Timeline (Nova's Lore)

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This page contains the Timelines which displays all events that happened on ​The Vampire Diaries​, ​The Originals​ and ​Legacies​ in chronological order. This includes events affecting characters found in Flashbacks and Flashforwards that have already come to pass.

8th millennium B.C.

• At some point in time circa the 8th millennium B.C. the gods were happy, all except for Ken. His insatiable desire for conquest led him to find new places where he could be feared and loved. Along with his sister Lynn, and the other gods, they crossed into the mortal world and that's when wars intensified. More and more humans started arriving in Limbo, a slow trickle became a flood. Lynn thought it was unfair and saw the poor souls lost to wander in the darkness forever. She took pity on them. She found a mother and child who died for no reason, and she thought, since the gods had taken away their happiness, she should ferry them across into Peace, their home. Since they colonized their world, she settled them in theirs. When Ken discovered this, he cursed her. If she was so interested in helping humans, he would force her to do it for all eternity, never to return home. Always reaching the shore, but never able to actually set foot there. Lynn continued to ferry souls for the next 10,000 years, give or take. ("By the End of This, You'll Know Who You Were Meant to Be")

30th century B.C.

• Ben was born to a mortal mother and a divine father in a village at the base of the Caucasus Mountains circa 3000 B.C. His village loved the gods, but he was living proof of that love. His birthright explained his invincibility in battle, which he fought to keep their village safe. Despite his father, he had no use for the gods. They had never revealed themselves to him, nor did he ever ask anything of them until the day that Ashur, his best friend and lover, fell ill. The gods of their village lived atop the high mountain and Ben attempted to bring Ashur to the threshold beyond which mortals could not pass. Denied by his father, Ben took matters into his own hands.
• Leaving Ashur at the threshold as he crossed past the barrier, he claimed his birthright and stole the fire that mortals would come to know as magic, hoping it would save Ashur's life. Though it was too late and Ashur died. Out of spite, he gave the magic he stole to the village, believing that the people could help themselves instead of worshiping fickle, uncaring gods. He was foolish, however, and humans sought the same power and privilege the gods abused. They didn't want to stop worshiping the gods, but, in turn, they wanted to become them and in their lust for that power, monsters were born, along with many of the world's ills. ("The Story of My Life")
  • At some point, he was cursed to this day because he trusted them; cursed to heal and be attacked by monsters.

22nd century B.C.

• Several decades prior to 2200 B.C., Arcadius, the world's first psychic, was born in the Mediterranean region. ("An Eternity of Misery")
• Around 2200 B.C., Arcadius accidentally used his psychic gift to read the mind of a powerful village leader and learned his impure thoughts for very young girls, a revelation that caused the leader and the rest of the village to turn against him. Upon being bound and burned at the stake, Arcadius, in excruciating physical pain from the flames and emotionally distressed by the villagers betraying him, inadvertently unleashed a blast of psychic energy moments prior to his death that was so powerful, it created a new dimension called Hell.
• After Arcadius created Hell, he began bringing in the spirits of those who had committed heinous sins in their lives, feasting on and tormenting their souls for eternity. This cycle would continue for another thousand years or so, when the Traveler witch Qetsiyah created her own afterlife dimension, which was a purgatory that trapped the souls of supernatural creatures. In most, but not all cases, this prevented anyone who was supernatural from finding peace or going to Hell until the Other Side's destruction in the 21st century. ("Original Sin"), ("Home")
• Some time after Arcadius' death, his enemies forged a weapon known as the Staff of Arcadius. This weapon has the ability to disrupt a psychic's powers and inflicts them with an extremely painful headache. ("An Eternity of Misery")
• In the decades following Arcadius’ death, a child was born in the shadowed highlands of ancient England. Her name was Esme Halloway—and she saw the future in dreams. (“The Five”)
• Esme’s gift of foresight manifested early. As a child, she spoke of events before they occurred, described people she had never met, and warned of disasters days before they happened. Her parents, though bewildered, kept her hidden, fearing the superstitious whispers of the villagers. As she grew, so did her power. Esme could not only glimpse the future but shape the paths others would take toward it. Through her words and magic, she subtly guided those around her, preventing wars, uniting broken clans, and planting the seeds of peace. She became revered in secret among witches and healers as The Hallow Seer. (“We All Go a Little Mad Sometimes”) (“Into the Wild”)
• Unlike Arcadius, Esme did not die in pain or rage. She lived a good, quiet life surrounded by nature and the sacred circle of witches who followed her. On the eve of her death, knowing it was her time, she gave her final prophecy—one that has never been fully deciphered. Upon her passing, a new dimension took shape, not out of agony but of wisdom. Known as The Hallowing, it is a tranquil but eerie realm said to hold the secrets of time itself. Only those with pure intention and ancestral connection to Esme can access its knowledge. Some witches believe it’s where prophecies are born. (“Stand by Me”) (“Bring It On”)
• Fearing what might happen if her foresight ever fell into the wrong hands, a coven of ancient druids forged The Mirrorvine Circlet, a relic made from silverwood and woven moonlily. This artifact can block visions and sever a seer’s connection to The Hallowing, rendering them vulnerable and blind to time’s flow. (“The Originals”)

