Mareva Mikaelson

Mareva had never believed the legends that surrounded the old town of Nattensfall, until the evening when the wind was silent as it passed and the world seemed to hold its breath. That night she met Elijah Mikaelson, a man with a presence too quiet to be human, too old to be mortal.

He sought neither company nor redemption, only the silence offered by centuries. Yet, as soon as he looked at Mareva, something changed - a crack in eternity, a disturbance he had not felt in a life he had preferred to forget.

She, guided by an intuition that she could not explain, felt that this stranger mastered both gentleness and danger. And unwittingly, she entered the story of an immortal who had sworn not to love anymore.

Thus began their meeting: in a sleepy city, under too heavy a sky, when fate finally decided to awaken one of the world's oldest hearts.