The Vampire Diaries
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The Vampire Diariesdoppelgängers and their connection to the supernatural world took five seasons to unravel . After Elena Gilbert pass in love with Stefan Salvatore during season 1 , she discovered she bore an unearthly resemblance to his ex : a 500 - class - old lamia name Katherine Pierce , aka " Katerina Petrova " and by and by seasons provided answer . In the First Century BCE , there survive powerful Wiccan cognize as Travelers . The two most powerful of these Travelers were Silas and Qetsiyah who wanted their love to be aeonian , so they concoct an philosopher’s stone that would make them immortal .
On their wedding day , Qetsiyah discover that Silas took the therapeutic and gave the other dose to his real true sexual love , Qetsiyah ’s handmaid , Amara . Qetsiyah ’s and Silas ' actions had far - get through upshot since immortality tip over the counterweight of nature . Therefore , nature find a style to regenerate the proportion by creating doppelgängers . They were Amara ’s andSilas ' darkness selves- living , breathe accurate replicants who could become flat in place of the deity . They were naturally go on mystic beings , but they were susceptible to magic . Katherine and Elena were the first doppelgängers introduced on the show , but they were n’t the last .
The Vampire Diaries urge two spin - offs : The Originals & Legacies . Here ’s how the timeline between the shows intersects and where they depart .
Tatia
She Is Linked To Amara Through One Of Her Siblings
The firstPetrova doppelgänger , Tatia , lived during the late 10th / other eleventh century . Amara had no child , so Tatia was link to Amara though a child of one of Amara ’s siblings . The series establishedall Petrova doppelgängers were Amara ’s descendantseven if it did n’t always intelligibly tie the Zen , including how the bloodline persist inviolate over multiple generations . Tatia lived in the same Greenwich Village as the Mikaelsons - a Viking named Mikael , his married woman Esther , a crone , and their six children . Two of the Mikaelson Word Klaus and Elijah , fell in love with Tatia .
Klaus and Elijah told Damon and Stefan Salvatore about Tatia during season 3 , recall the"allure of the Petrova doppelgänger . “After Henrik was killed by a werewolf , Esther and Mikael decided to cast a spell making their childrenthe first vampires , the Originals . Esther killed Tatia and used her blood to move around them . time of year 2 reveal the Sojourner Truth about Tatia , who volitionally gave her stemma to Esther , incognizant of Esther ’s design . ineffectual to master his thirstiness , Elijah killed Tatia . After Klaus became a vampire , he triggered his loup-garou side , and Esther used Tatia ’s blood to prevent Klaus from turning .
Katherine Pierce
Katherine’s Daughter Is The Ancestral Link To Amara
After Katherine cave in birthing to an outlaw daughter in 1490 , Katherine ’s father banished the Bulgarian beauty to England where she met Klaus . Katherine questioned Klaus ' romantic interest group in her , and she acquire from someone in Klaus ' inner circle his lawful intentions : touse her doppelgänger lineage to suppress his loup-garou side . Katherine used the information to turn herself into a lamia , know this would render her useless to him since he needed human doppelgänger blood to complete the rite to loosen Esther ’s charm .
Klaus and Elijah create the fable of the Sun and Moon Curse to place the next doppelgänger , but if Klaus do it she would be a Petrova descendant , it did n’t make good sense for him to murder Katherine ’s entire family efficaciously cease the bloodline . He also appeared not to lie with aboutKatherine ’s girl Nadia , so his murdering them all was a questionable move on his part .
Katherine ’s daughter established the ancestral link between herself and Elena , but Katherine ’s knowledge of doppelgängers was circumscribed . Katherine was also a descendant of the Travelers , but her beginner turned his back on the friendless witches and their magic . This explains why she would n’t have known about Amara and the beginning of the doppelgängers . Katherine understood doppelgänger blood was used to stamp down Klaus ' werewolf side , but she narrate Elena during season 2 ’s " Katerina " that a doppelgänger was also a loophole : one created to undo the enchantment . Doppelgängers were a loophole , but they were create for a large purpose .
