Bloodlines & Houses · Era III, The Long Middle
Katerina Petrova
A Bulgarian girl disgraced by a pregnancy, exiled by her father, and then hunted across Europe by Klaus as the doppelgänger he needed. She turned herself into a vampire specifically to be useless to him — the sacrifice requires a human — and then ran for five hundred years without ever once being caught.
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- Her daughter, Nadia Petrova, was taken at birth and spent five centuries looking for her.
- Rose and Trevor helped her escape and paid for it for half a millennium.
- Because she escaped, Klaus had to wait for the next Petrova. That wait is why there is a show.
- Born Katerina Petrova in 1473 in Bulgaria; her daughter was taken at birth in 1490 and she was exiled to England, where she fled Klaus and turned in 1492.
- Rose and Trevor helped her run, and Rose's blood is what she turned on. Trevor is beheaded by Elijah five hundred years later for it; Rose dies of a werewolf bite in Damon's care.
- She turned on Rose's blood and hanged herself to complete the transition, then killed the woman whose home she was hiding in. It took her one evening to understand exactly what she was.
- When the cure runs out of her, her daughter arranges the Traveler passenger spell that moves her consciousness into Elena's body — she has died and returned more times than anyone in the franchise.