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## Afterlife

The Afterlife is a metaphysical concept and the collective term used for the multiple planes of existence which are reachable through physical death, in which one exists in an incorporeal state.

While "finding peace" is presumed to lead to the naturally existing, final spiritual realm for souls, there have been other spiritual realms which were unnaturally created through witchcraft or by other means. These other dimensions include Hell or "Oblivion", the Other Side, and the Ancestral Plane, all of which can either trap or prevent souls from moving on to the natural aspects of the afterlife.

### The Other Side

#### Origins

Two thousand years ago in Ancient Greece, the powerful witch Qetsiyah created the Immortality Spell for her lover, Silas. However, when she discovered that Silas was in fact in love with her handmaiden Amara, an enraged Qetsiyah created the supernatural purgatory known as the Other Side using the newly immortal Amara as the binding object for the spell. The Other Side was meant to keep Silas from finding peace with Amara, but it also trapped other deceased supernatural beings.

#### Disintegration

Shortly after Bonnie Bennett was made the Anchor by Qetsiyah, the Travelers used this as an opportunity to resurrect their leader, Markos. The doppelgänger blood used in their spell reacted negatively to the magic keeping the Other Side intact, slowly unraveling it as a result. Consequently, the Other Side's inhabitants were being transported to their original afterlife destinations. The Other Side itself eventually collapsed completely, freeing the supernatural creatures from its purgatory and allowing their souls to enter the original aspects of the afterlife once more.

### Concepts of Heaven and Hell

The original spiritual realms of the afterlife have been somewhat of a vague matter, being only mentioned through brief conversations about death. It is implied that the concepts of Heaven and Hell do exist in some form, known as "finding peace" or being "sucked into oblivion." Jenna Sommers, Sheila Bennett, and Lexi Branson are among those confirmed to have found peace, whereas Katherine Pierce, Vicki Donovan, Silas, and others have been forcibly sucked into oblivion.

### Limbo

Limbo is a desolate purgatory-like plane of existence, seemingly just out of reach of Peace. By all appearances, it reflects the natural world devoid of the living. Spirits of the recently deceased typically appear on this plane of existence momentarily before moving on to their intended afterlife. Depending on the situation, Peace can be granted to the spirit, depicted as a bright white, blinding light. Spirits can move on from Limbo by walking into the light and crossing over into Peace. Other spirits, however, can be denied Peace, and their spirit is forced to linger within Limbo, seemingly never able to move on.

## Algiers

Algiers is the second-oldest neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana, following the French Quarter, from which Algiers resides directly across the river, and development of the neighborhood began in 1800. Algiers is currently the home of the city's vampire community following their exile from the Quarter.

## Ancestral Plane

The Ancestral Plane, Ancestral Well, or Ancestral Realm was a supernatural dimension in which the deceased ancestral witches of New Orleans resided. According to Genevieve, it shares some similarities with the infamous Other Side. Witches gain access to the Ancestral Plane via consecration, in which their magic bleeds into the earth, fueling the community while their life essence becomes tethered to the Earth, bound to it. This grants them a connection to the Earth and the ability to interact with the environment if so they wish, however, their interaction with the physical world is limited to the City of the Dead. However, in order to remain anchored, or physically connected to the Earth via their consecrated bones, they need power in order for their consecration spell to remain active. So, every three hundred years (give or take), the Ancestors demand sacrifice in exchange for letting the living ancestral witches to channel them. This ritual is called the Harvest, and it requires the violent deaths of four young witches in order to refuel the Earth with power. This power is then absorbed into the Earth and used by the Ancestors to strengthen the link between them and the living witches. As a reward for the coven's devoted faith, the Ancestors use their power to resurrect the girls who were sacrificed and allow the community strengthened access to their powers, via the Reaping.

### Creation

The creation of the Ancestral Plane was largely due in part to Ysabelle Dalliencourt. After assisting Elijah in 1722, Ysabelle was privy to use Esther's Grimoires. Within it's pages, she was able to use one of Esther's spell to make the Veil to the Other Side permeable, allowing her to locate their Ancestors. This culminated in the creation of the Ancestral Plane sometime before her death in 1766. New Orleans cemeteries were designed specifically to house the spirits of their Ancestors and though does not directly bind the Ancestral Plane, like the Anchor to The Other Side, they are what enables the Ancestors to access and use magic on the mortal plane. They are an intersection between the physical world and the spirit world. The metaphysical connection between the spiritual and mortal planes however began to wane after approximately three hundred years. The connection, however, could be renewed through the Harvest Ritual. Unlike the Other Side, the connection could be severed without the complete destruction of the Ancestral plane. In Give 'Em Hell Kid, Vincent, helped by Davina Claire, severed the connection with use of a dark object, though it was subsequently reestablished in High Water and a Devil's Daughter when Vincent performed the Harvest Ritual, again with the help of Davina.

## Archer and Sons Funeral Home

Archer and Sons Funeral Home is located somewhere in Mystic Falls. It is most likely run by Archer and his sons. It was established in 1918.

## Argent Arms International

Argent Arms International, also known as the Armory, is a firearms dealership and security consulting firm owned by the Argent Family. It is located in a large warehouse in Beacon Hills, California, though it was abandoned for some time after Gerard Argent was made ill by the combination of an Alpha Bite and the ingestion of Mountain Ash and Victoria Argent committed suicide.

## Argent Bunker

The Argent Bunker is an armory, meeting place, and sanctuary owned by the Argent Family. The bunker is located in the Underground Tunnels beneath Beacon Hills, California and is fortified with Mountain Ash in the foundation and large, circular iron doors that are heavy and difficult to open and close.

The bunker is primarily used as an armory that stores both the Argent family's private weapons collection as well as back-stocked inventory for their firearms dealership, Argent Arms International. It also holds other materials used for the Argents' Hunter life, such as a cooling chamber for weakening shapeshifters and lulling them into a trance-like state, silver and molds for creating bullets and arrowheads, and presumably other implements to use against supernatural creatures, such as Wolfsbane as well.

In addition to being an armory, it has also been used as a meeting place for the Argents and their allies, and has even been used as a safe haven against supernatural threats due to the Mountain Ash built into it, allowing it to be sealed with a line of the ash inside the doors. This was used as a refuge on several occasions when the Ghost Riders of the Wild Hunt were in Beacon Hills; the McCall Pack brought the high school students who saw the Ghost Riders at a party at the McCall House to the bunker for their protection, and, weeks later, Scott McCall, Malia Tate, and Lydia Martin went there to hold off the Ghost Riders as long as possible while they tried to regain the memories the Riders took.

Though the bunker is presumably owned by the Argent family as a whole, it has mainly been utilized by Chris Argent; after the showdown against the Beast of Gevaudan and Chris' alliance with the McCall Pack, his father Gerard Argent seemingly branched off on his own and created his own armory and firearms dealership.

## Beacon Hills

Beacon Hills is a small city in central California that is best known for its history of having a sizable supernatural community, which includes the well-respected Hale Family of Werewolves. Beacon Hills is literally a beacon for supernatural creatures as a result of the Nemeton, a magical tree in the middle of the Beacon Hills Preserve that was recently re-powered by the surrogate sacrifice ritual performed by Scott McCall, Stiles Stilinski, and Allison Argent. Though the tree was cut down at some point between 1943 and 2005, this ritual still gave it enough power to draw supernaturals to the town like a magnet. Beacon Hills' supernatural beacon is given further power by a large number of strong telluric currents, which form a network of mystical geothermic energy that runs through the earth within the town's boundaries. These currents converge in several places in the town that make them "hot-spots" of sorts that contain a great deal of mystical energy; such convergences include the Nemeton itself, First National Bank, Beacon Hills High School, the Beacon Hills Animal Clinic, and Eichen House.

According to Sheriff Stilinski, Beacon Hills has a population of roughly 30,000 people, and is part of Beacon County, which has a population of 500,000 people.

### History

The earliest known history of Beacon Hills dates back to World War II, when the town created a internment camp called Camp Oak Creek in order to imprison Japanese immigrants and Japanese-Americans in the aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor. This camp was located near Eichen House, which was then used as a field hospital for the internees and the soldiers who ran it, and those interned there included the Celestial Kitsune Noshiko Yukimura and then-Beta Werewolf Satomi Ito.

In 1943, after a riot broke out at the camp following the revelation that the camp's doctor and several members of the Army Military Police were stealing medication meant for those at the camp (which led to a pneumonia epidemic that killed several people due to the lack of necessary antibiotics to treat them), the riot escalated to a firefight on the part of the military that killed dozens of internees, as well as one of the soldiers, Corporal Rhys.

Upon learning that the riot and subsequent carnage would be covered up by the United States government, Noshiko prayed to her ancestors for kitsune-tsuki, or possession by a Fox spirit, specifically a Nogitsune who would help her heal and give her additional strength with which to get revenge on those responsible. However, the Nogitsune ultimately possessed Corporal Rhys' body instead and used it to slaughter the rest of the soldiers and internees alike at the camp. Horrified by what the Nogitsune she summoned had done and desperate to prevent it from causing any more chaos, Noshiko and Satomi ultimately worked together to incapacitate the Nogitsune and trap him in a prison within the roots of the Nemeton, which had yet to be cut down at this time.

In the early 2000s, a summit between four Werewolf packs was held in Beacon Hills, which was led by Talia Hale and the Hale Pack and attended by Deucalion's original pack, Kali's original pack, and Ennis's original pack. After discussing the current threat of the Argent Family of Hunters, who had recently killed one of Ennis' Betas in retribution for the Beta accidentally killing two of their own, Ennis voiced his opinion that they should get revenge on the Argents. Though Deucalion argued for peace, Talia reminded Deucalion that it is Ennis' right to seek justice.

Despite this, Deucalion tried to convince Gerard Argent, the Argent family patriarch, to a truce by summoning him to the abandoned distillery, but instead of a parley like he was hoping, Gerard betrayed them all by killing his own men with a mace covered in Werewolf claws before killing the two Betas who accompanied Deucalion, using the weapon in a way that made the wounds resemble those sustained by a wolf, as he would later claim that the Betas staged an ambush against them so he could justify this violence. He then proceeded to blind Deucalion by stabbing flash-bang arrows into his eye sockets, a devastating blow to both Deucalion and his pack.