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While Katherine hat Elena , she was Friend with Elena ’s female parent , Isobel Flemming . The latter told Elena that Katherine sought her out not long after she turned into a vampire . Isobel believed it was out of genetic curiosity . Katherine used Isobel to pull ahead access to data about Elena , whom she planned to hand over to Klaus as a peace offer for fly a half - century earlier . GivenIsobel made it her lifetime ’s workto study the supernatural , her lack of reason of doppelgängers was surprising , specially since she was a descendant of Amara . Isobel simply viewed Elena as a biological wonder .
Elena Gilbert
She Was A Descendant Of Petrova
Since Elena was a Petrova descendant , that meant her mother Isobel was as well . alas , the link between Isobel and Katherine was ill-defined . When Katherine ’s daughter Nadia Petrova , arrived in Mystic Falls during season 5 , she revealed she became a vampire so that she could cut across down Katherine : a task that required time , skills , and resources Nadia did n’t own as a man . Nadia never mentioned having children , but since Klaus killed Katherine ’s entire family , there was nobody else to keep the bloodline go except for Nadia ’s offspring . The Vampire Diariesnever addressed the plot hole .
As a course take place , mystical being , Elena ’s origin ( and that of all doppelgängers ) bear power that , when compound with magic , could make go such as the ones Esther concocted to try and kill her baby during season 3 , or Qetsiyah ’s attempt to complete the Anchor barter . Her rake could also be used to undo the magic , such as the Sun and Moon Curse . Some while required human doppelgänger blood , and others did not , although Elena ’s blood was a more sought - after commodity before she became a vampire .
Ultimately , it was Elena ’s blood that was used to break Klaus ' torment in " The Sun Also wax . " To do so , Klaus had to kill Elena and use her blood but some well - timed illusion and a sacrifice by her birth father John Gilbert allowed her to come back to life . That little loophole also made it so her blood became even more valuable as Klaus need to keep her around to verify he could fully change state his hybrid army .
Based on the novels by L.J. Smith, The Vampire Diaries is a story about the developing love triangle between Elena Gilbert and two vampiric brothers, Stefan and Damon Salvatore. Set in the town of Mystic Falls, Virginia, the show follows the trio from high school through college as they battle for one another’s affection.
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Stefan Salvatore
Stefan Was Silas' Shadow Self
The season 4 conclusion ofThe Vampire Diariesshowed that Elena and Katherine were n’t the only doppelgängers . Stefan come across Silas , who revealed that Stefan was Silas ' shadow self . Just as Amara was the progenitor of the Petrova credit line of doppelgängers , Silas had a doppelgänger parentage of his own - the Salvatores . Stefan ’s relationship with Silas was as counter as Elena ’s was with Katherine .
time of year 5 established a strong connection betweenmale and female doppelgängers : they were fill out to find each other and come down in love . Qetsiyah told Damon that during the one C she was immobilize on the Other Side , she watched"destiny essay to get thedoppelgängers together forever . “The serial canon did n’t support the statement that there were more than five doppelgängers . The idea that male and female doppelgängers were meant to be together was debunked by Markos , the leader of the Travelers . He revealed they were take up together because of magic .
Season 5 focused heavily on the result of the Amara - Qetsiyah - Silas love triangle ( TVD ’s Vampire cure).Nature created doppelgängers to restore the residuum disrupted by Qetsiyah ’s and Silas ' immortality spell , and witches double up the existence of doppelgängers into a way to penalise the Travelers for Silas ' and Qetsiyah ’s action . While the serial devote multiple seasons to exploring the complexness of the Petrova doppelgängers as individuals and their relationships with each other , revealing Stefan to be a doppelgänger felt like an reconsideration . Being part of a doppelgänger bloodline did n’t impact him in the same way it did the Petrova doppelgängers .
After Qetsiyah learned Silas made Amara immortal , she make an antidote . During time of year 5 , both Amara and Silas drank the cure for immortality , and they died , putting an end to the doppelgänger saga . Damon stab Katherine , and Enzo St. John kill the other deathly doppelgänger , Tom . During the series finale , Stefan sacrifices himself to bolt down Katherine and keep Mystic Falls , leaving Elena as the sole surviving doppelgänger . The Petrova and Salvatore pedigree would continue with Damon and Elena ’s child , but doppelgängers would become extinct .
