Lillian Salvatore

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## Biographical Information

### Occupation

* Prisoner (Formerly)

* Leader of the Heretics (Formerly)

### Species

* Human (Originally)

* Vampire

## Family Information

### Family Members

* Unnamed Grandmother †

* Unnamed Father †

* Unnamed Mother †

* Unnamed Siblings/Relatives †

* Giuseppe Salvatore † (Former Husband)

* Damon Salvatore (First Born Child/Oldest Son)

* Stefan Salvatore † (Second Born Child/Youngest Son)

* Valerie Tulle (Vampire Companion/Adopted Daughter)

* Oscar † (Vampire Companion/Adopted Son)

* Unborn Grandchild † (via Stefan and Valerie Tulle)

* Unnamed Stepson † (Giuseppe's Illegitimate Son)

* Malcolm † (Vampire Companion/Adopted Son)

* Beau † (Vampire Companion/Adopted Son)

* Nora Hildegard † (Vampire Companion/Adopted Daughter)

* Mary Louise † (Vampire Companion/Adopted Daughter)

* Zachariah Salvatore † (Step-Grandson)

* Joseph Salvatore † (Step-Descendant)

* Joseph Salvatore's Son † (Step-Descendant)

* Zach Salvatore † (Step-Descendant)

* Tom Avery † (Step-Descendant)

* Elena Gilbert (Daughter-In-Law)

* Sarah Nelson † (Step-Descendant)

* Jaxon Salvatore (Grandson)

* Nikolina Gilbert-Salvatore (Granddaughter)

* Lillian Gilbert-Salvatore (Granddaughter)

* Grayson Salvatore (Grandson)

* Sarah Salvatore (Granddaughter)

* Stefanie Salvatore (Granddaughter)

## Supernatural Information

### Significant Sires

* Valerie Tulle (1863)

* Nora Hildegard †

* Mary Louise †

* Oscar †

* Malcolm †

* Beau †

* Lorenzo St. John † (1903)

* Kai Parker (2013)

### Significant Kills

* 3,000+ Unknown People

* Unknown Man

### Cause Of Death

* Consumption (disease) (as a human)

* Staked (as a vampire)

## Physical Appearance

### Height

* 5'7" (Feet)

* 1.70 (Meters)

## Appearance

### Played By

* Annie Wersching

**Lillian "Lily" Salvatore** was a vampire and a major recurring character and antagonist in the sixth and seventh seasons of *The Vampire Diaries*. She was the mother of Stefan and Damon Salvatore and the widow of the late Giuseppe Salvatore. She was the grandmother to Jaxon, Nikolina, Lillian, Grayson, Sarah, and Stefanie. She has been mentioned by both Damon and Giuseppe and also Stefan later on, but next to nothing is known about her. She supposedly died at some point in 1858. It has been suggested that she was a lot kinder than her husband, Giuseppe. In the books that are based on the history of the television series, she is a Frenchwoman.

Lillian was born on February 27, 1820, presumably in the United States. She was turned in 1858 and she faked her death. When Lily was very sick with consumption, she was sent away by Giuseppe. An unknown nurse (who was assumed to have been a vampire) had fed her vampire blood while she was held in the TB ward. Lily did end up dying of consumption, triggering her transformation into a vampire. Realizing that she was a vampire and a creature of the night, Lily then faked her death and abandoned her family, feeling like she had posed a significant threat to her family as a vampire. When she fled to Europe, she succumbed to her bloodlust and became a Ripper vampire, a vampire that slaughters their victims for blood in the most gruesome ways. Lily, as a Ripper, tore through an entire city and left trails of dead corpses and drained them of their blood (much like her younger son Stefan did in 1917 as the Ripper of Monterrey). She moved on from city to city, killing many people and gaining a high body count, until eventually, she was encountered by the Gemini Coven in Manhattan, New York. As a punishment for her crimes as a Ripper for killing so many people, they trapped her in a prison world on October 31, 1903 and she has been stuck there for over a century.

In early 2013, Lily was finally freed from her prison world by Damon, Elena, and Bonnie, and made her first modern day appearance in *Let Her Go*.

After reuniting with her "family", she plans to resurrect her lover, Julian from the Phoenix Stone. She succeeds with this plan and she finds out that he had killed her unborn grandchild, and plans on killing him with the help of her sons and Valerie. Unfortunately, when Julian tries to see the one side she would choose, she tells him she can choose both and stakes herself, thinking they were still linked to each other. She begins to die and has final words with her adoptive family and her sons, but is put down by Damon, who is still hurt by what she had done, leaving her to shed a tear as she died.

**Lily** was a member of the **Salvatore Family**.