144 Fun Facts About The Vampire Diaries

Who turned Damon and Stefan Salvatore into vampires?

Katherine Pierce turned both Salvatore brothers in 1864 by feeding them her blood, leading to their transition after they were shot by their father.

What do vampires in The Vampire Diaries 'switch off' to stop feeling guilt, grief and love?

Their humanity is a switch Caroline flips after her mother's death in season six, and she then forces Stefan to turn his off too.

On which network did The Vampire Diaries premiere in September 2009?

The CW premiered The Vampire Diaries on September 10, 2009, and carried it through its March 2017 finale; the network later added the spin-offs The Originals and Legacies.

When The Vampire Diaries begins, Stefan Salvatore resists human blood by feeding on what instead?

Animal blood is how he keeps an addiction to human blood in check, at the price of being weaker than vampires who feed on people.

In season two of The Vampire Diaries, which stone does Klaus need to break his curse?

A moonstone bound the curse; Katherine took it with her when she fled Klaus in 1492 and spent the next 500 years on the run from him.

What ability does Jeremy Gilbert gain after Bonnie brings him back from the dead?

Seeing ghosts costs him his romance with Bonnie: once he can touch the ghost of his dead girlfriend Anna, Bonnie finds out and ends it.

Which relative teaches Bonnie Bennett to use her powers in season one?

Her grandmother Sheila, known as Grams, dies that same season from the strain of a spell, leaving Bonnie to keep training alone.

In which Georgia town was most of The Vampire Diaries filmed?

Covington, Georgia, became Mystic Falls after a pilot shot elsewhere: the producers moved the show there to take advantage of local tax incentives.

What was Alaric Saltzman's day job when he arrived in Mystic Falls?

History teacher: Alaric Saltzman joined Mystic Falls High as the new history teacher in season one, secretly hunting the vampire he believed had killed his wife Isobel.

Who is the main antagonist of The Vampire Diaries' first season, in town to free the woman he loves from a tomb?

Damon Salvatore, Stefan's older brother, is season one's villain; only later does he soften into one of the show's leads.

The Vampire Diaries was based on a book series by which author?

L. J. Smith wrote the first novels as work for hire, so the book packager Alloy owned the series and later handed it to a ghostwriter.

Before The Vampire Diaries, Kevin Williamson created which teen drama?

Dawson's Creek made his name in teen TV, yet a decade later he had little interest in a vampire show until his producing partner urged him to read the novels.

How old is the vampire Stefan Salvatore when Elena first falls for him, believing he is a normal human?

162: the season-one episode '162 Candles' has Lexi visiting for Stefan's 162nd birthday; he was turned in 1864, the year of the founders' vampire purge.

In The Vampire Diaries, what is the surname of Matt, whose family sits outside the town's founding families?

Donovan is his mother's name; season eight reveals that his absent father's ancestors, the Maxwells, lived in Mystic Falls before the town was even founded.

In The Vampire Diaries, Elena becomes a vampire after which season's finale?

Third: in the season-three finale 'The Departed', Elena drowns off Wickery Bridge with Dr. Meredith Fell's vampire-blood treatment in her system and wakes in transition.

In The Vampire Diaries, Paul Wesley also played Silas, who is described as what?

The world's first immortal being drank an elixir meant for his wedding to the witch Qetsiyah, who took revenge by leaving him to desiccate in a tomb for 2,000 years.

Which character was the progenitor of the Petrova doppelgängers and Silas's true love?

Amara paid for the affair: the jealous witch Qetsiyah faked her death and made her the anchor to the afterlife, where she suffered for 2,000 years.

Bonnie and Damon become best friends after being trapped together for four months in what?

A prison world replays a single day in 1994 on a loop, built by the Gemini coven to cage Kai Parker; Damon gets home first, leaving Bonnie stranded there.

In The Vampire Diaries, which character was the first successful hybrid created by Klaus?

Tyler Lockwood became Klaus's first successful hybrid in season three, surviving transition only because Klaus fed him blood from the living doppelgänger Elena.

Alaric's fiancée Jo is murdered at their wedding by which relative?

Her brother Malachai, known as Kai, stabs his twin at the altar one episode before the season-six finale; her unborn twins survive by a magical transfer into Caroline.

Where was the pilot episode of The Vampire Diaries filmed, before production moved to Georgia?

