Mikaelson Family

**The Mikaelson Family** (**Elder Futhark**: ᛗᛁᚲᚨᛖᛚᛋᛟᚾ) is a powerful family whose line dates back at least to the then Kingdom of Norway in the late 10th century with Mikael and Esther, a wealthy landowner and a Viking warrior, and a housewife and a witch, respectively. At the beginning of the 11th century, the family was mortal until the loss of Esther and Mikael's youngest child, Henrik to a werewolf attack spurred them to use Esther's magic to turn Mikael and the rest of their living children into the world's first vampires, from whom all vampires are descended. The Original vampires are known as some of the most powerful supernatural beings in the world, but the Mikaelson family is also known for having members who are witches and hybrids.

The family (excluding Freya, Henrik, Hope, Amatis, Juliette, Blue, Henry, and Nik) are the main antagonists of the third season of *The Vampire Diaries*.

## Family Members

* **Mikael**:
* **Esther Mikaelson**:
* **Freya Mikaelson**:
* **Finn Mikaelson**:
* **Elijah Mikaelson**:
* **Niklaus Mikaelson**:
* **Kol Mikaelson**:
* **Rebekah Mikaelson**:
* **Henrik Mikaelson**:
* **Freya Mikaelson's Son**:The child was conceived by Freya and her lover Mathias. He was killed when Freya drank one of Dahlia's deadliest poison.
* **Hope Mikaelson**: This child was conceived by Klaus and Genesis during a one-night stand in the episode *Bring It On*. Hope is said to be a happy and calm baby, but resilient. most describe her as perfect, In the episode *The Originals*, the witch Sophie Deveraux said the child is one of nature's loopholes. It was revealed in *Tangled Up In Blue* that the baby is indeed a hybrid and the second of her kind It was also revealed that the baby is a girl. Hope was born in *From a Cradle to a Grave* and sent off to live with her aunt Rebekah so she would be safe after her parents faked her death. Hope is believed to be a werewolf-witch-vampire tribrid, and the first truly alive vampire/hybrid to exist. She was almost killed by The Hollow when she was seven, which led to the separation of her family members. After this, she started attending the Salvatore School under the name Hope Lawrence. She triggered her werewolf curse when she accidentally killed Bill in 2028. She became extremely lonely after the deaths of her father, and isolated herself from her fellow students.
* **Amatis Mikaelson**:
* **Juliette Mikaelson**:
* **Henry Mikaelson**:
* **Blue Mikaelson**:
* **Nik Mikaelson**:

## Relatives

* **Dahlia:** Esther's older sister who made it possible for her to have children after Esther realized she was barren. She claimed Freya and every subsequent first-born Mikaelson born from Esther's bloodline as long as it shall live as her payment for this complex magic and promised to return and take all of Esther's children if Esther did not adhere to her arrangement. Because of that, she was after Hope and Amatis Mikaelson.
* **Ansel:** Esther's lover, who was the biological father of Klaus. He was a Werewolf with whom Esther had an affair, and Klaus was the product of their love together. Ansel is also Hope and Amatis' biological grandfather.
* **Cary:** Cary is a werewolf relative of Klaus, Hope, and Amatis through Ansel.
* **Mathias:** Mathias is Freya's late lover and father of their unborn son. He was killed by Dahlia.
* **Marcellus Gerard:** Marcellus, commonly known as Marcel, is a child that Klaus adopted as his son in 1821. Marcel was a formerly unnamed slave and the secret illegitimate child of his master, the Governor of Louisiana, who was abused by the slavemasters until Klaus saved him and named him Marcellus, which means "little warrior". Klaus loved Marcel like a son because Marcel reminded him of himself - they were both unloved and abused by their fathers. Though his relationships with the members of the Mikaelson family have been strained over the years, he has begun to reconnect with them following the vampires' loss of control over the Quarter in 2012. Despite their differences, he reconciled with the family and asked for Rebekah's hand in marriage in 2028.
* **Genesis Lawrence:** Genesis is the mother to Niklaus Mikaelson's daughters, Hope and Amatis. Though she had a strained relationship with the Mikaelsons at first, the birth of her daughters, falling in love with Kol, and facing numerous threats together has brought her closer to them. She is also Kol's wife and the mother to his children, Juliette and Henry. The also adopted a daughter named Blue together.
* **Keelin:** Keelin is a werewolf and Freya's wife. They have a son together named Nik.