The Mikaelson Family

*(Elijah and Katerina's Daughter)*

* *Niklaus Mikaelson* *(Fourth Born)*
* *Lorelei Gilbert* *(Tribrid/Doppelgänger, Klaus's Wife)*
* *Jenna Mikaelson* *(Niklaus and Lorelei's Daughter)*
* *Miranda Kenner* *(Lorelei's Daughter Niklaus's Step-Daughter)*
* *Alexandria Mikaelson* *(Niklaus and Lorelei's Daughter)*
* *Håkon Mikaelson* *(Niklaus and Lorelei's Son)*
* *Henrik Mikaelson* *(Niklaus and Lorelei's Son)*
* *Neveah Mikaeldotter* *(Fifth Born)*
* *Damon Salvatore* *(Vampire, Neveah's Husband)*
* *Sophia Mikaelson-Salvatore* *(Neveah and Damon's Daughter)*
* *Kol Mikaelson* *(Sixth Born)*
* *Bonnie Bennett* *(Witch, Kol's Wife)*
* *Qetsiyah Mikaelson* *(Kol and Bonnie's Daughter)*
* *Rebekah Mikaeldotter* *(Seventh Born)*
* *Stefan Salvatore* *(Vampire/Doppelgänger, Rebekah's Husband)*
* *Lillian Salvatore* *(Rebekah and Stefan's Daughter)*
* *Eden Salvatore* *(Rebekah and Stefan's Daughter)*
* *Henrik Mikaelson* *(Eighth Born)*

*The **Mikaelson Family** (**Elder Futhark:** ᛗᛁᚲᚨᛖᛚᛋᛟᚾ) is a ancient and powerful family of witches and vampires dating back at least to the then Kingdom of Norway in the late 10th century . At the beginning of the 11th century, the family was mortal until the loss of Esther and Mikael's youngest child, Henrik, to a werewolf attack spurred them to use Esther's magic to turn Mikael and the rest of their living children into the world's first vampires, from whom all vampires are descended. The Original vampires are known as some of the most powerful supernatural beings in the world.*

*The family (excluding Freya, Henrik, Jenna, Alexandria, Hakon, Henrik II, Sophia, Qetsiyah, Lilian, and Eden are the main antagonists of the third season of The Vampire Diaries.)*

## *History*

*"In the beginning, our family was human, A thousand years ago, now. Although our mother dabbled in the dark arts, we were actually just a family trying to survive in a time when it was quite difficult to do so. And, for better or worse, we were happy. That is, however, until one night, our youngest brother was killed by our village's greatest threat. Men that could transform themselves into wolves during the full moon. Our family was devastated, none more than Niklaus. Desperate to protect the rest of us, our father forced our mother to call upon her black magic in order to make us stronger. Thus, the first vampires were born. But with this speed, this strength, this immortality, came a terrible hunger. No one felt this hunger more than our Neveah and Niklaus.*

*Elijah* *to Lorelei about his family in Always and Forever.*

*The first members of this family were a man named Mikael and his wife Esther. Esther longed for a family, though, after over a year of marriage, she found herself barren. She went to her sister, Dahlia, and begged her to use her magic to grant Esther the ability to have children. Dahlia granted this request, but made it clear that the magic had a price, and it was a price that Esther was forced to pay years later— her payment to her sister would be her first-born child, and the first-born of her children's children, and their children's children, for as long as Esther's line shall live. She then ordered Esther to pretend that her first-born, Freya, had died of a plague so that Mikael would never know what truly had happened to his daughter when he returned from battle. Afterward, Esther and Mikael heard from a Witch called Ayana, Esther's best friend and mentor, that there was a land where everyone was healthy and strong, a land that ended up being the New World, specifically what is now modern-day Mystic Falls. Mikael and Esther with Freya's surviving brother, Finn, and their recently born son Elijah traveled to this paradise with Ayana, where they settled in a village full of the healthy people they had learned about, who were revealed to be werewolves, and lived peacefully for years. In the years to follow, Esther bore 5 more children; Neveah, Niklaus, Kol, Rebekah, and Henrik Mikael often clashed with his middle son, Niklaus, with whom he had an antagonistic and abusive relationship which only became worse when Klaus and Henrik snuck out to watch the werewolves transform one night, where Henrik was accidentally mauled and killed.*