8th century B.C.

• Seline, a powerful young psychic, was exiled to an island when villagers discovered her supernatural identity. Shortly afterward, another young psychic, Sybil, met the same fate, ending up on the same island and befriending Seline. The two then became so close that they referred to each other as "sisters" due to being the only family they had.

• Due to their new home being scarce in resources, Seline showed her how to use her psychic abilities to both amplify each other's power level while also attracting ships in order to be rescued. However, when the first ship crashed into the jagged rocks on the coast, everyone on the ship perished, and Sybil vowed never to use her powers in that way again, believing that if they couldn't live on what "God" provided, then they didn't deserve to live at all. Seline, who had secretly become a cannibal in order to survive on the island, raided the ships for needed items and passed off the flesh of the dead sailors as being animal meat, deceiving Sybil while converting her to a cannibalistic diet.

• Centuries after the death of Esme Halloway, the bloodline of The Hallow Seer endured in secrecy. From it came Vivianna Halloway, a witch born not with foresight, but with something far more dangerous—she could siphon magic.
• Vivianna was the first of her lineage to manifest this gift. As a child, her touch would weaken her coven’s spells, drain sigils dry, and leave enchanted artifacts powerless in her hands. At first, they believed her cursed. Her mother, a devout follower of Esme’s teachings, hid her away in the deep woods of Britannia, hoping to protect her from both fearful villagers and power-hungry witches. But secrets never stay buried.
• When word of her abilities spread, the local coven deemed Vivianna a threat to magical balance and exiled her to a distant island, one long forgotten by cartographers and untouched by man. She was seventeen. As weeks became months, Vivianna grew stronger. Her body, always hungry for magic, adapted—siphoning residual enchantments left on items and bones, even absorbing the spiritual energy that lingered in shipwrecked corpses. She became the first Halloway Siphoner, unknowingly awakening a dormant trait in the bloodline.

• 750 B.C.:
  • When Sybil learned that she had been feeding on the flesh of innocent men all of her life, she became so distraught that she attempted to commit suicide by jumping off a cliff. When Seline found her dying in the forest, she prayed to "God" to save her, only for the spirit of Arcadius, a deceased psychic and ruler of Hell, to approach them instead. Seline, recognizing Cade by the stories they had heard about him, begged him to save Sybil's life at any cost. Cade ultimately agreed to given the sisters eternal life and youth, on the condition that they feed on the flesh of evildoers who were sent to hell upon death while bringing him their souls for eternal punishment. ("An Eternity of Misery") ("Kill 'Em All")

1st century B.C.

