Lillian Salvatore

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## Biographical Information

### Occupation

* Prisoner  (Formerly)
* Leader of the Heretics  (Formerly)

### Species

* Human  (Originally)
* Vampire  (Athena's Bloodline)

## Family Information

### Family Members

* Unnamed Grandmother †
* Unnamed Father †
* Unnamed Mother †
* Unnamed Siblings/Relatives †
* Giuseppe Salvatore †  (Former Husband)
* Damon Salvatore  (First Born Child/Oldest Son)
* Theo Salvatore  (Second Born Child/Middle Son)
* Stefan Salvatore †  (Third Born Child/Youngest Son)
* Valerie Tulle  (Vampire Companion)
* Oscar †  (Vampire Companion)
* Unborn Grandchild †  (via Theo and Valerie Tulle)
* Unnamed Stepson †  (Giuseppe's Illegitimate Son)
* Malcolm †  (Vampire Companion)
* Beau †  (Vampire Companion)
* Nora Hildegard  (Vampire Companion)
* Mary Louise  (Vampire Companion)
* Zachariah Salvatore †  (Step-Grandson)
* Joseph Salvatore †  (Step-Descendant)
* Joseph Salvatore's Son †  (Step-Descendant)
* Zach Salvatore †  (Step-Descendant)
* Tom Avery †  (Step-Descendant)
* Arielle Labonair  (Daughter-In-Law, via Damon)
* Elena Gilbert  (Daughter-In-Law, via Theo)
* Sarah Nelson †  (Step-Descendant)
* Jax Salvatore  (Grandson)
* Nina Salvatore  (Granddaughter)
* Lily Salvatore  (Granddaughter)
* Grayson Salvatore  (Grandson)
* Sarah Salvatore  (Granddaughter)
* Stefanie Salvatore  (Granddaughter)

## Supernatural Information

### Significant Sires

* 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 Damon, Theo, and Stefan Salvatore and the widow of the late Giuseppe Salvatore. She was the grandmother to Jax, Nina, Lily, Grayson, Sarah, and Stefanie Salvatore. 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**.

## Early Life

* Thanksgiving, 1851
* 1858
* 1863
* 1903

While Lily was still human, she bought tickets to go to New York with her sons to get away from Giuseppe. While Damon got the blame for it, Giuseppe confronted her and told her that he would make sure that she would never see their sons again.

Lily had consumption and became very sick, causing Giuseppe to send her away. While at a hospital, an unknown nurse gave her vampire blood and Lily eventually died of consumption and completed her transition. She then came back to Mystic Falls to see her sons and, when she was with Stefan, she felt her bloodlust come and, afraid she would hurt her sons, she left. She then went to Europe and met each of the Heretics at different times and turned them. She considered them family and they stuck with each other over the years.

Lily, wanting to check in on her sons, sent some of her "family" across the ocean to check on them. She sent Julian and Valerie to see Theo and Stefan in Mystic Falls and Oscar to see Damon while he was serving the Confederate Army.

In 1903, Lillian helped a man named Enzo who was dying from consumption and who was refused passage on the boat because of his condition. She helped Enzo up and offered him a ride with her on the boat. Lily and her companions boarded the boat. After Enzo woke up, Lily explained to him why she was immune to consumption and that she had already had the disease and died from it. Later, in her cabin, she compelled a doctor to give her his honest opinion of Enzo's condition. After that, Lily considered whether or not to turn Enzo into a vampire. She cut her hand with a scalpel and caught her blood in a glass before giving it to Enzo to drink, also revealing that Enzo must have been about to die since vampire blood normally leaves the system in about a day. Lily and her companions killed everyone on board and drained them. She spared a man and compelled him to enter Enzo's cabin and offer himself to him as a blood bag. At this point, Lily was nowhere to be seen, indicating that the Gemini Coven had ambushed them on the docks and imprisoned them in a prison world, where she remained for over a century.

## Personality

* Human
* Vampire

Lily was a beautiful and strong woman and described as "articulate and caustic", she had a reputation for protecting the ones she loves at any cost.

Before she was turned and when she was a regular human, she was assumed to have been a kind and gentle human.

However, after she turned into a vampire, her personality changed for the worst. She was short tempered as she was terrifying when angered. As a Ripper, Lily was unpredictable, aggressive, violent and ruthless, traits that she unfortunately passed down to her youngest son Stefan. However, unlike Stefan, she has killed over 3000 people in Europe and unlike Damon, she is unwilling to kill a pregnant woman. This shows that Lily had some morals and moral lines that she was not willing to cross. Her personality seemed to be more in line with Stefan than with Damon.

She managed to keep her ripper side under control, upon meeting The Heretics. Lily is also suicidal, as after she returned to the real world without the her "family", her ripper side started to take control of her. Lily was consumed with guilt because of what she had done and how much she had killed. She was unwilling to become that monster again so she tried to kill herself.
## Powers and Abilities

Lily possessed all the standard powers and abilities of a non-Original vampire.

## Weaknesses

Lily had the typical weaknesses of a non-Original vampire.

## Name

* **Lillian** is a female given name and in Latin means "lilium".
* **Salvatore** is Italian and means "savior".