*Grief-stricken, Mikael decided to search for a way to protect his family from the werewolves. Though their family friend Ayana refused to help him in fear of upsetting the balance of nature, Mikael soon found another witch who would help him – his wife, Esther. Somehow, they were able to learn of the immortality spell created by Qetsiyah a thousand years previously, and adapted the spell in order to give their children abilities of superhuman strength, speed, agility and healing that would be even stronger than those of the werewolves. Esther drew on mystic symbols in order to fuel her spell; she called upon the Sun for life, and the white oak tree, long known for being one of the earth's eternal objects, for immortality, so that she and Mikael would never again have to suffer the grief of losing a child. In order to complete the ritual, Mikael had his children drink wine laced with the blood of Tatia, a Petrova doppelgänger and distant descendant of the world's first immortal woman, Amara before he then thrust his sword through their chests. They awoke in transition, and on their father's orders, drank Human blood from a village girl in order to complete their transformation into the Original vampires. Unfortunately for them, there were consequences for this transformation, and Nature sought to try to restore the balance they upset by giving them a weakness for every new strength they had gained.*

*The sun that gave them life burned them, their thirst for human blood was insatiable, and their neighbors could lose their homes to them by not inviting them inside. Vervain flowers, which grew at the base of the white oak tree, burned them and protected against compulsion. Finally, the White Oak Tree, which gave them immortality, was also the one substance on earth that could actually destroy them for good. In the end, they burned the tree down to ensure their survival, though the ashes were saved to later be used against them. When Neveah and Niklaus made their first human kill after being turned into a vampire, it triggered their werewolf gene, which ultimately revealed the truth of their parentage to their family - Klaus was not Mikael's son but was instead the son of the chief of their village's werewolf clan, with whom Esther had an affair and Neveah was not Mikael's daughter. Once Mikael learned of Esther's infidelity and realized that her lover's pack were the werewolves who had killed Henrik, Mikael hunted down and killed Neveah and Klaus' father and his entire family, igniting a war between Vampires and werewolves that still exists to this day. Soon after the Mikaelsons were turned into vampires and learned of Klaus and Neevah's werewolf heritage, Esther was obligated to curse Klaus and Neveah in order to make their werewolf nature dormant so that they would not upset nature further by possessing so much power. However, Klaus and Neveah both felt betrayed by this punishment, and in retaliation, Klaus murdered his mother and framed Mikael for the act.*

***Mikael***

***Esther***

***Freya Mikaelson***

***Keelin Malraux***

***Freya's Unborn Son***

***Mathias Griffith-Malraux***

***Finn Mikaelson***

***Sage Benedici***

***Elijah Mikaelson***

***Katerina Petrova***

***Emersyn Mikaelson***

***Niklaus Mikaelson***

***Lorelei Gilbert***

***Jenna Mikaelson***

***Miranda Kenner***

***Alexandria Mikaelson***

***Hakon Mikaelson***

***Henrik Mikaelson***

***Neveah Mikaelson***

***Damon Salvatore***

***Sophie Mikaelson-Salvatore***

***Kol Mikaelson***

***Bonnie Bennett***

***Qetsiyah Mikaelson***

***Rebekah Mikaelson***

***Stefan Salvatore***

***Lillian Salvatore***

***Eden Salvatore***

***Henrik Mikaelson***

## Family Members

***Mikael: Mikael was an Original vampire who was once a Viking and a wealthy landowner in Norway. He is the patriarch of the Mikaelson family and is the father of Freya, Finn, Elijah, Kol, Rebekah and Henrik and the step-father of Niklaus and Neveah. He was in his early 50s when he was turned into a vampire and was seen to be strong, controlling, domineering, strict, and authoritarian in nature, qualities that were only magnified upon his transition. After moving to the New World, his wife bore more children, and his family was quite close, though he and Klaus didn't get along well at all, due to the fact that Klaus was the product of an affair with the Alpha of the werewolf clan in their village along with Neveah. His wife had been unfaithful many years before and when he found out about her affair, he hunted down and killed Klaus and Neveah's father and his entire family.***

***Esther: Esther was the Original Witch (or, rather, the witch of the Original family), who was married to a wealthy landowner from Norway, Mikael. She is the mother of Freya, Finn, Elijah, Niklaus, Neveah, Kol, Rebekah, and Henrik. She was in her mid to late '40s when she was killed, and was beautiful, strong, powerful and fierce, like a lioness protecting her cubs. Esther was the one who turned her family into vampires by using a modified version of the immortality spell that involved drawing on the sun and the White Oak Tree. She was also the witch who placed The Hybrid Curse on Klaus and Neveah. It is assumed that Klaus strangled her to death after she cursed him and his twin-sister, Neveah, but it was later revealed in Bringing Out The Dead, that Esther's body was preserved by Ayana and kept in one of Klaus' coffins.***

