The Mystic Falls Codex

Silas and Qetsiyah make the immortality elixir

Silas drinks it with Amara instead. Qetsiyah buries him alive with the only cure, turns Amara into the Anchor, and builds the Other Side so he can never find peace.

Nature answers

The doppelgänger curse begins printing Silas’s and Amara’s faces. Qetsiyah curses the Travelers, who took Silas’s side, to wander forever.

Arcadius is burned at the stake

The psychic does not stop existing. His consciousness becomes a dimension that eats the souls of the guilty — the Hell that will replace the Other Side eighteen centuries later.

Cade makes the sirens

Two shipwrecked sisters, Sybil and Seline, are made immortal in exchange for harvesting souls.

Esther bargains with Dahlia

Fertility in exchange for the firstborn of every generation. Freya is taken and reported dead of plague.

The family crosses to the New World

Guided by Ayana. They settle beside a village of werewolves in what will become Mystic Falls.

Esther’s affair with Ansel

Niklaus is born a werewolf’s son. Mikael does not find out for years.

Henrik is killed by wolves

Klaus took him out to watch the change. Esther refuses to bury another child.

Esther kills Tatia

The first Petrova doppelgänger, drained for the spell and finished by a newly-turned Elijah, who is told she left.

The immortality spell

White oak, the sun, doppelgänger blood in the wine, Mikael’s sword. The Original vampires wake up hungry.

Klaus’s first kill wakes his wolf

Mikael slaughters Ansel’s village. Esther binds Klaus’s werewolf side with the moonstone and Tatia’s blood.

Klaus kills Esther and blames Mikael

The lie holds a thousand years. The family scatters; Mikael begins the hunt.

The white oak is burned

Mikael keeps one stake. A sapling is replanted in the 12th century and becomes the Wickery Bridge sign.

Lucien, Tristan and Aurora are turned

The first three vampires the family makes. All three come back for them nine hundred years later.

Qetsiyah creates the Brotherhood of the Five

Five hunters carrying a living map to Silas and the cure.

Alexander daggers the entire family

A hunter of the Five befriends Rebekah, learns everything, and puts all of them in boxes at once.

Katerina Petrova is born

In Bulgaria. She gives birth at seventeen and her daughter is taken from her.

Katerina escapes Klaus

She steals the moonstone, flees to England, and turns herself into a vampire to be useless to him. Klaus slaughters her family.

The Mikaelsons build New Orleans

Two hundred years of Mikaelson rule and the only truce that ever held between vampires, witches and wolves.

Klaus takes in Marcel

A boy named Marcellus, raised as a son, taught everything, and eventually abandoned.

Damon Salvatore is born

1839. Stefan follows in 1846.

Lily Salvatore “dies” of consumption

She is a vampire and a ripper, and she goes to Europe rather than home.

Valerie Tulle meets Stefan

She is pregnant with his child when Julian beats her. She dies and turns with Lily’s blood in her.

The Founders burn twenty-seven vampires

Emily Bennett seals twenty-six of them in a tomb instead, under a spell keyed to a comet.

Giuseppe Salvatore shoots his sons

Stefan and Damon wake in transition. Stefan feeds on their father; Damon completes it only because Stefan makes him.

Enzo St. John is taken by Augustine

He is held for seventy years.

The Gemini seal Lily and the Heretics away

A prison world for six siphoner-vampires and the woman who made them.

Mikael burns the New Orleans opera house

The family flees for ninety years and leaves Marcel for dead. Rebekah is daggered for summoning her father.

Klaus turns Stefan into a ripper again

Chicago. Klaus, Rebekah and Stefan — a friendship weaponised again in 2011.

The Crescent pack is cursed

Céleste, possessing Brynne Deveraux, casts it at Marcel’s request: wolf form permanently, human one night a month.

Damon becomes Augustine subject 21051

He escapes in 1958 by leaving Enzo to burn.

Kai Parker is born

A siphoner in a coven that considers siphoners abominations.

Abby Bennett buries Mikael

And then leaves her daughter behind and starts a new life.

Kai is sealed in a prison world

After murdering most of his siblings. He gets out twenty-one years later.

The Gilberts’ car goes off Wickery Bridge

Stefan Salvatore saves Elena at her insistence and lets her father drown.

Stefan and Damon return to Mystic Falls

One for a girl with Katherine’s face; one for a tomb and a comet.

Vicki Donovan is turned, then killed

The show’s first statement that turning is not a gift.

Sheila Bennett dies opening the tomb

And Katherine is not in it, which reorganises Damon’s entire life.

Caroline Forbes is turned

By Katherine, as a message. It becomes the show’s most complete character arc.

Klaus arrives, wearing Alaric’s body

The best reveal in the first three seasons.

Klaus breaks the hybrid curse

Jules, Jenna and Elena die on the altar. John Gilbert trades his life for Elena’s.

Mikael is killed in Mystic Falls

By Klaus, with white oak, after Damon summons him.

Klaus compels Stefan’s humanity off

And keeps him as a companion for months.

Esther returns and tries to kill her children

Finn agrees with her. Alaric is turned into an Enhanced Original Vampire — a vampire built to kill vampires.

Finn dies by white oak

A whole sireline goes with him, and everyone learns the rule.

Elena dies with Damon’s blood in her

She turns, and is sire-bonded to Damon.

Kol is killed by Jeremy Gilbert

Burned alive with white oak to advance the hunt for the cure.

Hope Mikaelson is conceived

One night in the Blue Ridge Mountains, and an entire second series.

The island, and the cure

Shane’s expedition, twelve sacrifices of each kind, and Jeremy’s completed map. Katherine is forced to take the cure.

Silas walks out of his tomb

Wearing Stefan’s face. He throws Stefan into a quarry in a safe for three months.

Qetsiyah returns as “Tessa”

Amara is found alive, cured, and kills herself. Silas is cured and killed. Bonnie becomes the Anchor.

Markos and the Travelers unmake magic

Both doppelgängers in one place. Vampires inside Mystic Falls start dying of their original causes of death.

The Other Side collapses

Two thousand years of purgatory disintegrates. Bonnie and Damon land in 1994 instead of nowhere.

Kai gets out

He merges with Luke, murders Jo at her wedding, and links Elena’s life to Bonnie’s.

Caroline carries Alaric and Jo’s twins

Josie and Lizzie Saltzman are born.

Elena takes the cure and is put to sleep

She will not wake until Bonnie dies.

Liz Forbes dies of cancer

The only ordinary death anyone in this show gets.

The Heretic war empties Mystic Falls

Lily’s family drives the town out. The show cuts three years forward.

Rayna Cruz marks Stefan

Which drives him to New Orleans, and produces the best crossover the two shows ever did.

Sybil and Seline are released from the Armory

Cade’s sirens take Damon and Stefan as collectors.

Enzo is killed by Stefan

Bonnie nearly burns down the world over it.

Hellfire

Matt rings the Maxwell bell eleven times and lets his dead sister Vicki ring the twelfth. Katherine burns. Stefan passes the cure to Damon, walks into the fire, and Bonnie destroys Hell.

Peace

Elena wakes. She and Damon grow old. Stefan finds Lexi. The Salvatore house becomes a school.

Klaus returns to New Orleans

Sophie Deveraux links her life to Hayley’s to force him back. Marcel has held the city for ninety years.

Hope is born in the bayou

During a hurricane. Rebekah hides her for a year.

The Harvest, and Davina Claire

Three of four girls are sacrificed eight months before Klaus arrives; Marcel’s vampires carry the fourth off before her throat is cut.

The Crescent curse is broken

Hayley learns who she is: Andrea Labonair, heir to the pack’s ruling line.

Esther and Mikael return

Both resurrected by the Ancestors, both intent on ending their children.

Dahlia comes to collect

A thousand-year-old bargain, a newborn, and Freya returning to kill her own captor.

Hayley marries Jackson Kenner

The unification ritual lets the whole Crescent pack turn at will.

The prophecy

Lucien, Tristan and Aurora come home. Lucien becomes the Beast; Cami and Jackson are killed; Marcel takes the serum.

The Hollow

Inadu wants Hope’s body. Davina destroys the Ancestors. The Mikaelsons split the Hollow four ways.

Hope enrols at the Salvatore School

Alaric and Caroline take her in.

Seven years apart

Klaus in a on a rampage across Europe; the others on separate continents. Hayley is killed at the end of it.

Klaus and Elijah die

White oak, together, on a bridge, so Hope can live.

What is left

Rebekah is promised the cure. Freya marries Keelin. Kol leaves with Davina. Hope inherits everything.

The Salvatore School opens

Caroline’s idea, Klaus’s money, Alaric’s job.

Landon Kirby arrives

Malivore’s son, a phoenix, and the reason a centuries-old erasure pit starts leaking monsters.

Josie goes dark

She absorbs an enormous amount of magic and nearly destroys the school. The recovery takes a season.

Kai Parker escapes again

And is beheaded by Alaric, which is roughly what he was owed.

Malivore is destroyed

Hope activates her vampire side, becomes the first complete tribrid, and turns her humanity off.

The gods return

Everything Malivore had swallowed comes back — including Ken, and Aurora de Martel, a thousand years on.

The Merge becomes impossible

Hope kills Lizzie with her humanity off; Lizzie comes back a vampire, and a vampire cannot merge.

Hope stays the tribrid

Alaric steps down to write the history of the supernatural; Caroline comes home as interim headmistress. Klaus’s last message is finally delivered.