Vincent Griffith

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## Biographical Information

### Occupation

* College Student (Formerly)

* Member of the Tremé Coven (Formerly)

* Regent of the New Orleans Witch Community (Formerly; Shunned)

* Leader of the New Orleans Witch Community (Ancestral Plane Severed)

* Leader of The Faction (Currently)

### Title(s)

* Vince (by Eva)

* Casanova (by Josh)

* Mr. Buzzkill, Vin (Both by Freya)

## Family Information

### Family Members

* Unnamed Mother †

* Unnamed Father †

* Unnamed Maternal Grandmother †

* Unnamed Maternal Great Grandfather †

* Jacob Griffith (Relative)

* Diane Griffith (Relative)

* Jasmine Griffith (Relative)

* Griffith Family

* Eva Sinclair † (Ex-Wife)

* Unborn Child † (Son or Daughter)

* Finn Mikaelson (Biological Son)

## Supernatural Information

### Significant Spells

* Telekinesis (various)

* Pain Infliction (various)

* Tarot Card Divination (twice)

* Glamour Spell (with Freya on Cami)

* Serratura Activation Spell

* Regent Ancestral Communion Spell

* Beast Creation Spell (as a serum)

* Disenchantment Spell (with Davina)

* Consecration (upon Davina)

* Blood Gathering Spell

* Substance Concentration Spell (on the Beast Serum in Aurora)

* Ancestral Locator Spell

* Regent Cloaking Spell (on himself and Cami)

* Ancestral Plane Transcending Spell (twice)

* Soul-Conjuring Spell (on Davina)

* Salt Boundary Spell (twice)

* Revelation Spell

* Cleansing Ritual (on himself)

* Blood Seal Unsealing Spell

* Cleansing Spell

* Pyrokinesis (various)

* Message Spell (to Alexandria)

* Tracing Spell

* Marking Spell (on Will)

* Sacrificial Anchor Transfer Spell (on Elijah)

* The Harvest Ritual (initiated; completed by Davina)

* Spirit Transcending Spell

* Grimoire Locator Spell

* Consciousness Transportation Spell

* Spirit Banishment Spell

* Mind Admittance Spell (twice; on Elijah)

* Spirit Confinement Spell (on the Hollow, with Freya using Klaus, Elijah, Kol and Rebekah)

* Releasing the Ancestral Well (with New Orleans witch covens)

### Significant Kills

* Witch in White

* Unnamed Vampire

* Zealot

* Nathaniel

## Physical Appearance

### Height

* 5'9" (Feet)

* 1.75 (Meters)

## Appearance

### First Seen

* From a Cradle to a Grave (Physically)

* They All Asked For You

### Last Seen

* When The Saints Go Marching In

**Vincent Griffith** is a main character and protagonist on *The Originals*. He is a very powerful witch, the former Regent of the Nine Covens of New Orleans and a former member of the Tremé Coven. He is the ex-husband of fellow Tremé witch, Eva Sinclair.

Vincent eventually left his coven, as he no longer was interested in being apart of the supernatural community, wishing instead to live his own life. He ultimately became a target for Esther Mikaelson because of this and she places her son's spirit, Finn Mikaelson, within him. Finn used Vincent's body throughout the second season and antagonized his brothers and their allies. Eventually, Vincent was freed from Finn's possession in *They All Asked For You*.

Upon regaining his own consciousness, Vincent expressed guilt for Finn's actions. He was approached by Marcel Gerard, who asked him to help them stop Eva Sinclair, as she had been causing trouble at the time. Vincent reluctantly agreed. Not long after, he was offered the role of Regent following Josephine LaRue's death. Vincent declined the offer and suggested Davina Claire become Regent. The Ancestors agreed and he began to mentor her.

In the third season, Vincent and Camille O'Connell worked closely with the police, attempting to stop the murderer that was killing random people in New Orleans. Eventually, Vincent gets Davina shunned with Marcel's help, as he didn't want the Strix harming her. Vincent is then elected as Regent by the Ancestors for a brief time, until being shunned in *The Devil Comes Here and Sighs*.

Following his impeachment, Vincent worked closely with the Mikaelson Family and their closest allies, in an effort to kill Lucien Castle and stop the Ancestors once and for all. In the fourth season, after Vincent severed the link with the Ancestors, he worked for five years to ensure peace between the factions of New Orleans until the Hollow cast her shadow over the Crescent City. Vincent allied with the Mikaelsons once again to defeat their common threat.

## Early History

Vincent Griffith was born to a long line of witches from the Tremé Coven, one of nine covens of witches present in the city of New Orleans. As he once told Camille, his family were some of the meanest witches New Orleans had ever known. Vincent was raised as a witch by his coven while also maintaining as normal a life as possible, going to college and having a job.

Vincent was considered to be a powerful witch by his coven and was apparently well regarded by the other witches of New Orleans (so much so that they later planned to offer him the position of Regent). Throughout his time in New Orleans, Vincent lived in peace among the witches until the troubles with the vampires started again. The witch community remained divided over what to do: several covens refused to take part in the fighting while others sided with the vampires and others decided to do all they could to oppose them (such as the French Quarter Coven).

When Vincent was sixteen, he met Eva Sinclair, a talented and wild witch with whom he developed a romantic relationship and they eventually married. Although the witches were concerned about their relationship because of Eva's wild ways, they let them be because they were both happy. However, when Vincent learned Eva was pregnant, he tried to make the city safer for witches like his unborn child by increasing his power so he could defeat Marcel Gerard, who had ruled the city for nearly a century and kept the witches under his thumb. Vincent was unsuccessful in finding any magic powerful enough until a mysterious notebook appeared in his home one day, an instruction manual for sacrificial magic. Vincent studied it and practiced its magic, granting him immense strength given to him by a mysterious being even older than The Ancestors. Vincent showed the pregnant Eva this power and she became more enraptured by it than even he was, frightening him and making her promise to stop. She seemed to agree, though secretly kept using it.

In 2011, children from various covens started to go missing from different quarters of New Orleans. Each was a witch prodigy and their disappearance caused a great deal of fear in the witch community. Vincent assembled a team of witches from every single coven to track down the kidnapper and the kids but could not find them before they were submitted to a cloaking spell, preventing the use of locator spells. Vincent refused to give up however and managed to cast a locator spell on one of the kidnapped children before the cloaking spell went on. Catching glimpses of visions, Vincent discovered that it was Eva who had been kidnapping the children. He confronted her and captured her. She tried to convince him to help her in her plans: to use one child from each coven of New Orleans as a sacrifice to create a great power source and complete the Rite of Nines, to unite the witches under her, a powerful witch who could destroy the vampires.

However, Vincent refused to help her and tried to cleanse her of the sacrificial power he had shown her and the evil that had given it to him. He was unsuccessful and their unborn child was lost in the process. She was later imprisoned in the witch asylum at the Fauline Cottage. Disillusioned with the supernatural community, he left the Tremé Coven and began leading a life on his own. This left him vulnerable and he was captured by Esther as a vessel for her son, Finn Mikaelson.