Witches & Magic · Era II, The Mikaelsons
Dahlia’s Bargain
Esther was barren. Her elder sister Dahlia — far stronger and considerably worse — made her fertile, in exchange for the firstborn of every generation of their bloodline, forever. Esther paid once, with Freya, and spent the next thousand years hiding everyone else.
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- Dahlia sleeps a century between each waking year, sustained by the firstborn magic she collects.
- The debt does not expire. It is why a thousand-year-old witch comes for a newborn in New Orleans in the 21st century.
- Dahlia and Esther learned magic together in the Old World. Dahlia went further, into the kind of magic that requires a price paid by somebody else.
- Her spell binds the firstborn's magic to her, which is why she can find Hope anywhere in the world the moment Hope's power surfaces.
- She is killed only when the Mikaelsons — with Freya, the daughter she stole — cooperate completely for the first time in a thousand years.