Vancouver, British Columbia, hosted only the pilot shoot; the producers then moved the show to Georgia to take advantage of local tax incentives.

Kevin Williamson at first found the premise of The Vampire Diaries too similar to which vampire franchise?

Twilight put him off at first; reading the novels changed his mind once he saw a story about a small town and what lies beneath it.

Nina Dobrev was born in which European capital before her family moved to Canada?

Sofia was home for only two years before the family moved to Toronto, yet Bulgarian is still the language she speaks with her mother.

Before playing Damon, Ian Somerhalder was known as Boone Carlyle on which ABC series?

Lost killed Boone off in its first season, the first death of a major character on the show, yet Somerhalder kept returning to the role in later seasons.

Whom does Paul Wesley play in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds?

James T. Kirk was announced as a role for the show's second season, but Wesley turned up early, in the season-one finale.

In the Vampire Diaries novels, what is the name of the Virginia town that the TV show renamed?

Fell's Church is the books' Virginia town; the show renamed it Mystic Falls but kept the Fell family name among the town's founders.

What is the title of the first Vampire Diaries novel?

The Awakening began as a commission: a book packager's editor asked the author for the vampire series in 1990, and the first three novels all appeared the following year.

The spin-off The Originals follows Klaus and his siblings to which city?

New Orleans is a city the family had built up themselves and fled in 1919; they return to find Klaus's former protégé Marcel ruling it.

In The Originals, which woman is the mother of Klaus's daughter?

Hayley Marshall is pregnant after a one-night stand with Klaus, and a coven of witches uses the unborn child to force him into their fight.

In season five of The Vampire Diaries, Elena and Caroline start at which college?

Whitmore promises them a normal student life, but their roommate is soon murdered and a campus society called Augustine turns out to be caging vampires.

In The Vampire Diaries, Elena's biological parents are revealed as Isobel Flemming and which man?

Her uncle John Gilbert: Isobel's teenage pregnancy was hidden when John's brother Grayson, a doctor, raised Elena as his own on a faked birth certificate.

In The Vampire Diaries, which Original kills Elena on Wickery Bridge, unaware she has vampire blood in her system?

Rebekah Mikaelson stands in the road so that Matt's car swerves off the bridge: she wants Elena dead because Alaric's life is tied to hers.

Klaus's stepfather Mikael, who settled the family where Mystic Falls now stands, was what kind of warrior?

A Viking warrior and landowner, Mikael raised his children in the New World in the 10th century; his wife had herself been carried off from Norway by Viking raiders.

British actor Joseph Morgan played which character, introduced as season two's main antagonist, across the whole Vampire Diaries universe?

Klaus first appeared in the 1992 novel Dark Reunion before arriving on TV as season two's big bad, played by Joseph Morgan throughout the universe.

In The Vampire Diaries, Damon and Stefan's mother Lily calls which band of vampire-witches her family?

The Heretics were turned one by one by Lily in Europe; the Gemini Coven locked them all away in 1903, and she spent more than a century with them.

In The Vampire Diaries, what does a vampire's sire bond control in the one who is sired?

Actions, not feelings: a sired hybrid explains that he hated his maker yet obeyed his every word, which means Elena's love for Damon is her own.

Danielle Rose Russell led Legacies as which character, first played on The Originals?

Hope Mikaelson was a small child until The Originals' final season jumped ahead seven years, which is when Russell took over the role as a teenager.

Before The Vampire Diaries, Julie Plec started out as assistant to which horror director?

Wes Craven took her on as his assistant in the 1990s, and she rose to producing roles on his Scream sequels before turning to vampires on TV.

The Vampire Diaries was the CW's most-watched series until it was overtaken by which show?

Arrow did more than overtake it: the superhero drama grew into a whole family of spin-offs on the network, starting with The Flash.

At which 2016 event was the end of The Vampire Diaries announced?

Comic-Con, in San Diego, heard it from the showrunner herself, who told the fans in the hall it was 'bittersweet and emotional' and that everyone would soon be crying.

In season one of The Vampire Diaries, Elena encourages Stefan to try out for which school team?

Football it is, after Tyler hurls a ball at Stefan to embarrass him and Stefan catches it and fires it back with vampire speed.

In 2012 a fire broke out in the real building used as which Vampire Diaries location?

The Mystic Grill's stand-in on the town square caught fire on the morning of May 10, 2012, the very day the season-three finale aired.

Which season of The Vampire Diaries ran 23 episodes instead of the usual 22?

