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ENTJ. 8w7. Catherine de Medici. Ultron. Khonshu. Hela. Red Skull. Will Traynor. Sauron. **Claudia**. Nathan Bateman. **Jane**. Edward Rochester. Paris Geller. Jo Yiseo. Ko Munyoung. **Olenna Tyrell**. **Katherine Pierce**. **Klaus Mikaelson**. Frank Underwood. **Peter Hale**. Sue Sylvester. Jenna Marshall. **Penelope Park**. Peter Pan (OUAT). Alpha. Dodge. Margo Hanson. **Kaz Brekker**. **Anna Lightwood**. **Jadis (Narnia)**. Bhelen Aeducan. Ares. **Gavin Rose**. **Walburga Black**. **Alger Waterlow**.

Kaz Brekker. Margo Hanson. Anna Lightwood. Alger Waterlow. Olenna Tyrell. Edward Rochester. Jo Yiseo. Penelope Park. Will Traynor. Catherine de Medici.

Jane. Claudia. Jadis. Gavin Rose. Walburga Black. Alpha. Peter Pan. Dodge. Frank Underwood. Nathan Bateman. Sue Sylvester. Peter Hale. Katherine Pierce.

1. Bhelen Aeducan
2. Walburga Black (Jane. Katherine Pierce. Claudia. Paris Geller.)

### Early life

**Harry Potter**: "*Were — were your parents Death Eaters as well?*"
**Sirius Black**: "*No, no, but believe me, they thought Voldemort had the right idea, they were all for the purification of the wizarding race, getting rid of Muggle-borns and having pure-bloods in charge... I bet my parents thought Regulus was a right little hero for joining up at first.*"
— Sirius Black regarding his family's views[src]
Walburga was a member of the traditionalist pure-blood House of Black, who looked down on any except other "respectable" pure-blood wizards and believed in pure-blood supremacy. She was the daughter of Pollux Black and Irma Crabbe, and sister of Alphard and Cygnus. In her youth, she attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry where she was sorted into Slytherin. Shortly after graduating Hogwarts, Walburga waited for her second cousin Orion to finish his education, planning on continuing her pure bloodline by marrying him in a practice of inbreeding that was popular in her family. Walburga married him at some point in the 1950s.

### Family life and death

Walburga gave birth to a son, Sirius, on 3 November 1959. However, Sirius was a severe disappointment to her because he did not agree with the ideology of blood purity and was sorted into Gryffindor House at Hogwarts, rather than the family's traditional house, Slytherin. Growing up, Sirius constantly annoyed his parents, specifically Walburga, by decorating his room with posters from the muggle world depicting bikini-clad women and motorcycles, and had stuck those to the walls with irreversible sticking charms that particularly infuriated her.

Sirius was disinherited and removed from the Black family tree when he left home at the age of sixteen to live with the Potter family. Walburga personally blasted her son from the tapestry. She maintained a habit of blasting people from the Black family tree which stood in the hall of the family home at 12 Grimmauld Place if they displeased her; she did so to her brother Alphard simply because he left gold to Sirius despite being disowned. According to Kreacher, Walburga was actually heartbroken by having to blow her son and brother off the tapestry, but nonetheless disowned both of them to cleanse the tapestry.

Luckily for her, Walburga gave birth to another son, Regulus, around 1961. He followed the family traditions and joined the Slytherin House, and eventually became his mother's favourite, as well as heir to the wealth, position, and traditions of the Black family. Regulus became a Death Eater during the First Wizarding War; although neither Walburga nor Orion were followers of Lord Voldemort themselves, according to Sirius, they thought he "*had the right idea*", until they saw that Voldemort was ruthless in his pursuit for power, at which point they got cold feet.

Regulus was killed in 1979 after trying to destroy Voldemort's Horcrux, and died childless without an heir. As Regulus forbade Kreacher from telling this to anyone, Walburga thought Regulus died trying to leave the organisation. Walburga's husband Orion also died in the same year from an unknown cause. Walburga was obviously devastated when her husband and son died.

In 1981, Walburga's disowned son, Sirius was framed for the murder of his friend, Peter Pettigrew and 12 Muggles and was thus sent to Azkaban. It is possible that if Walburga heard of this, she would have been pleased, given that despite regretting having to disown Sirius she was constantly made irate by his choices.

She died in 1985, leaving her house-elf Kreacher in her now abandoned house.

### Post-mortem

*Main article: Portrait of Walburga Black at 12 Grimmauld Place*
**Walburga Black**: "*Freaks.*"
**Kreacher**: "*There, there, mistress.*"
— Portrait of Walburga on the people staying in her house[src]
Walburga's portrait remained magically fixed to the wall in the hallway of her family home, using a Permanent Sticking Charm. The picture, which was covered in canvas when inactive, showed a more negative version of Walburga who was prone to screaming insults at anyone who disturbed the portrait, particularly that of non-pure-bloods. This happened several times when the Order of the Phoenix used Grimmauld Place as their headquarters after her death, and they tried unsuccessfully to remove the portrait for quite some time.

Walburga survived the deaths of her family, but the destruction of it may account for her final madness. After their deaths, she was alone in the house except for the family house-elf, Kreacher, who seemed equally deranged due to his parroting her beliefs, up until Harry Potter came to know and treat him better one year after inheriting him.

## Personality and traits

"*Stains of dishonour, filthy half-breeds, blood traitors, children of filth!*"
— Portrait of Walburga Black screaming at members of the Order of the Phoenix[src]

Walburga Black, like most members of her family, was obsessed with blood purity, and her portrait would often scream insults at blood traitors, half-bloods or Muggle-born wizards. She had little affection for her son Sirius, as he was viewed as a blood traitor by the Black family but appeared to have a fairly good relationship with Sirius' younger brother, Regulus, and was proud of him when he joined the Death Eaters.

Although she was not a Death Eater herself, she was convinced that Voldemort was doing the right thing by trying to eliminate Muggles and bringing wizards and witches out of hiding for them to rule both the Wizarding and Muggle worlds. Despite this, she is known to have become disillusioned with the Death Eaters toward the end of the First Wizarding War, showing that even she believed that they were going too far.

Walburga was kind to her house elf, Kreacher, who shared her views on blood purity, and as such Kreacher was very loyal to her. Based on her portrait's tendencies of screaming uncontrollably, she seems to have had a very violent temper, similar to her elder son when angered. Sirius justified this by claiming that his mother was an intensely spiteful and heartless woman, though Kreacher did say Walburga was heartbroken by Sirius' defection and did not want to disown him or be angry with him, but did so because she had to for the family.

## Magical abilities and skills

* **Charms**: Whilst the true extent of her skill in this field is unknown Walburga Black was proficient enough to have placed a Permanent Sticking Charm on the back of her portrait to prevent anyone from taking it off the wall.﻿ The charm held in place for more than a decade after her death. She could not, however, cast the Patronus Charm.
* **Dark Arts**: Walburga was proficient with Dark Magic, being able to cast both the Killing Curse and the Imperius Curse successfully and was also skilled in the handling of cursed objects.

## Relationships

### Black family

Walburga and Orion had a happy marriage and relationship, especially since they shared blood purity ideology. Walburga was likely devastated when her husband died. Walburga's eldest son, Sirius was a huge disappointment to her and the rest of the family, since he disagreed with the Black family's beliefs in blood purity and was sorted into Gryffindor rather than Slytherin. When Sirius left home at the age of 16, she blasted his name off the tapestry. If she had heard about his being sent to Azkaban, she was likely pleased. Though she seemingly hated him, Kreacher did state Walburga was heartbroken by Sirius's departure and his views, so it is likely she didn't really hate him and was simply very disappointed in him.

Walburga greatly admired and favoured her younger son, Regulus because he remained loyal to the Black family traditions and was sorted into Slytherin. Walburga was obviously devastated when her son died. This event may have finally made her to begin doubting the cause of the Death Eaters and begin to think that they were taking things to far due to the death of her favoured son.

## Etymology

* Walburga is a variation of the name *Walpurga*, who was a saint for whom Walpurgis Night is named. Historically, Walpurgis Night was considered to be a time when the barrier between the living and the dead was weak and when witches held celebrations. Also, the Knights of Walpurgis (later known as the Death Eaters) were named after Walpurgis Night.
* Walburga was also the given name of the mother of Josef Mengele, a Nazi doctor who conducted horrific experiments on prisoners in concentration camps. She was said to have been extremely cruel and a Nazi supporter, rather like Walburga Black's views on retaining blood purity.
* 256 Walpurga is a large Main belt asteroid. It was discovered by Johann Palisa on April 3, 1886 in Vienna and was named after Saint Walpurga. This loosely fits in with the Black family tradition of using celestial names for their children.

## Behind the scenes

* Walburga Black's likeness on the Black Family Tapestry, as featured in the film adaptation of *Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix*, seems to have been based on a depiction of a noblewoman from the Devonshire Hunting Tapestries, currently in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, in London.
* In the film adaptation of *Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix*, Walburga's portrait was not heard screaming, but she could be heard muttering behind her curtain, and Kreacher still talked about the "scum" in 12 Grimmauld Place, such as "Mudbloods" and "Blood traitors".
* Walburga's father was only thirteen when Walburga was born, although it is possible this is a mathematical error on Rowling's part (Rowling has admitted she lacks skills with mathematics).
* On the tapestry from the film, Walburga and Orion are depicted together, and their heads looking in different ways, although they are in marriage. This is likely because both Walburga and Orion were born into the House of Black, and their marriage may have been arranged.
* Walburga was probably educated at Hogwarts as Horace Slughorn mentions that he has taught the whole Black Family.
* Since Walburga and Lucretia Black were born in the same year, it is more likely that they were classmates at Hogwarts.
* Walburga may have known Tom Riddle, as he was one or two years behind her, so she could have encountered him at Hogwarts.
* It's unknown why Walburga and Orion never joined the Death Eaters, though it's likely that they merely hoped to reap the benefits of their cause, especially because they, as Sirius claims, were very pleased when Regulus became a Death Eater.

"*My mother didn't have a heart, Kreacher. She kept herself alive out of pure spite.*"
— Walburga's unpleasant personality[src]

**Walburga Black** (1925 – 1985) was a British pure-blood Dark witch and a member of the noble House of Black, an old wizarding family and one of the Sacred Twenty-Eight. She was the eldest daughter of Pollux Black and Irma Crabbe, the older sister of Alphard and Cygnus, the wife and second cousin of Orion Black, and the mother of Sirius Black III and Regulus Black II.

Walburga lived in Grimmauld Place starting at an unknown point in her life, presumably after she married her second cousin Orion. She died in 1985, but her portrait still remained at 12 Grimmauld Place. Walburga's portrait makes anyone not in the pure-blood elite quite uncomfortable in her home, by constantly shouting insults and epithets at them.

## Characteristics

### Physical Appearance

Jadis was an alien of human-looking appearance far removed from the typical adult human. Jadis was seven feet tall and extremely beautiful, with naturally white skin that turned *"deathly white, white as salt"* after eating an apple from the Tree of Youth, and apparently remained this shade (Edmund later likened it to *"snow or paper or icing-sugar"*). Her lips were red, and from the illustrations of her in *The Magician's Nephew* and *The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe*, she has beautiful long black hair that flowed down her back. While seated on her chair in the Hall of Images, there was an utterly breathtaking look of *"fierceness and pride"* on her face, and when Edmund first encountered her in Narnia, he also thought her beautiful, but *"proud and cold and stern"* as well.

### Attire

Judging by an illustration of her and the descriptions in *The Magician's Nephew*, as the Queen of Charn, Jadis wore an ornate crown and elaborate robes that left her arms bare, and she went barefoot. As the White Witch, she wore a golden crown and layers of white fur that covered her up to the throat.

## Powers and Abilities

As a member of the royal family of Charn, Jadis had an inborn talent in magic, and was extraordinarily skilled in using it to defy the laws of nature, as well as to manipulate reality as she desired. As revealed by her in *The Magician's Nephew*, she had gone to terrible lengths to master the darkest secrets of magic, and possessed greater powers than her sister ever had. After eating an apple from the Tree of Youth, her magical strength and longevity were enhanced to a goddess-like level, and Aslan himself also confirmed that, during the time where he banished her to the North, she had grown consistently stronger in dark magic. When she resurfaced as the White Witch, her powers were such that they held Narnia in a constant winter, until Aslan returned a century later to end her tyranny.