• The oldest known ancestor of the Salvatore Family, Silas, was born. He was born into a very wealthy and noble family of witches, and eventually became one of the more gifted witches in his community, alongside of Qetsiyah and, Delythena, some of the most powerful witches in all of history. He, his former fiancée Qetsiyah, and his true love Amara shaped the majority of the events that created the present day world. Silas eventually became the progenitor of the Salvatore bloodline, as well as the Salvatore line of doppelgängers. ("Original Sin")
• The oldest known ancestor of the Bennett Family, Qetsiyah, was born. She was born into a very wealthy and noble family of witches. Qetsiyah is known to be one of the most powerful witches in history, rivaled only by Silas. ("Original Sin")
• The oldest known ancestor of the Halloway Family, Delythena was born. She was born into a very wealthy and noble family of witches. Delythena is known to be one of the most powerful witches in history. It's argued that Delythena, along with Silas, Qetsiyah and, Amara, helped to shape the future of all of the characters and events in the series. ("Original Sin")
• The oldest known ancestor of the Petrova Family, Amara, was born. Unlike Silas, Qetsiyah and, Delythena, Amara was born into a poor and downtrodden human family, and eventually grew up to be Qetsiyah's handmaiden. Amara eventually became the progenitor of the Petrova doppelgängers. ("Original Sin")
• Silas and Qetsiyah, two of the most powerful witches in their community, worked together to create the first spell of immortality; with the most important potent ingredient being the blood of Delythena, a direct descendant of Esme Halloway. ("We All Go a Little Mad Sometimes")
• At some point in their early adulthood, Silas became engaged to Qetsiyah, who was described on several occasions as being his best friend. However, unbeknownst to Qetsiyah, Silas was also engaging in an affair with her handmaiden, Amara, a mortal with whom he was truly in love with.
• Silas and Amara became the very first immortal beings in the world, created with the use of magic, aside from the pre-existing immortal Sirens, who are a similar but different type of immortal monster, created with the use of magic. Qetsiyah and Silas were originally intended to drink the immortality elixir that Qetsiyah had created at their wedding, but Silas instead ended up stealing it and drinking it with Amara, his true soulmate and love of his life, so that they could spend eternity together.
• An angry, vengeful, and jealous Qetsiyah used her magic to desiccate Amara before using her indestructible and eternal body as the mystical anchor to the Other Side, a new purgatory dimension of her own creation that acted as a sort of afterlife for the spirits of deceased supernatural beings. ("Original Sin")
• Qetsiyah then magically petrified Silas as well before sealing him in a tomb in a cave on an island off of what is now Nova Scotia, Canada. Qetsiyah also created a cure for immortality, and buried it along with Silas in this tomb.
  • Qetsiyah's intention was to force Silas to have to choose between living in agony as a starving immortal for the rest of his life, or taking the cure and dying a mortal death as a witch. Regardless of which choice Silas made, he would spend eternity without Amara in the peaceful human afterlife where he believed she resided; he would either spend the rest of his immortal life as a statue on earth, or would spend it on the Other Side with Qetsiyah, the outcome she wanted most. ("Into the Wild")

• Sometime after Qetsiyah created the immortality spell, a schism formed in the magical community, and caused many witches, including the group of witches who became known as the Gemini Coven, to fear the amount of power witches like Qetsiyah possessed in order to be able to create such spells. This led to the Travelers killing Qetsiyah in anger for the trouble she had wrought to their group by essentially creating the magical basis from which all forms of immortality would be derived in the future. The Gemini Coven also has a grudge against the Halloway's for their part in the Immortality Spell and with acknowledgement with Siphoners.
• The aforementioned witches then cursed Qetsiyah and Silas' community of witches, who from then on became known as the Travelers due to the fact that they were forced to live as nomads as a side effect of the curse, unable to settle as a community for longer than a few days or perform rituals and spells in groups without risking their homes being devastated by natural disasters such as earthquakes and plagues. This curse also cut the Travelers off from Nature, so they were unable to practice traditional magic, their preferred form of witchcraft. ("Resident Evil")
  • As a result of this curse, the Travelers improvised by creating their own form of magic later known as Traveler Magic, a cruder form of their beloved traditional magic that had many more limitations. They also developed an affinity for a form of spirit possession known as Passenger spells, which allowed them to bypass the restriction in their curse that prevented them from congregating as a group by possessing the bodies of non-Travelers; this allowed them to gather and perform spells as a group with no adverse side effects.