Fourth: season four ran 23 episodes, premiering on October 11, 2012 rather than in September as the first three seasons had.

Before The Vampire Diaries, Nina Dobrev played Mia Jones on which Canadian series?

Degrassi made her name, yet her first audition for Elena, done with the flu, went so badly that she had to win the part with a tape sent from Canada.

Who directed 'I Was Feeling Epic', the series finale of The Vampire Diaries?

Julie Plec directed the finale herself, and her co-creator Kevin Williamson returned to write it with her.

In the season-one finale of The Vampire Diaries, at which event does a hidden device bring the vampires down?

Founder's Day turns into a trap: once the Gilbert device goes off, the sheriff's deputies drug the stricken vampires and haul them away to be finished off.

Which song plays in both the pilot and the series finale of The Vampire Diaries?

Never Say Never is one of the finale's deliberate echoes of the first episode, and the show's last line repeats the words Damon first speaks in the pilot.

Which season of The Vampire Diaries named most of its episodes after songs from 1994 and 1903?

Sixth: the two years drive the plot, because Kai Parker has been locked away since 1994 and the Salvatores' mother since 1903.

In The Vampire Diaries, Kai's curse leaves Elena in what state?

A deep sleep that lasts as long as Bonnie lives; the twist wrote out Nina Dobrev, who had announced she was leaving after the season.

The 100th episode of The Vampire Diaries, '500 Years of Solitude', falls in which season?

Fifth: the 100th episode puts Katherine on her deathbed and brings Klaus and Rebekah back from their spin-off for a cameo.

Why did Katerina Petrova's family disown her in 1490?

A child out of wedlock: her father took the newborn girl away and exiled Katerina to England, where she caught the eye of Klaus.

In The Vampire Diaries, how did Katerina Petrova die in 1492 to begin her transition into a vampire?

She hanged herself: healed by Rose's blood after stabbing herself, Katerina hanged herself in Rose's cottage so that, as a vampire, she would be useless for Klaus's sacrifice.

In season eight of The Vampire Diaries, Katherine is revealed to have become what after her death?

The Queen of Hell: Kai Parker reveals in season eight that Katherine has been running Hell, and she returns as the series' final villain before Mystic Falls is saved from hellfire.

Which greeting does Damon give Stefan in the pilot of The Vampire Diaries, repeated as the show's last line?

Hello, brother: the line returns in the finale when Stefan, at peace, opens the door of the boarding house to find Damon there, and the two hug.

Who shot Stefan and Damon Salvatore dead in 1864?

Their own father, Giuseppe, fires the shots; with Katherine's blood in their systems both sons wake in transition, and Stefan goes on to kill Giuseppe himself.

In the Vampire Diaries novels, what hair colour does Elena Gilbert have?

Blonde: the books' Elena is a blonde, blue-eyed mean girl who gets what she wants; the show cast the brunette Nina Dobrev and made her the girl next door.

In season six of The Vampire Diaries, where does Jeremy move, supposedly to attend art school?

Santa Fe, New Mexico: Jeremy's art-school story was a cover; only Alaric knew he was really leaving to hunt vampires, with Alaric feeding him leads.

In season four of The Vampire Diaries, how does Elena cover up Jeremy's death?

She burns the Gilbert house with Jeremy's body inside, because the town can never be told the truth: Silas snapped his neck.

After channelling a hundred dead witches, how does Bonnie convince Klaus she is no threat?

She fakes her death in their fight, with Damon in on the plan, so that Klaus believes the one witch strong enough to kill him is gone.

Why did Caroline's father Bill leave her mother before The Vampire Diaries begins?

He came out as gay: Bill Forbes left Sheriff Liz Forbes for a man and later tried to 'fix' his vampire daughter by torturing her in a cellar in season three.

Whom does Caroline Forbes marry in the final season?

Stefan Salvatore: Caroline and Stefan marry in season eight's 'We're Planning a June Wedding', a ceremony staged partly as bait to lure Katherine into the open.

In season three of The Vampire Diaries, Matt stakes which Original, wiping out a whole vampire bloodline?

Finn's death reveals a rule the gang had never suspected: every vampire of his bloodline, his lover Sage included, dies along with him.

Matt's ancestors, who made the town's hellfire bell, were Mystic Falls' original what?

Blacksmiths: the Maxwells forged the bell, and when one of their line rings it twelve times, hellfire is set to destroy the town.

