Amara

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## Biographical information

### Born

* 1st Century B.C.E (Greece; Age Unknown/2000+)

### Turned

* 1st Century B.C (through The Immortality Spell)

### Occupation

* Handmaiden to Qetsiyah (Formerly)
* The Anchor to the Other Side (Formerly)
* Progenitor of the Petrova Doppelgängers bloodline
* The Cure (Formerly)

### Title(s)

* The World's First Immortal Woman
* Silas' One True Love
* The Face That Launched a Thousand Doppelgängers, The Ancient Boyfriend-Stealing Bitch (Both by Qetsiyah)
* Crazy Pants, Nutter-Butter Soulmate (Both by Damon)

### Species

* Human
* Progenitor Of Petrova Doppelgängers
* Immortal (Formerly)
* The Anchor (Formerly)

## Family information

### Family Members

* Silas † (Soulmate/ True Love)
* Unnamed Father †
* Unnamed Mother †
* Unnamed Siblings/ Relatives †
* Tatia † (Distant Descendant, First Doppelgänger)
* Tatia's Family/ Relatives † (Distant Descendants)
* Tatia's Unnamed Child † (Distant Descendant)
* Mr. Petrov † (Distant Descendant)
* Mrs. Petrova † (Distant Descendant)
* Katerina Petrova (Distant Descendant, Second Doppelgänger)
* Nadia Petrova † (Distant Descendant)
* Nadia's Unnamed Child † (Distant Descendant)
* Isobel Flemming † (Distant Descendant)
* Elena Gilbert (Distant Descendant, Third Doppelgänger)
* Adrianna Gilbert (Distant Descendant, Doppelgänger)
* Hope Mikaelson (Distant Descendant)
* Alexia Salvatore (Distant Descendant)

## Physical appearance

### Height

* 5'6" (Feet)
* 1.68 (Meters)

### Eye color

* Brown

**Amara** was a recurring character who first appeared in Book 5 of the series. Amara was the world's first immortal woman. She was once the personal handmaiden of powerful witch Qetsiyah, close friend of an extremely powerful witch Irene, and the soulmate and one true love of Qetsiyah's fiancé, one of the world's most powerful witches and the world's first immortal man and being, Silas.

Amara's love for Silas became her downfall as their betrayal was revealed to Qetsiyah, who in retaliation staged Amara's death, and as punishment for her actions transformed her into the Anchor to the Other Side. For over 2,000 years, Amara felt the pain of each deceased supernatural being crossing over, and after her eventual release and short-lived reunion with Silas, she gladly welcomed death.

She was the progenitor of a line of doppelgängers that have come to be known as the Petrova Doppelgängers, from which spawned four known female doppelgängers: Tatia, Katerina Petrova, Elena Gilbert, and Adrianna Gilbert.

Amara was the oldest known ancestor of the Petrova Family and the progenitor of the Petrova Doppelgängers.

## Early History

Amara was born some time during 1st century B.C.E. (100 B.C.). Over 2,000 years ago in Ancient Greece, Amara fell deeply in love with a young, gifted, and powerful witch named Silas. Amara was the personal handmaiden of Qetsiyah, who was also a powerful witch in her own right. Despite Silas and Amara's love for each other, their love was forbidden, as Silas was engaged to be married to Qetsiyah, and Amara was a mere servant whereas Silas was a wealthy nobleman, leaving them incompatible with regard to their social class and societal norms.

Despite this, Silas and Amara still loved each other so much that they kept their relationship and love for each other a secret out of fear of being shunned. Silas desired to live forever with Amara, and began to desire a spell that would allow them to become immortal so they could be together for eternity. Silas manipulated Qetsiyah into creating an immortality spell by telling her that he didn't ever want to be parted from her, not even by death. Qetsiyah agreed to create the spell, as she was in love with Silas and also desired to spend eternity with him, believing that she was the one with whom he wanted to share his immortal life. However, Silas always intended to give the second portion of the immortality elixir to Amara, not Qetsiyah as he had promised.

On the night Silas and Qetsiyah were meant to marry, he magically stole the immortality elixir that the two were supposed to consume after their vows, and instead drank the elixir with Amara in their tent in the woods, becoming the world's first truly immortal man and woman. Feeling betrayed after being left at the altar, Qetsiyah tracked Silas down and discovered that his betrayal was even worse than she had initially believed-not only had Silas fallen in love with another woman, but it was her own handmaiden, Amara.

Feeling angered, enraged, and betrayed by both Silas and Amara, Qetsiyah created a cure for immortality which she revealed to Amara before desiccating her and faking her death. Qetsiyah then confronted Silas and offered him the cure with the promise that she would forgive him of his infidelity if he were to spend the rest of his mortal life with her. She also led him to believe that she had used another dose of the cure on Amara before killing her by staging their tent with blood and a human heart. After faking Amara's death, Qetsiyah lured Silas to a remote island and desiccated him before entombing him with the only cure for immortality, hoping that he would take it and eventually die a mortal death, so that he would cross over to the Other Side.