Upon learning that Deucalion's sight would likely never return due to the immense damage caused to his eyes, another of Deucalion's Betas, Marco, tried to kill him and take his Alpha status, leading Deucalion to realize that he had managed to retain his sight in werewolf form despite his injuries. Overcome by the rage caused by both Marco and Gerard's betrayal, Deucalion furiously and viciously killed Marco, leading him to learn a new fact about Alpha werewolves-- that when they kill their own Betas, they become more powerful due to the Beta's power being added to their own. Deucalion, who had become corrupted by the rage he felt after being blinded and the rush that he felt from killing Marco and taking his power, then went on to kill the rest of his remaining Betas in order to steal their power, which ultimately led him to be known by the moniker "the Demon Wolf."

Concurrent to the summit, Peter Hale, then in his mid-20s, managed to convince his teenage nephew Derek to have Derek's girlfriend Paige Krasikeva turned into a Werewolf, arguing that it would prevent Paige from breaking up with him upon learning what they were, and that it was the perfect time due to the number of Alphas currently in Beacon Hills. Derek ultimately agreed to Peter's plan, and Peter arranged for Ennis, who was in need of a new Beta to replenish his ranks after losing a Beta to the Argents, to give Paige the Bite.

However, Paige immediately began to reject her transformation after being bitten, and Derek, not knowing what else to do, brought her to the root cellar of the Nemeton and summoned Peter in hope that he would know what was happening to her. Paige, who was in a great deal of pain, begged Derek to end her suffering by killing her, which he ultimately did, much to his devastation. However, Derek did not realize at the time that by killing Paige, a virgin, on the roots of the Nemeton, he was giving it a spark of power again that it hadn't had in years.

Some time later, after Deucalion had killed his pack, he decided to start an Alpha Pack that would be comprised of others like himself-- Alphas who had augmented their powers by taking the lives and power of their Betas. He invited Ennis and Kali to join him, though he required that they kill their Betas and their Emissaries before they could do so. Ennis was the first to comply with Deucalion's wishes and join them, followed by Kali, who killed all of her Betas without a second thought. However, she was conflicted about killing her Emissary, Julia Bacarri, whom she loved dearly; though she did maul Jennifer so severely that she was near death, she was unable to give the killing blow, ultimately deciding to leave her for dead in the Beacon Hills Preserve rather than finishing her off.

However, Julia had enough strength to crawl to the Nemeton and use the spark of power it had recently gained from Paige's unintended sacrifice to stay alive long enough for the police to find her. In the hospital, she used her Druid powers to cause hundreds of crows to commit mass suicide by flying into the windows while she was in surgery to give her the power necessary to ensure her survival. She became incredibly insecure by the devastation Kali's attack had wrought on her face and body, and while she physically recovered, she began to make plans to get her revenge against Kali and the Alpha Pack for what they had done to her.

In late 2004 or early 2005, the Hale House Fire occurred, killing between eight and eleven members, both human and Werewolf, of the Hale Family, including Talia Hale. The fire was set by Kate Argent, a Werewolf Hunter from the prominent Argent Family, and nearly a dozen co-conspirators, and though there were suspicions that it was an arson, the case was not investigated further after a corrupt insurance adjuster, Kate's co-conspirator Garrison Myers, fraudulently declared the fire to be caused by faulty wiring.

The only survivors of the fire were Peter Hale, who remained in a coma for the next six years, Laura and Derek, and Cora Hale. Derek and Laura, who were at school at the time of the fire, immediately fled to New York, not realizing at the time that there were any other survivors. Cora, meanwhile, who was eleven years old at the time, had escaped the house during the fire and went on the run (as she, too, believed that everyone, including Derek and Laura, had died in the fire), ultimately ending up with a Werewolf pack in South America.

In January 2011, the supernatural community of Beacon Hills, which had been relatively quiet with regards to supernatural events in the years following the Hale Fire, began to grow once again. This started with the recently-recovered Peter Hale, who had become an Alpha after killing his niece Laura Hale, and who gave the teenage Scott McCall the Bite while he was in the woods one night, making Scott Peter's first and only Beta since his ascension.

The death of Laura in town had drawn a branch of the Argent Family back to Beacon Hills (which included Chris Argent, his wife Victoria, and their daughter Allison), and the family decided to settle down there after spending the last few years constantly moving around so Chris and Victoria could hunt Werewolves. Laura's death also brought her younger brother Derek Hale back to town, as he was eager to figure out who had truly really killed her, since he was initially under the impression that it had been the Argents due to the fact that her body had been cut in half as per Hunter tradition to ensure the victim would not survive. Additionally, the influx of supernatural creatures and Hunters to town ultimately brought Alan Deaton, a Druid and former Emissary to the Hale Pack, out of "retirement," though he had maintained his day job as a veterinarian at his animal clinic during his sabbatical from the supernatural world, where eventually hired Scott McCall to be his veterinary technician.

Over the next year, the supernatural community continued to grow, due in part to Peter's actions; though he was ultimately killed by Derek, who stole his Alpha powers, he still had a chance to attack Lydia Martin before his death. Although Lydia received the Bite from Peter, she was not turned into a Werewolf as was expected, which was eventually revealed to be due to her latent Banshee heritage that was activated by the trauma of his attack. Eager to gain more power by creating a pack after hearing rumor that the Alpha Pack planned to come to Beacon Hills to recruit him, Derek voluntarily gave the Bite to four teenage high school students in the following order: Jackson Whittemore, Isaac Lahey, Erica Reyes, and Vernon Boyd. Though the latter three successfully transformed into Werewolves, the former became a mutated type of shapeshifter known as a Kanima due to his unresolved identity issues, putting him in a vulnerable position that allowed him to be manipulated by fellow classmate Matt Daehler and the Argent patriarch Gerard Argent, who had just returned to town following the "death" of his daughter, Kate.

Upon defeating Gerard and turning Jackson into the Werewolf he was meant to be, the supernatural community continued to expand, as the Alpha Pack (consisting of leader Deucalion and subordinates Kali, Ennis, Ethan, and Aiden) returned to Beacon Hills to try to recruit both Derek and Scott to their ranks, as the latter had just been revealed to have the potential to be a very rare True Alpha Werewolf (a Werewolf who rises from Beta to Alpha purely due to the strength of his own will), and the former was a powerful Hale Alpha.

To make matters more complicated, a Dark Druid known as a Darach also showed up in town and began performing a sacrifice ritual that involved killing trios of different groups to increase her powers. Once it was revealed that the Darach was Jennifer Blake, the English teacher at the high school and Kali's former Emissary, Scott and Derek were forced to side with Deucalion and Jennifer, respectively, to take care of the other threat. Fortunately, both the Alpha Pack and Jennifer were defeated with the combined efforts of the newly-formed McCall Pack and the remains of the Hale Pack, two groups who ultimately merged by the end of the conflict.

However, the surrogate sacrifice ritual that Scott, his human friend Stiles Stilinski, and his Hunter friend and ex-girlfriend Allison Argent performed in order to save their parents from being sacrificed by Jennifer not only reawakened the Nemeton, but it also allowed the Nogitsune Noshiko Yukimura had imprisoned there nearly seventy years earlier to escape from its cage and possess Stiles.

As a result, Noshiko summoned roughly half a dozen Oni to Beacon Hills in order to identify the Void Kitsune's host and eventually defeat it, though by the time she learned it was Stiles, the Nogitsune had become too powerful for the Oni to slay. Once the Nogitsune took control of her Oni, it was only due to the combined efforts of the McCall Pack and their allies that the Dark Kitsune was neutralized after Scott had changed his host by giving him the Bite, followed by Kira Yukimura stabbing him with her magical katana. This vessel crumbled into ash, and the spirit of the Nogitsune took the form of a fly, which was then trapped in an urn made of wood from the Nemeton as its new prison.

It was not long before chaos descended upon Beacon Hills once again, this time due to the Deadpool, a hit-list of thirty-six supernatural creatures funded by $117 million in bearer bonds that were stolen from the Hale Vault around January 2012; individual bounties on the list ranged from as low as $250,000 up to as much as $25,000,000. On the list were all the supernatural members of the McCall Pack, Satomi's Pack, and other unaffiliated supernaturals who also lived in Beacon Hills and had flown under the radar for some time, such as the Walcott family of Wendigos. At least a dozen of the people on the list were killed before the computers running the Deadpool code were shut down by Stiles Stilinski and Malia Tate, once again leading Beacon Hills to experience several months of relative peace before the next supernatural event occurred.

In late summer and early autumn of 2012, Beacon Hills citizens witnessed an influx of what appeared to be mutated supernatural creatures who did not obey the normal laws of the supernatural, such as not having a vulnerability to Mountain Ash. It was soon revealed that human teenagers with genetic chimerism were being turned into pseudo-supernatural Chimeras, also known as humans who had been given the powers and traits of two or more supernatural species by the Dread Doctors, who transformed them using scientific means rather than mystical ones.

Though their ultimate mission was initially unclear, the McCall Pack eventually learned that the Doctors were attempting to create the perfect vessel for the famous Beast of Gevaudan, a vicious and demonic Werewolf named Sebastien Valet who had been killed in 1767 by Marie-Jeanne Valet, Sebastien's sister and the progenitor of the Argent bloodline of Hunters. Though the Dread Doctors successfully found this vessel in Mason Hewitt, the combined efforts of Lydia Martin, who Banshee-screamed Mason back into control of his body, Jordan Parrish, who held the Beast down, and Scott McCall, who impaled the Beast with the mystically-powered pike, managed to kill the Beast once and for all to end his reign of terror across Beacon Hills, which took the lives of at least fifty people.

Near the end of this event, Beacon Hills began experiencing severe thunderstorms with five times the normal number of lightning strikes for over three months. ("Relics") It was soon revealed that this was due to the arrival of the Ghost Riders of the Wild Hunt, who came to Beacon Hills for yet-unknown reasons and began wreaking havoc by capturing people, sending them to a mystical pocket dimension known as the Phantom Train Station, and then erasing nearly every trace of their life from existence, including making their personal belongings invisible, altering the memories of everyone the victim knew so they forgot the victim's existence, and warping reality to remove any trace of their identity from documents such as library access cards, yearbook forms, and deeds to houses. It appears that Beacon Hills is just one of dozens of towns that have been visited and terrorized by the Ghost Riders, including other towns such as Anderson, Baybury, Canaan, Deer Ridge, Hollantine, King Springs, Red Oak, and Trenton, among many others.