In The Vampire Diaries, what triggers the werewolf curse?

Killing a person, even by accident: Tyler becomes a werewolf after a classmate, compelled by Katherine to provoke him, dies in a scuffle.

In season three of The Vampire Diaries, who turns Alaric into an Original-strength vampire hunter?

Esther, the Original Witch, used Alaric's ring-split dark side to create a hunter as strong as her own children, with his life tied to Elena's.

In The Vampire Diaries, who sired Enzo St. John?

Lily Salvatore got the dying Enzo aboard a ship to New York and fed him her blood; decades later he shared a cell with her son Damon.

In season six of The Vampire Diaries, Sheriff Liz Forbes dies of what?

Cancer was beyond vampire blood, as Caroline learned by trying it on another patient; Damon, Liz's unlikely friend, gave the eulogy at her funeral.

Which Walking Dead star played Rose, the vampire Damon mercy-kills in The Vampire Diaries?

Lauren Cohan, The Walking Dead's Maggie, played Rose in season two; as Rose lay dying, Damon gave her a dream of her English birthplace before staking her.

In The Vampire Diaries, a stake carved from which tree is the one weapon that can kill an Original vampire?

White oak gave the Originals their immortality, so it alone can end it; the family burned the tree to the ground, though Mikael first carved himself a stake.

Posing as Elena in the season-one finale of The Vampire Diaries, Katherine maims John Gilbert by doing what?

Cutting off his fingers: Katherine sliced off John's fingers, Gilbert ring included, before stabbing him, so the ring could not bring him back if he died.

In The Vampire Diaries, Klaus's blood cures what?

A werewolf bite sends a vampire into delirium before it kills; Klaus proves his blood is the remedy by biting and then healing Katherine, and a vial of it saves the dying Damon.

In The Vampire Diaries, the Gemini Coven is based in which American city?

Portland, Oregon: the Parker family led the Gemini Coven there; Kai, born in 1972 as a siphoner who can only steal magic, slaughtered his siblings in the family home in 1994.

Stefan and Damon's mother was fed vampire blood in 1858 while dying of what disease?

Tuberculosis put her in a ward where a nurse slipped her vampire blood; she woke as a vampire and left her sons behind, letting them think she had died.

In season eight of The Vampire Diaries, the sirens Sybil and Seline serve which master?

Cade, born Arcadius, was a psychic burned at the stake by his own village; with his last breath he created Hell, and the sirens feed him souls in return for eternal life.

In the season-four finale of The Vampire Diaries, Klaus decapitates the witch Aja with what?

A thrown graduation cap: Klaus flings the mortarboard to behead Aja in the finale 'Graduation', rescuing Caroline from a coven of vengeful dead witches.

Nina Dobrev starred in the 2017 remake of which 1990 medical thriller?

Flatliners brought back Kiefer Sutherland, a star of the 1990 original, while Dobrev played Marlo, one of five medical students.

Nina Dobrev crossed over to The Originals playing which doppelgänger?

Tatia appears in flashbacks in the episode 'Red Door', where she learns too late that the blood she gave their mother was used to turn the family into vampires.

Ian Somerhalder was born in which southern U.S. state?

Louisiana: his home town shares its name with the show's Georgia filming base, and he was modelling by the age of ten.

Which product did Ian Somerhalder and Paul Wesley launch together in 2020?

A bourbon whiskey called Brother's Bond, named for the siblings they played for eight seasons; the two stayed close friends after the show ended.

Paul Wesley, raised in New Jersey, grew up speaking which language besides English?

Polish: his parents were immigrants from Poland, and until he was 16 he spent four months of every year there.

Which actor played Elijah in both The Vampire Diaries and The Originals?

Daniel Gillies was cast in 2010 for what began as a recurring part and stayed with Elijah to the last episode of The Originals eight years later.

In the finale of The Vampire Diaries, what does the Salvatore boarding house become?

A school for supernatural children opens in the house, helped by a three-million-dollar donation from Klaus, and becomes the setting of Legacies.

Kat Graham, who plays Bonnie, was born in which European city?

Geneva was only her birthplace: Graham grew up in Los Angeles, while her grandfather spent 40 years as a UN ambassador in Europe and Africa.

Candice Accola changed her surname to King after marrying a member of which band?

The Fray: Accola married the band's guitarist Joe King in October 2014 and was credited as Candice King from season seven onward.

