Esther
Esther | |
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Portrayed by | Alice Evans |
Sex | Female |
Age | ~40 (as human) |
Esther is the mother of the Originals and is known as the original witch, and has proven to be by far the most powerful in the show. She moves to the Mystic Falls area from Eastern Europe with her husband, Mikael, after their oldest son dies of an illness. At some point, she has an affair with a werewolf, and Klaus comes from it. After their youngest child dies from a werewolf attack, both she and Mikael decide to make their children unkillable. Esther asks for help from her friend, Ayanna, but she refuses to, saying it goes against nature. Esther, therefore, must do it herself, though Mikael does the deed of actually killing their kids.
Esther uses the blood of Tatia, the original Petrova, to feed to her children. This is done because both Klaus and Elijah are in love with her. She also uses Tatia in the curse to bind Klaus's werewolf side from ever surfacing. Esther herself chooses to remain human because someone cannot be both a vampire and a witch at the same time. She's then killed by Klaus. On the other side, she has a thousand years to think about what she's done. She decides that it was a mistake creating vampires because no one should live that long, and vampires are monsters who hurt innocent people. Esther uses Vicki Donovan to try to kill Elena Gilbert, because her blood is needed to make hybrids. When Esther comes back, she forgives Klaus but, with the help of Finn, decides to kill all of her children. She uses Elena's blood to do a spell that binds her children together, so that if one dies, they all die.
She uses the Bennett line to channel more power in order to turn all of the Originals human so that they can be killed permanently. However, this is interrupted and she leaves town with Finn. When Esther comes back, she tells Rebekah that she's dying, and collapses to the floor. However, she actually possesses Rebekah's body and teams up with Alaric Saltzman's evil alter ego. Esther does a spell to make the final white oak stake indestructible, and she turns Alaric into an Original who can only die when Elena dies. However, Alaric kills Esther before the transition is completed and while he's still himself. Klaus then takes her body.