• The Travelers eventually came into possession of the literally-petrified Amara and spent over two thousand years constantly moving her body around so she wouldn't fall into the wrong hands. All the while, the Travelers sought Silas' location and the cure to finally destroy the immortals Qetsiyah had unknowingly created with her spell. ("Handle with Care")

Consequences of the Spells on Future Generations

• The Salvatore doppelgänger bloodline and the Petrova doppelgänger bloodline was created as a result of Silas, a very powerful witch, and Amara, a mortal, ingesting the immortality elixir, since their nigh-invulnerability caused an imbalance in Nature. Nature found a balance to the law that they had broken, which stated that every living thing must die by creating what became known as "shadow-selves," or "doppelgängers." These exact duplicates of Silas and Amara acted as a version of the immortal beings who could actually die in their place, though they could gain lesser forms of immortality by becoming vampires. ("Original Sin")
• Silas' betrayal of Qetsiyah by sharing the immortality elixir with Amara is what caused Qetsiyah to create the Other Side to act as a purgatory for supernatural creatures. As the anchor to the Other Side, Amara was forced her to spend her immortal life frozen in stone and acting as a tollbooth for the spirits of dead supernatural beings. Whenever a supernatural being died, their spirit would pass through Amara's body on their way to the purgatory dimension, and Amara would feel the pain of each of their deaths as they crossed over. This fate ultimately drove her to psychological instability, as the immense pain caused by the spirits crossing over -- in addition to the confusion of having a foothold in two different planes of existence, which caused her to be unable to distinguish ghosts from the living became too overwhelming for her to bear over the many centuries she was alive. This dimension existed for over two thousand years, during which time it became home to the spirits of countless witches, werewolves, vampires, doppelgängers, and supernatural hunters who had died and were then forced to watch their loved ones and enemies live on without them in near-solitude until it was ultimately destroyed in 2013. ("Death and the Maiden")

72 A.D.

• Born under a blood moon in 72 A.D., Aleksander Halloway was the first male siphoner born of Esme Halloway’s sacred bloodline—his power wild, unyielding, and deeply tied to the unseen currents of magic that flowed through the earth.
  • In the heart of Sythria, he declared himself King of Sythria, ruler of witch and man alike, and so began the Halloway Dynasty—a royal bloodline woven with magic, secrecy, and ancient power. His reign marked the unification of scattered magical clans beneath one banner, bound by his strength and the legend of the Hallow Seer from whom he came.

100 A.D.

• In a Roman Village, townspeople prepared for their annual harvest festival in which they use the effigy of a clown to confess all of their sins and then burn it, believing that it would destroy all their misdeeds along with it. However, prior to the festival, an Egyptian woman, a conscripted then exiled witch, cast a spell and brought the effigy to life to punish the villagers for taking her away from her home.

Before 5th century A.D.

• The noble Green Knight wielded Excalibur, though his body and soul was corrupted and decayed as a result of the power. He became unworthy to wield the sword and his thirst for more made him a scourge upon mankind. Wielding the sword, Camelot fell and the Dark Ages began. Eventually, Nimue, Lady of the Lake, became the sword's protector and was bound by duty to find a worthy champion and fell the Green Knight. ("We're Not Worthy")
  • At an unknown point in time, both the Green Knight and Nimue encountered Malivore was was consumed.

5th century A.D.