It was then discovered that the Wild Hunt were stuck in Beacon Hills and are unable to move on as long as there is still someone left behind. Over the course of several weeks, nearly everyone in the town has been captured, though the erasure of their existence has become less effective as time has gone on. However, when Garrett Douglas, an Alpha Löwenmensch who had stolen the powers of a Ghost Rider, used his new powers, the powers of the Hellhound Jordan Parrish, and the powers of the Chimera Corey Bryant to try to merge the Ghost Riders' Phantom Train Station with the real world, causing train tracks to appear throughout the town. The members of the McCall Pack, who had been separated between the two dimensions, worked together with recent allies Peter Hale and Theo Raeken to fight the Ghost Riders, and ultimately stopping them by diverting the train. Afterward, the Ghost Riders' turned Garrett into one of their own kind before leaving Beacon Hills, returning all of its citizens to the town and restoring their memories.

Just as the older members of the McCall Pack were about to leave to attend their respective colleges, a new supernatural being was discovered to have escaped from the Wild Hunt when they saved Stiles and the other town citizens. This creature was soon revealed to be the Anuk-ite, an ancient shapeshifter with the power to cause fear in others as well to empower himself with the emotion. The Anuk-ite also was known as a two-faced creature, and it manifested by stealing the DNA of two teenagers, one of whom (Aaron) was a human and the other of whom (Quinn) was a Werewolf.

Because of the amplified fear throughout town caused by the Anuk-ite, Tamora Monroe, a survivor of the Beast of Gevaudan's second reign, joined the Hunter life, allowing Gerard Argent to both mentor and influence her as she built up a Hunter Army dedicated to the ultimate goal of wiping all supernatural creatures from existence. Though she managed to recruit what seemed to be the entire human population of the town, the defeat of the Anuk-ite caused most of them to lose the fear that was driving them to hate the supernatural community and realize that they had more in common than they originally believed.

## Calavera Compound

The Calavera Compound is a large building in an unknown city in northern Mexico that is owned by the Calavera Family. Due to the compound's large size, it is able to serve a number of functions for the Calaveras—it is their family home where they reside, a nightclub, and a prison for the supernatural creatures that the Calaveras hunt.

Due to the nature of the Calavera family's work, the entrance to the compound has surveillance cameras, which they use to identify those who are trying to enter. For those who intend to go to the compound's nightclub, they must have a large tarot-style card with the family's symbol, a skull, on the front, which they hold up to the security camera and the bouncer to gain entry. Through the front door is the entrance hall, through which one can enter the other parts of the building, such as the nightclub and the section of the compound that serves as the Calavera family's home.

The residence section of the compound includes at least two living rooms and an office where the family's matriarch, Araya Calavera, conducts her business, both regarding her Hunter lifestyle as well as presumably managing the club. The basement has a large room that appears to be the club's restroom, but which is more frequently used as a holding cell for the supernatural creatures they have caught; this even includes Hunters who have been bitten/scratched by an Alpha Werewolf, so the Calaveras can better supervise them and ensure that they kill themselves before their first full moon.

Finally, there is another area of the basement where the supernatural creatures in their captivity are tortured (typically through electrocution or through cutting with knives) and interrogated for information, such as when Derek and Peter Hale were held hostage there and tortured for the location of La Loba, to the point where Araya cut off Peter's left ring finger to make a point.

## Camp Oak Creek

Camp Oak Creek was an internment camp (then known as a "relocation camp") which was located on the outskirts of Beacon Hills, California, and in which Japanese immigrants and Japanese-American citizens were forced to stay after the events of the Pearl Harbor attack in World War II. The camp, which was considered a prisoner-of-war camp by the residents within it, included such internees as the ancient Celestial Kitsune Noshiko Yukimura and then-Beta Werewolf Satomi Ito, among many others. In addition to the residents, the camp employed many military personnel, including the Army Medic and secret lover to Noshiko, Corporal Rhys, Army Military Police Merrick and Hayes, and camp physician Dr. Liston, along with a number of nurses.

### History

In 1943, it was revealed by Noshiko and Rhys that Merrick, Hayes, and Dr. Liston had been selling the medications used by the medical professionals at the camp's field hospital (which, after the war, became the mental health center known as Eichen House), such as an antibiotic used to treat the pneumonia epidemic, sulfadiazine, and painkillers such as morphine, on the black market. This revelation took place shortly after a young internee, Michio, died as a result of not getting the medication he needed, which led to Michio's father and most of the other internees to start a riot at the front gates of the camp. The riot came to a head after Merrick pistol-whipped Satomi across the face, causing her to lose control over her lycanthropy and transform in front of everyone. She snatched a Molotov cocktail out of Michio's father's hands and threw it at the car that contained Merrick, Hayes, and Liston, only for Corporal Rhys, who had nothing to do with the corruption, to be hit and suffered full-body burns.

Afterward, all of the military personnel began shooting at the internees, killing them en masse, while Noshiko, due to her accelerated healing factor, managed to survive the attack, though her heart rate slowed down so much that Dr. Liston believed her to be dead. The bodies of those killed, including that of Corporal Rhys, who died from the pain caused by his burns as a result of his fellow employees selling the morphine on the black market, and that of the still-healing Noshiko, were loaded up in a truck and driven into a field by Merrick and Hayes to be burned, as the leaders of the facility intended to cover up the riot. Noshiko, heartbroken and furious by what had been done to her and her people and knowing that she would soon be killed due to being too weak to defend herself, prayed to her ancestors for kitsune-tsuki, or possession by a Fox spirit; in this case, she wanted the spirit of a Nogitsune to possess her body, imbuing her with its power and allowing her to heal and take her revenge on the U.S. Army personnel who ran the internment camp.

Unfortunately for Noshiko, Fox spirits tend to have dark senses of humor, and so the Nogitsune possessed Rhys' corpse instead of Noshiko's healing body and decided to go on a rampage, causing chaos, strife, and pain on which to feed and get stronger. By the time Noshiko had healed enough to make it back to Camp Oak Creek, the Nogitsune had already killed the majority of the survivors of the riot, both employees and internees. Noshiko grabbed her magical katana from under her bed and chased the Nogitsune down, fighting it until her friend Satomi, who had also survived the riot, used her Werewolf strength to hold the Nogitsune down so that Noshiko could excise the Void Kitsune from Rhys' body, shattering her sword in the process. Afterward, Noshiko took the Nogitsune (who had taken the form of a fly that was trapped in a jar) and buried it in the roots of the Nemeton in the nearby nature preserve before coming back and hiding the remains of her sword, Rhys' body, and a photo of the two of them together into the wall of the basement of what would soon become Eichen House.

In the present day (November 2011), Camp Oak Creek was the site of a battle between the members of the McCall Pack, Noshiko Yukimura, the Oni she summoned, and the Nogitsune, who had kidnapped Lydia Martin the night before in order to use her Banshee powers to predict his own death. Allison Argent, Isaac Lahey, and Kira Yukimura had a standoff with Noshiko and her Oni while Scott McCall and Stiles Stilinski rushed inside to save Lydia. The standoff led to a battle after the Nogitsune used the power of one of Noshiko's oldest Kitsune tails to take control of the Oni for himself, forcing Allison, Isaac, and Kira to fight against them. Upon finding Lydia inside, Scott and Stiles frantically broke Lydia out of the cell in which she was locked, only for the panicked Lydia to demand to know who else came with them, as she had a Banshee premonition that Allison would be killed and attempted to prevent them all from coming to save her for this reason.

Outside, Kira and Isaac were in the middle of the battle, fighting offensively, while Allison fought from the outskirts by firing arrows at the Oni to pick them off from afar. However, when Isaac was taken down and grievously injured by one of the Oni, Allison used her last arrow, which had a silver arrowhead made by her own hands as her testament to the new Argent Code and which miraculously killed the Oni before the Oni could kill Isaac. Unfortunately for Allison, her brief moment of distraction due to her relief that she actually killed one of the Oni ultimately cost her her life, as the sole remaining Oni materialized just long enough to stab the human huntress in the chest with their ninjato just before teleporting away. Allison ultimately died in Scott's arms, surrounded by her devastated friends, which was when the Nogitsune determined that it would be a good time to end the battle to reconsider his options.

## Canaan

Canaan is a town in California a short distance away from Beacon Hills. On April 8, 1987, the town was subjected to the arrival of the Ghost Riders of the Wild Hunt, who went on to capture and erase all of the town's citizens from reality. The only exception was Lenore, a Banshee who was spared by the Ghost Riders, possibly out of reverence for Banshees due to their connection to the Irish battle goddess the Morrígan. The force of Lenore's grieving scream unlocked her full power over the entire town, causing her to have an inordinate amount of control over everything within its borders; she could induce hallucinations on anyone who entered, and could telekinetically move anything in her house. The force of this power even allowed her to project a phantom version of her son, Caleb, who had died several years earlier by drowning.

## Chambre de Chasse

A Chambre de Chasse is a magically constructed location that exists on the astral plane represented by a specific mindscape usually depicted as a room. They are created with Representational Magic using representational totems to draw and anchor the minds of others. When the destruction of said totem is destroyed, the person can leave the Chambre de Chasse.

### Purpose

The Chambre de Chasse is a localized "pocket dimension" on the astral plane represented by one's mind created with representational magic. Witches have been known to use it as prisons to hold people's minds, and, according to Kol, to have 'mental target practice'. Although, witches such as the Sisters and Freya have been seen to use such methods for recreation.

## Dowager Fauline Cottage

The Dowager Fauline cottage is a large residence that was a prison for those trapped inside the house since December 1914. An unknown witch, in allegiance with Klaus Mikaelson, put a spell on the house to keep his brother Kol's witch-allies locked inside the house forever.

### History

The house belonged to the Dowager Fauline, one of the noblewomen of New Orleans, who was in possession of numerous gems including a large, perfect paragon diamond that could be used by witches who practice the Arabian branch of magic known as Kemiya to conduct their power. Kol Mikaelson, with help from his witch allies Mary-Alice Claire and Astrid, broke into the house after the death of the dowager in order to steal her paragon diamond, which they intended to use to create an Original-neutralizing dagger that would work on Klaus.

Unfortunately for them, Kol was caught by Klaus and his surrogate son Marcel as he was leaving the home, and they forced Kol to hand over the diamond he had just stolen. To make matters worse, one of the witches in the service of Klaus manipulated the spell Mary-Alice had cast to keep anyone from coming into the house while they were searching for the diamond so that it would instead trap anyone inside for eternity. This spell was cast by chanting a spell over the head of a porcelain doll, which was then propped on the post of the fence in front of the cottage.