Examples of magical powers Jadis possessed were: -

* **Spell Casting:** Jadis had the ability to cast spells through incantations and hand gestures - in the Palace of Charn, she reduced a pair of immense, heavy, and fastened doors to dust without even touching them. Examples of other abilities she was able to access through this power were:
	+ **Sleep Inducement:** Jadis had the ability to cause other beings and even herself to fall asleep - after her pyrrhic victory against her sister, she caused herself to sleep amongst her ancestors' images in the Hall of Images.
	+ **Condition Preservation:** Jadis had the ability to keep beings - including herself - in a certain condition, ensuring that they stay in a certain state, regardless of any and all external forces - in her state of slumber, she needed neither food nor drink, and her age, her physicality, and her powers would be sustained for an indefinite amount of time.
* **The Deplorable Word:** Jadis' most terrifying ability was her knowledge of the Deplorable Word which, if spoken with the proper ceremonies, had the power to destroy all living things in the world it was spoken in - except the person who spoke it. Fortunately, the Word - like the rest of Charn magic - was useless in other worlds, so she was never able to use it again.
* **Telepathy:** In *The Magician's Nephew*, Jadis revealed that she had the ability to read minds or, as she put it, her eyes could *"see through walls and into the minds of men"*.
* **Immortality:** Due to her eating an apple from the Tree of Youth, Jadis acquired true immortality as well as eternal youth. Hence, she would never grow old or die of natural causes. As revealed by a Hag in *Prince Caspian*, even if Jadis' physical form was destroyed, her essence would still ultimately survive because of this immortality, and therefore she could always be resurrected by a dark ritual. As shown in the 2008 film, Jadis' followers were able to somewhat resurrect her form through her own wand's magic. However, they were unable to bring her back completely, as for her to be able to return fully into the living world, she needed a drop of Adam's blood.
* **Cryokinesis:** As the White Witch, Jadis had the ability to create, shape, and manipulate cold and ice, having absolute control and seemingly divine authority over the elements of ice, snow, and frost. She also did not seem to suffer any adverse reactions to such temperatures. Another ability she derived from this province was:
	+ **Eternal Winter Inducement:** Jadis had the ability to invoke an eternal winter - through her potent cryokinetic powers, she kept Narnia bound in constant winter for a century, and spring only came when Aslan returned to the land to stop her once and for all.
* **Holiday Manipulation:** Jadis had the ability to manipulate all aspects of holidays - during the century that she ruled Narnia, she not only banned Christmas, but also successfully barred Father Christmas from entering the land.
* **Mirakinesis:** In *The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe*, Jadis was revealed to have the ability to create, shape, and manipulate illusions, causing targets to perceive things differently from what they truly were - she caused Edmund's rescue party to perceive her as a boulder and her dwarf as a stump.
* **Petrification:** Through her wand, Jadis had the ability to transform matter and objects, including living beings, into stone, which served as one of her primary means of offense and defense - the courtyard, stairs, and hall of her castle were full of statues (people whom she had turned into stone). Also, during the final battle, Lucy saw that *"there were statues dotted all over the battlefield"*, and Peter later confirmed that Jadis had been turning their troops into stone *"right and left"*, and it would have been worse if Edmund had not destroyed her wand.
* **Food Generation:** Through a copper bottle, Jadis had the ability to generate any kind of food, manifesting them anywhere she desired - during her and Edmund's first encounter, she first conjured a hot drink for him that *"warmed him right down to his toes"*, and upon his request, a box of the most delicious Turkish Delight he had ever eaten. Another ability she derived from this province was:
	+ **Addiction Inducement:** Through the food she conjured, Jadis could induce desires into others, to the point where they could not get enough of it - due to the enchantment on the Turkish Delight she fed him with, Edmund became utterly addicted to it, and could not stop thinking about it. In fact, his magically-induced addiction to her Turkish Delight was one of the primary reasons why he initially betrayed his siblings.

Jadis also possessed a number of other abilities which may or may not have been directly related to her magical powers:

* **Supernatural Beauty:** Jadis is supernaturally beautiful, and knew how to effectively utilize her beauty as a weapon to affect or charm her targets. As evidenced by Digory, Andrew, and Edmund, even after discovering how truly evil she was, the impact of Jadis' beauty was still hypnotic, dramatic, and even unforgettable - in their respective dotages, both Andrew and Digory reflected that she was the most beautiful woman they had ever known. Also, in the 2005 Disney film, Jadis was shown to still possess the ability to charm others even in her weakened state, luring Caspian into wanting to give her some of his blood, and later she tried to do the same to Peter.
* **Superhuman Strength:** Jadis possessed tremendous physical strength far beyond that of a normal human being. As it was a natural trait among her species instead of a magical ability, she was able to retain her superhuman strength no matter what world she was in.  In *The Magician's Nephew*, she was revealed to be capable of lifting people cleanly off the ground as if they were no heavier than dolls and throw them across great distances, wrenching cross-bars off lamp-posts as demonstrated when she lifted and dropped Edmund to the ground, and delivering powerful blows and kicks during physical fights. According to Aslan, due to her eating an apple from the Tree of Youth, Jadis' physical strength had been enhanced to an inexhaustible level, which was subsequently proven in the 2005 Disney film - Jadis was shown to be so physically strong that she could carry a broadsword in each of her hands, and deliver phenomenally powerful blows with each blade, despite broadswords being extremely heavy and meant for two-handed wielding.
* **Superhuman Hearing (possibly):** Though it was never specifically confirmed, it was still likely that Jadis' ears were enhanced to hear with amazing clarity, distance, and even frequencies outside the normal range.  In *The Magician's Nephew*, she was revealed to have *"very good ears"* that enabled her to clearly hear whispers even from a distance.

* **Knife-Fighting/Swordsmanship:** Having fought wars in Charn as Queen, Jadis was a formidable warrior whose skills had been honed by centuries worth of combat experience.  In *The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe*, Jadis fought against Peter with her stone knife, wielding it so proficiently and intensely that, to Lucy, her stone knife flashed like three knives. Also, in the 2005 Disney film, her skills were displayed much more prominently - she was shown to have impeccable mastery in dual-blade swordsmanship, simultaneously using her wand (as an improvised sword) and a broadsword, and wielding both with such skill that she effortlessly defeated every single opponent she faced on the battlefield. Even after Edmund destroyed her wand, Jadis was shown to be equally capable in wielding only a single sword - she effortlessly overpowered and gave him an-almost lethal blow, and then took his sword along with her own to toy with Peter in an impressive display of swordsmanship that was not meant to truly kill, but to show off how her own superior skills could dominate him. When Aslan entered the battle, Jadis quickly disarmed Peter and tried to deliver him a fatal blow, and was only prevented from killing him by Aslan's timely interference.
* **Laws of the Deep Magic (limited):** Despite being an usurper from Charn and not a born Narnian, Jadis was still knowledgeable in the Laws of the Deep Magic that governed all of Narnia, though it was later revealed by Aslan's resurrection and explanations that her knowledge was incomplete. An ability she derived from this province was:
	+ **Ownership Inducement:** As she was the first to rebel in Narnia, and therefore in essence the Emperor's hangman, Jadis had the ability to induce ownership onto all traitors and those who willingly followed her, making them her lawful property, and she had every right to kill them. If her rights under the Deep Magic were forcefully denied, all of Narnia would be overturned and perish in fire and water. Hence, Aslan offered himself in Edmund's place when Jadis tried to exercise this right, for not even he could work against the Deep Magic.
* **Superhuman Reflexes:** Jadis possessed reaction speeds beyond peak human limits - during the final battle, she fought against Peter so intensely that her stone knife flashed like three knives. Also, in the 2005 Disney film, when Edmund destroyed her wand, she was very quick to recover from the horror of its destruction, and overpowered and stabbed him in retaliation.

### Personality

*"...This is what happens to things, and to people, who stand in my way."*

*"...what would be wrong for you or for any of the common people is not wrong in a great Queen such as I...We must be freed from all rules..."*

Jadis was the ultimate personification of pure evil in the Narnian universe, a satanic temptress responsible for bringing evil into Narnia. As revealed in *The Magician's Nephew*, from the very beginning when she was Queen of Charn, Jadis was already a ruthless and hubristic sociopath who firmly believed herself to be above all rules of conduct - she had no regrets or remorse over how she wiped out her own entire species through the Deplorable Word, and believed that Andrew had sent Digory and Polly to bring her to him for *"love of her beauty"*, and that she would have their world (Earth) *"at her feet"* within a year through her beauty and magic.

Jadis was also incapable of viewing anyone else as her equal, and saw others simply as either tools to be used or obstacles to be demolished, as evidenced by her treatment of Andrew once she realised that he was not a true magician like she was. Though she usually carried herself with the regality of the haughtiest Queen, Jadis was not above resorting to sheer brute force to get her way, as demonstrated by her physically assaulting Letitia and the subsequent rampage she caused in London. Her most defining trait, however, was that she was a true megalomaniac - Jadis had an incomparable obsession with power, and was driven by an insatiable desire to conquer and subjugate everyone and everything she came into contact with. For instance, she paid *"a terrible price"* to learn the Deplorable Word, and despite her initial unease when she first entered Earth and, later, Narnia, she was quick to regain her balance and expressed her desires of world domination. Jadis was also prone to violent mood swings - calm and calculating one moment, and furious the next.

While Jadis is probably the one character in the entire series with no redeeming traits whatsoever, her sharp intellect, steely courage, iron will, and magical aptitude were still remarkable. For instance, through the innate changes she felt after she ate an Apple of Youth, she accurately deduced that she would never grow old or die. The fact that, throughout the centuries where the Tree of Protection barred her from Narnia, she still managed to hone her powers, create a new magic wand, and even gather an army was also a definite testament to her intellect and her formidable magical skills. Besides this, despite her awareness of the Golden Age Prophecy, and being initially disturbed by the Pevensies' and, later, Aslan's arrival in Narnia, Jadis was not overly concerned, for she reasoned that the prophecy would be unfulfilled with Edmund under her control, and she had an advantage against Aslan through the Law of the Deep Magic. It must also be noted that, while she initially wanted to do something against Edmund (probably turn him into stone or even kill him) during their first meeting, she very quickly changed her mind, and put on a sweet charming act that enabled her to put him under her control through enchanted Turkish Delight, which testifies to her being an expert manipulator.

Last but not least, despite her initial understandable fear of Aslan (which was to the extent where she threatened whoever dared to utter his name in her presence with instant death), Jadis had no qualms with raising her voice at him when she claimed her rights over Edmund's blood through the Deep Magic. Also, while her private chat with Aslan concluded with her being frightened into fleeing for her life by his roar, she later gleefully had him humiliated, tortured, and even shaved before killing him. In fact, before she struck the final blow, she observed to him her perfect confidence of victory despite the fact that his death had not nullified the Golden Age Prophecy, and her direct participation in the battle clearly conveyed her courage and will.

**Gavin Rose** was a Knight of the Dawn, inducted into the group at the same time as Kendra. He appeared to be a fairly mild-manner young man with a stutter but was, in reality, the Dragon Prince Navarog. His abilities were originally explained as being an excellent dragon tamer, but eventually he revealed the cover story of being a dragon brother as his abilities quickly outstripped what was normal for a dragon tamer.