Which Hollywood legend was the grandfather of the actor who played Jeremy Gilbert in The Vampire Diaries?

Steve McQueen's grandson acts as Steven R. McQueen; the R stands for Robitaille, the surname of his stepfather, the hockey star Luc Robitaille.

Before acting, Zach Roerig, who plays Matt, worked for his family's business making what?

Gravestones: growing up in Ohio, Roerig worked with his father and grandfather at the family's monument company, then left for New York to act as soon as he had graduated.

Matt Davis, who plays Alaric, is known for playing Warner in which 2001 film?

Legally Blonde: Davis played Warner Huntington III, the boyfriend who dumps Reese Witherspoon's Elle Woods, in the 2001 comedy before joining the show as Alaric.

Joseph Morgan met his wife on the set of The Vampire Diaries; which character did she play?

Abby Bennett Wilson, Bonnie's estranged mother, was Persia White's part; on screen, Damon turns Abby into a vampire and she abandons Bonnie a second time.

Claire Holt and Phoebe Tonkin first co-starred in which Australian series about mermaids?

H2O: Just Add Water, the 2006 Australian series about teenage mermaids, paired Holt and Tonkin first; they reunited on The Vampire Diaries and then The Originals.

In The Vampire Diaries, what does a vampire need before entering a human's home?

An invitation from the owner is binding once given, which is why Stefan in season eight compels a realtor to sign a house over and invite him in.

In the finale of The Vampire Diaries, what does Stefan secretly give Damon before sacrificing himself?

The cure runs in Stefan's blood, so passing it on makes Damon human, while Stefan, ageing fast without it, takes his brother's place and dies.

In season four of The Vampire Diaries, Jeremy kills which Original, and with him every vampire of his bloodline?

Kol walks into a trap dressed up as a truce with Elena; the mass death of his bloodline completes the hunter's mark spreading across Jeremy's skin.

The Vampire Diaries novels were adapted into what kind of game in 1996?

A point-and-click adventure with live-action footage, it came from HeR Interactive, the studio that went on to build its name on Nancy Drew mystery games.

In season eight of The Vampire Diaries, Stefan kills which vampire, the love of Bonnie's life?

Enzo dies just as he and Bonnie are planning a human life together; her grief at losing him is what unlocks her psychic powers.

Elena's necklace, a season-one gift from Stefan meant to protect her from Damon, contains which herb?

Vervain was meant to shield Elena from Damon, so it is ironic that he is the one who returns the torn-off necklace in season two, right after confessing his love.

In the pilot of The Vampire Diaries, Damon unnerves Elena at her parents' grave using fog and which bird?

A crow is Damon's calling card in the pilot, and the finale's flash-forward repeats it: one flies over Elena as she writes in her diary by the Salvatore crypt.

In the season six finale of The Vampire Diaries, what does Kai Parker do to Elena that parts her from Damon?

Casts a sleeping spell that ties Elena's life to Bonnie's, so she can wake only when her best friend dies. Nina Dobrev had announced she was leaving the show.

A genie's alternate reality in the spin-off Legacies gives Damon and Elena a daughter with which first name?

Stefanie is a nod to Damon's late brother Stefan. She is only named in that wished-up reality, though the show's creator has said the couple had children in the main timeline too.

What did Damon do to Elena after their true first meeting, on the night her parents died?

Compelled her to forget, so Elena spent years believing Stefan was the first Salvatore she met. The truth only surfaces in the season three finale.

In the epilogue of The Vampire Diaries, what career does Elena build while happily married to Damon?

Doctor: Elena finishes medical school and goes home to practise, and a late episode of The Originals shows an office window lettered 'Elena Salvatore, MD'.

After Jeremy's death in season four, Damon uses the sire bond to tell a grieving Elena to do what?

Switch off her humanity: Damon meant to spare her the grief, but an emotionless Elena went on killing sprees and turned on her own friends.

At which season-one event does Damon step in as Elena's dance escort after Stefan fails to appear?

Miss Mystic Falls is the pageant where Damon rescues a stranded Elena on the dance floor. Stefan had vanished after relapsing into his old feeding habits.

Rejected by Elena early in season two, a furious Damon lashes out by snapping whose neck?

Her brother Jeremy survives only because he happens to be wearing a ring that undoes supernatural harm, and the attack costs Damon whatever trust Elena had in him.

