Lynn Gilbert is the cousin of Elena Gilbert and Jeremy Gilbert. Lynn's family decided to take a cruise to Japan, but the ship was targeted because her parents had alot of money and was involved in a secret organization called Grim. Lynn's parents died on that sinking ship giving her a key to defeat Grim, but five years on an island with an unknown civilization filled with advanced technology and training nonstop to bring down Grim. She goes to a neighboring desolate island called Keāa Pīṣ̄āc and is found by a boat of fishermen and taken back to Mystic Falls to her family estate.