down three Original Vampires at once, proving she's powerful in her own. She knows that even before Athena's transformation into the Original Heretic she was the strong one out the two of them.

## Weaknesses

Antheia had the typical weaknesses of a witch. With Anthea writing a spell so that she's an immortal witch.

## Appearances

The Originals

* *Gonna Set Your Flag On Fire* (Illusion)
* *Sanctuary* (First modern day appearance)
* *The Devil is Damned*
* *I Love You, Goodbye*
* *Save My Soul*
* *Exquisite Corpse*
* *Night Has A Thousand Eyes*
* *When The Levee Breaks*
* *City Beneath The Sea*
* *Fire with Fire*
* *Ashes to Ashes*

* *For the Next Millennium*
* *You Hung the Moon*
* *A Walk on the Wild Side*
* *Out of the Easy*
* *Savior*
* *A Ghost Along the Mississippi*
* *Wild at Heart*
* *A Streetcar Named Desire*
* *An Old Friend Calls*
* *Alone with Everybody*
* *Behind the Black Horizon*
* *The Devil Comes Here and Sighs*
* *No More Heartbreaks*
* *Where Nothing Stays Buried*
* *Give 'Em Hell Kid*
* *The Bloody Crown*

* *Gather Up the Killers*
* *Haunter of Ruins*
* *Keepers of the House*
* *I Hear You Knocking*
* *Bag of Cobras*
* *High Water and a Devil's Daughter*
* *The Feast of All Sinners*

**Season Five**

* *What, Will, I, Have, Left*
* *God's Gonna Trouble the Water*
* *The Kindness Of Strangers*
* *We Have Not Long To Love*
* *There in the Disappearing Light*
* *Til the Day I Die*
* *When The Saints Go Marching In*

### Legacies

* *There's a Mummy on Main Street*
* *The Boy Who Still Has a Lot of Good to Do* (Indirectly Mentioned)
* *Let's Just Finish the Dance*
* *There's Always a Loophole* (Indirectly Mentioned)
* *I'll Never Give Up Hope*
* *That's Nothing I Had to Remember*

## Name

* **Antheia** is primarily a female name of Greek origin that means *Flower, Blossom.*
* **Selene** is of Greek origin, and the meaning of the name Selene is "the moon".
* **Claire** is a French and Latin name which means "*illustrious*", "*clear*", or "*famous*".