Alaric Saltzman

The new history teacher is actually a vampire hunter looking for his wife Isobel, who is Elena’s birth mother. He becomes Damon’s best friend and drinking buddy.

Alaric dies and returns more than once, briefly becomes a vampire himself and, with Caroline, has the twins Lizzie and Josie. His fiancée Jo is killed at their wedding.

In Legacies he runs the Salvatore School as a strict, loving father to dozens of magical teenagers.