Hybrid

Related species | - Vampire
- Original Vampire
- Werewolf
- Evolved Werewolf
- Witch
- Siphoner
- Heretic
- Tribrid
 Season(s) | **Queen Diaries**
* 1,2,3,4,5, & 6

**The Royal Diaries**
 Distinction | An amalgamated species that possesses the combined traits and abilities of two supernatural species.

**Hybrids** are a cross-breed of two different supernatural species. The term is commonly used to describe a werewolf turned into a vampire due to the fact that they were the first supernatural hybrid to be introduced in the series. However, since the werewolf-vampire hybrid's creation, there have been other hybrids, such as siphoner turned witch-vampire hybrids, werewolf-witch hybrids, and, in the unique case of Amani and Normani Mikaelson, a witch-werewolf-vampire tribrid and siphoner-werewolf-vampire tribrid.

Hybrids possess both the strengths and some of the weaknesses of their parent races, along with powerful attributes unique to themselves alone due to their combined heritage. For werewolf-vampire hybrids, this includes day walking and being able to transform into a wolf without the Full Moon's influence. For siphoner-vampire hybrids, they retain their ability to siphon magic and their own vampirism as a power source for their use in witchcraft; as they did not possess their own magic as siphoners; this is a skill that makes them powerful.

## Creation

### The Original Hybrid

*Main article: Niklaus Mikaelson*
Niklaus Mikaelson was conceived when his mother Esther had an affair with Ansel, the Alpha of the North East Atlantic werewolf pack. Her affair, as well as Klaus' werewolf heritage, was kept a secret from everyone. However, when Klaus made his first human kill after being turned into an Original vampire, he triggered his werewolf gene, which turned him into the world's first hybrid.

When Mikael learned about his wife's infidelity, he killed Ansel and the werewolves. As a hybrid, Klaus had additional powers over his siblings and father. Esther, however, cursed him to cause his werewolf side to become dormant, as a duty to Nature to keep the balance as well as a way of atoning for her affair. She bound the curse with the blood of Tatia, the Petrova doppelgänger, and the moonstone.

In 2010, Klaus enlisted a witch, Greta Martin, to break the curse by sacrificing Jules, a werewolf, Jenna Sommers, a newly turned vampire, and Elena Gilbert, the Petrova doppelgänger.

### Werewolf-Vampire Hybrids

To become a werewolf-vampire hybrid, a werewolf must have either Klaus, Amani, or Normani's Blood in their system before they are killed so they can awaken a short time later in transition. Because no regular vampire has ever attempted to use their own blood to turn a werewolf into a hybrid, it is likely that such an attempt would be unsuccessful. After a werewolf dies with Klaus' blood in their system, their transformation will be successful only if the wolf completes their transition by drinking the blood of a human Petrova doppelgänger. If a werewolf is turned with Amani's blood or Normani's, their blood can also be used to complete their transition as well, just as a doppelgänger's blood would. So far, all hybrids have been created by Klaus; with the exception of Dwayne, and Henry Benoit, who were created with Amani's blood. After Elena was turned into a vampire, her blood became useless to Klaus and he could no longer create more hybrids.

If a newborn hybrid feeds on regular human blood to officially complete their transition, the hybrid will become unstable, causing them to bleed from the eyes, become rabid, and eventually die in pain. This result was demonstrated during Klaus' first attempt to turn werewolves into hybrids in *The Hybrid* after he sired Paige's Pack. However, it is unclear why that happens. After being sired, they all began to experience unbearable pain and profuse bleeding from their facial orifices until they either killed each other, were mercy-killed by Klaus, or dying of failed transitions combined with exsanguination.

## Siphoner-Vampire Hybrids

*ain article: Gemini Coven* & *Heretics*
The hybridization of witches and vampires is impossible. Witches are servants of Nature while vampires are aberrations of Nature. When a witch transitions into a vampire, they lose their connection to Nature and are unable to practice magic. However, a subsection of aberrant witches, known as siphoners, are unique to this. Siphoners have no magic of their own, yet possess the ability to siphon magic from others. When they are turned into a vampire, the siphoner witch retains their ability to siphon magic and, as a vampire, access to siphon from themselves to cast spells. Lillian Salvatore found and befriended a group of siphoners that were cast out from their coven, the Gemini Coven. Eventually she turned them into siphoner witch-vampire hybrids. Her "family" became known as Heretics.