**Claudia** was a five-year-old vampire child. With long curly golden hair, blue eyes, and fair skin, she was described as resembling a perfectly painted china doll.
In the books, Klaus is of unknown age, but is at least from the Bronze Age. He seems to have fought in every major war through time, most notably in Alexander the Great's army, in the Trojan War, and in the wars that led to the Roman Empire's downfall (on the Germanic side). He then decided to stick around the general area of Germany where, sometime in the 15th century. In the books, Klaus was the one who transformed Katherine into a vampire, in the TV series, it ended up being Rose who played the part, and Klaus and Katherine's back stories have been completely changed from the books. Klaus shows great strength and durability at all times of injury and other vampires feared law. For example: Klaus manipulates the mind of Katherine to inform the brothers Salvatore's that he is dead (Katherine kills Klaus centuries ago, because he is no longer useful). Klaus continually avoids Elena messages or visions to Bonnie and Stefan. A vampire must be invited by someone to enter your home, but Klaus enters Vicki's house and violently murdered her without one. Stefan and Damon fight against Klaus, but do not do any harm. In the books, when everyone tries to fight against Klaus, all of the weapons used against him fail. Klaus more or less kills Stefan, and nearly kills Damon as well, until an intervention from Elena's spirit, leading an army's worth of unquiet Civil War ghosts against him. The ghosts carry a screaming Klaus away, and his current whereabouts (and state of being) are unknown. It was later revealed that when he had attacked Meredith's grandfather before the books started, he had in fact been trying to capture Meredith and her twin brother Cristian. He failed to capture Meredith who became half-human, half-vampire as a result, but got Cristian who became a vampire himself.

## Name

* **Klaus** is a German variation of "Nicholas". From the Greek *Νικολαος* (Nikolaos) meaning "*victory of the people*". It's the name of a saint who is at the origin of Saint Claus legend. It is also a shortened name of Niklaus. **In** **Ancient Norse:** ᚾᛁᚲᛚᚨᚢᛋ ᛗᛁᚲᚨᛖᛚᛋᛟᚾ.
* **Mikaelson** is of of Scandinavian origin and means "Son of Mikael".

## Tropes

* Chronic Backstabbing Disorder - 'nuff said.
* The Casanova - Katerina (a little) and, most recently, Caroline.
* All Love is Unrequited - Caroline. Despite his attempts to woo her, and the fact that she knows he's in love with her, she is in love with Tyler and keeps refusing his advances. Still has chance to be averted, though is increasingly unlikely given the time he has left in Mystic Falls. See also Sympathy for the Devil .
* A Day in the Limelight - Has an episode named after him. Due to his nature at the time, it also classifies as a Villain Episode .
* Actually fits the Evil Brit accent trope - as the only character on the show with a British accent, this has not been averted nor inverted.
* Monster Sob Story - Due to an illegitimate birth, his step-father Mikael is unjustly more volatile towards him. See Abusive Parents . See also Cry for the Devil .
* Magnificent Bastard - Averted due to Villainous Breakdown
* And I Must Scream - Shared with family. However, instead of being daggered, Klaus must literally be chained and desiccated. When Alaric was turned into a vampire/vampire hunter, Klaus could do nothing to prevent Alaric from staking his desiccated body with the white oak stake .
* SelfMadeOrphan - Niklaus has killed his legal-father and mother.
* Papa Wolf Overprotective Dad- Klaus is very protective of his daughter and has no limits when it comes to Hope's safety and well being. He even killed his own father in order to protect his daughter after he found out about Hope still being alive. Klaus trusts nobody apart from himself when it comes to Hope and his love for her has no bounds.

## Trivia

* There are similarities between Klaus and Kai's characters:
	+ They are both different from the rest of their siblings, Klaus was born werewolf then turned hybrid, Kai was born as a witch without magic but has the ability to absorb magic.
	+ They both have hurt most of their siblings. Although in Kai's case he killed most of them while Klaus prefers to neutralize his, although he still cares for his family whereas Kai does not.
* Since Katherine had been turned into a vampire on April 6, 1492, it could be assumed that Klaus' birthday is some time in between January and April.
* Rebekah assumed that Klaus' reasoning for making hybrids is due to his fear of being alone.
* In *Homecoming*, Klaus said "*I will kill you and every one you've ever met*" to Stefan. This is what he said to Katherine before murdering her family.
* Klaus is a Beatles fan, claiming that they made the 60's bearable in *The Last Dance*.
* Klaus suffered the Hunter's Curse for 52 years, 4 months and 9 days. When he neutralized Rebekah in 1835, he left her daggered for 52 years.
* Klaus has been daggered a number of times, but due to his Werewolf side, he was unaffected by the silver White Oak Ash Daggers. He has only been neutralized once with the gold White Oak Ash Dagger Kol created specifically for Klaus;
	1. By The Brotherhood of the Five in 1114 in *The Five*.
	2. By Rebekah in *The End of the Affair*.
	3. By Finn in *Bringing Out The Dead*.
	4. By Rebekah in *Bringing Out The Dead*.
	5. By Alaric Saltzman (via Kol) in *All My Children*.
	6. By Elijah Mikaelson in *When the Levee Breaks* (Neutralized).
	7. By Himself in *Ashes to Ashes* (Neutralized).
* Klaus only feeds his blood directly from the wrist to females, for males he drips his blood into a container. He made an exception when he sired Marcel and let him drink from his wrist before killing him.
* Klaus can read and speak Aramaic. He can also speak French, German, and Italian - although to what extent is unknown.
* Klaus has a "birds of a feather" tattoo on the front of his left shoulder, eight bird tattoos on the left side of his chest and has a triangle tattoo on the right side of his back.
* Klaus werewolf bloodline can be traced back to the beginning of werewolf history. As Oliver states he and Cary's Pack have been at each other since the beginning.
* In *The Big Uneasy*, Klaus states that his pack is from the North East Atlantic.
* In *Every Mother's Son*, Finn states that he expected cruelty from Klaus when discussing how he was left daggered for nine hundred years, this indicates that Klaus became cruel and vicious within only a hundred years of being a vampire. This process started when Klaus sired Lucien as they both enjoyed feeding and killing humans.
* In *City Beneath The Sea*, Dahlia states that Klaus is the most intelligent of his maternal half-siblings, as he has no brute Viking blood in his veins.
* Camille referred to Klaus as "the most ruthless vampire in history".
* In *Alive and Kicking*, Klaus reveals that he *loathed* Chamomile tea which appeared to be his Mother's favorite.

As an Original Vampire, later the Original Hybrid, Klaus is the second strongest of the Original Vampires, second only to his step-father. His Werewolf side has given him additional powers and advantages the others do not possess, making him the one of the most physically powerful immortal beings in the world. Although stronger than his maternal half-sibling due to his werewolf heritage, some of his siblings have been shown to be willing to fight with him with no fear, with Elijah actually able to do so on almost even terms, Elijah seems to have no difficulty trying to start and end fights with Klaus, usually having the upper hand on Klaus himself for a short period of time; before the latter turns the tables on Elijah. Klaus' step-father being notable for surpassing him and whom he initially feared greatly; made worse when Mikael had possessed the White Oak Stake.

Klaus' powers improve with the consumption of human blood, assuming his werewolf form or utilizing his lycanthropic enhancements and the full moon. In *Live and Let Die*, it is shown that Mikael was slightly stronger than Klaus, and it should be noted that Mikael was still affected with werewolf venom and Papa Tunde's Blade, therefore not even at full strength yet still demonstrated superior strength than his son. With the death of Mikael, Klaus was at the time the single most physically strongest being around, however, after Lucien and Marcel took the serum and become the Beasts, they had outmatched him in sheer power. Klaus currently remains the second strongest.

Even before Klaus became an Original Vampire, later the Original Hybrid, he was a fairly skilled swordsman, even though he rarely uses a sword, due to his supernatural powers, Klaus' swordsman skills have not diminished.

Klaus has shown to be an expert fighter even when unarmed; When Marcel's army took him on, despite being overwhelmed to begin with, he was able to fight them, almost evenly and overpowered most of them, through his fighting skills and original hybrid powers. In that single fight, he killed roughly twenty four non-Original vampires single-handedly, showing his skills as a combatant even further. Klaus is far less calm, composed, and strategic in battle than Elijah but has a better mind for coming up with long term plans and back ups, being nearly always one step ahead of his enemies. Due to his long existence, Klaus has seen countless battles and is very experienced in battle. In *Fire with Fire*, Klaus was able to take out six evolved werewolves without any difficulty, when he faced off against Hayley and Jackson, although he had some difficulty taking them both on at the same time, he ultimately got the upper hand; overpowers and defeats them.

His supernatural attributes aside, Klaus' greatest asset is his sharp intellect. His penchant for strategies and forming contingencies way ahead of time, despite the fact that Elijah's penchant for strategies and forming contingencies surpasses his, Klaus has outsmarted Elijah on more than one occasion, Klaus is able to discern a great deal of whatever or whoever is presented to him after only a few keen observations, he was able to figure out that Hope would be sacrificed at the cemetery because it was where the Harvest and the Reaping took place as well as the location of the ancestral witches' burial place, He was able to deduce that his mother was possessing Cassie, he also came up with a plan, to make it look like he has turned against his maternal half-siblings and Hayley, after Elijah daggered him, and after Hayley tried to take his daughter Hope away from him, in order to gain Dahlia's trust to take her down. According to Dahlia, Klaus is arguably the most intelligent of his maternal half-siblings with Elijah occasionally rivaling him.

Klaus is an attractive man. His height is 5'11 (1.80 cm). Klaus possesses curled dirty-blond hair and dark blue eyes that contrasts with his pearl-white skin. His physical appearance is that of a man between 19-21, despite being over 1000 years old. As a vampire and a warrior (from the 10th century), he is well-built. Klaus possesses a delicate and yet masculine face, possibly due to the fact that he was a nobleman between the 11th and the 18th centurys.

Klaus' clothing style is quite casual, usually seen wearing shirts, jeans and jackets, although he can also use a more classic and refined outfit if the situation requires it (ex: the ritual of the moonstone; the Original ball thrown by Esther). He uses accessories, such as leather bracelets or necklaces as seen in most of his scenes on both shows.

When Klaus was just in the early stages of being a hybrid, he slaughtered six villagers. Which afterwards, he was devastated and cried into Elijah's shoulder. After finding out that Mikael is not his biological father, he was shocked and betrayed. Klaus is continuously described as being cruel, sadistic, careless, paranoid, reckless, impulsive, short-tempered, aggressive, volatile, unpredictable, slightly unreasonable, narcissistic, manipulative, jealous, obsessive and competitive. Though he shows little to no regard for human life in general, Klaus feels guilt and remorse for most of his actions, he just does not show it, and he also has morals. Despite his negative traits, Klaus has shown to be very protective of his younger half-sister Rebekah, who stayed by his side for centuries, and he is not pure evil, he is just sadistic. Unbeknownst to any, Klaus was not the son of Mikael, but the son of an alpha werewolf named Ansel, in another village which made Klaus aggressive, violent and angry. When he became a vampire, all these emotions were heightened and Klaus' temper became worse than ever. Years of humiliation and physical/emotional abuses at Mikael's hands and Esther's indifference, coupled with her rejection of him as her son, led Klaus to kill his own mother in revenge and for betraying him. After this, Klaus shut off his humanity to any but his family, killing any who crossed his path. Vengeful and power-hungry, he will stop at nothing to achieve his ends and remove those who stand in his way. However, Klaus does not believe that death is a punishment as seen when he denies Katherine death, instead keeping her alive so that she will suffer for having betrayed him. He will also place usefulness before pleasure and keeps people alive when it suits his needs. He has also shown a penchant for working with witches which was mentioned by Katherine in *Know Thy Enemy*. Klaus also has a sense of honor and will not go back on his word although, he will always look for loopholes in the deals he makes.

In 1933, despite the fact that his werewolf side was dormant at the time, Klaus still held werewolves in high regard. When he discovered August Müller, a vampire, had been massacring innocent werewolves as well as spreading his beliefs about the purity of species, i.e. that vampires are the apex predators, Klaus ruthlessly killed August and his followers. Despite this, he would spare August's wife and children.

