Dahlia

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**Dahlia** *(**Elder Futhark:** ᛞᚨᚺᛚᛁᚨ)* was "one of the most powerful witches in history". She was the older sister of Esther, the sister-in-law of Mikael, the maternal aunt of Freya, Finn, Elijah, Niklaus, Kol, Rebekah, and Henrik Mikaelson, the great-aunt of Freya's deceased unborn son, Klaus and Hayley's daughter, Hope, and the adoptive great-aunt to Lizzie and Josie.

Described by Freya as the most powerful witch she has ever seen, Dahlia first gained her enhanced powers by linking her magic to the magic possessed by her then five-year-old niece Freya. Once Freya reached adulthood, Dahlia then cast a spell that allows them both to gain pseudo-immortality by leap-frogging through time; the women were put into a magically-induced sleep for nearly a century, only to awaken for one single year of life and aging with all of the magic they accrued over their hundred-year-long slumber, before they would once again return to their sleep after the year had passed.

Dahlia's understanding of magic after so many years of study is extensive enough that she was able to create her own form of Connective Magic in the 10th century. She also had the ability to sense the magic of other witches, especially those of the first-born children of her and her sister Esther's bloodline, as the first-born witches of their lineage possess devastating amounts of power. According to Freya, Dahlia aimed to be truly immortal without having to sleep for centuries, and she will not hesitate to come and claim the first-born Mikaelson witches to achieve this goal, even if it means destroying anyone who stands in her way.

**Dahlia**was a relative to the **Mikaelson Family** via her sister, and was a member of an unnamed **Norwegian family of powerful witches**.

## Powers and Abilities

As one of the most powerful witches in history, Dahlia was powerful enough to be feared by Esther, her younger sister who bore the same title. In addition to Esther, Finn and Freya were both terrified of her due to the fact that the first-born witches born to every generation of their bloodline, including Dahlia, Freya, and Hope possess what Dahlia described as "devastating" magical power.

While the full extent of Dahlia's power remains unknown, Freya explained to her brother that she herself was still running from Dahlia, her power was strong enough to defeat her the moment they reunited. This confirmed that Dahlia was much more powerful than Freya and that she was truly to be feared by the Mikaelson family. Freya also claimed that Esther paled in comparison to her sister, in part due to Dahlia's ability to sense magic in others, especially in witches of their bloodline. Dahlia appears to be very skilled in sensing magic. As shown when Freya tried to trick her into a killing field, Dahlia managed to sense the ingredients that the spell was composed of.

Dahlia was very talented in the Dark Arts and was able to use her magic to cast a fertility spell on Esther, although it came at the price of Esther's first-born child and the first-born child of Mikaelson witches to follow for as long as their line shall last. As revealed by Freya, Dahlia had been able to keep herself alive for over a thousand years by casting an enchantment on herself (and Freya) that would place her in a deep slumber for a hundred years, only to wake for one year of life and then repeat the cycle. During the sleep, their magic would accrue over the decades until they finally awakened stronger than they had ever been. According to Dahlia, this enchantment was the next best thing to immortality a witch could have, as all other forms of immortality required the witch to be severed from their connection to magic. Due to the spells she cast on herself and Freya, she was capable of incredible acts of power. She once wiped out an entire village of people with the wave of her hand, killing men, women, and children alike because she was threatened with death for practicing the craft. Dahlia was able to hold that much power even when her body was not yet indestructible. Dahlia was also responsible for creating Freya's Talisman, which allowed Freya to focus her own magic, and could also act as a limbo that prevented Finn's spirit from crossing over.

Through her Kenning spell, she had the ability to enter minds *en masse*, allowing herself to see through their eyes, and talk through their mouths. She used this to spy on her marks before making her move against them. She could even gift a fraction of her own power to her "acolytes" and command said army to do her bidding with ease. She was able to desiccate both Klaus and Mikael at once with little effort and without making physical contact with them and even teleport instantly, seemingly without the need of a spell.

Casting spells appeared to be of very little trouble for Dahlia, as she destroyed the enchanted blade that was created to kill her without so much as an incantation, and she only needed to blow on Josephine LaRue's hands to heal them of the curse that had plagued them for decades. Dahlia then killed Josephine by slitting her throat with a violin bow.