As revealed by Mary-Alice the house became a kind of asylum for witches who were believed to be insane since the boundary spell was put into effect in 1914. According to Mary-Alice, she, as one of the only witches who had not lost their minds in the house, was in charge of caring for the ill witches who had been trapped in the home.

Sometime after they were trapped and before it was officially an asylum. Freya snuck in and took residence up in a unused room to stay in during her usual 100 year slumber.

In December 2012, Kol Mikaelson, while possessing the body of the witch Kaleb, sought his revenge on his sister Rebekah by body-jumping her spirit into the body of one of the prisoners of the house.

Later, Rebekah left the house with the help of her newly-reunited older sister Freya Mikaelson, who was trapped in the coffin in the attic for almost 100 years, since 1914.

## Eichen House

Eichen House is a mental health treatment facility in Beacon Hills, California. It was revealed that Eichen House has a special closed unit specifically for supernatural creatures who pose a risk to the population of Beacon Hills. Eichen House has been given a greater focus, beginning in A Novel Approach, when Stiles and Lydia went to visit Gabriel Valack to ask him questions about the Dread Doctors and what their ultimate goals were. Later, Lydia Martin was admitted to Eichen House after she went into a catatonic state following Theo Raeken using his claws to look through her memories and learn the location of the Nemeton in a botched Werewolf memory manipulation ritual.

Lydia's admission to Eichen House ultimately led to a double-infiltration of the facility when both the McCall Pack and the Chimera Pack attempted to break her out; the former with the goal of saving Lydia's life as well as the lives of all of those who would be killed by her dying scream, and the latter to use her connection to Jordan Parrish (possessed by the spirit of the Hellhound Cerberus) to use him to steal the Beast of Gevaudan's powers. It was ultimately the McCall Pack who were victorious in this mission, though the Chimera Pack stole the now-dead Gabriel Valack's Dread Doctor Mask as a consolation prize. It was also revealed that the lock-down accidentally caused by the Chimera Pack's killing of several security guards enabled the imprisoned Peter Hale to escape, though he was soon after abducted by the Ghost Riders of the Wild Hunt.

### Description

Eichen House is a health center that has existed at least since the 1940s during World War II, when it acted as the field hospital for Camp Oak Creek. Because of the way it was built, it gained the moniker "Echo House" because of the fact that all of the sounds inside of the building echo throughout the halls, allowing everyone inside to hear almost every loud sound no matter where they are.

At some point after the war, Eichen House's focus turned to specializing in psychiatric conditions rather than medical issues as it originally did. As a result, most of the facility was dedicated to helping treat humans with serious mental illnesses. However, because of Beacon Hills attracting supernatural creatures of all kinds off and on throughout its existence, it developed a special wing specifically to hold supernaturals who were putting the town's human population at risk. The building is built on the strongest convergence of telluric currents in Beacon Hills, and at least half of the building is made of rowan wood and mountain ash, which functions as its security system; it keeps the creatures who are meant to stay inside from easily escaping, and also prevents other supernatural beings from coming inside if they aren't meant to do so, such as the Oni and the Dread Doctors. They even have at least one room specially made to counter specific supernatural powers, as evidenced by Halwyn's room, which had numerous cooling units meant to keep the room at below-freezing temperatures in order to ward against Hellhounds and their pyrokinetic powers.

Over the years, Eichen House has developed quite a reputation as being a terrifying place, as Stiles Stilinski referred to it as a "nightmare asylum of insanity and death" due to the horrific events that have occurred there.

### History

In *The Fox and the Wolf*, it was revealed by Noshiko Yukimura that Eichen House was previously the hospital for Camp Oak Creek, an internment camp for Japanese immigrants and Japanese-Americans during World War II, where Noshiko and Satomi Ito were internees. At some point after the war, Eichen House created a supernatural ward that most of the town's citizens do not know about, a ward where they keep supernatural creatures who pose a threat to the town and the people living in it. The cells in this ward are surrounded by Mountain Ash, which keeps the supernatural prisoners from escaping. Due to the way it was constructed, every sound can be heard as an echo throughout Eichen House, which is why patients have referred to the facility as "Echo House" since it opened.

## First National Bank

Beacon Hills First National Bank was an abandoned bank that had been robbed several years ago. It was chosen by Deucalion and his Alpha Pack as the location to hold Erica Reyes, Vernon Boyd and Cora Hale, the latter of whom who was presumed dead after the Hale House Fire, captive in order to manipulate their Alpha and Cora's older brother Derek Hale into joining their ranks. The trio was held in the vault of this bank for nearly four months, during which time Erica grew tired of being a prisoner and tried to escape by killing Kali but her efforts were in vain and this conflict ultimately led to the death of Erica, whose body was right after placed inside a supply closet.

The main reason for the Alphas choosing this bank was because the main vault's walls were built out of a mineral called Hecatolite, also known as moonstone, which kept Werewolves from feeling or shifting during full moons, diminishing their tolerance to its influence and turning them more aggressive and bloodthirsty than they typically would be. Isaac Lahey discovered the bank and realized it was there where his packmates were being held captive but he was busted by the Alphas before having his memories of the bank stolen to prevent him from warning his Alpha Derek and his other friends and keep him from foiling their plans for Derek and the potential True Alpha Scott McCall. He was rescued by his friends and got his memories back through an ice bath, allowing him to reveal to the gang that the bank was where their friends and packmates were being held hostage and recalled finding Erica's dead body inside a supply closet.

Stiles Stilinski originally believed that the Alpha Pack was pitting their prisoners against each other during the full moons to see which one survived. Derek and Scott broke into the vault, battled and inadvertently freed Boyd and Cora, who became more feral and bloodthirsty after they spent nearly four months locked in the Hecatolite-lined vault. Derek found Erica's body in the storage closet and took it out of the bank. The bank was later chosen by the Darach Jennifer Blake to sacrifice Alan Deaton as her third healer but he was saved by Scott and Sheriff Stilinski and chosen as the location for Chris Argent to be taken by Jennifer.

## Fleur-de-Lis Sanatorium

The Fleur-de-Lis Sanatorium was a psychiatric hospital in New Orleans. It is now abandoned.

### History

Rebekah Mikaelson, Genevieve, and Céleste Dubois (who was possessing the body of Clara Summerlin) worked at the sanatorium as nurses during the 1918-19 New Orleans influenza epidemic. While on a shift, Genevieve realized that Rebekah had used her to summon her father to New Orleans and chase her brother Niklaus Mikaelson out of town, she angrily threatened to tell Klaus what they had done. In order to prevent her from doing this, as Klaus would certainly punish them all, Rebekah purposely exposed Genevieve to the influenza, essentially giving her a death sentence to keep her from talking. Minutes later, Clara/Celeste walked into the room, forcing Rebekah to infect her with influenza as well. Rebekah then compelled an orderly to lock the two witch nurses in quarantine until they eventually died of their illnesses. Though Genevieve and Clara died and had their bodies consecrated in Lafayette Cemetery, Celeste's spirit went on to possess another French Quarter witch.

## Founders' Hall

The Mystic Falls Founders' Hall is a place where the founding families and other people from Mystic Falls celebrate the Founders' Day Kick-Off Party and Miss Mystic Falls Pageant. The building contains paintings and other objects from Mystic Falls history.

## French Quarter

The French Quarter is the oldest neighborhood in the city of New Orleans, and has existed since New Orleans was founded in 1718 by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville. The city was originally centered around the French Quarter.

### Supernatural Factions

* **Werewolf Faction** - previously exiled from New Orleans by the vampires, then taken control of by Francesca Guerrera. Following her death, the wolves were led by Esther and Finn Mikaelson until they were overtaken by Jackson and Hayley, who currently lead the werewolves as Alphas. They are the faction that is essentially in control of the French Quarter, with help from the Mikaelsons and the vampires.
* **Vampire Faction** - initially controlled by Klaus Mikaelson and his family from the city's founding in the 18th century to 1919, when the family was forced to flee town from their father Mikael. Afterward, the city was ruled with an iron fist by Marcel Gerard until he was unseated by Klaus again in 2011. He and Elijah then ruled the supernatural community at large until the coup by the Guerreras decimated the vampire community. Upon the exile of the few surviving vampires to Algiers, the vampire community were absent from the Quarter altogether until the marriage of werewolf and hybrid Alphas Hayley and Jackson, which returned the werewolves to power and sealed a formal alliance between the vampires and the werewolves that has not existed in at least a century.
* **Witch Faction** - The witches lost the little control over the Quarter that they had upon Marcel's rise to leadership of the supernatural factions in the early 20th century, but following Klaus and Elijah Mikaelson's return to power in 2011, their involvement in the peace treaty gave them back their right to publicly practice and celebrate their ancestral witch heritage. After the deaths of the Guerrera pack, the French Quarter Coven, led by Esther Mikaelson, finally gained control over the city, due in part to their alliance with the werewolves who pledged allegiance to them in exchange for moonlight rings. Once Esther was turned into a vampire, however, the witches lost their seat of power and now appear to be in a disarray, as they have lost most of their members and all of their Elders.

## Hale Vaults

The **Hale Vaults** are vaults used by the Hale Family, where they store all of their valuable belongings and artifacts. The main vault is located in Beacon Hills, California underneath Beacon Hills High School and is said to have existed long before the high school was built. There are two entrances to this vault, with one located underneath the Beacon Hills High School sign, and the other through a wall in the basement; however, each entrance has a lock that only the claws of a Hale shapeshifter can open to ensure that their belongings are well protected.

This vault is full of heirlooms and artifacts, many of which have yet to be revealed. What is known to have been stored in the vault include: the $117 million in bearer bonds that made up Peter Hale's inheritance (which was subsequently stolen by Brunski on Meredith Walker's orders and was used to finance the Deadpool), Malia Tate's birth certificate and adoption papers (which Peter obtained through a private investigator), the Triskelion Medallion used by the Hales to teach new Betas how to control their transformations on a full moon, and a jar of Reishi mushrooms, which was given to Talia Hale by Satomi Ito and which is a powerful preventative measure for illness.