Klaus has also shown a sadistic side notably when he deals with humans or vampires who have crossed him, such as Elena, Damon and Katherine (his sadistic nature is often mistaken as psychotic) however, Klaus' hunger for power actually hides a deep fear of being alone which must stem from his step-father's treatment of him. He wants the hybrids so that he will not be the sole member of his race as Esther intended when she placed the curse on him. He also desires, beyond anything else, to be reunited with friends and family as shown by his desire to have Stefan, his one-time friend, and his family back at his side. According to Elijah, Klaus also uses his cruelty to hide his fear of being alone. He has shown to have a softer side when he is around Caroline, or a member of his family, but rarely shows it around other people. Caroline brings out Klaus' humanity. He also holds grudges against the people who try to kill him, or members of his family, and rarely lets it go. Klaus is self-preserving whenever he is in a situation where he could be killed permanently, he reveals information that keeps him from being killed, like when he told Elijah that he didn't bury their family at sea, or when he told Stefan and Damon he is the one who sired their bloodline. Klaus rarely gets made a fool out of and also doesn't like to be made a fool out of either. He is rarely caught off guard. Klaus is highly intelligent, calculating, thinks of contingencies, he (secretly) admits he makes mistakes and learns from them as well, he is always two steps ahead of his enemies. Klaus is not a very forgiving person; as he rarely forgives people in general. Despite him being the world's most physically powerful immortal supernatural being, he often pretends to be arrogant to mask his fear of being alone, he is not completely fearless, he is afraid of the White Oak Stake, because it is the only physical weapon that can permanently kill him, other than the white oak stake, Klaus is also afraid of becoming like his step-father, Mikael. Klaus has a sarcastic sense of humor and he is sarcastic even towards members of his own family. Despite his lust for power, Klaus still cares about the remaining members of his family. Despite being manipulative, he does not like being lied to or manipulated. He does not take being betrayed very well, especially if it is from a member of his family. He is not tolerant of people who disappoint him in general. He has very little tolerance for disloyalty, if any of his friends or members of his family have try to kill him, or betrayed him to his enemies who wants him dead, Klaus disowns them and no longer see them as his friends or family; like Esther, Finn, Rebekah and Marcel. Klaus is ruthless and brutal towards his enemies, as he rarely shows any of his enemies mercy. Also if anyone tries to hurt or kill a member of his family, most of them will not live to regret it.

Klaus can sometimes be cold and ill-mannered, he is also not above killing children, if they are a threat to him or his family, despite this Klaus dislikes people in general who mistreat or abuse their children; due to how he was mistreated and abuse by his step-father, Mikael. Due to the fact that he was betrayed by Esther, Klaus does not trust people in general, he only trust those who have proven themselves trustworthy to him. He wants people in general, to be loyal to him and respect him of their own free will, he does not like to compel people to be loyal to him against their free will, he only does this if he believes they are plotting against him or his family.

Like Elijah, Klaus can easily be provoked when disrespected, as he has no tolerance for those that disrespect him, like his best friend Marcel, who spoke down to him. Klaus retaliated by biting Marcel's best friend Thierry Vanchure, to teach his best friend a lesson, to never disrespect him again or there will be consequences. Although he puts up a tough demeanor, deep down Klaus cares about his family; he just has a lot of difficulty showing it. Initially, Klaus hated being a vampire, after he was turned into one, but he eventually accepted his vampire nature, although he revels/embraces both his werewolf and vampire natures, there is still some part of Klaus, that resents Mikael and Esther for turning him and his maternal half-siblings into vampires against their free will. He later admitted to Esther that he forgives her for turning them and prefers them as vampires.

During his time in New Orleans, Klaus has grown to genuinely care about his unborn child, and was deeply hurt/enraged when Elijah and Hayley falsely accused him of using her to sire more hybrids; that he violently bit Elijah in retaliation. Although, he does still maintain a twisted sense of humor about his child as he once referred to his child as "that" when discussion how to keep it and Hayley safe from Marcel. Klaus is also shown to be more mellow as he was shown to genuinely regret daggering Elijah and went out of his way to show how sorry he was, even going as far as to spare Agnes for trying to kill his unborn child just so Elijah could keep his word. It is possible that being in his former home, with his family, has caused his humanity to show more. Klaus has also shown to have matured greatly as he no longer uses the White Oak Dagger to put down his maternal half-siblings when he disagrees with them like before but instead settles things in a civil and sometimes violent matter. As the baby's birth approached, Klaus became more and more protective of both her and Hayley. He even had a nursery built right next to Hayley's bedroom so she could be near her baby. His undying love for the child is evident as he willingly sent the child away from the chaos in New Orleans so that she could grow up properly in the loving arms of her aunt Rebekah.

Even if he is cruel, we can see he still has a part of humanity which is shown when he's about to cry when he sees his dead half-brother (Kol), when he admits his love for Caroline or when Hayley is pregnant of their child and he's fighting for her safety. Unlike Elijah, Klaus is far less calm, composed, and strategic in battle. Despite his temper, Klaus is shown to be very keen as he was able to figure out that Hope would be sacrificed at the cemetery because it was where the Harvest and the Reaping took place as well as the location of the ancestral witches' burial place. Klaus does seem to care about Tyler to a degree. When he told Caroline he defeated Tyler, he left out the detail that Tyler tried to kill Hayley and his unborn child. This could be due to not wanting Caroline to hate Tyler, however, it is very likely that he just wanted to keep his child's existence a secret as much as possible, as Klaus has made many enemies over the years, (until his child is old enough to protect herself). Klaus also did mention after Stefan watched knowingly as he walked into a trap by his hybrids, he wanted to kill Stefan but he fought the urge to and mentioned it took three days to finally lose the urge to kill Stefan, when he could have ended it in an instant by killing Stefan. In Season Two of *The Originals*, Klaus is shown to have developed strong paternal instincts since the birth of Hope. One such case is his belief a parent who trades their child for anything deserves a punishment worse than death. Klaus has also mellowed great deal a since season one, so much so he, in an ironic twist of fate, restrained Elijah when he lost his temper when Finn threatened Rebekah (and unknowingly Hope) unlike before where he would just let the blood flow. Klaus' main concern is keeping his daughter safe now that she has returned home.

Klaus has also developed strong friendship instincts. One example was when he gave up an opportunity to kill Mikael when he threw Papa Tunde's Blade at Camille and chose to safe guard her life over killing Mikael. Although he is paranoid and mistrustful, these traits have proven to be correct on more then one occasion, like with his maternal half-sister Freya, who he does not trust to begin with, due to the fact that she resurrected his maternal half-brother Finn, and indirectly helped the latter find Hope. Since the birth of his daughter, Klaus has become far more mature, responsible and selfless, and far less reckless, impulsive and selfish, as Hope has brought out the best inside him. Despite this, he still can be, though to a far less extent; cruel, sadistic, vengeful, ruthless, manipulative and jealous as when he declared only he will decide what is the best way to protect his daughter, not his maternal half-siblings or Hayley, and Dahlia picked up the fact that he fears Hope will grow up to call her step-father Jackson "Daddy". Klaus is a brilliant strategist, and skilled in making people suffer, traits he inherited from his mother. however, unlike Esther, he never underestimated members of his family, or his enemies, he committed immoral acts; he killed Elijah's girlfriend Gia, and daggered him with Papa Tunde's Blade, compelled Marcel to kill Rebekah, (who is in the body of the late Eva Sinclair) if she tries to escape the compound, had Dahlia reactivate the Crescent Curse on the Crescent Wolf Pack and Hayley. All these actions of his was partly as revenge/punishment for betraying him/for trying to take his daughter away from him, and mainly to gain Dahlia's trust to take her down.

Klaus still has guilt and remorse for most of his actions, however, he still refuses to show it; but he only shows his remorseful nature towards Camille. He also still has morals and a sense of honor. By the end of the second season, Klaus no longer has a sensitive side; as he no longer cares about what people in general think about him, particularly his maternal half-siblings and Hayley, with the exception of Hope. In his new role as a parent, Klaus has gradually begun to reveal an unexpected aptitude towards the demands of fatherhood by placing his daughter's needs above his own. In the act of abdicating his rule over the French Quarter and handing the reigns of control back to Marcel for the sole purpose of focusing his attention on raising Hope, Klaus exhibits a phenomenal turn-around in his priorities and power-hungry nature as well as in embracing the advent of parenthood and the experience of a new, self-sacrificing love. As a member of the North East Atlantic Pack by blood, Klaus does not get along with any member of the Crescent Wolf Pack at all, for good reason, with the exception of Aiden and Hayley, until the latter betrayed him; by trying to take Hope away from him.

In Season Three, Klaus is warned of a prophecy by Lucien Castle (the first vampire he ever sired) that the remaining Original Vampires will fall in one year, he initially brushed it off, but realizes that Lucien may be right about the prophecy. He also realizes he has to become the ruthless hybrid he once was (prior to him fathering Hope), he joins forces with Elijah and Freya to try to stop the prophecy.

By the end of the third season, Klaus chooses to sacrifices himself to save the rest of his family, going to his trial, for the sins he has committed over the centuries, despite knowing the fact that the trial was nothing more than a joke as Marcel and his former sireline already found him guilty before he was put on trial, condemning him for his actions that he had committed, while he claims he did it in order to protect his family. Klaus condemns them saying they would do the same thing. Klaus is upset that his friendship and family bond with Marcel had ended, as he understands Marcel's anger and vengeance, however, (silently) he cannot make excuses for his ex-best friend's behavior, the look on Klaus' face moments before Marcel stabbed him with Papa Tunde's blade; clearly indicates that he plans to make Marcel suffer for his treachery against him and his half-siblings.

Even five years after his imprisonment, Klaus' personality has not changed much as Marcel had failed to break him emotionally. Initially, he did not want to be reunited with his daughter, as he was afraid that he would fail Hope as her father (as he did not want her to become like him) just like he did with Marcel, despite his best efforts. After some encouragement from Camille O'Connell, a manifestation of his subconsciousness in responses to the torture of the Tunde Blade, he overcame this fear.

When an entity known as The Hollow threatened his daughter's life, he reluctantly returned to New Orleans to deal with this threat once-and-for all, though he gained a disdain for New Orleans, due to the fact that it reminds him of all the horrible things that had happened to the people he cares and love for, such as Camille's death. Despite this, and in an effort to change for Hope, Klaus has become far more merciful. This is evident by the fact that he gave two of the Hollows' followers a choice; they could renounce their allegiance to their master, and leave New Orleans; or they can be killed where they stand, instead of killing them out right as he normally does when there is a threat to his family.

Prior to being rescued by his family from Marcel, Klaus has developed slight PTS (post traumatic stress) as he dislikes being locked up, even if it is for his own protection. Despite this, he shows no remorse for his actions in regards to others in the same aspect, such as with Marcel, knowing the feeling of being secluded for an extended period of time.

"*I never answered your question, if I'd ever thought about being human. Once. I was on a trek in the Andes, and a hummingbird flew up to me and just hovered there staring at me. Its tiny heart was pattering like a machine gun. And I thought, what a thing, you know, to have to work that hard every day just to stay alive, to be constantly on the verge of death, and how satisfying every day must be that it survived. And that was the only time I thought about being human.*"
—**Klaus** to **Caroline** about being human
While he was still an untriggered Werewolf-Witch hybrid, Klaus had a complicated life. He was close with his half-sister Rebekah, whom he affectionately called "Bekah", and with his half-brothers Elijah and Henrik. He also had a close relationship with his half-brother, Kol, but he did not get along at all with his half-brother, Finn, since childhood. However, he had a bad relationship with his overbearing step-father Mikael who was harder on him than any of his siblings. He was a victim of his step-father's physical and verbal abuse since childhood. Klaus even admitted to Rebekah that Mikael frightened him which made him constantly seek his approval without ever finding it. His mother Esther often tried to calm Mikael when he became angry with Klaus, but she never tried to stop him from humiliating or from physically/mentally abusing her son. Also as an untriggered werewolf, Klaus had the aggressive behavior of one, but he could not act on it due to his mother making him wear a magical necklace, created to weaken his strength and thus leaving him vulnerable to Mikael's abuse. These following reasons led him to resent both his parents and possibly to be jealous of his maternal half-siblings for having their approval. In the director's cut of the backdoor pilot of The Originals, Elijah pointed out that as an untriggered werewolf, Klaus was so full of love and life, and that all he ever wanted was to be loved in return, especially by his step-father. This belief that no one loved him and that he was doomed to be alone forever was the main factor that changed Klaus' personality.

