Dahlia

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## Biographical Information

### Born

* 10th Century  (Kingdom of Norway, Age Unknown/1060+)

### Occupation

* Guardian of Freya Mikaelson  (Formerly)

### Titles

* The Devil  (by Freya)
* Evil Witch, Vile Harpy  (both by Klaus)
* Hypocritical Bitch  (by Athena and Klaus)

### Species

* Witch
* Spirit  (Currently)

## Family Information

### Family Members

* Mikael † (Brother-In-Law)
* Esther Mikaelson † (Younger Sister)
* Freya Mikaelson (Niece)
* Finn Mikaelson (Nephew)
* Elijah Mikaelson (Nephew)
* Niklaus Mikaelson (Nephew)
* Kol Mikaelson (Nephew)
* Rebekah Mikaelson (Niece)
* Henrik Mikaelson (Nephew)
* Freya's Unborn Son † (Great-Nephew)
* Jack Mikaelson (Great-Nephew)
* Hope Mikaelson (Great-Niece)
* Artemis Mikaelson (Great-Niece)
* Jax Salvatore (Step-Great-Nephew)
* Nina Salvatore (Step-Great-Niece)
* Lily Salvatore (Step-Great-Niece)
* Vivian Mikaelson  (Great-Niece)
* Vanessa Mikaelson (Great-Niece)
* Adella Mikaelson (Adoptive Great-Niece)
* Victoria Mikaelson (Great-Niece)
* Miranda Mikaelson (Great-Niece)
* Jenna Mikaelson (Great-Niece)
* Finn Mikaelson (Great-Nephew)
* Mason Mikaelson (Great-Nephew)
* Nik Mikaelson (Great-Nephew)

## Supernatural Information

### Significant Spells

* Fertility Spell  (on Esther)
* Connective Magic  (using Freya and Klaus)
* Pain Infliction  (various)
* Spell of Revelations
* Talisman Creation  (Freya's Talisman)
* Immortality Slumber Spell  (on herself and Freya)
* Kenning Spell  (various)
* Healing Spell  (on Josephine)
* Telekinesis  (various)
* Desiccation Spell
* Localized Teleportation Spell
* Pyrokinesis
* Electromagnetic Spell  (twice)
* Nature Spell  (twice)
* Memory Recollection Spell  (with Klaus)
* Melting Spell  (on Golden Dagger)
* Tempest Spell
* The Crescent Curse  (adapted)
* Salt Boundary Spell  (around herself and Freya)
* Destroying the Indestructible White Oak Stake

### Significant Kills

* Everyone in an unnamed village
* Mathias
* Josephine LaRue
* Several Evolved Werewolves
* Aiden

### Killed By

* Niklaus Mikaelson  (After being emotionally weakened by Esther)

## Physical Appearance

### Height

* 5'8"  (Feet)
* 1.73  (Meters)

## Appearance

### Played By

* Claudia Black
* Kristin Erickson  (Young)
* Kinsey Kunkel  (Child)

### Episode Count

* 9  (including two archive footage appearances)

### First Seen

* *Wheel Inside the Wheel*  (Flashback)
* *Night Has A Thousand Eyes*  (First modern day appearance)

### Last Seen

* *Ashes to Ashes*

**Dahlia** *(**Elder Futhark:** ᛞᚨᚺᛚᛁᚨ)* was "one of the most powerful witches in history" and the main antagonist of the second season of *The Originals*. 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, and also the great-aunt of Freya's deceased unborn son, Jack, Hope, Artemis, Victoria, Miranda, Jenna, Nik, Finn, Mason, Vivian, and Vanessa. She is also the step-great-aunt to Jax, Nina, and Lily, and is the adoptive great-aunt to Adella.

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**.

## Early History

Dahlia was born in Norway at some point in the 10th century. She was the first-born child of unnamed witch parents and the oldest sister of Esther. They both belonged to a long and powerful bloodline of witches whose first-born children are well-known to possess even greater magical strength, and because of this, Dahlia and Esther were presumably taught the craft from a young age. Dahlia devoted herself to the mystical arts (unlike her sister Esther, who felt insecure in her abilities in comparison to her prodigious sister and as a result did not take her practice of witchcraft as seriously), and Dahlia grew to become a very skilled and powerful witch.