When the magic returning the dead fails at the end of season five, Damon is stranded without Elena in which realm?

The Other Side was the show's limbo for dead supernatural beings, and it was collapsing. Elena passed back to the living in time; Damon did not.

Before Klaus's sacrifice ritual in season two, what does Damon do to Elena against her will?

Feeds her his blood, so that she would come back as a vampire if the ritual killed her. A furious Elena only forgave him as he lay dying in the season finale.

How do Damon and Elena both die while wiping out the Travelers at the end of The Vampire Diaries season five?

In a gas explosion: the couple drive a car into the gas-filled town bar where the Travelers have gathered, counting on magic to bring them back afterwards.

Nina Dobrev and Ian Somerhalder won Favorite On-Screen Chemistry as Elena and Damon at which annual ceremony?

People's Choice Awards voters handed the pair the chemistry prize in 2014, after the two actors' own three-year relationship had ended.

On a season three trip to check on Jeremy, in which city do Damon and Elena kiss at a motel?

Denver is where Jeremy had been sent for his safety. Stefan pushed the pair into the road trip partly so Elena could work out what she felt for his brother.

Damon's first road trip with Elena in season one leads to a Georgia bar run by which witch, his old flame?

Bree secretly sets Damon up to be killed by a vampire out for revenge, and it is Elena who steps in and saves his life.

Which fellow student does Elena date in season six after having her love for Damon erased?

Liam Davis got his chance only because a grieving Elena had her feelings wiped, and for a while she chose to stay that way rather than go back to being unhappy.

Believing he is a danger to everyone without Elena, what does Damon decide to do in season seven?

Desiccate beside her, drying out so the years apart would pass unfelt. The plan left Bonnie heartbroken, and Stefan later woke him anyway.

While the Phoenix Stone's influence lingers in season seven, what does Damon believe he has done to Elena?

Set her coffin on fire, or so he thinks: the stone had trapped Damon in a private torment, and believing he had killed Elena left him suicidal.

In season five, Damon kills which college friend of Elena's, the last surviving member of his family?

Aaron Whitmore was the last survivor of a family Damon had been killing off for generations as revenge, always sparing one member so the line would continue.

Damon and Elena first sleep together at the end of which season four episode of The Vampire Diaries?

My Brother's Keeper also hides a famous face: Olympic gymnast Gabby Douglas appears as a volunteer decorating for the town pageant.

Which former party-loving student becomes legal guardian of Elena and Jeremy after their parents' fatal car crash?

Jenna Sommers is their mother's sister. Klaus later turns her into a vampire and stakes her during his sacrifice ritual, leaving the siblings with no guardian at all.

Which troubled older sister of Matt does Damon turn into a vampire early in season one?

Vicki is staked by Stefan soon after she turns, yet she comes back in the final season to ring the bell that is meant to destroy Mystic Falls.

Which centuries-old best friend of Stefan does Damon kill in season one to throw the town council off his trail?

Lexi gets the last word: after more than a century of friendship, she is the one waiting to greet Stefan in the afterlife in the final episode.

Why does Alaric Saltzman first come to Mystic Falls in season one of The Vampire Diaries?

To avenge his wife: he believed Damon had murdered Isobel, only to learn she had asked Damon to turn her into a vampire. The two men end up friends.

Which grandmother teaches Bonnie to use her powers, then dies after overusing her own magic on the tomb vampires?

Sheila keeps guiding Bonnie as a spirit whenever her granddaughter overreaches, and returns in the last episode with the rest of the Bennett witches to help save the town.

Which Original breaks the plan to kill Klaus after the sacrifice ritual in season two, carrying him away instead?

Elijah had seemed to want Klaus dead as much as anyone, and Bonnie had done her part by bringing the hybrid to the brink of death.

Killing which vampire hunter, a member of the Five, leaves Elena tormented by hallucinations in season four?

Connor's death triggers the Hunter's Curse, which torments any vampire who kills one of the Five until the hunter's mark passes on to someone new.

Which huntress gives Stefan a scar in season seven that she can use to track him wherever he runs?

Rayna Cruz chases Stefan for three years before stabbing him with her sword, which traps his soul inside the Phoenix Stone.

Which leader of the Travelers takes over Mystic Falls late in season five behind an anti-magic barrier?

Markos wants the whole town free of magic. Even after his defeat, spells keep failing inside its borders, so the vampires cannot go home.