## Personality

Penelope is described as being "evil" by a couple of her classmates. However, this could just be because she let down someone she knew. It is shown that she is knowledgeable in the art of witchcraft being her teacher asked her to demonstrate how a spell could go awry. Also, Penelope seems to be quite popular and has an outgoing personality with her friends. She is also shown to be quite flirty. Later on, in a conversation with Lizzie, she implies that the reason for her breakup with Josie was because Josie couldn't truly be happy with her, while caring for Lizzie's problems and that she is willing to ruin Lizzie for the way she treats her twin. While not excusing her, this reveals that she, in fact, cares about Josie in her own way.

## Physical Appearance

Penelope is a pretty young woman with medium-light colored skin, hazel eyes, and wavy brown hair. She originally had long wavy hair, but her ex-girlfriend burnt off most of it by using magic. She now wears her hair in a bob-style. She also has an athletic build and tends to wear natural makeup accentuating her facial features.

Penelope is initially portrayed as the troublemaker and likes to be in control of most situations. In reality, however, Penelope is keen to protect her ex-girlfriend, Josie Saltzman, in a bid to perhaps gaining her affection again in the future. She kept close eyes on all of the students at the Salvatore Boarding School for the Young & Gifted through the use of an enchanted pen which collated all diary entries into one centralised diary.

After realizing her efforts with Josie are futile — and no longer being able to bear watching Josie put herself second best — Penelope leaves the Salvatore School to finish the school year at an elite school in Belgium. Penelope remarks that she had been waiting for Josie to ask her to stay, but that she is still in love with her.

## Tropes

* A Day in the Limelight - has an episode named after her, plus frequent flashbacks into her origins.
* Briarpatching - Katherine uses this technique on Damon when she tells him not to dagger Elijah as she would be stuck in the tomb forever.
* Magnificent Bastard - *Plan B*.
* Katherine fits the Light Feminine And Dark Feminine trope, especially with Elena. Elena and Katherine are both doppelgängers who share an uncanny physical appearance. Elena is the Light Feminine (good, moral) and Katherine is Dark Feminine (bad, immoral). Both share a common love and interest in Stefan and are often in competition with each other for his affections.

## Trivia

	+ In a deleted scene of season two, her original birthday was June 22, ironically and coincidentally the same birthday as Elena.
* Most people use the the Anglo version of *Katherine* for her name. However Klaus, Elijah, Rose, Trevor and Nadia refer to her by her original name *Katerina*.
* She shares some similarities with Hayley Marshall:
	+ Both came from old supernatural lineage.
	+ Both are called by an other name than their birth one; Hayley being born as Andréa Labonair and Katherine as Katerina Petrova.
	+ Both were involved with the Mikaelson brothers.
	+ Both of their astrological sign are Gemini.
	+ Both gave birth to a baby girl in hard conditions and their respective child was taken away from them (for Katherine it was her father who took Nadia, while Hayley was killed while the New Orleans Witches took Hope, who she later took back, but sent her to live with Rebekah).
* Nina Dobrev who plays Katherine Pierce, was born in Bulgaria (България) and speaks Bulgarian (Български). For this reason, Katherine, who was German in the books, became Bulgarian in the TV series.
* Katherine Pierce and Katherine von Swartzschild are very much alike; both closely associated with Klaus, evil in Mystic Falls /Fell's Church, have easygoing attitude and hate Elena. The only difference between them is Katerina Petrova has black curly hair with brown eyes, and Katherine von Swartzschild is blonde with blue eyes.
* Vanessa Monroe, a research assistant and former student of Isobel, mentions in *Bad Moon Rising* that Katherine arrived in Mystic Falls in April 1864, but this is inconsistent with Katherine's story that her family perished in the Atlanta campaign fires, which occurred in September of that year.
* During Season Five, her continuity as a main character will continue and will indeed be a significant part of the season; unlike how she was a recurring character in the third and fourth seasons.
* Katherine hated junk food - prior to her transitioning to a human - calling it toxic poison.
* In *The Tale of Two Wolves*, Katherine's tintype photo is seen at the boarding school. This is a continuity error as the photo was destroyed in *The Sacrifice* on *The Vampire Diaries*.

Stefan describes Katherine as being very beautiful, when she first arrives to Mystic Falls, even though he is supposed to be engaged to Rosalyn Cartwright. She and Stefan kissed in the library at the Veritas Estates for the first time. She stays in the carriage house with Emily and she killed Rosalyn out of jealousy. She acts as innocent to avoid being uncovered as a vampire. Katherine was with Damon before Stefan and compelled him to take her secret better. Stefan believed her to have died. He tells Damon that he is wasting away Katherine's gift.

## Novels

*Main article: Katherine von Swartzschild*
Katherine von Swartzschild (born Katerina von Swartzschild) was a young German girl, who was the daughter of Baron von Swartzschild. She was very sickly, weak, and fragile as a young human girl and during her childhood, and was told by a surgeon that she was going to die. After this news, her maid, Gudren, fetched the village vampire Klaus and asked him to turn her into a vampire. He did so, though Katherine had no say in the matter, and she became a vampire. Believing she was still sick, her father took her to the Salvatore Boarding House to cheer her up. There she met Stefan Salvatore, the younger human son of Conte di Salvatore, and she fell deeply in love with him. However, she also displayed interest in Stefan's elder human brother, Damon Salvatore. In The Awakening, she said to both of the brothers that the only way to stay in Salvatore Estate was if she chose which Salvatore to marry. She said that she would tell them which one she had chosen for marriage on Sunday in twilight. Katherine first came to Stefan during the night, presumably during lovemaking and she gave him her blood. However, Katherine also gave Damon her blood as well. Both brothers were furious when they found out that Katherine had given both of them blood and not just one of them, displaying Katherine's coy, selfish and childish tendencies. Katherine told both of the brothers that she refused to choose between the two of them, leading the rivalry and competition between the brothers to heat up even more intensely. Katherine believed that if she turned both Stefan and Damon, then she, Stefan and Damon could all live happily ever after together. The brothers refused Katherine's wish and it turned the brothers against each other even more. Katherine became extremely distraught and upset by both Stefan and Damon fighting over her, so Katherine decided to commit "suicide". The next day, Stefan and Damon had found her ashes outside alongside her small lapis lazuli ring, which protected her from the sunlight and her dress, along with a note saying that she was selfish. Damon and Stefan both blamed each other for her death, and ended up fighting each other to death with swords. Stefan and Damon both ended up stabbing each other, and both died. They woke up in their tombs, with their lapis lazuli rings on, having both been transformed into vampires, bounding the Salvatore brothers to each other for all of eternity.

Almost every character who has met any combination of the Petrova doppelgängers has remarked that Katherine looked identical to Elena, Tatia, and/or Amara. As such, Katherine was an extraordinarily beautiful and seductive young woman: she had a heart-shaped face with fine bone structure, a wealth of brown curly hair, and almond-shaped, deep brown eyes with thick dark lashes.

Katherine and Elena are remarked to be identical, but once you know what to look for, you can distinguish the two easily. Katherine's hair seemed to be a shade darker than Elena's, and she parted it on the left, while Elena parts hers in a deep part on the right. Elena seems to have naturally wavy hair, while Katherine's hair naturally had loose or tight curls. Katherine wore make-up very differently than Elena; Katherine favored a dark smoky eye with thick winged eyeliner, and her choice in lipstick was a darker, sultry pink appearance, while Elena preferred a bronze smoky eye and thin eyeliner. Katherine, having much curlier hair, seemed to have a much greater volume than Elena's, especially when Elena wore her hair stick-straight.

There are even more subtle differences that only a true fan of Katherine or Elena can detect. Katherine's irises seemed to be a shade darker than Elena's, and Katherine seemed to squint slightly, while Elena's eyes are wide open, reminiscent of doe-eyes. Katherine was also incredibly theatrical in her movement, exaggerating almost everything as though she had rehearsed any given situation over and over again.

Katherine's choice in clothes was drastically different than Elena's. Katherine was often seen wearing either leggings or dark super-skinny jeans to show off her fit figure, along with either blue, purple, or black tank tops. She would almost always wear a black leather jacket over her clothes, either cropped, full length, buttoned or with a zipper. An obvious way to distinguish Katherine's style from Elena's is by looking at Katherine's shoes. Katherine was always seen in black high heeled booties, open-toed pumps, or tall, black "500 dollar boots." Katherine was also seen to wear a lot more jewelry than Elena, including her lapis lazuli daylight bracelet, chain bracelets in either silver or gold, and a watch. In Season 5, she was seen to care less about her appearance, but was still seen in cute, fashionable outfits. She was shown in dark grey J-Brand jeans, lower heeled boots than when she was a vampire, and either black camisoles or long-sleeved shirts with lace sleeves. In *Fifty Shades of Grayson*, she was seen in sports gear, a baseball cap, and, during her final scene, a dark burgundy cardigan. When deducing where Katherine bought most of her clothes, she was quoted as saying that she bought most of her shoes in Paris. The majority of her jeans are J-Brand, and almost the entirety of her tops were from Bebe.

Whenever Katherine pretended to be Elena, she parted her hair in a deep right parting, and styled the front of her hair in loose curls and waves, leaving the back of her hair straight or slightly wavy. However, Katherine would choose clothes that Elena wouldn't wear, and the main distinguishing feature was usually her thick abundance of hair.

"*We manipulate, we thirst for power, we control, we punish, but our actions are driven by one singular place deep inside. We're alone, and we hate it.*"
—Katherine about Klaus and herself
After she had turned, she immediately fled the only vampires she knew and apparently learned to survive as one on her own. The large gap of time from her transition to her arrival in Mystic Falls is a mystery, but she likely befriended Pearl during this time. In 1864, she seduced both Damon and Stefan Salvatore, revealing to a compelled Stefan that she had big plans for the three of them to be together. Although she did develop genuine affection for both brothers, and even love for Stefan, she was also calculating and selfish, selling out the other vampires in town in order to fake her own death. Her actions both in 1492 and 1864 demonstrate an extremely well-developed sense of self-preservation, almost always at the expense of any human compassion or remorse.

In present day, Katherine remains very much the same in this respect. She returns to Mystic Falls with the goal of securing the moonstone as well as a vampire, a werewolf, and the second Petrova Doppelgänger, solely for the purpose of handing them over to Klaus in exchange for amnesty. In the process, she manipulates and seduces Mason Lockwood to have him do her bidding, orchestrates the activation of both Mason's and Tyler's werewolf gene, turns Caroline into a vampire, compels Jenna to stab herself, lures Jenna out of her house to be sacrificed in Klaus' ritual, and leaves behind her a trail of other casualties, all in the name of securing her freedom. However, she redeems herself to the Salvatores, if only slightly, first by delivering the antidote to Damon's werewolf bite and later by helping in the plan to kill Mikael.

Despite her ruthlessness, it is clear that Katherine has deep, genuine feelings for Stefan. Unable to reveal herself to him without ruining the usefulness of being dead, she still observed him from afar over the years, admitting as much to Stefan in the present day. In fact, Katherine is usually at her most honest about her true feelings when she believes she is unobserved, as when she kissed an unconscious Stefan before leaving Mystic Falls, and when she looked on at him in the 1920s speakeasy.

Her relationships with other characters also sometimes reveal a crack in the "psychotic bitch" facade. Although she claims to his face that she never loved him, Damon still holds some of her affection, and she has offered him genuine help more than once. With regard to her doppelgänger, although she was willing to trade Elena's life for her freedom from Klaus, she never demonstrated any real animosity toward her. In fact she freely admitted an admiration for her descendant's tenacity, a quality she values in herself. And despite fearing Elijah nearly as much as Klaus because of her escape centuries earlier, she has since become his ally, and even seems to genuinely care about and possibly love him.

Katherine's extremely heightened sense of self-preservation has helped her develop a knack for creating elaborate plans and deceptions. Even when she takes a risk, which must be well worth it, she proceeds with caution and a means of escape in place. Thus, despite whatever feelings she has for Stefan, Damon, and now Elijah, it cannot be certain whether she would save their lives over her own, though the evidence so far suggests Katherine could not help but choose her own survival above all else.

