The Trinity

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## Information

### Members

Lucien Castle Tristan de Martel

Aurora de Martel

## **History**

The Trinity originated from a castle in Southern France belonging to the Count Martel. Tristan and Aurora were the Count's children while Lucien was a servant at the castle. In 1002, the Original vampires came to the castle posing as nobles; aided by Lucien who helped them with their ruse so they would spare his life. When welcomed into the king's court, they took interest in the Count's children.

Lucien had romantic feelings for Aurora and asked Niklaus to deliver a letter to Aurora in which he declared his love. But unknown to Lucien, Niklaus and Aurora were already in a relationship and were caught by him during an intimate moment. The guards had been alerted by his presence and so to avoid being discovered, Aurora told them to leave through a window. Lucien didn't leave due to the heartbreak of the discovery which led to Tristan believing that he was involved with his sister when he and guards arrived.

As punishment for a crime he didn't commit, Tristan brutally tortured Lucien until he was stopped by Klaus and Elijah. Klaus later attempted to comfort Lucien but he stabbed Klaus and during a brief struggle Lucien came in contact with Klaus' blood. The blood healed Lucien's wounds and he believed that he had become a vampire. In that belief, Lucien proceeded to attempt to kill Tristan but was killed by a guard in the process. He later awakened in transition and fed on a servant, thus completing his transition into becoming the first sired vampire in history. This led the Originals to discover that not only could their blood heal injuries, but that they could also pass on their vampirism.

Niklaus and Aurora continued their secret relationship and when Aurora discovered that he was a vampire she accepted him for what he was. She even asked him to turn her after they confided in each other that they both were responsible for their mothers' deaths. However, Klaus refused to turn Aurora but this did not stop her. She managed to get hold of a sample of Rebekah's blood and once she consumed it, she killed herself through suicide by jumping out of a tower window and awoke in transition having achieved her dream of becoming a vampire.

When the Originals learned that stories had spread of their existence and they would eventually reach Mikael, they planned to flee. Elijah informed Aurora of it and she wished to go with them but Elijah refused. This angered Aurora and she ended up revealing that she knew things about Niklaus which he didn't. In the process of trying to force Aurora to reveal these secrets, Elijah unintentionally used Mind Compulsion, leading to the Originals' discovery of yet another unknown ability of their vampirism. In retaliation for what Niklaus did, Elijah compelled Aurora to see Klaus as a monster, thus leading Aurora to break up with Klaus.

Elijah later sired Tristan and compelled him, Aurora and Lucien to believe that they were the three Original siblings: himself, Klaus and Rebekah and then Elijah told them to run, thus turning them into decoys for Mikael to hunt. The Trinity was hunted by Mikael for a hundred years but were freed from their compulsion when Elijah was daggered by the Five in the early 12th century.

When they were themselves again, they swore to gather weapons to destroy the Originals. However, the deaths of the Original vampires Finn and Kol led to the discovery that if the Originals died, every vampire in their respective sirelines would soon follow suit. To counteract this and also to ensure their own survival, the Trinity shifted their focus from killing the Originals to finding a way to permanently contain them to keep themselves safe.

In light of this, while Aurora was kept in isolation in a monastery as part of Tristan's attempts to control her manic episodes, Tristan and Lucien planned to travel to New Orleans under the pretense of still being mortal enemies, not wanting to raise the Originals' suspicions of their common goal of trapping them.

## Members

* Lucien Castle: The first vampire ever turned by Niklaus Mikaelson and the first sired vampire in history. After spending a century compelled to believe he was his sire, Lucien developed a company devoted to breaking the limits of what was thought to be possible for supernatural research. He formed an uneasy alliance with Tristan to try and trap the Original Vampires so that no harm could ever come to them, or by extension himself.
* Tristan de Martel: The first vampire ever turned by Elijah Mikaelson. Tristan was compelled to believe he was Elijah for one hundred years and not long after, took control of Elijah's vampire society, the Strix. Tristan led the Strix for centuries, devising a plan to trap the Original vampires.
* Aurora de Martel: The first vampire ever turned by Rebekah Mikaelson. Aurora suffered from something similar to bipolar disorder as a human and after tricking Rebekah to help turn her, it was heightened even more. Her condition grew even worse after being compelled to think she was Rebekah for a century. Aurora, prone to falling into violent and unpredictable episodes, was constantly sedated by her brother, Tristan, who tried to keep her under control.