After Qetsiyah desiccated Amara, she used Amara as the physical anchor for the Other Side, binding its existence to her immortal life in order to create a supernatural purgatory. Qetsiyah specifically chose Amara as the Anchor for two reasons: first, she needed the anchor to be something both indestructible and eternal, like the newly-immortal Amara, to ensure that the Other Side would always exist; secondly, she knew Silas could potentially try to get around her plans for him, should he ever be able to escape his tomb, so she needed to make the Anchor something Silas would be unable to destroy, even if he could make her mortal again.

After Qetsiyah was murdered by the Travelers, they took possession of Amara's body, and they moved it around every few days for over 2,000 years in order to ensure that it would never fall in the wrong hands.

During this time, Amara was forced to feel the deaths of every supernatural who passed though her to get to the Other Side. This slowly began driving her insane, and she would later admit to Qetsiyah in the modern day that she had more than suffered for what she had done.

## Personality

* Human
* Immortal

Not much is known of Amara's personality, but from flashbacks, she seems to be a young, innocent, beautiful, and elegant lady. Silas called her an angel, hinting at a highly virtuous personality, however, as Qetsiyah's handmaiden, it was also highly unlikely that she was unaware of Qetsiyah's strong feelings for Silas, or that Silas was using Qetsiyah to attain the secret of immortality. Amara could be seen as slightly selfish by nature. Qetsiyah says that Amara was someone who was close to her yet Amara betrayed Qetsiyah by falling in love with the same man she was in love with and engaged to. Amara seemed to have no regrets about betraying Qetsiyah in regards to Silas, as for Amara, her love for Silas was strong enough for her to go through with betraying Qetsiyah. In the present time, Amara has become human once more after 2,000 years due to consuming the cure for immortality through Silas' blood. After being cured, Amara desired to die in order to end her 2,000 years suffering. It is clear that though her love for Silas was indeed very powerful and strong, as for her, it caused her to sin, her desire for death to end her pain was just as strong. Amara killed herself as a mortal by stabbing herself. She has presumably crossed over the metaphysical plane where dead human souls go and where she is finally at peace.

Amara desired immortality and wanted to live forever so she could spend an eternity with Silas. Silas had created the very first spell of immortality alongside Qetsiyah, whom Amara was the handmaiden to. Amara consumed the immortality elixir alongside Silas, and became the world's fist immortal woman. However, Amara's life and eternity didn't go as planned, as Qetsiyah discovered her and Silas' betrayal. She was then desiccated by Qetsiyah, used as the physical anchor for the Other Side, and then entombed where she ended up starving and desiccating and being trapped within her own body for over 2,000 years. As the anchor to the Other Side, Amara ended up feeling every single supernatural death fo over 2,000 years. Each time a supernatural being passed on, they would go through her. Amara's body was being protected by the Travelers so that nobody would have access to her body. After 2,000 years, Amara was finally awoken. It is very clear that Amara had suffered severe emotional, mental, and psychological trauma for the past 2,000 years, similar to what Silas endured when he was entombed in darkness for 2,000 years, desiccating and starving. Amara is cured of her immortality after she consumed the cure through Silas' blood.
## Physical Appearance

Amara was a very beautiful young woman with an oval face, light olive complexion, almond-shaped brown eyes, and dark brown hair. Her height is about 5'6" and she had a slim physique. Amara is physically identical to her doppelgängers and descendants: Tatia, Katerina, Elena, and Adrianna. She wore long dresses, sandals with straps, hair tied with braids, and fabric covering her face when she was alive as a human before becoming immortal.

## Powers and Abilities

As an Immortal for over 2,000 years, Amara had unconditional and true immortality. Like Silas, she was immune to disease, age, and all forms of physical and magical death save for The Cure. She likely possessed the same advanced psychic abilities inherent as an Immortal although the extent to which she developed this skill (as compared to Silas) remains unknown. As testament to her immortality, Qetsiyah chose her to be The Anchor to The Other Side knowing that nothing could destroy her.

## Weaknesses

* Immortal
* Anchor

Amara had the typical weaknesses of an Immortal. However, after being given the Cure, she had the typical weaknesses of a human.

During her time as an Immortal, Amara was bound to the Other Side as its Anchor. Being the Anchor allowed her to co-exist between the Living World and The Other Side and be the only passage in between both. Her foothold in the latter allowed her to be a medium that could speak with Spirits. Consequently, she also felt the pain of every supernatural species who had died in the last 2,000 years.