Moments before her death, she took advantage of Elena and possessed her because of her traveler heritage. In Elena's body, she tried to keep it a secret and one of the first things she did was break up with Damon. Her ultimate goal was to assimilate herself in Elena's life and discard Elena's soul/essence and try to have a romantic relationship with Stefan. Katherine first tricked Matt into thinking she was her, and got information from him to know more about Elena's life, compelling him to forget that she is in Elena's body. She pulls it off for a while, hiding from Elena's friends most of the time, but eventually everybody finds out, even though she had the help of her daughter, Nadia, who was also trying to keep it a secret. Stefan called her to the Salvatore house, and Katherine accepted her death in the end, but before she is finally gone revealed that she injected Elena with the ripper compound.

Throughout her centuries-long life, Katherine has always been tough, feisty, independent and smart. If a task needs doing, she'll find a way to accomplish it, usually through a combination of uncompromising will and skilled manipulation of people and circumstances. Her personal motto - "Better you die than I" - does well to encapsulate her instinct for self-preservation as well as the detached cruelty which many vampires choose to adopt. But in her private moments, there is yet a glimpse of the human girl who once said that life is too cruel to live without love.

## Personality

* Witch
* Vampire

"*I was you before you even existed!*"
—Katherine to Elena
In her early life, Katherine was a young and beautiful girl who was punished by her family for having a child out of wedlock. Initially named Katerina, she had loved her daughter very much and was heartbroken as she was taken from her and she never even got to held her. After she was banished from Bulgaria, she relocated to England and seemed quite capable of making independent and intelligent choices. Katerina was characterized as a caring and polite person. She was quick to adapt to her relocation and enjoyed socializing and playing games with others. Katerina was also known to fall quick for men and yearned to be in the affections of others, even declaring to Elijah that life was not worth living if they did not believe in love. Despite her banishment from Bulgaria and estrangement with her relatives, Katerina maintained affection for them and was particularly close to her mother.

Despite her innocence and naivety, Katerina had a sense of self-preservation and immediately sought to protect herself against Klaus by stealing the moonstone and escaping the ritual that meant her death in the process. She had sought out vampires, Rose and Trevor for assistance, but betrayed them by consciously deciding to become a vampire herself for survival and igniting Klaus' wrath upon them all.

"*Do you think that, after all horrible things I've done...it would be possible to be forgiven?*"
—Katherine to Nadia
After Elena forced The Cure down her throat when she had tried to kill her, Katherine was rendered a weak human and had to spent two months on the run from all of the enemies she had acquired in her 500+ year lifespan. She enlisted the help of Damon, but was momentarily sold out when Silas offered Stefan for Katherine. After that failed, Katherine was granted reluctant protection under Jeremy, Matt, and Damon from Silas. Her transition to human left her weak, disheveled, and miserable as she struggled to get used to her vulnerability. Katherine's personality as a human is largely the same as when she was a vampire. She maintains her sassiness, insensitivity, independence, pride, selfishness, and sense of self-preservation. She had initially left Jeremy to die after a car crash while on the run from Silas and immediately accused Elena of being Katherine while held at gunpoint. However, Katherine soon starts to show some signs of shifting away from her "psychotic bitch" demeanor. She willingly goes back to save Jeremy's life from Silas despite risking her own survival and agreed to help rid Matt of the passenger inside him named Gregor.

Katherine also becomes slightly less hostile with certain members in the Mystic Falls gang, creating a strained but not entirely unfriendly alliance with Caroline, Matt, and Jeremy. She seems to have a soft spot for them somewhere, shown in her decision to save Jeremy from Silas and most prominently her interactions with Caroline to get Wes Maxfield unsuspecting of her and Elena being vampires in return for using her college dorm for a few days. Katherine also helped Matt with his passenger and went to him to help her put off her death by exercises, though Matt still sticks to the belief "Katherine cares only for Katherine."  She also met her long-lost daughter Nadia Petrova from 500 years ago and has genuine though complicated love for her, even attempting to cut off all ties with her for the sake of protecting her from Katherine's inevitable death since she couldn't be there for her.
Perhaps one of the most marked differences in Katherine's actions is her increased openness with her true emotions and vulnerability, particularly with Stefan. As she was dying of eventual old age after Silas drained The Cure out of her, Katherine falls into a depression with her loneliness and impending death to point she briefly lost the will to survive. Her misery climaxed into a suicide attempt by jumping off a clock tower, but failed when Stefan saved her. However, Katherine's inspired with a will to live through the recent support of Stefan. She becomes emotionally dependent on him in her darkest hours and quickly fell in love with him again, admitting that he was the only reason she wanted to live. Katherine's softer sides are made more obvious than ever before, wondering to Nadia if she could be redeemed for her past misdeeds and is worthy of forgiveness; a sharp contrast from her vampire self who had no remorse over anything and justified it as means to survival.

## Physical appearance

"*At first I thought it was a young boy. The newcomer was as tiny as Alice, with lank, pale brown hair trimmed short. The body under the cloak—which was darker, almost black—was slim and androgynous. But the face was too pretty for a boy. The wide-eyed, full lipped face would make a Botticelli angel look like a gargoyle. Even allowing for the dull crimson irises.*"
―Bella on seeing Jane for the first time[src]
Jane is described as 4'8" tall and has a tiny body with lank, pale brown hair trimmed semi short and pale skin to match it. She could easily be mistaken for a preteen boy if not for her girlish face and full lips. Her face is angelically beautiful in its childlike appearance, and lovely when it is animated.

Bella describes her as having an exceptional face that would make a Botticelli angel look like a gargoyle. Her eyes are wide and her lips full, while her childlike voice is described as high and thin and usually speaks with an air of apathy or boredom, but maintains a commanding presence due to the fear she provides with her power. In the *Twilight* films, she is portrayed as having long, blond hair tied in a bun.

As with the rest of the Volturi, her eyes are dark red in color which darken when she is thirsty. Jane and her brother Alec serve as two of the highest ranked guard members and so they wear the darkest cloaks amongst the guard.

## Personality and traits

Jane has a very dark and sadistic personality, and she takes great pleasure in using her gift to torture others. She is easily angered when her gift is made useless, which is where her deep hatred of Bella first began. She shows strong jealousy towards Alice, as Aro is even more impressed by Alice's gift than her own. She worships Aro and is happy to be in his presence, though that adoration is mostly based on Chelsea's power.

Jane enjoys her gift and the respect and fear that it brings her, and she never wastes an opportunity to use it on someone. But, despite her personality she seems to have a very strong as well as loving relationship with her twin brother Alec and besides Aro, Alec seems to be the person she is closest to.

It also seems that Jane has a jealous side, as she dislikes it when Aro gave Bella an extravagant gift (a diamond necklace).

## Personality

Olenna's most prominent traits are her sharp wit, high cunning and intelligence. A politically astute woman, Olenna has been a master of court politics and intrigue her entire life. Olenna's strength and competence in politics has made her the *de facto* head of House Tyrell and, by extension, the Reach itself. An outspoken woman with little patience for inconvenience, she is unafraid of using her power as head of House Tyrell to threaten her enemies. Olenna never shies from stating her opinion (unless it is more advantageous to mask it) and truly hates Cersei Lannister for her cruelty, incompetence, and deep selfishness. She also admits that she finds Sansa Stark rather dull and is interested in her political potential and not her personality. Olenna stated that she did not trust Tywin Lannister, nor did she especially like him as a person, but she did *respect* him for his steadfast diligence, ambition and intellect - she almost praised him for the fact that he actually lived up to his reputation. Tywin apparently felt the same way about Olenna, as she was one of the few people he ever treated as an equal – notably, when dealing with her, Tywin actually gave her his full attention and even poured her a drink, rather than continuing with his paperwork as he did when almost everyone else – including *his own children* – came to speak with him. She also appeared to show a decent amount of respect towards Ned Stark, blaming Varys for his death and mentioning that many admired him, possibly including herself.

Olenna is incredibly intelligent, as well as wise enough to understand that sometimes people must work with their enemies rather than constantly compete against them, which also explains why she respected Lord Tywin. On the darker side, Olenna has no problem harming children - such as when she poisons Joffrey, leading to his death in his mother's arms - proving she can be just as ruthless as Tywin or Littlefinger when necessary. However, this was not entirely without reason, as she did it in order to protect Margaery from the monster that Joffrey truly was, describing the tyrant as a "cunt." She also mentioned to have done or had done unspeakable things for the safety of her house and family and never regretted them since she deemed them necessary.

She appears to have a very dark sense of humor and likes to mock those around her, including her own family. Despite this, Olenna clearly loves her family dearly, especially her grandchildren. Furthermore, she reveals to her granddaughter that even though she considered her husband Lord Luthor Tyrell an oaf, she genuinely loved him and struggled to accept his death. Olenna clearly is a staunch supporter of House Tyrell, despite being born and raised a Redwyne (but the Redwynes are also known as strong supporters and loyal bannermen to House Tyrell). In this regard, she is very similar to Tywin Lannister, who also places the power and prestige of his House above all else. Olenna, however, is wise to not be as ruthless or as cold as he was. She strikes a much healthier balance between loyalty to her House and affection for her family than Tywin ever did: whereas all three of his children grew to bitterly resent him, Olenna's grandchildren dote on her, and even her exasperation for Mace's oafishness is affectionate. When she shoots down Mace's attempt to speak to her and Tywin, he doesn't show offense but smiles indulgently, showing that he too dotes on her and is quite content to be under her.

Following the death of her family, Olenna's tongue grew even sharper. Instead of showcasing her cunning wit, her jagged barbs now stem from anger and pain. Olenna has not grown reckless or despondent, however: she is ready and willing to seek revenge, and remains strategic and pragmatic about doing so. She also makes it clear that since her entire future has been robbed from her, she doesn't care about survival; she is perfectly willing to die, and exhaust the considerable resources at her disposal, if it means she can bring Cersei to justice. In her final moments, Olenna blackly banters with Jaime despite him representing her hated enemy; she admonished Joffrey for being 'a cunt', Jaime for being a deluded fool and Cersei for being a diseased monster. Furthermore, when facing death she is perfectly calm and willingly drinks the offered poison after ensuring it won't be painful; before she goes, however, she reveals her part in Joffrey's death and requests that Cersei be told, a last bit of vengeance for and from House Tyrell.