***Freya: Freya was Mikael and Esther's firstborn child, and the oldest sister of Finn, Elijah, Kol, Rebekah and Henrik, and the half-sister of Niklaus and Neveah. It was said that the oldest Original sibling had died in the Old World (specifically Norway) because of the plague. However, it was later revealed in Wheel Inside the Wheel that Esther made a deal with her sister, a witch named Dahlia, in order to magically give her the ability to have children. However, Dahlia required that Esther gives her payment for this magic - Esther must give Dahlia her first-born child Freya, as well as each of her children's first-borns and every subsequent first-born as long as her line shall live. In order to cover up what had really happened, Dahlia demanded that Esther lie to Mikael when he returned from battle and say that Freya perished from the plague. The death of their firstborn caused Esther and Mikael, along with Freya's brother Finn and their newest baby Elijah to move themselves to a "mystical land" where a witch told them the inhabitants had the gift of perfect health, increased strength, and speed. Years later, Henrik, the youngest of the family, died when he and the curious Klaus went out to watch the villagers transform into werewolves and was attacked, reminding Mikael, Esther, and Finn of the loss of Freya and motivating them to turn the family into vampires to ensure they would never feel the pain of losing a child again. It was revealed that Freya is alive trapped in a coffin in the attic at Dowager Fauline's mansion, along with her sister Rebekah. Later, Freya and Rebekah left the asylum after Freya saved Rebekah and killed most of The Kindred, especially Cassie. Freya is extremely dedicated to the protection of her family, especially after she fought so hard to be reunited with them. Any time when her family is in danger, she believes, as the oldest sibling, that it's her job to protect them, no matter the cost, and shoulders the burdens.***

***Finn: Finn was the second child born to Mikael and Esther the step-son of Ansel, the younger brother of Freya, and the oldest brother of Elijah, Kol, Rebekah and Henrik, and the half-brother of Niklaus and Neveah. Finn was in his late 20s when he was turned and was handsome, tall and physically imposing. Quiet, calm, even-tempered and introverted, but ashamed of what he and his siblings became, he was one of the most moral of the Originals, along with Elijah, and was prone to self-hatred of his vampire existence. Before Finn was undaggered, Elijah stated that Finn had been neutralized for nine hundred years. Elijah later removed the dagger from his body in the episode Bringing Out The Dead, allowing Finn to experience how much the world had changed in the time he was incapacitated. Before being daggered, Finn had fallen deeply in love with a woman in his village named Sage, and he later turned Sage into a vampire despite his distaste for his own species.***

***Elijah: Elijah was the third-born child of Mikael and Esther the step-son of Ansel, the younger brother of Freya and Finn, the elder brother of Kol, Rebekah, and Henrik, and the elder half-brother of Niklaus and Neveah. Elijah was described to be noble, honorable, moral and compassionate, qualities that were only amplified when he was turned into a vampire. Although he loved his younger brother and sisters, Niklaus, Neveah, and Rebekah. dearly Elijah resided in the Mikaelson compound in New Orleans with his brother Klaus and the mother of his niece, Lorelei Gilbert and he eventually married Katherine Pierce/Katerina Petrova.***

***Niklaus: Niklaus (known to most as Klaus, and to his maternal half-siblings as Nik) was the fourth child born to Esther and a werewolf named Ansel, the older-brother of Neveah the step-son of Mikael, the maternal younger half-brother of Freya Mikaelson, Finn, and Elijah, and the maternal older half-brother of Kol, Rebekah, and Henrik. He is the original vampire-werewolf hybrid, the first and only werewolf to be turned into a hybrid by magic rather than the blood of a hybrid other then his younger-sister, he who is said to be the most hated and feared of all the Original vampires, as well as arguably the most powerful creature on earth. During his mortal life, Klaus was described as impulsive, reckless, careless, adventurous, and a risk-taker, a daredevil at heart, which was magnified upon being turned into a hybrid. He was so resolute to punish those who wronged him that he hunted Katherine Pierce, Rose, and Trevor for over 500 years in order to get revenge after they sabotaged his first attempt to break his curse. He spent much of his life seeking out the ingredients to break his curse, most important of which was the last human Petrova doppelgänger, Elena and Lorelei, whose blood was needed to break the spell sealed within the moonstone. Upon his introduction in The Vampire Diaries, Klaus used Alaric's body to educate himself on his new enemies in the Mystic Falls Gang. He and Neveah succeeds in breaking the 1000-year-old curse that held their dormant werewolf gene in check, which was the first step in returning to his true hybrid state and being able to sire more hybrids of his own. Since moving to New Orleans, discovering he had fathered a child and later children with Lorelei Gilbert , and regaining and losing his title as king of the city, Klaus has reconnected with his humanity and has been shown to be a much more kind, thoughtful, and merciful person. However, he still had no problem punishing those who seek to harm the family he has created with his siblings Elijah and Rebekah, his daughter's mother Lorelei , his surrogate son Marcel, and his children Jenna, Hakon, Alexandria, and Henrik II/Henrik.***