Sometime between the late 960s and the early 970s A.D., Viking warriors attacked Dahlia's village and killed everyone in it. Dahlia and Esther then hid behind a wheelbarrow, the two sisters promised each other that they would remain together no matter what happened, "always and forever". When a Viking found the sisters and attempted to attack Esther, Dahlia telekinetically shoved him away from her, which led the Vikings to take both girls prisoner rather than killing them like the rest of the villagers. The girls were taken to a nearby hovel, where Dahlia agreed to do the Dark Magic that the Vikings wanted from her to ensure that Esther wouldn't be harmed; instead, Dahlia took the abuse from the Vikings in Esther's place to protect her from the worst of the horrors of their situation.

One day, while toiling in the hovel while Esther picked herbs for her outdoors, Dahlia managed to stealthily infuse potent sage with serpent's blood to give herself and Esther the magical strength necessary to escape their captivity. However, when Esther returned and Dahlia explained her plan, Esther instead confessed that she no longer wanted to practice witchcraft because she had fallen in love with one of their Viking captors, Mikael, with whom she planned to marry and start a family. Dahlia was emotionally devastated by this revelation and begged Esther to stay with her, reminding her of their promise to stay together forever, but though Esther assured her they would always be sisters, she left despite Dahlia's pleas and married Mikael some time later. It was after this event that Dahlia, who was angry that she was living in subjugation under the Vikings and was betrayed by Esther, vowed that she would never be weak again, a vow that would ultimately shape who Dahlia became in adulthood.

In 972 A.D., after being married to Mikael for a year and still not succeeding in conceiving a child, Esther feared she was cursed to be barren and begged Dahlia for her assistance in casting a fertility spell. This angered Dahlia, who pointed out that if Esther hadn't abandoned her heritage as a witch in pursuit of marriage and motherhood with a Viking warrior, she would be able to help herself. However, in spite of her disappointment in her sister, Dahlia agreed to help Esther and admitted that she could never deny her baby sister. However, Dahlia warned her that such magic would require a great sacrifice. Desperate with nowhere else to turn, Esther blindly agreed to the terms; in exchange for casting the fertility spell on Esther, Dahlia would be given claim to Esther's first-born child, as well as every first-born child that followed for as long as Esther's bloodline should last. However, a millennia later, Esther would refer to Dahlia as someone who was willing to magically solve a person's problems for a steep price, suggesting that perhaps Dahlia's motives in helping Esther weren't as altruistic as she made them seem at the time.

Five years later, Dahlia returned to take the first-born child of Esther and her husband, Freya, after she sensed the magical potential in the child. When Esther began to resist giving up her eldest daughter, Dahlia threatened her by reminding Esther that if she did not deliver on her end of the bargain, that not only would she take Freya, but she would also take *all* of her children, including young Finn and baby Elijah, who was still in the womb at the time. Esther became furious and vowed that she would immerse herself in the Dark Arts again until she grew in power to the point that she could one day defeat her sister. However, Dahlia was not intimidated, and she reminded her that Esther could never match her power. Afterward, Esther did as Dahlia suggested and told her husband that their daughter died in the plague. In their grief, Esther, Mikael, and their sons Finn and Elijah set out on a journey to the New World in hopes of preventing the loss of more children to the disease.

With Freya in her possession, Dahlia planned to make the child the first of a long line of Mikaelson firstborns, believing that she would not only be able to use to create an all-powerful coven with her sister's descendants, but would also be granted an endless source of magical power from which Dahlia could channel to fuel her spells. After forging her own brand of connective magic, Dahlia cast a connectivity spell on herself and Freya, which both augmented the younger witch's power and allowed Dahlia to draw more strength from her. This gave Dahlia more power than ever, which she then immediately used to destroy an entire Viking village, whose chief had threatened to have her exiled for being a witch, with a wave of her hand.

Dahlia spent the next years raising Freya and training her in witchcraft, which led her to become a powerful witch in her own right. According to Freya's accounts later in life, Dahlia treated her like a slave and only seemed to value her for how much power she could give her; however, though Dahlia herself later admitted that she made a mistake in denying Freya the love of a parent, she still insists that she was only doing what needed to be done to both protect Freya from anyone who would use her for her magical gifts and to protect Freya from her own immense, wild magical power that came from her status as a first-born witch of Dahlia and Esther's bloodline. Eventually, Dahlia enacted her plan to make both herself and Freya essentially immortal by casting a spell which protect them from all conventional forms of harm and death and live for centuries; the spell would require that Dahlia and Freya sleep in a state of suspended animation for a full century, after which they would awaken for one single year of activity and aging with access to all of the power they had accrued during their long slumber, making them among the most powerful witches in history. However, Freya, tired of living as an indentured servant with no life or freedom of her own, pleaded to Dahlia to spare her from the spell, which she believed to be a curse; unfortunately for Freya, Dahlia cast the spell on them both anyway, and insisted that Freya would one day thank her for gifting her with eternal life.

When Dahlia learned that Esther had turned her husband and surviving children into vampires, preventing them from ever having children of their own whom Dahlia could claim as part of her bargain with Esther, she became furious at this loss of potential Mikaelson witches whom she believed she was owed. In response to this unexpected setback, she turned to Freya, the last living Mikaelson, to continue Esther's bloodline. Freya, who hated Dahlia for everything she had inflicted on her over the course of her life, swore she would never love or have children, as she knew they would be condemned to the same life of slavery that she was. However, after Dahlia and Freya awoke for their single year of life in the early 1400s, Freya fell in love with a man named Mathias despite her vow to remain alone. Dahlia encouraged this romance in hopes that Freya would bear her a child to add to their power, and eventually, Freya did indeed become pregnant with a son. Mathias, like Freya, wanted their child to be free more than anything else, and so he tried to help the three of them escape from Dahlia shortly before the child would be born. When Dahlia learned of this betrayal, she killed Mathias before Freya's eyes with a death hex. Grief-stricken, Freya drank the most potent of Dahlia's poisons, hoping to kill herself and her child and end the vicious cycle of misery in which she was trapped. However, the spell Dahlia cast that granted them pseudo-immortality also protected them from any form of harm, rendering Freya incapable of dying from any means, including by poison. Unfortunately for Freya, her unborn son was not afforded this protection, and he ultimately died from the poison she drank, a revelation which devastated Freya. Dahlia was furious with her for taking the life of the first-born she was owed, but she claimed that she would, eventually, come to forgive her.

An unknown amount of time later, Freya finally managed to escape Dahlia's control, although according to her, she knows Dahlia will not stop until she finally tracks her down - when she described her situation to Elijah, Freya stated that her punishment for running away from Dahlia would be "profound".

## Personality

It had been suggested by Esther/Dahlia herself and later confirmed in flashbacks that she was much kinder and caring in her youth, as Dahlia claimed to have not only taken the brunt of the Vikings' abuse while she and Esther were in captivity to prevent her sister from being harmed, but that she also never resented Esther for it, as they had made a promise to stick together forever. Esther also went to her for help to give her the ability to conceive children and did not anticipate the payment Dahlia would request in exchange, suggesting that Dahlia's personality was much more gentle in her earlier years. However, after Esther left her sister to marry one of their Viking captors, Dahlia's hatred of being oppressed by the warriors led her to develop a much colder and more calculating personality after she vowed to never allow herself to be that vulnerable again.

In adulthood, Dahlia became a wicked, selfish, manipulative, and spiteful woman, as evidenced by when she collected her niece Freya from Esther in payment for her fertility spell and threatened to take all of Esther's children if Esther did not comply. Dahlia was devoted to witchcraft and seemingly found the idea of starting a family ridiculous, though she had no qualms with raising the children she would claim from the Mikaelson bloodline in order to augment her own magic. While she did help Esther get pregnant with a spell, it was only as a means to her own end; to create an extremely powerful coven of witches from whom she could use as a source of power. It had even been speculated that Dahlia could have originally cursed Esther with infertility in the first place in retribution for abandoning her, though this has yet to be confirmed in canon. During flashbacks to her time spent raising Freya, Dahlia showed several key traits of psychopathy, such as a lack of remorse and empathy, evidenced by the fact that she had no difficulty destroying those who sought to prevent her from gaining more power, and went so far as to bluntly tell a five-year-old Freya, after she began crying for her mother, that Esther no longer wanted her.

She had also been said to deal with disobedience harshly, as Freya said that any disobedience was punishable by death in Dahlia's eyes, and that she feared her own punishment for leaving Dahlia's control will be "profound".

Based on Freya's words, she seemed to share some traits of personality with her nephew Klaus, and Dahlia herself even claimed that she and Klaus shared the same plight after they were both abused and oppressed in their youth by those who sought to control them. She had also shown similarities with another one of her nephews, Elijah, as they both believe that true power comes from family; however, they each had very different perspectives on how that power should be used.

She was a fundamentally selfish person, viewing everything in relation to how it benefited herself and increased her own power, and had little interest in how it could negatively affect others. However, though Dahlia was one of the most powerful witches in history, and had used her power to great effect against those who stood against her, she preferred to achieve her goals with the least amount of complication, effort, or violence, and as a result, she was not above playing nice with others to expedite her plans. She had been shown to make deals, compromises, and concessions in order to get what she wants more efficiently, and did not seem to want to resort to killing or violence unless it was absolutely necessary. She claimed to be willing to allow Klaus to take care of Hope as her father while she trained her in using her powers, as doing so would give Dahlia access to the power she claimed she was owed while still giving Hope the parental love and affection that she mistakenly denied Freya; Dahlia freely admitted that it was that lack of parental love that caused Freya to turn against her, and claimed that this was something she did not wish to repeat with Hope. However, as with Esther, Dahlia's bargains had a hefty price, and she asked Klaus to eliminate Hayley to ensure that their arrangement continued as promised without complication.

As Dahlia predominately seemed to use dark magic, she had shown an affinity for land that is steeped in darkness and death, locations that have been imbued with the dark power created by a massacre, or sacred ground that has been stained by the blood of the innocent. When Dahlia used Kenning to possess Jackson, he felt her inside his mind and described her as being nothing but pure darkness. However, she did respect the passion that Klaus showed in defense of those he cared about, which she said she had not anticipated given the reputation that proceeded him. Nevertheless, she showed no mercy in striking him down after he and Mikael showed up with a weapon to render her mortal, as she was intent on gaining what she believed was hers. Despite her methods, Dahlia made it clear that she only came for Hope and she would be willing to spare the lives of the Mikaelsons if her wishes were granted, showing a measure of twisted mercy. She showed a similar kindness to the werewolf Aiden while she was brutally killing him, suggesting that, in a warped way, she appreciated the people she killed for their role in her plans, as her goal for Aiden's death was to cause the Mikaelsons to turn against each other, an intention that ultimately played out exactly as she wanted.

Despite the behavior Dahlia exhibited, she had a very rigid sense of honor, as she prided herself on being a woman of her word and made it clear that she expected those with whom she has made promises to do the same. As such, she had constantly reiterated that she promised not to harm any of the Mikaelsons and their allies as long as they handed Hope over to her. She also appeared to have a very corrupted sense of respect for her own kind. This was evidenced when Dahlia, who had the intention of killing a witch ally of the Mikaelsons named Josephine to help weaken their plans to protect Hope from her, was surprisingly polite and gentle with her target. Dahlia even went so far as to cure Josephine's cursed hands and allowed her to play her beloved violin one last time before she slit her throat with the very bow she used to play.

Dahlia was brutally victimized by the Vikings in her youth in Norway, and she had since then vowed to never be weak again. It was this event that played the most major role in who Dahlia became in adulthood and also led to her hatred of Vikings in general, especially Mikael, who married her sister and took her away from her.

Dahlia was seemingly hypocritical, though, as she has stated on more than one occasion that she believed that she had done nothing but good for Freya and even went so far as to suggest that her family only wanted to use her for her power, behavior that, in psychology, was referred to "projection"; in this case, Dahlia projecting onto Freya her awareness that she had used Freya for her power for centuries in order to turn her against those who would try to stop her from doing so.

Dahlia was very intelligent and a brilliant strategist, as she killed Aiden and made it look like Klaus did it, to 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, however, unlike her sister Esther, she never underestimated members of her family or her enemies.

Dahlia gave her nephew, Klaus, a glimpse into her past to make him understand things from her point of view in an attempt to show them that they were, in a way, kindred spirits. Like Klaus, she was painted as the villain in their families, and she walked him through her memories that demonstrated she was once a loyal, loving and protective sister to Esther who did her best to make sure that Esther wasn't harmed while they served the Vikings. However, when Esther betrayed her, Dahlia grew to become the woman that she was today. Despite her suffering, Dahlia was shown to truly care for Freya, her eldest niece, helping her to control her unbridled powers and protecting her from the evils of those who hated witches for practicing a magic they couldn't hope to understand.

However, Dahlia's heart had long been turned to stone after Esther turned her back on her older sister, to marry Mikael. Her reaching out to Klaus was a blatant attempt at exploiting his deep-seated vulnerabilities so she could have Hope's power without any opposition. She never anticipated that Klaus was only putting on an act to buy his siblings time to prepare the weapon to kill her and she reacted to his with unrestrained fury. She revealed to Freya that she lost the ability to love after Esther abandoned her and that Freya was never able to soften her heart, vowing to destroy her younger sister's children in revenge.

However, Dahlia eventually made peace with Esther after the latter sacrificed herself to end the former's life. Meeting in the afterlife, Esther delivered a heartfelt apology that Dahlia tearfully accepts, granting both sisters peace.

## Physical Appearance

Dahlia was a brunette with brown eyes, which contrasted greatly with her younger sister Esther's light blonde hair. Her cold brown eyes were an indicator of her cruel, apathetic personality. She shared some resemblance with her nephews Finn, Elijah, Kol and Henrik in their coloring. When she appeared, in the modern day, she had shown a fondness for the color black, as a majority of her clothes were in this color. In her youth in the 10th and 11th centuries, she was shown wearing the simple wool and cotton dresses of the period, while in the modern-day, she was usually seen in long, flowing coats, long-sleeved blouses, fitted pants, and high heeled boots. Her medium-length brown hair was styled in gentle waves, and she had an affinity for wearing multiple rings with large gemstones.

## 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, Jack, Hope, and Artemis 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 in *The Devil is Damned*, 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, Alex, Jack, Hope, and Artemis 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 Jack, Hope, and Artemis' 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, Athena, 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.

## Appearances

* *Wheel Inside the Wheel* (Flashback)
* *Sanctuary* (Archive Footage)
* *They All Asked For You* (Archive Footage)
* *Save My Soul* (Flashback)
* *Night Has A Thousand Eyes* (First Modern Day Appearance)
* *When the Levee Breaks*
* *City Beneath The Sea*
* *Fire with Fire*
* *Ashes to Ashes* (Death)

* *I'll See You in Hell or New Orleans* (Indirectly mentioned)
* *No More Heartbreaks* (Mentioned)
* *The Bloody Crown* (Mentioned)

* *No Quarter* (Indirectly Mentioned)
* *A Spirit Here That Won't Be Broken* (Mentioned)

**Season Five**

* *Don't It Just Break Your Heart* (Mentioned)

## Name

* **Dahlia** is a feminine name of Nordic origin (da(h)-lia). The name means "valley". It stems from the flower named for 18th-century Swedish botanist Anders Dahl.