## Quotes

### Spoken by Olenna

**Olenna**: "*Loras is young and good at knocking men off horses with a stick. That does not make him wise. As for your fathead father...*"
**Margaery**: "*Grandmother! What will Sansa think of us?*"
**Olenna**: "*She might think we have some wits about us, one of us at any rate.*"
— Olenna is introduced to Sansa Stark by her granddaughter Margaery.[src]
"*"Growing Strong." Ha! The dullest words of any house! "Winter Is Coming"! Now, that's memorable. "We Do Not Sow"! Strong! Strong, those houses, you watch out for! Direwolves and krakens, fierce beasts. But a golden rose, growing strong? Oh, yes, that strikes fear in the heart!*"
―Olenna to a Tyrell lady.[src]
"*I was told you were drunk, impertinent and thoroughly debauched. You can imagine my disappointment at finding nothing but a browbeaten bookkeeper.*"
―Olenna to Tyrion Lannister.[src]
**Tyrion**: "*We're at war, Lady Olenna.*"
**Olenna**: "*Oh, I'd nearly forgotten.*"
**Tyrion**: "*Yes, and maintaining supply lines...*"
**Olenna**: "*I can't think how it slipped my mind. What is it, 12,000 infantrymen the Tyrell family has supplied? 1,800 mounted lances. 2,000 in support. Provisions so this city might survive the winter. A million bushels of wheat. Half a million bushels each of barley, oats, and rye. 20,000 head of cattle. 50,000 sheep. You don't have to lecture me about wartime expenses. I'm quite familiar with them.*"
— Olenna lectures Tyrion when he thinks of siphoning money from the royal wedding to maintain the war effort.[src]
"*You don't think I'd let you marry that beast, do you?*"
―Olenna confesses to Margaery that she poisoned Joffrey.[src]
**Cersei**: "*Ah, yes, the famously tart-tongued Queen of Thorns.*"
**Olenna**: "*And the famous tart, Queen Cersei.*"
— Olenna spars with Cersei.[src]
**Olenna**: "*You've always been rather impressed with yourself, haven't you?*"
**Petyr**: "*The past is the past. The future is all that's worth discussing. The future of House Tyrell.*"
**Olenna**: "*Don't pretend to have any concern for my House, my grandchildren, or me. I should have known you'd return to the capital as soon as things started to go wrong.*"
**Petyr**: "*I promise you...*"
**Olenna**: "*I promise you, Lord Baelish, that our fates are joined. Together, we murdered a King. If my House should fall, I will have nothing to hide. And if I should meet with some 'accident' here at your broken little flesh-market, they'll never even find what's left of you.*"
— Lady Olenna warns Petyr Baelish.[src]
"*Many will die no matter what we do. Better them than us.*"
―Olenna to the Lannisters.[src]
"*Loras rots in a cell because of you. The High Sparrow rules this city because of you. Our two ancient houses face collapse because of you and your stupidity!*"
―Olenna rebukes Cersei Lannister.[src]
**Obara**: "*We invited you to Dorne because we needed your help. You came to Dorne because you needed our help.*"
**Olenna**: "*What is your name again? Barbaro?*"
**Obara**: "*Obara.*"
**Olenna**: "*Obara. You look like an angry little boy. Don't presume to tell me what I need.*"
— Olenna insults Obara Sand.[src]
**Nymeria**: "*Forgive my sister. What she lacks in diplomacy, she makes...*"
**Olenna**: "*Do shut up, dear.*"
— Olenna insults Nymeria Sand.[src]
**Olenna**: "*Anything from you?*"
**Tyene**: "*...*"
**Olenna**: "*No? Good! Let the grown women speak.*"
— Olenna insults Tyene Sand.[src]
"*Cersei stole the future from me. She killed my son. She killed my grandson. She killed my granddaughter. Survival is not what I'm after now.*"
―Olenna declares her intentions after the deaths of her family.[src]
**Daenerys**: "*I'm not here to be queen of the ashes.*"
**Olenna**: "*That's very nice to hear. Of course I can't remember a queen that was better loved than my granddaughter. The common people loved her, the nobles loved her and what is left of her now? Ashes. Commoners, nobles, they're all just children really. The won't obey you, unless they fear you.*"
— Olenna Tyrell gives council to Daenerys Targaryen[src]
**Daenerys**: "*I realize you're here out of hatred for Cersei and not love for me. But I swear to you to she will pay for what she's done and we will bring peace back to Westeros.*"
**Olenna**: "*Peace? Do you think that's what we had under your father, or his father, or his? Peace never lasts my dear. Will you take a bit of advise from an old woman? (Daenerys nods) He's a clever man, your Hand. I've known a great many clever men. I've outlived them all. Do you know why? I ignored them. The lords of Westeros are sheep. Are you a sheep? No. You're a dragon. Be a dragon.*"
— Daenerys and Olenna's final conversation together.[src]
**Olenna**: "*That was Joffrey's sword, wasn't it? Not that he ever used it. What did he call it?*"
**Jaime**: "*Widow's Wail.*"
**Olenna**: "*He really was a cunt, wasn't he?*"
— Olenna to Jaime about his late son Joffrey.[src]
"*I'd hate to die like your son. Clawing at my neck, foam and bile spilling from my mouth, eyes blood red, skin purple. Must have been horrible for you, as a Kingsguard, as a father. It was horrible enough for me. A shocking scene. Not at all what I intended. You see, I had never seen the poison work before. Tell Cersei. I want her to know it was me.*"
―Olenna's parting words to Jaime Lannister.[src]

## In the books

In the *A Song of Ice and Fire* novels, Olenna is in her sixties, very small and wizened. She has a white hair and soft, spotted hands with gaunt thin fingers. She has an old woman's sour breath and has lost her teeth. She walks with a cane and claims to be near deaf, but both may be part of her feigning to be a frail, harmless old woman - which she is definitely not.

Olenna is cunning with a wicked wit and a sharp tongue. She is known as the "Queen of Thorns" for her sarcasm and the rose thorns in the sigil of House Tyrell. In many ways, the cunning Olenna is the true leader of House Tyrell, masterminding political intrigues which her son Mace, then follows. Despite this she has a loving relationship with her family, including her grandchildren. Olenna is particularly close with her granddaughter Margaery, whom she has mentored in the skills of court intrigue. Olenna is usually accompanied by her twin bodyguards, whom she cannot tell apart, so she simply refers to them as "Left" and "Right."

She was born Olenna Redwyne, daughter of Lord Runceford Redwyne. She married Luthor Tyrell, heir to Highgarden, and they had three children: Mace, Mina, and Janna. Their daughters have never been mentioned in the TV series. Luthor died at some point before Robert's Rebellion; he accidentally rode off a cliff while hunting a hawk. Olenna is older than Hoster Tully, who was in his mid-sixties when he died, but remains in good health (though she has lost her teeth). While she walks with a cane, several characters believe that she feigns to be more frail than she actually is, in order to lull her enemies into thinking she is harmless. Members of House Redwyne tend to have bright orange hair. Olenna's hair has turned completely white due to old age, but it hasn't been established what her hair color was in her youth.

In her youth she almost married Daeron Targaryen, the son of King Aegon V Targaryen, but Daeron refused to marry after his brothers successfully convinced their father to let them marry who they wanted and he let Daeron forgo his marriage to Olenna. Olenna also did everything she could to make sure it never came to fruition. Daeron was actually homosexual, and did not want to marry a woman at all. Aegon V was succeeded by Daeron's older brother Jaehaerys II, who was the father of Aerys II the Mad King. However, Jaehaerys II has been officially cut from the TV continuity - which would imply that his entire generation of siblings doesn't exist either. One of the "ripple effects" of this change may be that Olenna's backstory is officially different in the TV continuity. Olenna actually has no sister named "Viola" in the novels, who was originally going to marry Luthor Tyrell. Instead, it was actually *Daeron*'s sister who was supposed to marry Luthor, Shaera Targaryen. Luthor didn't need to be seduced away from her, because Shaera actually didn't want to marry him either - instead wanting to marry her brother Jaehaerys II, as per incestuous Targaryen marriage customs. Olenna did not need to seduce Luthor away from someone else - though once both marriage betrothals were broken and Luthor was available again, it isn't said how Olenna then managed to secure a marriage betrothal with him, so she could *plausibly* have had to seduce him.

Olenna seems to share the general aversion of the Tyrells against Dorne. During an ugly confrontation in the yard of the Red Keep, she called Ellaria Sand "the serpent's whore."

In the books, Olenna remains in King's Landing until after Tommen's coronation, as she hadn't yet finished thrashing out the details of his marriage to Margaery. Although she is of course nowhere near the proceedings, she is still in the Red Keep during Tywin's murder.

In the fourth novel, Lady Taena Merryweather tells Cersei that Olenna keeps a large chest of gold from before Aegon's Conquest in her wheelhouse, and whenever unwary tradespeople offend her - she pays them in those old coins, which are only half the weight of newly minted gold dragons. That piece of information, combined with Qyburn's report about an old Tyrell coin found in the room of one of Tyrion's gaolers, increase Cersei's suspicions and paranoia toward the Tyrells.

Olenna returns to Highgarden after Tommen and Margaery's wedding, and has not made any on-screen appearances in the novels since then; therefore, it is her son Mace and not her who comes back to the capital to free Margaery. Given how much Olenna cares for her granddaughter, it is possible she has been acting behind the scenes ever since Margaery was arrested, and Mace acted according to her orders rather than on his own.

Olenna is still alive by the point the books reached. If the destruction of the Great Sept plays out in the same way, however, Olenna is not necessarily going to have to take control of House Tyrell herself, as she has two additional grandsons, Willas and Garlan. Even if Garlan is killed with Mace and Margaery, Willas rarely leaves Highgarden and would likely work with his grandmother to resist Cersei.

Cersei, who despises all the Tyrells, loathes Olenna especially, since she somehow reminds her of Maggy, though there is no resemblance between them, except that both are old and wrinkled.

According to George R.R. Martin, Olenna and her son Mace are aware of Loras's sexuality, a detail preserved in the TV series with Olenna's usual bluntness.

Like Margaery, Olenna's role in the TV series has been greatly expanded from her appearances in the novels - though simply because none of the Tyrells are POV characters in the books, and thus most of their actions and internal discussions (such as between Olenna and Margaery) occur "off-screen." Olenna also serves as a foil for Tywin – indeed, Charles Dance himself referred to Olenna as "the anti-Tywin Lannister" in a promotional interview for Season 3.

### Background

Olenna Tyrell was the widow of Lord Luthor Tyrell and the mother of Mace Tyrell, the former Lord of Highgarden, Warden of the South, Lord Paramount of the Reach, and head of House Tyrell. She was the grandmother of his children, Loras and Margaery. She was born into House Redwyne, one of the most prominent and powerful vassals of House Tyrell.

In her youth, Olenna Redwyne was engaged to a member of House Targaryen, as it was "all the rage" at the time; it was her sister Viola to whom Luthor Tyrell was betrothed. However, Olenna instantly dismissed the idea upon clapping eyes on her "ludicrously silver-haired" fiancée and instead set her sights on Luthor. The night before the proposal, Olenna purportedly got lost on her way back from her embroidery lesson, stumbled upon the room in which Luthor was staying and proceeded to seduce him, so thoroughly in fact that the poor boy never did propose to Viola because he couldn't walk down the stairs to do it and all he could think about was what Olenna had shown him.

Although Olenna consistently referred to Luthor as an oaf, she was genuinely fond of him, and confided to Margaery that she had some difficulty accepting his death after his body was delivered to her.

"*I did unspeakable things to protect my family. Or watched them being done on my orders. I never lost a night's sleep over them. They were necessary. And whatever I imagined necessary for the safety of House Tyrell, I did.*"
―Olenna Tyrell to Jaime Lannister[src]
Lady **Olenna Tyrell**, née **Redwyne**, was the elderly matriarch of House Tyrell and the last known head of that house. Lady Olenna had been a mistress of court politics, plotting and intrigue *par excellence* throughout her life. She was also known for her wit and sarcasm. As a result, Lady Olenna was popularly nicknamed the **Queen of Thorns**, in reference to the Tyrell sigil - a rose - and her cutting, barbed comments. In many ways she was the *de facto* head of House Tyrell at the time of the War of the Five Kings and appeared to hold a great deal of influence over the Reach.

After most of her family are killed in the destruction of the Great Sept of Baelor, an event orchestrated by Cersei Lannister, Olenna's desire for vengeance leads her to pledge House Tyrell's forces to Daenerys Targaryen. However, when Daenerys sends her forces to take Casterly Rock, Jaime Lannister's army sacks Highgarden. Offering Olenna a peaceful end, he allows her to drink poison. However, before dying she reveals that she was the one who murdered his son, Joffrey Baratheon, at the Purple Wedding.

## Trivia

* Anna can speak Welsh.
* Her weapon of choice is the whip.
* She is very capable of making people feel special and comfortable. She would organize tea parties under tables, tree-climbing, and hide-and-go-seek adventures for her younger cousins.
* Her fashion choices are highly-anticipated by people around her, particularly among her cousins.
* Charlotte Fairchild is her godmother.
* Her favorite book is *The Secret Diaries of Anne Lister*.
* Anna is partly based on artist Romaine Brooks.
* Anna's favorite animal is a snake.
* She smokes cigars.
* She has famous absinthe parties.
* While Anna Lightwood is genderqueer, the series is set in a time period where the term, and the modern considerations such as gender-neutral pronouns, were still non-existent.
* According to a found family tree, Anna died in 1941 at the age of 56 or 57.
* Anna has a black book in which she keeps a record of the names of all her successful "conquests".
* Even when Anna was younger, she wore dresses "without much enthusiasm".

### Romance

* Ari Bridgestock
* Others

Ari Bridgestock was Anna's first love.

The pair met when Anna's family went for dinner at the Inquisitor's house. Anna was immediately struck by her beauty and the pair made plans to train together. After their first training session, they went out for a night on the town and after saving Ari's life, Anna went back to her home to be bandaged up. They shared a passionate kiss and Anna knew she loved her.

When she returned the next day with flowers, Anna was hurt to learn of Ari's engagement to Charles Fairchild. Ari tried to convince her to continue their love affair until the engagement became official, but Anna refused, knowing it would only hurt more.

From then on, Anna became a skeptic of love, believing it more trouble than it was worth. She became something of rake and her name lived in infamy among the older set. However after Ari was poisoned and nearly died, Ari announced her intention of changing her mind and winning her back.
Anna avoided Ari's efforts for months. Eventually she began a physical and non-exclusive relationship with her. Though she claimed not to care for her, and had told Ari she would never love her, when things ended again, she was visibly distraught.

## Personality

Anna has a good relationship with her friends and family, who in turn admire that she is strong, sophisticated, confident, and self-assured. She's very protective of "the boys": Matthew, James, Christopher, and Thomas. Anna is well-respected and very popular among the London group, and her approval is sought after because "if Anna doesn't like you, no one will!" She is also quite witty and a keeper of people's secrets. Anna views the world with amused tolerance, rarely going so far as to like someone and for her to dislike someone is even rarer.

She rejects the binary gender identity. Anna dates women and, because she does not like to commit, has even had several girlfriends.

Magnus Bane described Anna as "brash, laughing, cheroot-smoking". He also joked that Anna was one of the Lightwoods whom he actually liked.

## Physical description

Anna is said to have the Herondale black hair and blue eyes. She has sharp cheekbones and is extremely slender with small curves. She is tall and typically seen in the height of men's fashion.

Cordelia describes her as being striking, whereas Matthew prefers the french term *jolie laide* meaning oddly beautiful and having a face with character.

## Skills

He is no good at street fighting. He was like vapor, he went wherever he wanted, whenever he wanted.

### Magic

Anything is possible for him. He is incredibly brilliant and knowledgeable and innovative in all forms of magical arts. He knows more about magic than anyone Han has ever met.

## Possessions

* Gold Ring: a handfast gift from Hanalea, it was engraved with her name on the inside, so he would always have her against his skin. It was taken by the Bayars.

## Quotes

* "We are all thieves of one kind or another."
* "All politics is personal."

## Appearance

In the past at a time before the Breaking, Alger had fair, glittering hair framing refined blueblood features and eyes the colour of mountain asters or the Indio in the summer. Women claimed they could drown in them. His only known outfit then consisted of a finely cut coat in satin and brocade, with his wizard stoles bearing the signia and device of his wizard house - ravens and a twined serpent and staff, angled through a crown engraved with wolves.

As Crow, Alger's outfit varies because his appearance in Aediion can be altered by his whim and fancy. To disguise himself, he alters his hair to take on a soot-black shade, though his eyes remain brilliant blue.

He is the original owner of the serpent amulet that Han wields, and explains that the amulet was custom made to allow him to conjure magic the world has never seen.

He was devilishly handsome, as handsome as Hanalea was beautiful. He wears many rings on his fingers, and usually wears a scowl. He was well-built and moved like a cat.

## Personality

Alger is a cynical young man with great enthusiasm for charmcasting and loves to share it. He is very arrogant and sarcastic. Due to his experiences, Alger is a very vengeful and scheming character. He eagerly plots his revenge against those that wronged him and is relentless in his assaults. He will do his best to fulfill what he has set out to accomplish.

On the other hand, to those who take time and effort to know him, Alger is a very trusting and loyal friend. He cares greatly for his friends, even more for his family and descendants, and most of all Hanalea. He is willing to suffer on their behalf for their sakes, and will resort to begging for any form of aid if the help they require is far beyond his capabilities. He will also restrain himself if his actions will bring harm to those he loves.

He was a longtime student of dark magic, he was headstrong and would not accept defeat. He was a fool for love, and had too much power and too little knowledge. He was terribly powerful and used to getting what he wanted. He is funny, in a bitter-edged way. He can be charming when he tries. He can be short-tempered, unreasonable, intimidating, pompous and impatient and bitter. He is also focused, determined, persistent, hardworking, and thorough.

There was something about him, people wanted to be with him. He drew people in, and was the center of attention as soon as he entered a room. Everyone loved him. He was the kind of person you wanted on your side. He always wanted to be in charge, and was used to wizards running things. He tends to be moody and uncommunicative.

## Trivia

* Leigh has stated that Kaz thinks that “trans women are women" and by extension, supports LGBTQ+.
* Kaz has PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) because of his traumatic experiences after Jordie died, which is shown through his constant flashbacks when undergoing contact with human flesh. This was also confirmed in a Q&A shown in the back of some copies of *Crooked Kingdom*.
* Kaz's astrological sign is Capricorn.
* According to Leigh Bardugo, Kaz is a Slytherin.
* According to Leigh Bardugo, the flower that represents Kaz is the Foxglove.

## Personality and traits

"*A liar, a thief, and utterly without conscience. But he'll keep to any deal you strike with him.*"— Inej Ghafa, *Six of Crows*, chapter 6Kaz is cold-hearted, ruthless, and well-known for being willing to do any job, no matter the danger or violence involved, so as long as it will make him a good deal of money. This trait and his various egregious actions have earned him the nickname "Dirtyhands", a reputation he draws upon to intimidate his opponents. Kaz is manipulative and conniving and makes sure to always be the person in control of the situation. For this reason, he's quick-witted and always has a trick up his sleeve. He discourages trust and is willing to exploit almost anyone for his own gain.

Kaz usually appears calm and collected, rarely allowing his emotions or true thoughts to show. However, he holds a penchant for wrathful revenge, particularly when he is wronged or Inej is hurt. He vowed to avenge his deceased brother and lives by the motto "brick by brick" to take down his enemies. Kaz turned the tragedy and trauma of his childhood into a fearsome reputation, and he actively encourages rumors about his ruthlessness and lack of humanity. However, despite his ruthless nature he is not entirely without morals. He genuinely cares about his friends and their wellbeing. Unlike Pekka Rollins, he is openly against the idea of harming children and admits he never would, even if necessary.

He has extreme difficulty expressing his emotions, even to those close to him, thanks to his PTSD. It takes him a great deal of time and effort to realize and admit his genuine feelings for Inej. Kaz struggles to come to terms with being both Dirtyhands, who can do what needs to be done, and Kaz Rietveld, who can love Inej.

Kaz also suffers from haphephobia, the fear of being touched or touching others. This developed from his traumatic experiences as a child, when he was thought to be dead and dumped with hundreds of dead plague victims. Kaz was forced to swim to shore, using his deceased brother as a float to keep him from drowning. He suffers from PTSD involving vivid flashbacks whenever he makes skin-to-skin contact with anyone else. This severe phobia also comes up when he’s in small spaces with other people: in *Six of Crows*, when Kaz had to go inside of a prison wagon to infiltrate the Ice Court, he fainted from being forced to be in close proximity with so many other people. Kaz wears gloves all the time to try and overcome this condition and shows to be slowly winning out at the end of *Crooked Kingdom* where he’s able to hold Inej’s hand and kisses her neck.

## Physical description

"*His coat clung to him in perfectly tailored lines. He stood leaning on his cane, hair neatly pushed back from his pale brow, a black glass boy of deadly edges.*"— *Crooked Kingdom*, chapter 27Kaz has pale skin and dark hair trimmed short on the sides. According to Inej, his eyes are the color of bitter coffee or strong tea in sunlight. He has a sharp jawline, a narrow face, and a lean, muscular build. On his right arm, Kaz has two tattoos: the Dregs' crow and cup on his forearm, and on his bicep a black *R* for 'Rietveld', his original surname. His voice is a gravelly rasp, possibly due to the effects of the firepox he suffered as a child.

Kaz wears simple, dark suits tailored to fit him, and a black hat – the outfit of a Ketterdam merchant. He wears merchant clothing to mock respectable businessmen by looking like one of them, rather than wearing the bright flash preferred by most Barrel gang members. Due to his haphephobia, Kaz always wears black leather gloves with small slits in the fingers to allow for better card handling and lockpicking.

Kaz has a limp and uses a cane with a crow's head as its handle, which also doubles as a weapon. His limp is due to jumping off a roof of a bank at fourteen, breaking his right leg, an injury that never fully healed properly. The severity of his limp varies, depending on factors such as cold weather and stress. Genya Safin offered to heal his leg, but Kaz refused, as he views his limp as his greatest strength. When asked by Inej what Kaz's tell is in a fight, he claims that his opponents never look past his limp, giving Kaz the element of surprise on his side.

## Skills and abilities

Kaz is skilled at lockpicking, card tricks, and sleight of hand. These abilities are so complex that Matthias often calls him *demjin*, meaning demon. He is privy to information of just about anyone and anything in the city, due to Inej's stealth abilities and his considerable influence over Ketterdam.

His sleight of hand skills has been shown many times through the series, one case being when he took a gun from Per Haskell, took the bullets out without his knowing, and gave it back in a matter of seconds.

Kaz is also known most prominently as the mastermind and leader of the *Six of Crows* crew. He devises the plan and directs the crew. His plans are often extremely complex, having many layers that even those participating do not know the entirety of the plan. Inej, Jesper, Nina, Wylan, and Mattias all follow his orders without question.

Kaz has outstanding intellect for his age and extraordinary memory, therefore being able to manage businesses such as the Crow Club and Fifth Harbor.

In combat, Kaz favors his crow's head cane, which he adeptly uses to shatter bones and bring down opponents. He is also comfortable with using knives and guns. When unarmed, he is still dangerous, capable of holding his own with his fists or using improvised objects as weapons.

Kaz is an exceptionally strong-willed individual, which he uses to his advantage. When he woke up among corpses, despite the trauma of the event he was still strong enough to swim back to land using his brother's corpse as a floatation device. Kaz is fully capable of taking a hit, so much so that when he gets into a fight, he allows people to hit him to show off. Kaz is even able to run long distances on his bad leg even when it is causing him nothing but pain.

## Equipment

Kaz uses a cane with a crow's head handle, due to a broken leg that failed to heal properly. The cane is lead-lined and Fabrikator-made to enhance the weight of its swing, allowing Kaz to use it as a lethal weapon. He also carries at least two knives, not including a small oyster shucking knife hidden in his coat sleeve.

## Relationships

### Inej Ghafa

"*I will have you without armor, Kaz Brekker. Or I will not have you at all.*"— Inej Ghafa, *Six of Crows*, chapter 42Inej and Kaz worked together in the Dregs for nearly two years before the Ice Court job and are each the person that the other trusts most. After several near-death encounters, they gradually acknowledge their feelings for one another, inching closer and closer to a romantic relationship. However, the trauma of their pasts makes an intimate relationship extremely difficult. Still, Kaz makes particular effort to prevent harm coming to Inej and to do right by her, even if he believes she deserves better than him.

Kaz originally rescued Inej from Tante Heleen's Menagerie, transferring her indenture to the Dregs instead. He gives her knives and teaches her to fight and pick locks, and also gives her the name "Wraith". Kaz quickly grows to trust Inej more than anyone else; even willingly removing his gloves in her presence. Kaz slowly realizes his romantic feelings for Inej but tries to suppress them, viewing them as a weakness or a liability for both himself and Inej. Inej is also the one to pull Kaz out of his panic attacks. When Kaz almost drowns escaping the Ice Court, he realizes he needs to tell Inej his feelings; however, Inej only wants a relationship with Kaz if he can face the demons of his past and be honest with himself and her.

Kaz often tries to convince himself, Inej, and everyone else that his interest in Inej is purely economical, which upsets both him and Inej. After rescuing her from Van Eck, Kaz confesses that he would still come for Inej if she couldn't be the Wraith anymore, finally admitting she is more to him than an investment. Whenever Inej is injured, Kaz becomes irrational and fears for her safety, and tries to take precautions to protect her.

Before Inej departs Ketterdam, Kaz removes his gloves in public and successfully holds her hand for an extended period of time. He also reveals to her that he bought her a ship to hunt slavers and also negotiated with King Nikolai Lantsov to find her parents and bring them to Ketterdam. Beside herself with joy, Inej invites Kaz to come to meet them with her. He then asks her to check if his tie is straight before going to see them.