## Relationships

### Silas

"*Just as you are mine, I am yours forever. Because when I look at you, Amara, all I see is an angel*"
—Silas to Amara

*Main Article: Silas and Amara*

Not much is known about the history or the background of their relationship, but it was Silas' strong and powerful love fo Amara that motivated him to become immortal so that they could spend eternity together. Amara was deeply in love with Silas, so much, as she consumed the immortality elixir along with Silas so that she could live forever and spend an eternity with him. From the flashbacks, it is clear that Amara's relationship with Silas was rather forbidden, as Amara was not only the handmaiden to Qetsiyah, but Silas was also engaged to be married to Qetsiyah. After Silas learned of Amara's murder, he was visibly shaken and emotionally distraught. Qetsiyah made it impossible for Silas and Amara to be reunited together in death by creating The Other Side, a purgatory for supernatural creatures and beings such as witches, vampires, doppelgängers, werewolves, etc., to go to after they die. Since Silas has risen from his tomb of darkness of two millennia, Silas made it his number one goal to consume the Cure, destroy the Other Side, and then die so that he can pass on and be reunited in true death with Amara in the afterlife. After 2,000 years, Silas and Amara are reunited. Amara has gone crazy due to being the anchor to the Other Side and has therefore, suffered immense pain and torture. Amara obtained the cure from Silas' blood, telling him that she loved him but that she couldn't live another day in pain. Silas and Amara's ultimate fate is a tragic one. Silas is killed by Stefan and crosses over to the Other Side before Silas ever had a chance to destroy the Other Side and be reunited with Amara in death. Amara, as a result of being the anchor, could feel Silas' death as he passed on to the Other Side. As a result of suffering for 2,000 years without Silas and enduring endless torture, Amara tells a dead Silas that their eternity begins after she dies. She then kills herself by stabbing herself with the same blade that Silas was killed with. Although Amara desired to be at peace with Silas in true death, it turns out that this will not happen as Qetsiyah transferred the anchor from Amara to Bonnie. It is unknown whether they were reunited in the afterlife after the Other Side was destroyed.

### Qetsiyah

*Main Article: Amara and Qetsiyah*

"*My sin was falling in love, I have learned my lesson. You win, you win now please kill me.*"
—Amara to Qetsiyah

Amara was Qetsiyah's handmaiden. Although Amara was in love with Silas, her love for him was forbidden because Silas was engaged to Qetsiyah. According to Qetsiyah, she and Amara were not friends. When Qetsiyah had learned that Silas had given immortality to Amara instead of her, Qetsiyah killed Amara out of jealous rage. Qetsiyah also created The Other Side so that Silas would not find eternal peace with Amara after he died a mortal death and instead, Silas would be trapped with Qetsiyah for eternity. It is revealed that Qetsiyah did not murder Amara, but instead, used her as a physical anchor for the spell in creating the Other Side. Qetsiyah needed an anchor which was both indestructible and eternal to bind the spell, hence Amara, who was immortal. It is clear that what Qetsiyah did to Amara is a fate much worse than actual death for Amara and it had made Amara become extremely traumatized, emotionally, and psychologically unstable and highly overwhelmed. Qetsiyah made Amara suffer just as much as she made Silas suffer by entombing him in darkness to starve for 2,000+ years. Qetsiyah conducted her extreme actions towards both Silas and Amara out of pure maliciousness, revenge, and spite due to Silas and Amara's betrayal.

### Other Relationships

* Amara and Irene (close friends)
* Amara and Damon (Former Allies)
* Amara and Bonnie (Former Allies)
* Amara and Elena (Ancestor and Descendant/ Former Allies)
* Amara and Adrianna (Ancestor and Descendant/ Former Allies)

## Name

* **Amara** is a feminine name of Greek origin, which means "eternally beautiful", or "one who will be forever beautiful". It is a short form of the feminine Latin name **Amarantha** (***Greek***: *Aμαραντηα*, meaning "unfading" or "a flower that never fades".
* In West African culture, the name Amara means "night beauty" or "chosen by the God".
* Other common definitions of Amara include "eternal", "eternally loved", and "unyielding".

## Trivia

* The spell that binds the Other Side was bound to Amara. Qetsiyah did this because Amara was immortal and so the Other Side would exist eternally. She also knew that, should it ever come to it, Silas would be emotionally unable to kill Amara in order to destroy the Other Side, even if he could find a way to reverse her immortality.
* Amara's origins are from Ancient Greece. It is unknown or uncertain if Amara was of Greek descent, although it is a possibility, considering that Bulgaria, Katherine's home country, had not been formed yet.
* Like Silas, Amara was the progenitor of a line of doppelgängers, known currently as the Petrova Doppelgängers. This is a consequence of Amara becoming truly immortal like Silas, who has his own line of doppelgängers.
* Amara was the first woman to ever become immortal
* Amara's mortal age is unknown. All that is known about her age is that she is 2,000 years old, and that the events involving herself, Qetsiyah, and Silas occurred in the 100s BCE. It is most likely that she was younger than both Silas and Qetsiyah in mortal age.
* Amara is depicted in the Hunter's Mark as the young lady being killed by the witch Qetsiyah.
* Tatia, Katerina, Elena, and Adrianna are Amara's deoppelgängers. Tatia is confirmed as Amara's first doppelgänger.
* Amara is a very distant ancestor to all of the Petrova women (i.e. Tatia, Katherine, Nadia, Isobel, Elena, Adrianna, Hope, Alexia, etc.). However, it is unknown if the Petrova women are direct descendant of Amara (i.e. descended from a child she may have had prior to the events that led to her immortality), or if her bloodline continued through one of Amara's siblings, such as in the case with Silas' doppelgängers.