Tom Avery
He Is Another Descendant Of Salvatore
Since there were multiple Petrova doppelgängers , it made common sense there would be multiple Salvatore ones as well . Tom Avery was a Salvatore descendantintroduced during season 5 ( Damon and Stefan ’s founding father had an affaire that resulted in a child . ) Tom was a paramedical who lived in Atlanta , and he had no knowledge of his connection to the Salvatores or that he was a doppelgänger . Katherine and Elena found their aliveness constantly intertwined , but Tom and Stefan never met .
The Travelers learn of Tom ’s existence and murder Caroline Forbes and Enzo St. John to kill him . The Travelers ' plan to defeat the witches rested on the blood of the last two doppelgängers . If this was take literally , Tom would have been the last ( as in most late having been brook after Stefan ) , meaning the Travelers would have study him essential . If it was the last brace , then his death was the only fashion for the Travelers to come after . Of all the doppelgängers , Tom was the least significant .
Are Silas And Amara Doppelgängers?
Because all the doppelgängers are written matter of Silas and Amara , there is some disarray about whether Silas and Amara count as doppelgängers themselves . Silas and Amara are n’t doppelgängers but proto - doppelgängers . There are discrete abilities doppelgängers possess that Silas and Amara do n’t .
The key divergence is that doppelgänger blood has vivid wizardly properties , include linking supernatural beings and being akey constituent in Witch ’s Spirit Magicthat can turn a vampire back into a human corpse or remove the lycanthropy gene from loup-garou . Silas and Amara ’s blood has none of these property . What ’s more , doppelgängers have a illustrious helplessness to magic that the progenitors of their line do not . Some go targeting one doppelgänger will affect all of them , for lesson , but Silas and Amara themselves wo n’t be impacted .
Silas and Amara do n’t end up together . While multiple Silas and Amara doppelgängers have notice each other throughout the ages , the progenitors of the line never carry off to accomplish their merrily ever after . Qetsiyah turned Amara into theAnchor to the Other Side , a perspective she maintained for 2,000 years while Silas was condemn to walk the Earth without his true soulmate .
The pair , who were the first immortal being on ground , nearly reconciled inThe Vampire Diariesseason 5 , but this sadly ended with Silas being broadcast to Hell and Amara dying a deadly death , go forever into a peaceable afterlife . Since Hell was destroy in time of year 8 , there is a prospect Silas ' soul found its style back to Amara — but it ’s equally likely that he never recover his room to Heaven , and his soul was ruin along with the jillion of others condemned to eternal curse in Hell .
Are There Doppelgangers In The Originals & Legacies?
AlthoughThe Vampire Diariesconcluded in 2017 , the franchise lived on through the tailspin - off seriesThe OriginalsandLegacies . Considering how polar doppelgängers were to the original show , it was believed they might be seen or mentioned in some human body in the abide by - up shows . The Originalsdid a bit to inflate on doppelgånger traditional knowledge , explain more about the history impart the relationship Tatia had with Klaus and Elijah but there was nothing more afterward .
Meanwhile , Legaciesbrought in more supernatural beings than any other iteration of the franchise thanks to something of a " goliath of the hebdomad " formatting . Necromancers , unicorn , dragons , mummies , and more were seenbut there were no doppelgängers . That might seem disappointing to longtimeThe Vampire Diariesfans of the franchise but it actually makes sense . Doppelgängers are meant to be rarified and grant the fact that they all calculate like Elena and Stefan , they could n’t be show unless Nina Dobrev and Paul Wesley were returning in some form .
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ground on the novels by L.J. Smith , The Vampire Diaries is a story about the developing love triangle between Elena Gilbert and two vampiric brothers , Stefan and Damon Salvatore . typeset in the township of Mystic Falls , Virginia , the show follow the trio from high schooling through college as they combat for one another ’s affection .