This vault was first shown in Season 4's *117*, when it was revealed that the newly turned Werejaguar, Kate Argent, had used a ritual to de-age Derek Hale to a point where he still trusted her in order to manipulate him into giving her the Triskelion Medallion, which she believed was a mystical talisman that would give her control over her transformations. However, upon getting inside the vault, she was confronted by Peter Hale, who informed her that the medallion was simply "training wheels" that gave young Betas something to focus on while they controlled themselves. The vault was then robbed by Brunskishortly afterward using flash-bang and smoke grenades to incapacitate Kate and Peter, revealing that The Benefactor herself had manipulated Kate into opening the vault so they could steal the $117 million in bearer bonds that Peter stored inside it.

The Beacon Hills vault was believed to be the only Hale vault until Season 6's *Broken Glass*, when Derek revealed that since there are multiple branches of the Hale Family, there are also multiple vaults throughout the world, one of which is in North Carolina, in a private plot of land near a nearby shanty town. Derek and Chris Argent went to this vault in order to hide the last known vial of liquefied yellow wolfsbane, though the two were attacked by Kate Argent, who stole the vial before they were able to hide it. It is unknown where other Hale Vaults may be located.

## Hell

**Hell** was a supernatural dimension of misery and fire created by Arcadius thousands of years ago. It was initially one of the two destinations one takes in the afterlife for 3,000 years. It is believed to be an awful, fiery realm populated by every soul (both human and non-human) that has failed to find peace.

This realm is considered a "hell" due to its similarity to the unpleasant afterlife that is believed to exist by many religions as well as the violence by which it sucks in its eventual residents. However, contrary to the religious belief that only sinners are damned to hell, it has been proven that this is not the case. While some characters who could arguably be deserving of this fate, such as Katherine Pierce, Markos, and Silas, were in fact dragged into Hell, undeserving characters, who were known to have committed benevolent deeds, were also said to have been sucked into Hell as well, such as Mariaand Vicki Donovan.

After Stefan and Bonnie killed Arcadius in *It's Been a Hell of a Ride*, Katherine Pierce became the new ruler of hell. Her rule, however, was short lived as Hell was destroyed by Bonnie in *I Was Feeling Epic*

### Creation

After Arcadius attempted to help a fellow villager with his impure desires, the villager manipulated and turned the entire village against Arcadius, who was then tied to a stake and stoned for being a psychic. He was then burned at the stake, and as he was burning alive, Arcadius came to believe that all the people punishing him were monsters despite the fact they were manipulated. In that moment, he released a psychic blast so powerful that it created a realm, a psychic imprint of his death, where he would forever punish those souls. From then on, whenever a soul who has committed a bad deed would die, they would be sucked into this realm where Arcadius would feed off of their souls for the rest of eternity.

### Destruction

In 2018, after Arcadius was killed by Stefan Salvatore and Bonnie Bennett, Katherine Piercetemporarily became the new ruler of Hell, revealing that she had in fact manipulated Arcadius the entire time and was the one behind his plans for Stefan and Damon. After Matt rang the Maxwell bell 11 times, a gateway opened between Hell and Earth, allowing several deceased characters such as Kai, Vicki, Kelly and Katherine to return. Kelly and Vicki were working for Katherine and the latter wanted to ring the bell 12 times, in order to unleash hellfire.

Meanwhile, Bonnie and Alaric came to the conclusion that a massive amount of energy would be necessary to destroy Hell, and Katherine along with it. Such a colossal amount of energy could only have been found in hellfire, thus Matt allowed Vicki to ring the bell, knowing she will be freed of suffering due to Bonnie's plan. Bonnie meanwhile used a powerful spell to control hellfire by invoking it through the tunnels below Mystic Falls, all the way to the Armory. There, with the aid of many ancestral Bennett witches, Bonnie redirected the hellfire back into Hell, causing its permanent destruction and releasing thousands of souls from their suffering, while killing Katherine in the process.

## La Iglesia

**La Iglesia** (Spanish: "The Church") was a Mexican church that was built on top of the Temple of Tezcatlipoca, the Aztec jaguar god, which was underground. Though the city around it collapsed into ruins during an earthquake an unknown amount of time prior to its introduction, the church remained standing, and the locals believed it was somehow protected by the temple underneath it.

Inside the temple is a large seal carved into a stone wall that is said to represent Tezcatlipoca, the Aztec god of the nocturnal sky, ancestral memory, time, jaguars, and the embodiment of change known as the "Smoking Mirror," who was worshiped by the *Nagual* people Kate Argent used the area as a base in Season 4. As the "smoking mirror," Tezcatlipoca was strongly associated with the mineral obsidian, and as a result, the temple had a great deal of obsidian in its construction, including an entire room made up of the black glassy stone; Kira Yukimura was even able to smash a chunk off of a wall which eventually became her first Kitsunetail.

The church was the home of two mysterious Berserkers for an unknown amount of time until Kate was clawed so deeply in the throat by then-Alpha Werewolf Peter Hale that she inadvertently transformed into a Werejaguar. After her first full moon, which she endured in Mexico while held hostage at the Calavera Compound, Kate managed to escape her captors and went on the run, but the temple continued to draw her back time after time.

It was there that she came upon the Berserkers, and she soon learned that she could control them, a fact which she immediately exploited to protect herself as she learned to control her new powers. Kate also implied that she seemed to draw some sort of power from the temple, as it was where she was able to perform an Age Regression ritual on Derek Hale *("The Dark Moon")* and perform the Berserker Creation Ritual on Scott McCall. *("A Promise to the Dead")*

*La Iglesia* seems to be located in a somewhat dangerous area somewhere in the northwestern part of Mexico, and is especially dangerous after sunset, as Araya Calavera remarked that she had lost a great deal of Hunters who she sent to find Kate in the church ruins; even Braeden, the McCall Pack's guide during their search for the missing Derek Hale, admitted that this was the furthest she had ever made it in the journey to the church, and this was when she and Scott had just made it to the cliff overlooking the village ruins. Braeden also urged the pack to hurry to La Iglesia, as it was not someplace they would want to be after dark. *("The Dark Moon"*

## Nemeton

The **Nemeton** is a significant location in Beacon Hills that has had a major role in Season 3 and Season 5 of *Teen Wolf*. It was originally an ancient tree in a grove in the Beacon Hills Nature Preservethat was chosen to be the consecrated sacred meeting place for the Druids who lived in the town. They built a root cellar in the ground below the tree and painted a five-fold knot at the base of the roots to indicate that it symbolized the world tree. It was believed that any harm that came to the Nemeton would cause the surrounding towns and villages to suffer from plagues, strife, and other kinds of natural disasters.

The Nemeton contains powerful magic that is only vaguely understood, and it gains its power from ritual sacrifices that occur at the tree or on the telluric currents that run through it. The wood of the Nemeton has been used to create powerful objects, such as the Triskelion Urn that contained Talia Hale's claws. At some point, the tree was cut down by an unknown person, but the stump still retained a small spark of power, which increased in strength when a virgin sacrifice was inadvertently performed at the roots in the early 2000s. It has since been reawakened by the surrogate sacrifice ritual performed by Scott McCall, Allison Argent, and Stiles Stilinski in 2011. In 2012, it became the place where the vessel of the Hellhound, Jordan Parrish, brought the bodies of the dead Chimeras in order to protect the secret of the supernatural.

In 2013, it was revealed that there are seven Nemetons around the world, with the Beacon HillsNemeton acting as the sacred Druid meeting place in North America. The locations of four of the Nemetons were revealed to be in Toulouse (France), Brasilia (Brazil), Danzao (China), and Łagów (Poland). The remaining Nemetons on the map found in Gerard Argent's armory appear to be in Greenland and somewhere in the region of Egypt or Sudan. Gerard Argent, Tamora Monroe, and their Hunter army intended to travel to each of the Nemetons as part of their goal to commit the genocide of all supernatural creatures, believing that since their targets are unconsciously drawn to Nemetons, they could attack at the centers of the various supernatural communities and more easily achieve their goal.

### History

According to Chris Argent, a Nemeton is a sacred space used by Druids for various rituals. In the flashbacks in *Visionary* that took place in the early 2000s, he explained to his father, Gerard Argent, that Druids picked a large, older tree in a grove to represent the center of the world. Many believed that cutting or harming the "world tree" would bring severe problems like fires, plagues, strife, and “death and destruction of all kinds” to surrounding villages.

In 1943, a Kitsune named Noshiko Yukimura fled the riot and massacre at Oak Creek Internment Camp after having defeated the Nogitsune and forced it to return to its fly form. She put the fly in a jar and buried it within the roots of the full-grown Nemeton, imprisoning it for nearly seventy years. *("The Fox and the Wolf")*

At some point between 1943 and the early 2000s, the tree was cut down by an unknown person, diminishing its power considerably, though it did retain a tiny spark of power, which the Darach and former Emissary Jennifer Blake once described as "a glowing ember in a dying fire." *("The Overlooked")*

Either before or shortly after this happened, the Druid Emissary to the Hale Pack, Alan Deaton, harvested some of the wood to create a box to contain powerful objects and carved a triskelion, the symbol of the pack, into the lid. *("The Divine Move")*

In the early 2000s, then fifteen-year-old Derek Hale was forced to mercy-kill his girlfriend Paige Krasikeva after she rejected the Bite given to her by an Alpha Werewolf named Ennis. However, he had taken her to the root cellar under the Nemeton, not knowing its true purpose, and when he killed her there, he unknowingly performed a virgin sacrifice that gave the Nemeton another spark of power. *("Visionary")*

Some months later, the Alpha Deucalion killed all of his own Betas to subsume their power and become a corrupted form of an Alpha known as the Demon Wolf. He then decided to start the Alpha Pack, a pack of Alphas who had also killed their own Betas to absorb their power, and recruited fellow Alphas Kali and Ennis to join him. Kali did as she was told and killed her Betas before brutally mauling her Druid Emissary, Jennifer Blake. However, she loved Jennifer enough that instead of giving the killing blow, she simply left Jennifer in the woods to succumb to her wounds naturally, believing that it would be a more peaceful death. Jennifer, whose face, neck, and chest had been mutilated beyond recognition, crawled toward the stump of the Nemeton and used the spark of power gained from Paige's sacrifice to hang onto life just long enough to be found by Sheriff Stilinski and his deputies, who took her to the hospital. *("The Overlooked")*

From then on, Jennifer decided to get her revenge on Kali and the Alpha Pack by performing a ritualbased on a five-fold knot design (by sacrificing trios of virgins, warriors, healers, philosophers, and guardians in order to gain powers associated with each group) and by manipulating the telluric currents in Beacon Hills to eventually re-power the Nemeton, giving her the power to take down the Alphas once and for all. *("The Girl Who Knew Too Much")*