• Florent & Florencia Halloway (ca. 450 A.D.) Twins. Florent becomes the king of Sythria. Florencia is revered as the “Moonborn Seeress,” the last recorded witch of the Halloway line with pure foresight.
• In Europe, Markos, leader of the Travelers, was born.
• Markos, upon growing up to become a powerful Traveler witch and leader of their clan, cast a spell on the first pair of doppelgängers spawned as a result of Silas and Amara's immortality. This spell caused the two doppelgänger lines to be mystically drawn to one another so that, when the time came, it would be easier for the Travelers to find them and use their combined blood to break the curse that was placed on them by the witches.
• In what would become the United States of America, a Native American man and woman, both powerful witches and members of two warring tribes, were married together to create a unified coven.
  • The couple then went on to conceive a child together. For nine months, the tribal Elders came to the the mother, using magic to grant the child great power in hopes that the newborn would become a symbol of prosperity.
  • After the child was born, it became clear that Inadu was even more powerful than they could have imagined. However, this power came with an insatiable hunger for more power, channeling life in all its forms. Eventually she loved the fear she inspired in others and became ruthless, unfeeling, empty, the define trait gave rise to her nickname, "The Hollow."

• Years later, after Inadu, now a young woman, had performed numerous sacrifices in the name of taking their power for herself, the Elders of her coven, along with her own mother, used wolves to ambush Inadu so that they could take her down once and for all. Knowing that they would have to kill her via dismemberment to ensure that she would be truly dead, the witches held her down as they enchanted an axe with the power to end her life. Knowing that her time was limited, Inadu cast one final spell, empowered by her death.
  • Once she had been killed, the nature of the spell was finally revealed-- she cursed every witch present for her execution to be bound to the Full Moon, at which time they would be forced to shapeshift into wolves, the same animals they used to hunt her, thus causing the creation of the Werewolf species and curse. Inadu's mother, who bore the Crescent mark just like her daughter, then became the progenitor of the Labonair bloodline of Werewolves, who shared her lineage with Inadu.

• The other cursed witches in attendance then became the progenitors of the remaining six original werewolf bloodlines -- Malroux, Deep Water, Barry, BasRoq, Paxon, and Poldark.
  • At some point, Inadu's spirit was locked away by the New Orleans Ancestral Witches, remaining a prisoner, in an unknown dimension, for centuries until the link between the ancestors and the living world was destroyed in 2014 and she used the massive release of energy to escape. ("Voodoo in My Blood")

ca. early 970s A.D.

• The Halloway Dynasty reached the height of its power and influence during the reign of the sibling sovereigns, King Stephan Halloway and Queen Amorette Halloway. Born as fraternal twins into the royal bloodline, the pair were the only children of King Allerik and Queen Esthera Halloway, rulers remembered for their wisdom and visionary magical policies. However, tragedy struck the realm when both monarchs perished unexpectedly—rumored to be victims of a cursed magical relic—leaving the throne vacant when Stephan and Amorette were just eleven years old.
• Due to their youth, the kingdom entered a regency period overseen by the High Council of Sythria, during which the royal twins were extensively trained in diplomacy, magic, and statecraft. It was not until their fifteenth year that the council declared them fit to rule. Upon ascending the throne, Stephan took the title of High King, overseeing matters of war, security, and magical order, while Amorette, crowned High Queen, became known as the “Heart of the Realm” for her work in healing magic, foreign alliances, and domestic reform.
• Together, they ushered in what historians call the Golden Reign of the Halloways—an era of peace, economic prosperity, magical advancement, and territorial expansion across the southern provinces of Sythria. Their united rule, marked by deep familial loyalty and balance of power, remains one of the most revered and romanticized chapters in the Halloway legacy.
• In the Kingdom of Norway, a large group of Viking warriors attacked a village where two young witches, Esther and Dahlia, were raised. The Vikings easily slaughtered all of the villagers except for the two witches, whom they decided to capture after they saw Dahlia using magic to neutralize the Viking who attempted to attack her younger sister. Before they were captured, the sisters promised each other that they would stand by one another, "always and forever," no matter what happened. It was this vow that would also later be adopted by Esther's children Finn, Elijah, Niklaus, Kol, and Rebekah in the early 11th century.
• In order to spare Esther from the horrible physical and psychological abuse she herself would eventually endure from the Vikings, Dahlia agreed to perform the dark magic they demanded in exchange for Esther's protection. As a result of this deal, she was forced to work for them all day in a cramped hovel while Esther was able to spend most of her day outside collecting magical herbs for her.
• At some point during their captivity, Esther began to grow closer to one of her Viking captors, Mikael, and after some time, they fell in love and planned to get married and start a family.
  • When Dahlia informed her of a plan she had created to allow them to escape the Vikings' control using potent sage and serpent's blood, Esther confessed that she had decided to stop practicing witchcraft, as she believed she would no longer need it because Mikael would protect her from any harm. Dahlia felt incredibly betrayed by Esther's decision to leave her in favor of marrying one of their captors, believing that she was breaking their vow to always stick together. In her grief, she began sobbing on the floor after Esther left with Mikael. It is believed that this moment is what led to Dahlia swearing to never be oppressed again.
• Some time in 971, Mikael and Esther were married and began to try to have children of their own. ("City Beneath The Sea")
• Stephan and Amorette also reached the age of marriage and began to try to have children of their own.

