The Mikaelsons were the world’s first vampires: more than a thousand years ago their mother Esther turned her children with a spell to protect them. Klaus, Elijah and Rebekah once helped build New Orleans. When Klaus learns that the werewolf Hayley is carrying his child, he returns – and finds the city in the hands of his former protégé Marcel.
The show is darker and more grown-up than The Vampire Diaries: a power struggle between vampires, witches and werewolves in the French Quarter, but above all a story about family. The siblings’ vow is “Always and forever” – together, whatever happens.
The series was launched with an episode inside The Vampire Diaries (season 4, episode 20) and ran for five seasons.
The seasons
Each season with every episode and a short summary.
Klaus returns to New Orleans, where Marcel rules the city with the help of the young witch Davina. Hayley carries Klaus’s daughter. At the …
Their parents Mikael and Esther return, and the eldest sister Freya appears, abducted as a child by their aunt Dahlia. Now Dahlia wants Hop…
The “Strix”, a secret society of vampires, and the first vampires the siblings themselves once turned want to destroy the Mikaelsons. A pro…
Five years later Hayley frees the family. Hope is a schoolchild and becomes the target of the “Hollow”, an ancient evil force. To defeat it…
Seven years later Hope attends the Salvatore School. The family comes together once more but loses Hayley. In the finale Klaus takes the da…
The characters
Katherine PierceNina Dobrev
Niklaus “Klaus” MikaelsonJoseph Morgan
Elijah MikaelsonDaniel Gillies
Rebekah MikaelsonClaire Holt
Hayley MarshallPhoebe Tonkin
Marcel GerardCharles Michael Davis
Davina ClaireDanielle Campbell
Freya MikaelsonRiley Voelkel
Camille O’ConnellLeah Pipes
Vincent GriffithYusuf Gatewood
Hope MikaelsonDanielle Rose RussellPictures
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