After Jennifer took Noah Stilinski, Melissa McCall, and Chris Argent to act as her final guardian sacrifices, their children Stiles Stilinski, Scott McCall, and Allison Argent became desperate to find them and sought out Alan Deaton for help. Deaton explained that he knew of a ritual that could help them, but that it was dangerous, in part because doing so would give power back to the Nemeton, returning it to its status as a beacon that would draw supernatural creatures to it like a magnet. Despite the risks, they went through with the ritual anyway, which involved the three performing a surrogate sacrifice for their parents by drowning themselves in ice baths, which returned the Nemeton to as close to its full power as it could get in its mutilated condition. During the time that the three were dead, they all received flashbacks to the first time they had run into the Nemeton in the woods without even realizing it, giving them the knowledge they needed to find it and save their parents, who were being kept in the root cellar there. *("Alpha Pact")*, *("Lunar Ellipse")*

Several weeks later, someone (presumably Noshiko Yukimura) pulled out a newly appeared twig growing from the Nemeton's stump, which caused fireflies to be released from the crack in the stumpand form several Oni. *("Galvanize")*

When it was revealed that Noshiko was connected to the Oni, Scott McCall and Kira Yukimura went to her for answers, and Noshiko explained that that the ritual performed by Scott, Stiles, and Allison to find the Nemeton also released the Nogitsune she had imprisoned there. *("The Fox and the Wolf")*

The Nemeton became significant again in Season 5, when Jordan Parrish admitted to Lydia Martinthat he had been having dreams about an ancient tree stump in the nature preserve, where he would bring dead bodies and lay them on the stump before setting them ablaze with his yet-undefined pyrokinetic abilities. After hearing his story, Lydia realized that the Nemeton drew Parrish to Beacon Hills as a result of his yet-unknown supernatural identity. At the end of the episode, he stole the body of one of the Chimeras, Lucas, and brought him to the Nemeton in a trance-like state. *("Condition Terminal")*

Parrish then spent the rest of the first half of Season 5 bringing the dead bodies of nearly a dozen Chimeras to the Nemeton, including Tracy Stewart, Josh Diaz, the redheaded Chimera found dead at the McCall House, Beth, Corey, and Hayden Romero. Finally, during the supermoon, Theo Raeken brought a large syringe of the green serum concocted by the Dread Doctors to the Nemeton, where he used the serum to resurrectTracy, Hayden, Corey, and Josh. Afterward, he declared them his new pack, and self-proclaimed himself to be their new Alpha. *("Status Asthmaticus")*

After it was revealed that Parrish was acting as the current vessel for the power of the Hellhound, a guardian of supernatural places such as the Nemeton, Lydia, Chris Argent and Gerard Argentcooled his body to dangerously low levels so they could communicate with the Hellhound itself. It explained that it was reborn into Parrish's body the moment that Scott, Allison, and Stiles temporarily died during the surrogate sacrifice ritual, and it was implied that it was the Nemeton's newly gained spark of power that drew the now-possessedParrish to Beacon Hills. *("A Credible Threat")*

### Characteristics

The Nemeton remains a mystical presence in the *Teen Wolf* universe. According to Gabriel Valack, it is a supernatural force that the members of the McCall Pack barely understand. However, what is known is that it is a sacred meeting place for Druids to gather and perform their rituals. It also has supernatural power of its own, though the full range of what it can do remains a mystery. It acts as a beacon that draws supernatural creatures toward it, and at the height of its power, it acted as a prison for the Nogitsune. It also appears to act as a portal of some kind, as the Oni were summonedfrom within it using their firefly forms. It also is likely connected to the telluric currents, as Jennifer Blake was manipulating the currents to augment her Darach powers in her fight against the Alpha Pack, and the Nemeton appears to be located at the site of the most powerful convergence of telluric currents in Beacon Hills, suggesting that it may feed the Nemeton's power. Presumably, the other six Nemetons in the world exist on similarly powerful telluric current convergences.

The Nemeton gets the majority of its power from human sacrifices, which can take many different forms. The first known sacrifice to the Nemeton was Derek Hale's accidental virgin sacrifice when he mercy-killed Paige Krasikeva at the roots of the Nemeton. Jennifer Blake subsequently sacrificed twelve people to the Nemeton in four groups of three: virgins (Heather, a lifeguard, and Emily), warriors (Kyle, the high school band teacher, and Adrian Harris), healers (Dr. Hilyard and two other physicians from Beacon Hills Memorial Hospital), and philosophers (Tara Graeme, Mr. Westover, and the recital pianist). Finally, Scott McCall, Allison Argent, and Stiles Stilinski committed suicide by drowning in an ice bath so they would act as surrogate sacrifices so their parents wouldn't be killed in their place; it was this trio of guardian sacrifices that fully charged the Nemeton to the point it is at today.

It has been implied that whoever cut the Nemeton down is what caused all of the strife and supernatural chaos that has occurred in Beacon Hills over the years. It was also suggested in *The Last Chimera* that the Nemeton has to want to be found, which is why the members of the McCall Pack have constantly struggled to locate it in the vast nature preserve even after having remembered been there in the past; this seems to indicate that the Nemeton possesses the power to cloak itself, which would also imply that the Nemeton has some kind of consciousness. However, those with supernaturally-enhanced sight can still locate it with their glowing eyes, as shown when Liam Dunbar helped Mason Hewittfind the Nemeton by using his golden Werewolfeyes.

## Phantom Train Station

The **Phantom Train Station**, also sometimes referred to as **the Wild Hunt**, is a holding dimension for those who have been erased from reality by the Ghost Riders of the Wild Hunt. The majority of the captives of the Ghost Riders who are held in this mystical dimension believe they are merely waiting for a train to arrive and don't seem to truly understand their situation; they will become alarmed and afraid when the Wild Hunt returns with a new captive, but otherwise, most of them do not question their place there.

However, some captives, such as Stiles Stilinski, Trent, and, after some coaxing, Peter Hale, realized where they were upon having their memories jogged by others, though this will typically require an emotional connection to bring a person out of their trance. Those who are aware of the Wild Hunt and are able to hold onto these memories will continue to do so in the Phantom Train Station in most cases, such as what happened with Noah Stilinski, Chris Argent, Melissa McCall, Hayden Romero, and Mason Hewitt when they were teleported there by Garrett Douglas and the Ghost Riders.

The train station is like a mystical labyrinth, in which anyone who walks out of any of the doors in the train station will return exactly where they left. There is only one actual entrance and exit in the station, which is the tunnel where the train tracks run. At the end of the tracks is a rift, or portal, which allows the Ghost Riders to leave the dimension and gain more recruits to the Wild Hunt before bringing them back. However, there is a mystical force-field around the entrance to the tunnel that somehow mentally dissuades the captives from entering it by giving them an overwhelming fear of what could lie past it, causing both Peter and Stiles to have to force each other to cross the barrier while searching for an exit.

Unfortunately, the members of the Wild Hunt, such as the Ghost Riders or their Hellhounds, are the only beings known to be able to go through the rift without injury or manipulate the rift to the point where others can safely traverse through it. If a human tries to go through the portal without assistance from the Wild Hunt, they will be incinerated into nothingness, and if a Werewolf or other shapeshifter with accelerated healing and enhanced durability passes through the portal, they will be able to return to the "real world," but will have their bodies completely burnt in the process, as is what happened when Peter Hale escaped the train station on the back of one of the Ghost Riders' horses.

Upon making it through the rift, Peter ended up in the Beacon Hills Preserve, but it has been implied that the rifts can transport those who travel through it anywhere. However, it was eventually revealed that, when those from the living world manage to trigger their erased memories of their loved ones who had been captured by the Hunt, they are capable of causing a rift to open that could allow a captive to safely pass through it. This was proven when Scott McCall, Lydia Martin, and Malia Tate used hypnosis to recover their memories of Stiles Stilinski, opening up a rift that allowed Stiles to return to the real world and land inside his Jeep, which was parked at Beacon Hills High School.

The routine with which captives are brought to the train station remain unknown; while the Ghost Riders have been shown to shoot their victims with their magical guns or restrain them with their magical whips, causing the victims to evaporate in a greenish-blue cloud of mist, the captives' arrival in the train station seems to occur several people at a time, with each captive bound with mystical green restraints. This seems to suggest that there is either a span of time between when a Ghost Rider "erases" someone and when they are transported to the train station, causing the Riders to bring them in manually, or there is possibly a middle ground of sorts that they travel through before they reach the train station.

After Stiles and Peter watched the train station continue to fill up with captives, Peter remarked that the train station was actually a waystation, and that the Ghost Riders had no intention of stopping their process of erasing people from existence. Due to the machinations of Garrett Douglas, the Phantom Train Station began to merge with the real-world Beacon Hills, causing tracks and arrival boards to appear throughout the town, such as Beacon Hills Memorial Hospital, Beacon Hills High School, and the Beacon Hills Preserve.

This was accomplished by hooking up Corey Bryant, a Chimera with the ability to exist in both worlds, to a machine that caused the Phantom Train Station to be pulled into the real world, and the Ghost Riders along with it; this indicates that the Ghost Riders' powers of invisibility are due to the fact that they truly exist in the Phantom Train Station and simply project themselves into the real world. Fortunately for the citizens of Beacon Hills, Scott McCall was able to divert the train, allowing Liam Dunbar, Hayden Romero, and Mason Hewittto unhook Corey from the machine in order to break the link between the train station and the real world.

## Limbo

**Limbo**, also referred to as the **In-Between**, **Space between Spaces**, or **Spectral Plane**, is a metaphysical concept and the collective term used for a plane of existence that spirits can briefly stay on or become trapped within after their physical death and before moving on to their intended Afterlife, be it the Other Side, Ancestral Plane, Hell, Peace, or otherwise, in which one exists in an incorporeal state.

Lingering spirits are invisible to the living, even those who possess mediumship. Only the Anchor, Arcadius, and some witches are apparently able to see and interact with them. Some supernatural beings can exist on this plane naturally. Specifically, the Ferryman ferries spirits from Limbo into Peace in his boat and seemingly has dominion over which spirits will crossover.

### Creation

The creation of Limbo remains unexplored; however, it has existed alongside of Peace for a period over of ten thousand years. After Ken and the other gods crossed over from Peace into the mortal world, more and more humans started arriving in Limbo. After pitying them, Lynn began ferrying them to Peace and for that she was cursed by Ken to do it for all eternity, never to return home and becoming the embodiment of the Ferryman.

### Description

Limbo is a purgatory-like plane of existence, just out of reach of Peace. By all appearances, it reflects the natural world devoid of the living and the sun never rises. While some parts of Limbo seem desolate, others places, such as Mystic Falls, is teeming with scores of lost souls, both humanand supernatural alike. At least in regards to humans, those in

coma
can also slip into Limbo, though they remain physically alive.
Spirits of the recently deceased typically appear on this plane of existence momentarily before moving on to their intended Afterlife. Prior to the destruction of the Other Side, spirits would briefly appear to the Anchor and pass through them. In one notable instance, Katherine while in Limbo was not permitted access to the Other Side and was instead dragged into Hell. After the Other Side's destruction, spirits would temporarily linger within the plane before being violently sucked into Hell. Similarly, it is assumed that Ancestral spirits would linger here as well before being consecratedto the Earth and joining the Ancestral Plane.

### System of Coins

Landon theorizes that the whole point of Limbo is to atone for the mistakes of your life. Once you've done that, the boat to Peace awaits. This is typically in the form of making amends with someone you've wronged and either been forgiven or accepting another person's apology. Once this has happened, a gold coin is presented to the person where they can then present it to the Ferryman. In other instances, some people are required to atone for a greater degree of misdeeds. This is represented in the form of various sized jars that a person may have to fill with coins. For example, Landon mused that the three jars between him, Alaric and the Necromancer, needed a few thousand coins to give to the Ferryman. He also discovered that helping lost souls reach Peace was another avenue to atone and believe most people were stuck in Limbo as a result of parents, sex, or God. If they could help them get over their spiritual damage, then they too would get a coin. Lynn explains that after her heart went numb, she tried to keep caring about all the souls, but after a while, she heard so many sob stories, everyone's reasons and excuses became overwhelming. She developed the system of coins to remove emotion from the equation. She thought if she could quantify a person's worthiness, it would make things simple. However, she grew cynical and, over the centuries, lost her way and became the gangly skeleton. She resigned herself to the fact that nothing would ever change. Resigning the role to Landon, she hoped he'd find a new, better way to do things in Limbo.

## Lycée

The **Lycée** is a building located in Lafayette Cemetery, also known as the City of the Dead, in the Garden District of New Orleans, Louisiana. It belongs to the French Quarter Coven, whose members use the space to grow plants and herbs, store their magical ingredients, work on spells and rituals, and meet as a community. It is also used by the Elders and more experienced members to train the young witches of their community, such as the Harvest Girls, on how to control and use their powers.

### Description

It appears that there are at least two stories or levels to the building. The ground floor is used as a place to congregate, both for coven gatherings as well as meetings with other members of the community, such as when Esther Mikaelson (who was then possessing and living under the guise of the Harvest girl Cassie) met with Niklaus Mikaelson on behalf of the coven. The top floor of the Lycée includes a greenhouse full of plants, along with shelves full of spell and potion ingredients and tables on which the members of the coven can work.

### History

The Lycée has been shown various times throughout *The Originals* series. As a nod to the building's name, "lycée," which is the French word for "high school," the building's main purpose is to teach teenage witches how to practice the craft, and it is often used by the Harvest girls to study and learn how to control their powers. The building has also been shown as a place where the French Quarter Coven holds meetings in order to reveal the will of their Ancestors to the rest of the coven. The Lycée has also been shown to contain different herbs, used by witches for their spells, rituals and potions, making it a go-to location for witches who have major spells they wish to perform. In the second season of the series, the Lycée became the main headquarters for the Mikaelson witches Esther, Finn, and Kol, who had possessed the bodies of various New Orleans witches in order to enact their ultimate plan of ridding the world of vampires by convincing the remaining Original vampires to magically possess mortal bodies of their own.

## Magic Hotspot

A **Magic Hotspot** is a place eternally marked with magic when a witch suffers a violent and brutal death. These Magical Hotspots allow witches to tap into the power of the dead witch, or witches, and use as their own. Even if the witch is resurrected, the Hotspot still works.

## Malivore

**Malivore**, also known as **Eater of the Dark**, was a golem who appeared in the fifteenth episode of the first season and the main antagonist of *Legacies*. Malivore was created from black magic, capable of consuming supernaturals and humans; however, the original three species that were instrumental in its creation can not be harmed by it. The golem consumes its targets into a dark, purgatorial-like, "hell" dimension designed to cleanse the earth of "monsters". Once contained within Malivore, the creatures' existence is wiped from the collective conscience and mainly remembered as myths and folklore. When Malivore was contained and returned to its natural state, a black pit, it retained Malivore's properties capable of consuming supernatural and human beings.

### History

Around a millennia ago, in certain parts of the world, there were monsters. And in one region there was no monster more terrifying than dragons. No other supernatural faction was any match for dragons on their own, so an unholy alliance was formed. A witch, a werewolf, and a vampire, the "Triad", combined their blood, using black magic to create a golem capable of consuming the dragons. The spell, however, also made it unable to harm witches, werewolves, or vampires. When the dragons, in human form, returned to collect the treasure from all the villages they had attacked, Malivore was waiting for them; it took them and consumed them, swallowing them into an endless space inside itself.

With each monster's DNA it absorbed, it evolved and became sentient and truly alive. Once the region was cleared of all the monsters, the Triad wanted to return him to mud and since they were the ones who created him, only they could destroy him by wiping away the symbol on his forehead. However, Malivore betrayed his creators and made a deal with all the humans he'd saved. The humans set the creature free to wander the earth and continue consuming, erasing all memory that the monsters ever existed. But over time, he realized he was alone and fashioned beings like him; his children. However, the beings that were created were imperfect and flawed and none of them had his powers. They all had weaknesses and all were sterile, unable to reproduce, and continue his legacy. Malivore was created to be the only one of his kind and was never intended to be a species or have a bloodline of his own.

In 1308, Mutsu Province, Japan, Malivore encountered Kurutta, host to an oni that could not fully control his faculties. Kurutta attacked Malivore with his sword but proved ineffective. Malivore then consumed him and the oni.
In 1464, by the

Niger River
in what is now
Nigeria
in
West Africa
, Malivore approached a magical village, searching for something special. He threatened to destroy the village, but the village's muse offered herself in exchange to spare the village. He accepted, though the muse's granddaughter offered herself in her place. Malivore accepted and Cleo left with him as his servant, forced to create monsters to satiate his hunger. Eventually, she was inspired to create his "perfect vessel", the Vitruvian Man. He, however, could not let such power go and denied Cleo her freedom. He pledged to rid the world of the creatures that created him: witches, vampires, and werewolves. Then, he would create a superior species of his own making to take their place. Cleo, however, could control this newly created vessel and bound him to his cave and gained her freedom. Despite Cleo's claims, the vessel failed to hold him and he was freed once more to roam the earth.

One of his children, however, the being that would become known as Ryan Clarke would eventually betray his creator. He told the descendants of his original worshipers, a secret society, of his attempts to create a lineage, how he was violating Nature by trying to birth a new species. Ryan led them to Malivore and witches, who used black magic and three artifacts, trapped him and dissolved him, returning him to his natural state — a black pit. The three locks keep Malivore bound, unable to take form, while the pit retains the same properties as Malivore. Within a few years, the secret society grew into a business; Triad Industries — keeping the world safe from all the things that go bump in the night. Eventually, the power corrupted them, and "monsters" became whoever they didn't like. Ryan believed that revenge on Malivore would feel sweeter, but it didn't, so he returned himself to Malivore but there was only darkness. As Ryan yelled and screamed, Malivore would not answer him. He let Ryan sit in silence, punishing him for decades until he released his son. Ryan would come to learn that as more humans were thrown into the pit, Malivore absorbed enough of their genetic material to be able to reproduce. When Triad betrayed Seylah Chelon, Malivore had mercy on her and sent her back carrying their son. Afterward, he sent Ryan back to find Landon because he is of Malivore's blood and the only one who could set him free.

## Malivore (Demention)

**Malivore**, also referred to as the **Malivore Pit** or **Black Pit**, is a dark metaphysical,  purgatorial "hell" dimension. It was created simultaneously and self-contained within the physical golem known as Malivore, which was created to wipe the scourge of the supernatural off the face of the Earth. Its creation consumed the likes of all supernatural beings that were consumed and they were erased from the collective consciousness, effectively, all of history, of the world. It was a permanent death and they were left in the dark to perish.

The black pit that acts as a portal to the dimension was located in what is now known as Fort Valley, Georgia. After Hope's sacrifice of diving into the portal in her attempt to stop him from rising, the portal was seemingly destroyed; however, a diminished portal appeared in the Town Square of Mystic Falls, Virginia. After the portal was closed a second time, the Necromancer recreated the portal in the Salvatore crypt using Ryan Clarke's corpse. The portal was closed for a third time when Hope and Landon used the portal to escape from the 2029 prison world. Though the physical portal, the black pit, was destroyed, Malivore was raised and had taken control of his vessel, Landon Kirby, and escaped the prison world and continued to pose as Landon to get close to Cleo Sowande. He was still capable of consuming others and releasing monsters.

The dimension was seemingly destroyed in *See You On The Other Side* after Hope fully transitioned into a tribrid and stabbed Landon with a weapon created with her blood, killing him and Malivore in the process.

### Description

Malivore was created around a millennia ago as an endless expanse of darkness designed to trap beings and isolate them. While those trapped within can feel the presence of other trapped beings, they could not see or hear them. Time also moves differently within the dimension. The Necromancer describes that what feels like days is probably months out in the real world. While Ryan Clarke and Hope Mikaelson were trapped together within Malivore, Ryan questioned the passage of time, unknown if it had been a week, a month, or even a year, during the summer of 2028. While within the dimension, trapped beings do not experience the ravages of time nor do their bodies require sustenance; for example, Kurutta was consumed in 1308 and emerged in the modern world 720 years later.

Decades prior to 2028, Malivore was contained and returned to its natural state and three locks were created to seal it shut - a knife, an anubian urn, and a dagger.

Malivore can also create personalized prisons to torture specific monsters trapped within; such as recreating the Ice Dream Palace to punish the Necromancer. Malivore then forced him to serve the humans and creatures stuck within. He could also simulate the passage of time by making it appear as if there was daylight so that when night came and the shop was closed, he could spend the night dreading the next day. Malivore also recreated Ayomi's hut and forced Cleo to watch it burn down, all the while hearing the screams of presumably her family trapped within.

## Mikaelson Safe House

The **Mikaelson Safe House** is a mansion in the countryside of Arkansas where Rebekah and Klaus Mikaelson stayed in 1919 after their father, Mikael, forced them to flee New Orleans. It is unknown when the house was obtained by the Mikaelson Family, nor when Klaus and Rebekah left it, but it had been kept up by compelled humans for quite some time until the Mikaelson siblings returned in late 2012 to use the mansion as a safe house for their family, particularly Klaus and Hayley Marshall's daughter Hope Mikaelson, who was being pursued by Finn Mikaelson (in Vincent Griffith's witch body).

Elijah, Rebekah and Hope were the first to arrive at the safe house between the events of *The Brothers That Care Forgot* and *The Map of Moments*, and they were later joined by Klaus and Hayley in the latter episode. After the first of the year, they were joined by Mikaelson ally Camille O'Connell, who was also in danger after betraying Finn to help Klaus and the others, who stayed at the safe house while helping Elijah heal from the side-effects of his mother Esther's torture.

The house was finally destroyed in *The Devil is Damned*, when Elijah purposely caused a gas leak and caused the house to explode when he took off his daylight ring in order to kill Finn and protect Hope. It is unknown if the house still stands, nor is it known if the Mikaelsons chose to rebuild it or simply abandoned it in favor of acquiring a new safe house.

## Mystic Falls

**Mystic Falls** is a picturesque town located in central

Virginia

with a then population of 6,923 people, currently unknown since after its closing and eventual restart. Aside from the town's foundation in 1860by the Founding Families, the town also has a long history of vampires, witches and werewolves, causing Mystic Falls to be an uncanny village with a dark secret. Many famous historical occurrences have taken place in Mystic Falls.

### Description

Mystic Falls, which was once a hotbed of supernatural events, became one of the few places (if not the only one) in the world where non-traditional magic had no effect (although all magic, including Traditional Magic, was ineffective); therefore, the majority of supernatural species and magical artifacts had no effect in the town. As a consequence of the spell that the Travelers cast to undo non-traditional magic within the town borders, a vampire or a hybrid who entered Mystic Falls would have the magic that keeps them vampires slowly stripped away until they finally reverted to the stage in which they existed before being reawakened as a vampire—a dead body. They would then die the exact same way they died before reawakening in transition to become a vampire (e.g. drowning, snapped neck, a slit throat, etc.) and will stay dead due to the lack of magic reanimating their corpses.

The magical energy that empowered the Travelers' anti-magic barrier spell, was absorbed by Malachai Parker. As a result, magic can once again exist in Mystic Falls.

### History

Over 1,000 years ago during the Viking era, the Mikaelson Family heard of a mystical land from which the inhabitants were blessed with the gift of speed and strength. Desperate to leave the place they currently lived due to the plague and death of a child, they moved to this land where they lived among the special people as equals. Until one day, when the family's youngest was killed as he snuck out to watch the beasts turn from human to werewolf. This prompted their mother to create a superior race. The remainder of the family fled the village not long after. The magical place was discovered some centuries later in 1860 by the Founding Families and named Mystic Falls.

### Destruction

In *I Was Feeling Epic*, Vicki Donovan returns to Mystic Falls for the first time since the collapse of the Other Side. Vicki planned to ring the Maxwell bell and reign hellfire upon Mystic Falls. Despite the attempts of both Damon and Matt to stop her, Matt eventually orders the evacuation of the town due to a "gas leak"; a regular occurrence in Mystic Falls. Vicki is successful in ringing the Maxwell bell and does bring hellfire, however, due to the efforts of Bonnie Bennett, Mystic Falls is not consumed by hellfire. However, the Clocktower is badly damaged, so too are the tunnels connecting Mystic Falls and the Armory.

Furthermore, it is shown that the Salvatore Boarding House is transformed into a school for the gifted young by Caroline and Alaric. The school is named *"Salvatore Boarding School for the Young and Gifted"*.

## Prison Worlds

The **Prison Worlds** are alternate planes of existence originally created by the Gemini Covenwith assistance from the Bennett Family.

There is very little surrounding the history of the creation of the prison worlds. The spell to create them, however, was found by Bonnie in Sheila Bennett's grimoire. Blood from a Bennett witch is also a requirement in the world's creation as well as to activate the ascendant.

The 1903 prison world was originally created to imprison Lillian Salvatore, and the Heretics; Nora Hildegard, Mary Louise, Valerie Tulle, Malcolm, Beau, and Oscar. The Heretics had been cast out of the Gemini Coven and been found and later turned into vampire-hybrids by Lily. After a forty year romp through Europe, they intended to destroy the Gemini, but the coven found them first and exiled them and Lily to the prison world.

The 1994 prison world was created to banish Malachai Parker after he murdered his siblings in order to prevent his younger twin siblings to conduct the merge and prevent him from merging with Josette. To save Bonnie and Damon from the destruction of the Other Side, Sheila Bennett sent them to the 1994 prison world that ultimately, but unintentionally, led to Kai's escape. He was briefly contained in the 1903 prison world but similarly to Bonnie's escape from the 1994 prison world, he escaped the 1903 prison world as well as released the Heretics.

After Kai escaped Hell, Bonnie, Josie and Lizzie Saltzman created the 2018 prison world to imprison him once and for all. However, over time, Alaric also banished troubled students, Jade, Wendy, Diego, and later Sebastian. To prevent the mora miserium from breaking and all the black magic rebounding back to Josie, the Saltzmans and Salvatore School witches combined their magic and created the 2028 prison world. However, Alyssa Chang linked the 2018 and 2028 ascendants and transported the Saltzmans and the mora miserium to the 2018 prison world. During this time, Kai was able to escape using Malivore. The 2018 prison world collapsed soon after the group was rescued, taking Diego and Sebastian with it.

The vacant 2028 prison world would eventually become home to Rafael Waithe who was dying. In order to save his body, Lizzie and Hope banished him to the prison world, as well as his biological parents, Walt and Lucia, so he wouldn’t be alone. After the Necromancer raised Malivore and began raising monsters, Alyssa, Lizzie, and Josie created the 2029 prison world and banished them, as well as Hope and Landon to contain the various supernatural creatures released by Malivore and/or controlled by the Necromancer. Landon also became trapped here for a time. However, both Malivore and the Necromancer would eventually escape this world.

## Salvatore Boarding School for the Young & Gifted

**The Salvatore Boarding School for the Young & Gifted** is a private boarding school located in Mystic Falls, Virginia. It was established by Alaric Saltzman and Caroline Forbes in 2019. The school was founded from the old Salvatore Boarding House which was donated to Caroline by Damon Salvatore after Stefan's death. Caroline and Alaric chose to open the school for untrained witches, werewolves, vampires and any person who had been adversely hit by the supernatural. They have ran the school with help from Dorian Williams, who had lost his parents to vampires, Emma Tig, a British witch and guidance counsellor and Jeremy Gilbert, who briefly returned to Mystic Falls. Sometime after its opening, the school received a generous donation of three million dollars from Klaus Mikaelson.

Following the events of *There's Always a Loophole*, Alaric is relieved of his position as Headmaster by the Honor Council. He is replaced by Professor Vardemus, a witch who seeks to change the curriculum in favor of teaching the supernatural to harness their abilities and step out of the shadows imposed on them by society. After Professor Vardemus is revealed to be a disguise used by Ryan Clarke, Alaric is reinstated in his role as Headmaster in *This Christmas Was Surprisingly Violent*.

Following a massive loss of students and teachers, the student body is now down to thirty, which is barely enough to meet the quota for the school board.

## The Abattoir

**The Abattoir**, also known as the compound, is a very large house in the French Quarter of New Orleans. It was the primary residence of the Mikaelson Family during the 19th century and in the early 20th century. After the Mikaelson siblings, Elijah, Rebekah, and Niklaus were forced to flee from New Orleans after Mikael found them and tried to kill them, Marcel Gerard, who had lived there with the family as Klaus' adopted son, officially took ownership of the home in their absence. Klaus eventually resumed control of the household when he returned to New Orleans nearly a century later in 2011 and regained his rule over the city.

The home was introduced in *The Originals* and was first named in the episode, *House of the Rising Son*.

## The Bayou

**The Bayou Lafourche Region** is a mysterious wetland region located just outside of New Orleans. It is reportedly where the werewolveshave taken refuge since Marcel drove them out of New Orleans. The Bayou is the home and territory of the Crescent Wolf Pack.

## The Bright World

**The Bright World**, **Peace**, or lesser-known to some as **Valhalla**, is a supernatural dimension of peace and the ultimate destination one takes in the afterlife. It is a beautiful realm populated by every soul, both human and non-human, that has successfully found peace. Lynn, a god, explained that Peace was her, as well as all of the god's, home some 10,000 years ago. After Ken colonized the mortal world, she settled lost souls that wandered in Limbo's darkness in theirs.

The Bright World is considered a "heaven" due to its similarity to the pleasant afterlife that is believed to exist by many religions. However, contrary to the religious belief that only saintly souls are allowed into heaven, it has been proven that this is not the case. While some deserving characters such as Lexi Branson, Jenna Sommersand Sheila Bennett were in fact welcomed into the Bright World, many undeserving characters, who were known to have committed malevolent deeds, were also said to have found peace such as Esther Mikaelson and Dahlia.

The creation of Peace remains largely unknown; however, it has existed alongside of Limbo for a period over of ten thousand years. After Ken and the other gods crossed over from Peace into the mortal world, more and more humans started arriving in Limbo. After pitying them, Lynn began ferrying them to Peace.

The Bright World is a peaceful realm that seems to be different for everyone and despite being a spiritual realm, the souls there are able to live as if they were still alive, such as drinking alcohol, driving vehicles, playing guitars and socializing with friends that have also been brought to the Bright World. Also while the realm may be different for some individuals, there may also be a connection to each "version" on some level as Damon was able to reunite with Stefan despite first being with Elena in her "heaven" before disappearing, and Josh was met by Aiden despite them all dying at different times.

Josette Laughlin was resurrected from Peace by the Necromancer, albeit through unknown means. She describes that the longer she remained alive, the more she remembered of where she came from—Peace—and how she used to watch over Lizzie, Josie, and Alaric Saltzman. It was like a dream to her, where everything was warm and happy. After Lizzie and Josie siphoned the magic from Josette that kept her alive, her body faded away allowing her spirit to return to Peace - the natural order.