Dahlia displayed the power to use Kenning on corpses after she killed Josephine and subsequently reanimated her long enough to use Kenning to send a message to her nieces and nephews at the Mikaelson compound. She had also displayed the power to create plant life and accelerate its growth, as she conjured vines with black dahlia flowers that covered the entirety of the exterior of St. James Infirmary to make her arrival known to Alex. She could also cause plant life to die, as she did with the bouquet Aiden bought to give to his boyfriend Josh. While at the Mikaelsons' safe house, she also disrupted the nearby cell phone towers to prevent anyone from calling for help. She had shown herself to be proficient in snapping bones, breaking necks, and ripping/puncturing flesh with only simple hand gestures, and could easily use telekinesis to rip a heart from a victim's chest. She even managed to kill Aiden in a manner that appeared as though he was killed by a werewolf or hybrid, complete with claw marks all over his body, to cause Klaus' family and allies to believe that he was the one who had killed him. She had also been shown to play her signature tune on various instruments, with and without magic, including music boxes, violins, and church bells. Dahlia was able to take Klaus's consciousness into her own mind to convince him that they could be allies. She even managed to wake him from desiccation without even making contact with his physical body, and conjured a thunderstorm in a remote area of the Bayou all the way from Lafayette Cemetery to create a flood that would prevent Jackson, Hayley, and Hope from escaping, though, both feats were done by channeling an unknown herb soaked in blood.

Dahlia once again used her powers of mind control to gather innocents for Klaus to feed on. She easily dismissed the storm she conjured herself away with the wave of her hand. She flung Freya across the Abattoir with a simple gesture and subdued her with no need of an incantation. She then reactivated the Crescent Moon Curse on Alex and Hayley's pack, modifying the spell so that everyone affected by the unification ceremony of the werewolves will be affected. Dahlia was able to link herself to Klaus, ensuring that she would no longer need to sleep for another century. However, Klaus took this as an opportunity to dagger himself so he could, in turn, neutralize his aunt. Unfortunately, hours later, Dahlia managed to melt the dagger while incapacitated and conjured a vast overgrowth of dahlia vines to procure a drop of Hope' blood, all the while severing the link she made with her nephew. Dahlia managed to render the White Oak Stake into ash so she could disperse it in the air and slowly kill Elijah, Klaus, and Rebekah while almost managing to kill Freya, after channeling a waning moon, had it not been for Esther's timely intervention. Dahlia did not seem able to break free from the cursed shackles used to choke her by Esther, despite having the potential to break through it, thus allowing Klaus to stab her and Esther to death. This was most likely due to psychological hold Esther had over her, which weakened her enough to let this happen.

Dahlia is the only witch so far that has been able to make a form of pseudo-immortality which allowed her to retain her magical powers. Dahlia was also the only witch known to have forged a new brand of an established form of magic, connective magic, which augments a witch's power.

Her mystical attributes aside, Dahlia's greatest asset was her sharp intellect. Her penchant for strategies and forming contingencies way ahead of time, easily surpasses Elijah's, she came up with a plan, to make it look like Klaus had killed Aiden and frame him for this act, effectively dividing the family to the point that they were too scattered to create a comprehensive plan, and turning her nephew, Klaus against his maternal half-siblings and Hayley.

Her only intellectual equal was Klaus, who was barely able to outsmart her.

## Weaknesses

Dahlia was susceptible to the forces of witchcraft. Like all creatures, Dahlia could be undone by powerful magic, however, according to Freya Mikaelson, it would require power equivalent to Dahlia's (or greater) to defeat her.

Shortly after her arrival in New Orleans, Freya gave her father a spell with the necessary ingredients to kill Dahlia. Apparently, the combination of sacred soil from her homeland (Norway), along with the ash from her oppressors (Vikings) and the blood of the one person she loves most (Esther) can be combined to create Dahlia's sole weakness and forged into a powerful weapon against her. However, it appears that this combination of ingredients only had the power to render her mortal, and could not kill her outright;  Freya's plan was to use them to create a "killing field" to strip away her pseudo-immortality and make it so that she could be killed by conventional means.

While linked to Klaus, she overcame her need to be forced to sleep for 100 years by drawing on the power of his immortal body. But that power came at the cost of sharing Klaus's fate. When Klaus daggered himself with the Golden White Oak Ash dagger, Dahlia was also incapacitated. Should Klaus be killed by having his heart stabbed by the White Oak Stake while Dahlia were still linked to Klaus, Dahlia would have also died.

It should be noted that when she was strangled with the cursed shackles by Esther, Dahlia did not fight back or break free from this hold. One can assume it was most likely due to the psychological hold Esther had over her sister and this delay is what ultimately allowed Klaus to kill her.