972 A.D.

• In Norway, a barren Esther Mikaelson asked her sister Dahlia to help her conceive a child with magic. Dahlia initially rejected her pleas, as she was still resentful that Esther had abandoned witchcraft and believed if she hadn't, Esther would be able to help herself, but after some convincing, she ultimately agreed. However, Dahlia warned her that it would require heavy sacrifice, which Esther was desperate enough to agree to pay.
• A short time afterward, Mikael and Esther conceived their first child together, and within the year, their daughter, Freya, became their firstborn child. ("Wheel Inside the Wheel")

973-974 A.D.

• In Norway, Mikael and Esther had a second child, Finn Mikaelson, who would grow up to be the best friend of his older sister Freya. ("Wheel Inside the Wheel")
• Stephan and Amorette first child died shortly after child birth; they named her Kateryna Christella Halloway.

977 A.D.

• When Freya was five years old and just starting to come into her magical abilities, Dahlia sensed her power and came to take her, Esther's firstborn child, as payment for casting the fertility spell in 972 A.D.. Esther attempted to resist the price of the spell, which caused Dahlia to remind Esther that she hadn't just agreed to give up her own firstborn child to her-- she had also agreed to give up the firstborn witch child of each and every one of Esther's witch descendants for as long as her bloodline existed.
  • Esther was so devastated by this event (despite knowing what she was agreeing to when she requested Dahlia cast the spell) that she vowed to return to the dark arts and grow in experience and magical strength until she was powerful enough to rival Dahlia herself. Shortly after Freya was taken, Esther made good on this threat and began practicing witchcraft again.
• Mikael, who was away in battle at the time Freya was taken, was told a lie that Freya died from plague upon his return to their home in Norway. This news ultimately had a permanent effect on the future of his family, as the "death" of his beloved daughter caused Mikael to become withdrawn from Esther and his later children.
• Esther was also pregnant with her third child, Elijah, when Freya was taken away by Dahlia, indicating that Elijah was born later this year or earlier in the following year. ("Wheel Inside the Wheel")
• Freya, now in Dahlia's possession, was immediately taught to use her powers by her new guardian. After a short period of instructing Freya in witchcraft, Dahlia created her own brand of connective magic and bound herself to young Freya in a way that allowed her to augment Freya's powers while still giving herself the ability to also channel her young niece and increase her own power as well.
• Armed with Freya and the immense magical power they shared, Dahlia set out to use it to vanquish her enemies. She began this mission right away by slaying an entire village of Viking men, women, and children with a wave of her hand, as the village was led by a chief who wanted to run her out of the encampment for practicing witchcraft. ("Save My Soul")

ca. 977 - Late 990's A.D.