The Original hybrid known as Klaus, born to a witch from Norway, goes by a short form of which first name?

Niklaus was the child of his mother's affair with a man named Ansel, which is why he alone among his siblings is a hybrid.

Stefan's bloodthirsty, ruthless alter ego, unleashed by Klaus in season three, is known by which nickname?

The Ripper had been only a legend until Klaus stripped away Stefan's humanity and put the show's hero to work for him as a killer.

Klaus's bartender confidante in The Originals, known to everyone as Cami, has which full first name?

Camille O'Connell tends bar while puzzling over whether people can be born bad, and she first appears in the backdoor pilot that launched the spin-off.

The vampire Enzo St. John, an old friend of Damon, goes by a short form of which first name?

Lorenzo St. John later discovers a distant cousin, Alex, running the shadowy Armory, an organisation with a keen interest in Bonnie.

Which eldest sister of Klaus, taken away at age five by her aunt Dahlia, resurfaces in The Originals?

Freya was the price of the magic that let her barren mother have children at all, and the family was told she had died of plague.

Marcel Gerard, the protégé Klaus rescued from slavery and raised, has which full first name?

Marcellus was the son of a plantation owner, born a slave. Klaus saved him from a whipping as a boy and turned him into a vampire in the early 1800s.

Jo Laughlin, the woman Alaric falls for in season six, has which full first name, later given to daughter Josie?

Josette Laughlin worked at a hospital and had given up her magic to avoid the Merge, so Alaric had no idea he was dating a witch.

Which secret organisation held Damon and Enzo captive as cellmates in the 1950s?

The Augustine society's cells are where the two became friends, a bond that soured when Enzo learned Damon had killed Maggie, the woman he loved.

The ancient witch Qetsiyah, once engaged to Silas, uses which shorter modern name in season five?

Tessa made the immortality spell for Silas, then created the cure for it after he drank it with her handmaiden instead of with her.

Matt Donovan of the TV series carries which different surname in the original Vampire Diaries novels?

Honeycutt became Donovan on screen, one of several renamings: Tyler's book surname is Smallwood, and Bonnie's is McCullough.

Which vampire, in town to free her mother from the tomb, becomes Jeremy's girlfriend in season one?

Anna first befriended Jeremy only to get hold of his ancestor's journal, but the pair admitted they had fallen in love along the way.

Why does the newly turned Caroline trick Matt into breaking up with her in season two?

She craves his blood and cannot trust herself near him. They reunite, but Matt ends it for good once he learns what she has become.

Before Enzo is killed in season eight, he and Bonnie plan a future together in which he becomes what?

Human: Enzo meant to take the cure so the pair could live out ordinary lives together, but a remorseless Stefan killed him first.

In which city did Stefan romance Klaus's sister during the 1920s, before Klaus daggered her for choosing him?

Chicago is where the three knew each other in the 1920s. When Klaus's sister chose a life with Stefan over fleeing with her brother, Klaus daggered her and kept her boxed up for decades.

Which girlfriend does Damon at first use only for feeding in season two, before growing fond of her?

Andie Star meets a grim end at the start of season three: Stefan kills her to prove to Damon that he is beyond saving.

Tyler and Caroline become an official couple in season three after he helps rescue her from whom?

Her own father was holding Caroline after Tyler's mother learned she was a vampire and had her kidnapped. Tyler helped the sheriff get her out.

Which Gemini Coven witch does Tyler date in season six, then kill at her own request?

Liv, badly wounded by her brother Kai, asked Tyler to finish her so that the kill would trigger his curse and heal his own injuries.

Which mortal girlfriend of Stefan in season six is killed by Enzo, only to rise again as a vampire?

Ivy had been made to drink Enzo's blood before he killed her, so she woke as a vampire, only to be killed again by a vampire hunter.

Which future Heretic had a brief romance with Stefan in 1863, back when she was mortal?

Valerie Tulle found him again generations later, and the two spent three years on the run together before she accepted that he loved Caroline more.

Which partner and fiancée of Matt dies in season seven, a death he wrongly blames on Stefan?

Penny Ares was in fact killed by Matt himself, by accident. Stefan erased his memory of it and covered it up to protect his old friend.

Nina Dobrev had the flu at her first Elena audition and was passed over; how did she finally win the role?

A tape sent from home in Canada changed minds after a producer had written off her flu-ridden first try as the worst audition ever.