Vampire Diaries Tv

What We Learned:

• Mikael is the Original father. Well done, fandom! A lot of you called that.
• Ayana was a witch that the family knew. She was the one who told them to cross the sea to (then unknown) America after a child died of sickness in Europe.
• As humans, the Originals knew about werewolves. They lived in proximity to them without difficulties for many years, until…
• …Werewolves killed an Original child. Klaus took his young brother Henrick to watch the werewolves change on the full moon, and the wolves killed the boy.
• Vampires exist because Mikael wanted to be stronger than werewolves.The death of Henrick caused Mikael to demand a spell that would make the Originals powerful enough to defend themselves against the werewolves.
• The witch Ayana refused to create the spell. She felt it was against nature.
• Esther was also a witch, so she created the spell. Esther turned the children and Mikael into vampires, but could not be both vampire and witch, so she did not turn herself.
• Mikael turned his children into vampires. It was Mikael who executed the specific steps of the spell. After blood was slipped into their wine, he drove a sword through each of them. He did it brutally and without warning them first. Once they awakened, he forced them to drink human blood to complete their transition, per the spell.
• In addition to the Sun, the White Oak tree was part of the spell that created vampires. It gave them immortality. That is why its wood (or the ash of it bound with magic) can kill Originals.
• Vervain hurts vampires because it was growing at the base of the White Oak tree that was used in the spell. Part of the whole balance and consequences thing.
• Sunlight burns Originals. For anyone who needed incontrovertible proof, here it is. They were trapped inside for weeks before Esther figured out a workaround, and we see Rebekah wearing a ring.
• Originals must be invited into homes. Their neighbors were able to keep them out by refusing invitations.
• Klaus’s werewolf side became active after he was a vampire. It triggered when he made his first kill.
• Esther created the spell that cursed Klaus and made his werewolf side dormant. After doing this, she turned her back on him.
• There are two Original children that we haven’t yet seen. (“My mother bore 7 children” says Elijah, in Klaus.) We’ve got Elijah, Klaus, Rebekah, Henrick, one child killed by sickness in Europe. That leaves two Original siblings that are presumably in Klaus’s coffins.
• Rebekah and Klaus carved their names into the wall, but they did NOT write the whole story there. Rebekah had not seen the other images.
• Klaus told Rebekah that Mikael killed their mother by snatching out her heart. This solidified the bond between the two siblings.
• The wall suggests that Klaus killed their mother and then lied about it.We’re not sure which is less trustworthy, a cave wall, or Klaus. Hmm…
• Klaus, Elijah and Rebekah made a pact to protect each other “always and forever.” The other two siblings wandered off somewhere, and seem not to have been as close as those three.