• In the year 978 A.D., the Kingdom of Sythria rejoiced at the birth of twins Aleksander and Aleksandra Halloway, children of the revered King Stephan and Queen Amorette Halloway. Their arrival marked a turning point in the royal couple’s grief, as the joyous occasion came four years after the devastating loss of their firstborn child Kateryna in 974 A.D., whose death left the realm in quiet mourning.
• From the moment they drew breath beneath the blood-red moon, it was clear the twins were unlike any born before them. Both were discovered to possess the rare Halloway trait of siphoning magic, an ability thought to have thinned over generations. Yet in them, it surged with renewed force—stronger and more volatile than even their ancestors. Court seers foretold that their bond, both as twins and siphoners, would either restore the ancient balance of power in Sythria… or fracture it entirely.
• Their birth was celebrated with a week-long festival across the Halloway lands, and the twins were dubbed “The Crimson Heirs,” a name derived from the night sky at their birth and the prophecy whispered in hushed tones by the Circle of Magi. To this day, their legacy begins with a flame of loss, reborn in the promise of power.
• The witch Ayana, Esther's friend and mentor, informed Esther of a far-away place where "everybody is healthy and blessed with the gifts of speed and strength." This place was in the New World, and the people she was describing were werewolves.
• Esther, Mikael, their two sons, (Elijah and Finn) and Ayana (along with several other Norwegian Vikings) migrated to the place that would eventually become known as Mystic Falls, Virginia in the United States of America. They were quickly welcomed into a village in which many werewolves resided and easily integrated into their new home. During the full moon, the Viking colonists would hide inside the extensive cave system under the village to protect themselves from the werewolves while they were transformed.
• The Mikaelson family lived in peace with the natives for over twenty years. During this time, Mikael and Esther had four more children together: Niklaus, Kol, Rebekah, and Henrik. However, it would soon be revealed that Klaus was not actually Mikael's biological son, but instead was a product of an affair Esther had with Ansel, the chief of the village and the werewolf Alpha of what eventually became known as the North East Atlantic Pack.
  • Because Klaus inherited the werewolf gene from his true father, Esther spent the rest of Klaus' human life fearing that the Viking warrior culture would cause him to kill and trigger his curse, which would subsequently reveal her infidelity. In order to keep Klaus from activating his werewolf gene for as long as possible, she cast a spell to cause physical weakness on a Starling Necklace in hopes of ensuring Klaus wouldn't have the power to kill anyone. However, it was this magically-induced weakness that caused Mikael, who valued only strength in his offspring, to begin abusing Klaus, and this abuse ultimately played a huge role in making Klaus the paranoid, vengeful, and violent person he became as an adult. ("Ordinary People") ("Every Mother's Son") ("Wheel Inside the Wheel")
• During this time, the lord Tristan de Martel and his younger sister, the lady Aurora de Martel were born to the Count de Martel and his wife in Marseilles, France. When Aurora was born, her mother died in childbirth, causing Aurora to blame herself for her death for the rest of her life. ("The Axeman's Letter")
• Tiffanie Halloway was born in the year 985 A.D., amidst the most violent storm the kingdom of Sythria had witnessed in centuries—an omen, some claimed, of the power she would carry. Thunder cracked the skies like war drums and rain flooded the castle halls of Highmoor Keep as the midwives delivered the child beneath the flicker of candlelight and ancient runes drawn in haste.
• As the storm raged, so too did the magic in the air, swirling unnaturally around the infant. When she opened her eyes—calm in contrast to the chaos outside—every candle in the chamber flared to life. It was then discovered that Tiffanie, like her older siblings and ancestors before her, was born with the rare ability to siphon magic, making her the fourth known female siphoner of the Halloway line after her elder sister Aleksa being the third.
  • Unlike her older siblings, Tiffanie was quiet, contemplative, and drawn to arcane texts and the ruins of the Old Blood Temples. Many believed her birth had awakened a slumbering force beneath Sythria, and that her destiny would not be confined to the walls of the palace—but written in storm and shadow alike.
• Born in the winter of 987 A.D., Hallow Halloway was the fourth and final child of King Stephan and Queen Amorette Halloway, a miracle whispered to be divinely guided. From the moment of her first breath, her presence stirred ancient wards embedded deep in the stone of the Halloway stronghold—a sign that the legacy of old had awakened once more.
• Unlike her older siblings, Hallow was born with not one, but both of the rarest ancestral gifts in the Halloway bloodline: the ability to siphon magic and the elusive gift of true foresight. These twin powers had not been seen in tandem since the days of Talindra Halloway. However, Florencia Halloway, her many-times-great-grandmother and the last recorded witch of their house to possess pure sight. Hallow’s birth was viewed as a prophecy fulfilled—a rebirth of ancient potential.
  • Her appearance only deepened the awe surrounding her. With moon-pale skin, silver-gold curls, and awestrucking light-indigo eyes, she bore an uncanny resemblance to the long-deceased Princess Juliet, a tragic royal of old whose fate was bound to shadow and sorrow. Elders of the court would murmur that Hallow was Juliet reborn, destined to right what once went wrong.
• Though still a child, her quiet intuition and eerie calm unsettled even the most seasoned seers and siphoners. Hallow Halloway was no ordinary daughter of kings—she was a flame reborn from the embers of prophecy, and her future would shape the twilight of the Halloway Dynasty.

