Alicante

1. REDIRECT Template:TMR Quote**Alicante** is one of the main seven Kingdoms of Meridian.

This is also the base of The Meridian world and it's Capital Country, if anyone wants to go they need to ask their King and Queen for permission. it is ruled by Hybrid Queen Ariana Salvatore-Deveraux and King Christopher Mikaelson.

Alicante is filled by werewolves in the bayou, Vampires far away from the bayou and witches in the middle before Waverly came back it was in ruin.

The Mikaelson Family was in control of the city until 1919, when they were all forced to flee town when they were found by their own father. In their absence, Marcel, Christopher' former protégé and surrogate son, took over, unbeknownst to the Mikaelsons, who were under the impression that Marcel died in the chaos of their father's presence.

In the modern day, Christopher returned to the city with the hope of taking over again and reuniting his family after learning that he had impregnated a young werewolf, Ariana, which revealed a loophole that Christopher, despite being a vampire, was able to have children.

However, the family's return had the effect of further aggravating the already major ongoing conflict between the witches, vampires and werewolves of the city. The conflict started less than a year prior to the Mikaelsons' return, when Marcel interrupted The Harvest, a sacrificial ritual that acted to strengthen the bond between the witches in New Orleans and the magical power of their dead ancestors, from whom they drew power. Marcel's intervention resulted in the deaths of the majority of the witches in attendance, including all but one of the coven's Elders.

The Story mainly of The Mikaelson Family as they struggle to regain control of the city that was once theirs and, in the process, face off against powerful enemies from their past while they attempt to form alliances with the various human and supernatural factions.

## History

Dominic hinted that all the Original Vampires used to live in Alicante at one point, to be between the early 1700s and 1919.

In the year 1942, Steven Salvatore lived in Alicante with a woman named Charlotte, who, he had turned into a vampire after she had begged him to do so. Unbeknownst to Steven, Charlotte was sire-bound to him, which unconsciously and involuntarily made her want to do anything and everything to make Steven happy. Once he witnessed Charlotte killing a man after he had made an off-hand joke, he realized that she had a sire-bond to him, and turned to a witch named Valerie LaMarche for help. Valerie told him that he needed to commit the sacrifice of twelve humans in order to break the bond, which he did. Steven ultimately ended up telling Charlotte to count every single brick in every building in the city until he returned, and left town thereafter, hoping that his attempts to break the bond would work.

Before Steven left Charlotte, he was found by his brother Samuel Salvatore and Samuel's best friend Lexi Branson, who had insisted that Samuel reconcile with his brother as part of his Ripper-rehabilitation program. The brothers reunited and ended up having a good time catching up together. Samuel revealed that he had joined the Army and was about to ship off to Egypt for the war effort. Steven was very interested in going away to war with Samuel, but was later talked out of the idea by Lexi, who pointed out that he had killed twelve people without remorse, and that if Samuel knew he had done so, he would think that he could do the same and relapse back to his bloodthirsty ways. Steven ultimately ended up standing Samuel up and leaving him, so he would not be a bad influence on his little brother.

Decades later, in the year 2020, Steven and his brother returned to Alicante after they realized that Elena also had a sire-bond to Steven and wanted to find answers on how to break it. While there, the brothers stumbled upon Charlotte, who was still sire-bound to him. Realizing that Valerie LaMarche's spell did not work, Steven returned to the voodoo shop where Valerie LaMarche used to work, and learned that her granddaughter, Nandi, was now in charge of the shop. Nandi explained that Valerie had lied to Steven in the 1940s, and that she tricked him into killing twelve people so she could use the sacrifices to fuel her Expression magic. Nandi then informs Steven that there is only one way she knows of to break a sire-bond, which is for the sire to tell the vampire they're sire-bound to that the only thing that will make them happy is for them to leave and live good lives without them. While Steven uses this method to break his bond to Charlotte, he doesn't have the heart to do the same to Elena.

Later on that year, Ariana was told by Christopher that she bore a birthmark that identified her as belonging to specific werewolf bloodline that hailed from Alicante, so she traveled there to see if she could learn more about her parents and the rest of her family. Though she ultimately did learn that she is a member of the royal Labonair bloodline, as well as part of the Crescent wolf clan, a pair of witch sisters learned that Ariana had become pregnant by Christopher, and used her to leverage the Mikaelsons into helping them take down Marcel.

Eventually, the Mikealsons agreed to help the witches and moved back to Alicante, where they learned more about Marcel's totalitarian regime and the subjugation of the witches in the French Quarter. In time, Christopher, Brandon and Theresa learned that, though the witches really did want the Mikaelsons to take down Marcel, their real aim was to find the witch Natalie Stark, who was saved from the Harvest ritual by Marcel and who was also helping him restrict the use of magic in the Quarter by informing him whenever a witch did magic. Eventually, Christopher did regain control over Alicante, though, he quickly tired of the position and was replaced by Brandon. However, after The Battle of Alicante, it appears that the Guerrera/Correa werewolves are now in charge of the city. However, after the demise of Guerrera family and their allies at the hands of the Brandon and Christopher, Ariana, Marcel and their allies, the city once again without leadership.

## Locations

* Cair Paravel
	+ The Twins Nursery
* Cami's Apartment
* Rousseau's
* Jardin Gris
* The Cauldron
* St. Anne's Church
	+ Natalie's Room
* Deveraux's Apartment
* Marcel's Penthouse
* St. Louis Cathedral

	+ Josh's Loft
	+ St. James Infirmary
	+ Lenore's Convenience Store
* Nandi's Specials
* Dowager Fauline Cottage
* The Garden
* The Palace Royale
* Kieran's Secret Apartment
* Mikaelson Mansion
* Big Auggie's Bayou Bar
* Davilla Estate
* Ida Mae's

	+ Abandoned House
	+ St. Theodora's Health Clinic
* Garden District
	+ Lafayette Cemetery
		- Lycée
* LaForge House
	+ Tremé
* Black Clay Cemetery
* St. Ailbhe Cemetery
* Bywater
	+ Bywater Tavern