Mikael

* The Monster Who Monsters are Afraid of, The Worst of All Monsters, Old Man (All by Klaus)
* Papa Original (By Damon Salvatore and Sebastian Roché)

## Physical information

### Species

* Human (Originally)
* Original Vampire
* Ghost (Formerly)

## Family information

### Family members

* Unnamed Father †
* Unnamed Mother †
* Esther Mikaelson † (Wife)
* Dahlia † (Sister-In-Law)
* Freya Mikaelson (Daughter)
* Finn Mikaelson † (Son)
* Elijah Mikaelson (Son)
* Niklaus Mikaelson (Step-Son)
* Kol Mikaelson (Son)
* Rebekah Mikaelson (Daughter)
* Henrik Mikaelson † (Son)
* Unborn Grandson † (Grandson; via Freya)
* Nik (Grandson; via Freya)
* Hope Mikaelson (Step-Granddaughter; via Klaus)
* Davina Claire (Daughter-in-Law)
* Keelin (Daughter-in-Law)

## Supernatural Information

### Significant kills

* Ansel and his family
* Half a village of Werewolves
* Finn Mikaelson (as a witch)
* Elijah Mikaelson (as a witch)
* Niklaus Mikaelson (as a werewolf)
* Kol Mikaelson (as a witch)
* Rebekah Mikaelson (as a witch)
* Lana
* Many victims in New Orleans
* Diego
* Many of Marcel's Army
* Many werewolves with Moonlight Rings
* Jerick (werewolf)
* Dahlia's acolytes (along with Klaus)
* Numerous The Strix members

### Cause of death

* Unknown (as a human)
* Staked with a White Oak Stake (both times as an Original)

### Killed by

* Niklaus Mikaelson (both times as an Original)

## Appearance

### Actor

* Sebastian Roché
* Isaiah Stratton (Young)

**Mikael** (***Elder Futhark:** ᛗᛁᚲᚨᛖᛚ*) was a major recurring character and a primary antagonist in the second season of *The Originals*. He appeared in the first season via flashbacks and was eventually brought back to life. Mikael also appeared as a recurring character in the third season of *The Vampire Diaries*. He was an Original Vampire and a powerful vampire hunter. Mikael is the father of the Originals, and the father of the vampire race as a whole. Mikael is the reason vampires came to exist, it was his idea to turn his children and himself into immortals with superpowers superior to werewolves, where they could then sire more of their kind as ordinary vampires. As the father of the Original Vampires, he was the oldest and one of the most powerful vampires in the TVD universe.

Mikael was the husband of Esther. He was the father of Freya, Finn, Elijah, Kol, Rebekah and Henrik and step-father of Klaus. He was the grandfather of Freya and Mathias' unborn son, step-grandfather of Klaus and Hayley's daughter, Hope, and grandfather of Freya and Keelin's son, Nik. Mikael was also the brother-in-law of Dahlia.

Mikael was considered the strongest vampire in existence, due to his superior strength as a human over his children. He had an antagonistic relationship with his step-son, Klaus, as he was the son of a werewolf named Ansel. In the 1990s, Mikael was desiccated and entombed by Abby Bennett Wilson when he came to town in search of the baby doppelgänger, Elena Gilbert. However, in *The Reckoning*, he was revived by Katerina Petrova and Jeremy Gilbert. He then sought out Damon and Stefan Salvatore and formed a plan with them to kill Klaus. However, in *Homecoming*, Mikael was killed by Klaus due to Stefan's interference.

Mikael was later seen in the first season of *The Originals* during *A Closer Walk With Thee*, when he first appeared as a ghost to attack Hayley Marshall on The Other Side, and again in order to speak with Davina Claire. He eventually convinced her to resurrect him by offering to help her kill Klaus. In *From a Cradle to a Grave*, Mikael was successfully resurrected by Davina, but not without consequences; Davina ultimately used the Bracelet of Obedience to ensure that he would always be under her control. In the second season, Kol used his knowledge of magic and the bracelet, as he had the bracelet invented in the first place, to de-spell Davina's bracelet, allowing Mikael to continue on his mission to kill Klaus. After successfully staking and nearly killing Klaus, he ended up outnumbered by the arrival of Klaus' allies, forcing him to flee from a fight with his step-son for the very first time. He eventually formed an alliance with his wife, Esther, and a resurrected Finn, and vowed to stop at nothing to kill Klaus. Finn however, used sacrificial magic to desiccate both Mikael and Esther so that he could channel their power for himself.

Mikael was revived by his long lost daughter Freya, reuniting a delighted Mikael with the child he thought he had lost. They formed an alliance to kill Dahlia, who poses a threat to Freya and Hope. Mikael, after a failed team up with his children against Dahlia, was executed by Klaus for a second time, in order to procure the Viking ash Mikael's corpse would leave behind, to make another weapon against Dahlia, all in front of Freya, which devastated her.

**Mikael** was the patriarch of the **Mikaelson Family**.