ca. Late 990s-Early 1000's

• In the Kingdom of Norway, Freya, now an adult woman, continued to learn witchcraft from Dahlia, and as she grew older, it became exceedingly clear that Freya's magic was out of control, as the firstborn witches of Dahlia and Esther's family's bloodline are known to always possess devastating amounts of power, moreso than the other witches of the bloodline.
  • After learning that Freya's siblings had been turned into vampires, preventing them from having any children, Dahlia, furious that Esther had essentially weaseled out of their deal by preventing her from taking their firstborn witch children, became determined to figure out a way to get the firstborn Mikaelson witches she desperately craved. Her ultimate goal was to create a coven of powerful witches from whom she could channel and become unstoppable, and it was this goal that led her to realize that she needed to extend her lifespan in order to make her plan work, since she had only Freya to continue the bloodline at this point.
    • Dahlia eventually created a spell that would grant a witch an unconventional form of immortality, which would allow them to retain their magic, unlike vampires and true immortals, who lose their magic upon transformation. Though Freya insisted that she wanted no part of this spell, as she viewed the immortality as a curse, Dahlia (seeing this opportunity as both a stop-gap in her quest to true immortality as well as a chance to extend Freya's life so she can have a larger bloodline of Mikaelson witches for Dahlia to take) forced Freya to partake in the ritual against her will. The spell required them to put themselves in a magically-induced sleep for a century while their magic would continue to grow exponentially over that time. When they awoke from this sleep, they would then have more power than they ever dreamed, but it came at a price-- they could only be active for a single year before they had to return their magical slumber for another century and once again build up more of their power. This spell ensured that they would only become more powerful with each century they awakened. ("The Devil is Damned") ("Save My Soul")

1001

• At some point in this year, Tatia, a Petrova doppelgänger who was the object of affection for both Elijah and Klaus, confessed to Elijah that she loved him, effectively choosing him over his brother. The relationship between Elijah and Tatia grew stronger from then on, with Elijah's mother Esther being so happy that she truly believed that she would call Tatia her daughter once she and Elijah married. ("Red Door")
• In the New World, Henrik was killed by werewolves after sneaking out on a full moon with Klaus "to watch the men change into beasts." ("Homecoming")
• Sometime during 1001 Queen Amorette received a letter from the family in the Kingdom of Norway seeking an alliance with the House Halloway. Amorette told her husband Stephan about it thinking it would be nice to venture out with other royal families. At first Stephan didn't even think twice about the alliance as he had no interest connecting with the New World; but, with some convincing from his wife he agreed. His family and most trusted men came along with his family to the New World. Not knowing this was the first step to an assassination against the Halloway's. They settled in a village not from where the Mikaelson Family resigned. Ayana a Bennett witch descendant got word and shared her discoveries with Mikael and Esther.
• Autumn 1001: