Chapter 1

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Growing up around supernatural legends and stories about beasts. Growing up around magic, spells, creatures such as vampires and wolves. Other creatures from dragons, mermaids, sirens, banshees and more. Every culture has a different yet very similar legend.

Over years and centuries the myths and legends change slightly. All do remain with the same things it started with. Weather a vampire drinks blood and has red eyes. Or the vampire can fly and has bat wings. Maybe a werewolf gets all furry in humans.

Then to transform into a full blown wolf. To the fact mermaids can't live without water. To them being able to shift back and forth between forms. From sirens being the ones luring sailors to their death. Then blending in on the land and sea to feast on their victims.

To wolves being normal and then transform only on a full moon. Not having control over their so called beast. And being the ones that are vicious and killers. To them protecting the lands and humans around. To fully shifting into a creature larger than and average wolf.

Dragons ancient as the tales can go back. Fire breathing and scaly skin all over. To transforming back and forth between human and beast. Always wanting treasures to keep them happy. Banshees who sense the dead and can call to those who are about to die.

The wail of a banshee is nothing you want to hear. For you never know who she is wailing for. To tolls, gargoyles, werecoyotes (those who shift to coyotes). Witches, spell casting freaks or do they heal those who are hurt. Witches were all said to be bad, but truly some are good.

Unicorns supposed to be majestic creatures. Although in some legends the unicorn isn't so adorable. The Pliny's (Pliny is a writer) unicorn had the head of a stag, the feet of an elephant. The tail of a boar and an enormous black horn. Other legends have the unicorn of the sea. There is the legends of Chinese unicorns, eastern unicorns, Japanese unicorns, Vietnam's unicorns.

Accounts from Ancient Egypt refer to a multicolored donkey with a purple head and horn of red, white and black. The Hellhound some relate it to the demons watch dogs. That when you hear their howl you know that the deal you made has reached its limit. A black dog with red eyes, legends been around for centuries.

Angles, gods keepers, gods followers, gods helpers for all good things to come. Archangels such as Gabriel, Uriel,  Raphael, Zachariah, Michael. Guardian angles, protectors and also the fallen angles such as Lucifer. God and the Devil, many have different beliefs about them and every religion has different things.

Jinn or genies, the Phoenix, The Rainbow Serpent, Valkyries, mummies, the legend of Krampus. Gorgons such as Medusa, Ghost, Demons, Pixies and fairies, leprechauns. House Sprites such as brownies (not the food) but creatures that keep the house clean.

Gremlins, goblins, gnomes, elves, Dwarves, Poltergeists, zombies. Bunyips a water creature most known as the Loch Ness Monster. The Hydra a multi headed snake that was nearly impossible to kill. Considering you cut off one head and two will grow in it's place. Kappa also known as river child or river earl, in Japanese folklore.

The Kraken, Centaurs, Griffins, Minotaur, Qilin, Satyrs, Sphinxes who tell riddles about the future. Cyclopes an oversized beast with one eye in the center of it's forehead. Giants, Ogres, the legend of the Yeti, furies they are terrifying creatures.  

Hippogriff, Pegasus, Harpies, Lightning bird, skin-walkers, Beast of Gevaudan. From Greek vampires, American vampires, Chinese vampires, Presidential vampires. Eastern vampires, Hindu and Australian vampires, Incubus, and Succubus.

Beowulf, Oni, Wendigo, Kitsune, Boggart, both water and land Nymphs. Lares, ancient romans honored mythical beings that served as guardian spirits of a particular place. Lares housed in the form of tiny statuettes, prayed to for protection and offerings of special foods.

The Green Man, Elementals, Lilith, gods and goddesses, so many creatures and so many different legends.
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The Michelson's past

The powerful family whose line dates back at least to the then Kingdom of Norway in the late 10th century with Mikael and Esther, a wealthy landowner and a Viking warrior, and a housewife and a witch, respectively.

At the beginning of the 11th century, the family was mortal until the loss of Esther and Mikael's youngest child, Henrik to a werewolf attack spurred them to use Esther's magic to turn Mikael and the rest of their living children into the world's first vampires, from whom all vampires are descended.

The Original vampires are known as some of the most powerful supernatural beings in the world, but the Mikaelson family is also known for having members who are witches and hybrids.

The first members of this family were a man named Mikael and his wife Esther. Esther longed for a family, though, after over a year of marriage, she found herself barren. She went to her sister, Dahlia, and begged her to use her magic to grant Esther the ability to have children.

Dahlia granted this request, but made it clear that the magic had a price, and it was a price that Esther was forced to pay years later— her payment to her sister would be her first-born child, and the first-born of her children's children, and their children's children, for as long as Esther's line shall live.

She then ordered Esther to pretend that her first-born, Freya, had died of a plague so that Mikael would never know what truly had happened to his daughter when he returned from battle. Afterward, Esther and Mikael heard from a Witch called Ayana, Esther's best friend and mentor, that there was a land where everyone was healthy and strong, a land that ended up being the New World, specifically what is now modern-day Mystic Falls.

Mikael and Esther with Freya's surviving brother, Finn, and their recently born son Elijah traveled to this paradise with Ayana, where they settled in a village full of the healthy people they had learned about, who were revealed to be werewolves, and lived peacefully for years. In the years to follow, Esther bore four more children:

Niklaus, Kol, Rebekah, and Henrik. Mikael often clashed with his middle son, Niklaus, with whom he had an antagonistic and abusive relationship which only became worse when Klaus and Henrik snuck out to watch the werewolves transform one night, where Henrik was accidentally mauled and killed.

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