Esther Chamberlain

**Esther Chamberlain** was one of the most powerful witches in the world, and she was responsible for creating the Original Vampires. She was also a major recurring character and a primary antagonist in the second season of *The Werewolf Diaries*.

Esther was the wife of Hectate. She was the mother of Jacob, Christopher and Nicholas Chamberlain, the grandmother of Cole, Adam, Elizabeth and Charlotte Chamberlain, and also the great-grandmother of Jessica and Jupiter Chamberlain.

It is revealed in *Eat, Sleep, Repeat*, that Jake has been holding onto Esther's coffin. In Los Angeles, when Jake and Christopher helped Zander Deveraux become an Elder, they offered her Esther's body. They consecrated Esther's remains, which later allows her to revive herself in *Evil In My Blood*.

In *The Bond*, Esther's witchcraft is stripped after Jake put blood in her wine. Christopher eventually returns to her, informing her that she is no longer a witch and is now a vampire. Esther forms an alliance with Hectate, in an effort to kill Jake and his allies.

After begging with Hectate to end his misdeeds, Esther allows herself to be killed together with him, by Jake. She and Hectate were shown to have found peace, with Esther asking for her husband's forgiveness, finally admitting that he did love her.

**Esther's** counterpart is **Esther Mikaelson** from *The Originals*.

## Personality

Esther was a devoted and loving mother to her children prior to them becoming vampires. She wanted the best for her children, and fearing they would die because of the werewolves, she used a spell which turned them into vampires.
Esther was delusional, she believes that everything she had done including the fact that she once tried to kill her children, was for their own good, she was also a hypocrite, as she blames both Christopher and Jake for Elizabeth death, when Hectate was the one who ordered her granddaughter's death in the first place (unaware that Elizabeth is still alive).
No matter how harsh it was, when Jake tells Esther that she was the monster who made the Original Vampires who they are, it was actually a true fact.
According to Jake, Esther was a very smart strategist and skilled in making people suffer, traits she passed on to several of her children, including Christopher, despite this, she can sometimes underestimate her children.
Like Hectate, Esther had failed to acknowledge her mistakes as a parent, as all of her children (Jake, Christopher and Nick) eventually grew to despise her and turned their backs on Esther, partly because she tried to kill them, and mainly because she tries to kill Elizabeth.

## Physical Appearance

Esther was a tall, slim and beautiful woman in her mid to late 40's, somewhere between 45-49. She has long natural blond hair and brown eyes. She had fine facial features, which testified to her Scandinavian origins. She did not use makeup in 10/11 century, but after returning to the life she began to emphasize her beauty. Long, flowing dresses she turned on aristocratic dress - her taste alluded to taste of her husband and children.

## Powers and Abilities

* Witch
* Vampire

Esther was amongst the greatest and most powerful, dark witches in history, due to her various acts of great significance to the future, mostly negative.

In her first life, Esther was an accomplished witch, being known as the creator of the moonlight rings by combining various spells into one. Esther's most notable spell was turning her Husband and Children into the world's first original vampires. She drew on multiple sources of power, such as the sun and the white oak tree for power and immortality. Despite being warned against doing so, she tapped into dark magic and performed the spell, giving a rise to a predatory species that spread throughout the world like a plague. Shortly thereafter, with her infidelity exposed with Jake's first kill, Nature would not allow such a powerful creature to exist, thus she bound him with the hybrid curse, locking away his werewolf side. After the creation of vampires, she also created the daylight rings, used as protection against the sun. Eventually though Jake ended her life.

Given her power, she was consecrated as a Los Angeles witch, allowing Zander to complete the Harvest ritual, which renews the power of hundreds of witches by reconnecting them to their dead ancestors. Even in spirit, she became leader of the Los Angeles Ancestral Witches. Esther was also capable of bending the entire ancestral plane to her will, consequently controlling the Los Angeles coven as a whole. Her control was so great, that she managed to force Graysin and the Quarter witches to kill Elizabeth.
Esther had been turned by Jake into a vampire. Esther possessed all the standard powers and abilities of a non-original vampire.

## Weaknesses

* Witch/Human
* Vampire

Esther had the typical weaknesses of a human/witch.

Esther had the typical weaknesses of an non-original vampire.

## Name

* **Esther** is a female Persian name (استر) which means "star" or a Hebrew form of the Persian goddess Ishtar. In the Old Testament, Esther is the name of the Jewish queen of King Ahasuerus of Persia who saved her people from the wicked plans of Haman.

## Trivia

* Christopher says that Esther is the Original Witch but she's not the first witch.
	+ Her name is a title. The Original Witch stands for the Witch of the Original Family of Vampires, not the first witch ever. Her husband Hectate, and son Jacob have titles, the Original Vampire Hunter, and Original Hybrid respectively.
* She is the first oldest Caucasian witch to be in the TV series before Christopher and Alexander.
* Esther invented the unlinking spell using a Sanguinem knot.
* She appeared to have the closest relationship with Nick, however, she deemed Jake to be her most special child.
* According to her son she was the most powerful Witch in history.
* After her consecration into the Ancestral fold, Esther became the leader of the Ancestors and by extension most of the living witches of Los Angeles.
* She was often referred to as The Original Witch due to being a member of the Original family of vampires.
* Both her second death and second resurrection occurred in a cemetery.
* Jake accurately states that Esther was a genius witch, and an overprotective matriarch.
	+ Esther was so gifted with her spellcraft that it took a coven of witches months to reverse engineer the vampire creation spell in order for Jeffery to become the beast. Julia, working alone, periodically over the course of a year or two was able to reverse engineer and create a sire-line unlinking spell.
* Esther is the second parent in *The Werewolf Diaries* to be turned into a vampire by their own child. In her case, it was her son, Jake.
	+ The first was Charlotte Marshall by her daughter Elizabeth Chamberlain.
* All of her children have some sort of disdain to her
	+ Christopher and Jake hate her for trying to kill them.
	+ Nick thinks she's a hypocrite for becoming a vampire.
* Esther is the one of the grandparents shown on screen.
* She learns that her granddaughter were alive instead of dead like she originally thought.
	+ Both of these pieces of information were also revealed to her by Jake.

## See also

*The **Esther Chamberlain** article uses material from the "Esther Mikaelson" article from the Vampire Diaires wiki at FANDOM and is licensed under the Commons Attribution-Share Alike License.*