***Neveah: Neveah known as the her siblings Veah is the fifth child born to Esther and a werewolf named Ansel, the younger-sister of Niklaus known as Klaus, the step-daughter of Mikael, the maternal younger half-sister of Freya Mikaelson, Finn, and Elijah, and the maternal older half-sister of Kol, Rebekah, and Henrik. She is the first female Original vampire-werewolf hybrid, the first and only werewolf to be turned into a hybrid by magic rather than the blood of a hybrid other then her older-brother Niklaus known as Klaus she is shown to be kind, and moral but not aboving being cruel, ruthless, and impulsive like her older-brother she is claimed to be the worst and best original as she can be your bestfriend but you don't wanna disrespect her older-brothers nor younger-siblings or older-sister in front of her if you want your head to be attached to your body. She is just as ruthless as her brother when it comes to protecting her family she doesn't let anything stand against her.***

***Kol: Kol is the sixth child born to Esther and fifth born to Mikael the step-son of Ansel, the younger brother of Freya, Finn and Elijah, the younger half-brother of Niklaus and Neveah and the elder brother of Rebekah and Henrik. Kol was described as cocky, extroverted, charming, daring and outspoken. Very little is known about Kol's early history, but it has been revealed throughout The Originals that Kol was the only Mikaelson child to have tapped into his witch heritage prior to being turned into a vampire, and once he lost his powers, he traveled the world and studied as many forms of witchcraft as he could with various witch communities over his thousand years of life. He has also demonstrated what is often referred to as "middle-child-syndrome," where he seeks the attention of his family due to feeling as though he doesn't fit into the close relationship shared between Elijah, Klaus, and Rebekah. His personality was that of an immature, cocky teenager, and demonstrated an attitude of believing himself better than humans because of his status as an Original vampire. While living in Mystic Falls, Kol was seen to constantly clash with Damon Salvatore; and the two have repeatedly tried to kill each other.***

*Rebekah: Rebekah is the seventh child born to Esther and sixth to Mikael the step-daughter of Ansel, the younger sister of Freya, Finn, Elijah, and Kol, the younger half-sister of **Niklaus and Neveah and the elder sister of Henrik. Rebekah is the second female Original vampire and is described as being beautiful, carefree, adventurous, and free-spirited, though not without a temper. Rebekah is seen to have a very close, yet complicated relationship with her elder half-brother, Niklaus, and has a close, loving relationship with Elijah. Over the course of her life, she was daggered multiple times by Klaus, though only a few dates are known; the first time she was seen to be daggered was in 1835 when she was revealed to be in a relationship with Marcel despite Klaus' orders not to do so. In 1922, she and her half-brother, Niklaus ended up in Chicago after fleeing New Orleans, where she briefly met Stefan Salvatore during his decades-long "Ripper" period. Soon afterward, she fell deeply in love with him, but after her vampire-hunting father managed to track them down in Chicago, Klaus decided they needed to flee immediately. When Rebekah made it clear that she wanted to stay with Stefan, Klaus daggered her once again for going against his wishes, and she wasn't reawakened until 2010. Rebekah, much like Klaus started out as someone prone to being vindictive, spiteful, and vengeful, but over time she has grown and matured into a caring person who isn't prone to violence and killing unless she feels she must. Rebekah also has a tendency to love with all of her heart and has had many love interests over the years, including Alexander of the Five, the Governor of Louisiana's son Emil, Marcel, and Stefan her now husband.***

***Henrik Mikaelson: Henrik was the last and eighth born child of Mikael and Esther, the younger brother of Freya, Finn, Elijah, Kol and Rebekah and the younger half-brother of Niklaus and Neveah. Henrik was the youngest sibling and child of the Original family. Henrik was killed after he and Klaus went to watch the men in the village transition from humans to werewolves. Because of this, Klaus during that time had felt an extreme amount of guilt and responsibility for Henrik's death. Henrik's unexpected death caused Mikael to have the family turned into vampires, to prevent any more of his children from dying.***

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