128 Fun Facts About The Originals

The Originals is a spin-off of which series?

The Originals spun off from The Vampire Diaries, whose fourth-season episode 'The Originals' served as a backdoor pilot following Klaus Mikaelson away from Mystic Falls.

In which American city is The Originals set?

The Originals is set in New Orleans, where the Mikaelsons helped build the French Quarter centuries earlier and where Klaus returns to reclaim control of the city.

On which network did The Originals air?

The Originals aired on The CW, which moved its premiere up to early October 2013 so the new show could follow the parent series' fifth-season opener.

Who plays Klaus Mikaelson?

Joseph Morgan played Klaus on the parent series and its spin-off, then returned once more in 2022 for the very last episode of the show that followed them.

How many seasons of The Originals were made?

The Originals ran for 5 seasons, from 2013 to 2018; its creator announced at San Diego Comic-Con in July 2017 that the fifth would be the last.

How many episodes of The Originals aired in total?

The Originals aired 92 episodes in all, running from its October 2013 premiere to its series finale on August 1, 2018.

Who created The Originals?

Julie Plec created the spin-off and wrote its backdoor-pilot episode herself, having developed the parent series alongside Kevin Williamson.

What is the name of Klaus and Hayley's daughter?

Klaus and Hayley's daughter is Hope, born at the end of season 1 and handed to Rebekah to hide after her death was faked.

What kind of supernatural being is Klaus?

Klaus is a vampire-werewolf hybrid: Esther conceived him in an affair with a werewolf, so when she turned her children into vampires his wolf side awoke with his first kill.

The Mikaelson family are known as 'the Originals' for what reason?

They were the first vampires ever to exist: about a thousand years ago their mother Esther cast the immortality spell that turned her children, and every vampire since descends from their sire lines.

Who is Klaus's former protégé and adoptive son who rules the French Quarter when the Mikaelsons return?

Marcel Gerard, the boy Klaus rescued and raised before turning him, declared himself king of the French Quarter after the Mikaelsons fled Mikael's attack on the city.

What is the title of the first episode of The Originals season 1?

'Always and Forever' takes its title from the vow the Mikaelson siblings swore to one another, and the premiere follows Elijah as he tracks Klaus to the city.

On what date did the backdoor pilot for The Originals air as an episode of the parent series?

The backdoor pilot aired on April 25, 2013 as the parent series' fourth-season episode 'The Originals', revealing that Hayley was pregnant with Klaus's child.

Who plays Elijah Mikaelson on The Originals?

Daniel Gillies was already under contract to the Canadian medical drama Saving Hope when the spin-off was ordered, and simply kept making both shows.

Which actress plays Rebekah Mikaelson?

Claire Holt left the regular cast partway through season 1, yet kept coming back as a special guest star all the way to the series finale.

Phoebe Tonkin plays which character?

Hayley Marshall began as a recurring guest on the parent series, where a one-night stand with Klaus led to the pregnancy that sets the spin-off in motion.

What species was Hayley at the start of The Originals, before becoming a hybrid?

Hayley was a werewolf of the Crescent pack; she became a hybrid in the season 1 finale after dying with her newborn daughter's blood in her system.

What is the name of Leah Pipes's bartender character who becomes involved with Klaus?

Camille O'Connell, the Rousseau's bartender and psychology student, inherited her uncle Father Kieran's cache of dark objects and became Klaus's confidante.

Where does Marcel hide the teenage witch Davina when The Originals begins?

A church attic at St. Anne's is where Marcel shelters Davina after she escapes the Harvest ritual that was meant to sacrifice her.

Riley Voelkel plays which long-lost member of the Mikaelson family?

Riley Voelkel plays Freya, the eldest Mikaelson, taken by Esther's sister as a child; the role recurred in season 2 before she became a regular in season 3.

Which actress plays the teenage Hope Mikaelson in season 5?

Danielle Rose Russell took over as the teenage Hope in season 5 and went on to lead the Salvatore School spin-off for four seasons.

Who plays young Hope in season 4?

Summer Fontana played the school-age Hope across season 4 and came back as a guest in season 5, even after a time jump had turned the character into a teenager.

Which witch is possessed by Finn Mikaelson in season 2?

Vincent Griffith spends much of season 2 as Finn's unwilling vessel; once freed, he goes on to lead the city's witch covens himself.

Kol Mikaelson spends season 2 in the body of which young witch?

Kol spends season 2 in the body of Kaleb Westphall, a young witch played by Daniel Sharman, after Esther brings her sons back in borrowed bodies.

Who is the Mikaelson siblings' aunt, the villain of The Originals season 2 who claims every firstborn child?

Dahlia's claim rests on a bargain: she cast the spell that let her barren sister Esther have children, and took the eldest child as her price.

Who is Lucien Castle, who arrives in season 3 of The Originals?

The first vampire sired by Klaus, Lucien was made by accident in 1002: a servant cut by a blade carrying Klaus's blood, he was killed by a guard and woke as a vampire.

Which season 3 villain is Klaus's old love, turned into a vampire with Rebekah's blood a thousand years ago?

Aurora de Martel took her own life with Rebekah's blood in her system so that she would wake as a vampire; in season 3 she returns with her brother Tristan to plot against the family.

What is The Strix in The Originals?

The Strix is an ancient secret society of vampires founded by Elijah himself; in season 3, led by Tristan, it recruits Marcel and turns on its own founder's family.

Which parent-show character comes to the French Quarter in season 3, fleeing the hunter Rayna Cruz?

Stefan Salvatore arrives with a wound that lets the hunter track him, then joins forces with Hayley to free Klaus and Elijah from a Strix trap.

Which Mikaelson brother dies in season 3 after Lucien bites him?

Finn dies surrounded by his family, at last given the acceptance he had always sought from them; not even Klaus's blood can cure the bite.

How much time passes between the end of season 3 and the start of season 4?

Season 4 opens five years after the season 3 finale, with Klaus held captive beneath Marcel's compound and Hayley spending those years hunting a cure for his siblings.

What is the name of the ancient evil spirit that menaces the family in season 4?

The Hollow is the spirit of a powerful witch killed by her own tribe; as she died she cursed them to become wolves, and in season 4 her followers gather her bones to revive her.

Where do the Crescent werewolves make their home in The Originals?

The bayou outside the city is the Crescent pack's refuge, where a witch's curse kept them in wolf form except at the full moon until it was lifted in season 1.

Why is Hope suspended from school as The Originals' final season opens?

She made a werewolf a hybrid: Henry, a young Crescent wolf, was turned by Hope, and her suspension brings her home just as her mother goes missing.

In season 5, why must the Mikaelson siblings stay apart from one another?

Each carries part of a dark spirit: to save Klaus's daughter, four of the siblings took a piece of it at the end of season 4, and its magic surges whenever they come together.

Which past love of Klaus from the parent series appears in season 5 as co-founder of the Salvatore School?

Caroline Forbes, played by Candice King, tracks Klaus down in the season 5 premiere and pushes him to go home when Hayley goes missing.

How do Klaus and Elijah die in the series finale of The Originals?

They stake each other with halves of one white oak stake: Klaus must die to destroy the evil he has taken into himself, and Elijah chooses to go with him.

What is the title of the series finale of The Originals?

'When the Saints Go Marching In' closes the series with Klaus and Elijah dying side by side, while Rebekah at last accepts Marcel's marriage proposal.

In the series finale of The Originals, what does Klaus arrange for Rebekah as a parting gift?

The cure to vampirism is Klaus's parting gift, so that Rebekah can one day live and grow old as a human; she then tells Marcel she will marry him.

How does Hayley die in season 5 of The Originals?

She drags Greta into the sun after tearing off the finger that carries Greta's daylight ring, and the two burn together; Hayley gives her life to save her daughter.

What is Hayley's birth name?

Hayley was born Andréa Labonair, a daughter of the Crescent pack's royal Labonair line; her own daughter's middle name, Andrea, honours it.

What is the name of the spin-off centred on Hope Mikaelson at the Salvatore School?

Legacies followed in October 2018, after the final season of The Originals had given screen time to the school and several of the spin-off's future characters.

Matt Davis reprises which character as head of the Salvatore School in the later spin-off?

Alaric Saltzman first reaches the Mikaelsons midway through season 4, bringing an artifact from Mystic Falls that they need, and tells Klaus that Hope would be happy at his school.

Which season 5 Originals character is Hope's human friend working at the Mystic Grill?

Landon Kirby waits on Hope and Elijah at the Mystic Grill in season 5; in the later spin-off he becomes her boyfriend and a fellow student at her school.

What was the 2014 web series that explored Kol Mikaelson's past in 1914 called?

'The Originals: The Awakening' ran as four short webisodes in late 2014, following Kol in 1914 as he courts the city's witches for an alliance against Klaus.

Which Originals tie-in novel, the first of three, is set in the city in 1722?

The Rise has Klaus pursue Vivianne, whose arranged marriage is meant to end a war between the city's supernatural factions; The Loss and The Resurrection follow.

In 2014 the actor who plays Klaus won Favorite Actor in a New Series at which ceremony?

People's Choice Awards voters picked Klaus's actor over a field that included Robin Williams, Michael J. Fox and Andy Samberg.

What is a vampire's power to control another person's mind called in The Originals?

Compulsion works on humans and, for an Original, on other vampires too: Elijah once compelled three newly turned vampires to believe they were the Mikaelsons and take the family's place.

Who scored both The Originals and its parent series?

Michael Suby was already scoring the parent series when he took on The Originals, and stayed on for the Salvatore School spin-off, so one composer's music runs through all three shows.

Olde Town Conyers, the French Quarter backdrop of The Originals, is in which US state?

Georgia hosted the whole run: Olde Town Conyers, east of Atlanta, stood in for the French Quarter, and the town now offers self-guided tours of the filming spots.

Roughly how many million viewers watched the series premiere on October 3, 2013?

The premiere drew 2.21 million viewers, benefiting from its lead-in from the parent show's fifth-season opener on the same night.

What is the name of the Mikaelson family's compound in the French Quarter?

The Mikaelsons' French Quarter home is the Abattoir, a walled compound with an inner courtyard that served as the vampires' seat of power before Klaus reclaimed it in season 1.

Who returned Mikael, the Mikaelsons' vampire-hunting father, from the dead at the end of season 1?

Davina brings Mikael back in the season 1 finale but binds him to a bracelet that makes him obey her, keeping the vampire hunter as her secret weapon against Klaus.

Who plays Mikael in The Originals?

Sebastian Roché created Mikael on the parent series in 2011 and kept returning to the role in the spin-off, even after the character had been killed more than once.

Who is Klaus's biological father, resurrected by Esther in season 2?

Ansel is Klaus's true father; soon after his return, Klaus kills him to protect a secret, because Ansel has learned that Klaus's daughter is still alive.

Whom does Hayley marry in season 2 in a ritual that shares her hybrid ability with the Crescent pack?

Jackson Kenner had been promised to Hayley since she was a baby; she goes through with the wedding for the pack's sake, though it means giving up any future with Elijah.

Who was Josh Rosza's boyfriend in season 2, whose murder was staged to look like Klaus's work?

Aiden, a Crescent werewolf, was Josh's boyfriend; Esther's sister killed him in season 2 and framed Klaus, and the two reunite in the afterlife when Josh dies in season 5.

Marcel gained the power to defeat the Originals at the end of season 3 by taking what?

Marcel drank Lucien's serum, a potion that turns its taker into an upgraded Original whose bite can kill the Mikaelsons; Elijah killed him without knowing.

At the end of The Originals season 4, Klaus finds the memory-wiped Elijah in France doing what?

Playing piano in a bar in the small town of Manosque is Elijah's new life; Klaus leaves him a large tip and walks away without revealing who he is.

What is the real name of the villain of The Originals season 4, the ancient spirit that possesses Sofya and then Hope?

The spirit's true name is Inadu, a witch born with immense power whose own tribe killed her; Blu Hunt played her once she was resurrected in physical form.

Which actor plays Lucien Castle in season 3?

Andrew Lees plays Lucien Castle, who arrives in season 3 offering to protect Klaus as an old friend while secretly working toward the family's destruction.

Which art form is Klaus's private passion in The Originals?

Painting is Klaus's outlet: when Hayley studies his canvases and asks why he paints, he tells her that art lets him feel in control.

Who does Freya marry in the final season of The Originals?

Keelin, a doctor and the last of her werewolf line, was first held captive by Freya, who needed her venom for a cure; captor and prisoner fell in love and married.

Which Mikaelson falls for the vampire Antoinette Sienna in the years before season 5 of The Originals?

Elijah, with no memory of his family, meets Antoinette in New York, follows her to France and proposes, still wanting to marry her after learning she knew who he was.

Where was the actor who plays Klaus in The Originals born?

London is where he was born, but he spent his childhood in Swansea, Wales, and only moved back to London in his late teens to study acting.

The actor who plays Elijah in The Originals grew up in which country?

He was born in Winnipeg but moved to New Zealand at age five.

The actresses who play Rebekah and Hayley first co-starred on which series?

The two actresses first shared the screen as teenage mermaids on H2O: Just Add Water, then reunited on the parent series before both moved to The Originals.

Which Originals cast member, of Filipino descent, later played Special Agent Quentin Carter on CBS?

Charles Michael Davis, whose mother is from Manila, joined the CBS drama as its new agent in 2020; on The Originals he had also directed an episode of the final season.

Danielle Campbell married which former Originals co-star in 2025?

Colin Woodell's werewolf character was killed off within a single season, but his bond with Danielle Campbell lasted: the two married in France in September 2025.

Nathaniel Buzolic, who plays Kol, is from which country?

Nathaniel Buzolic is from Australia, where he hosted the Nine Network's late-night quiz show The Mint before moving into American television.

In The Originals, which herb burns vampires on contact and shields anyone who takes it from their mind control?

Vervain is the vampires' best-known weakness; in season 5 one vampire has quietly dosed herself with it ever since meeting her fiancé, so Klaus's order to leave him fails.

Before Klaus took him in, the young Marcel was what?

A slave on a plantation, the boy was the unacknowledged son of its owner; Klaus saved him from a whipping, named him Marcellus and raised him as his own.

Which Mikaelson secretly summoned Mikael, the father hunting them, to the city in 1919?

Rebekah had a witch summon Mikael so that she and Marcel could be free of Klaus's control; she regretted it too late, and the whole family had to flee the city.

Which witch, once Elijah's lover, possesses Sabine Laurent's body in season 1 of The Originals?

Celeste DuBois was drowned in a witch hunt that Klaus's rumours had stirred up; her spirit then jumped from body to body for two centuries, nursing a grudge against the family.

Mystic Falls, home of the Salvatore School and the village where Klaus was born, is in which US state?

Virginia is home to Mystic Falls, which grew from the settlement where Klaus was born; a thousand years on, his daughter goes to school on the same ground.

Where does Freya keep her sleeping siblings' minds at the end of season 3?

Freya cast a Chambre de Chasse spell, sealing her siblings' minds in a shared dreamscape anchored to Klaus, whose daggered body kept them alive while Hayley hunted a cure.

What is the name of Hayley's human boyfriend when season 5 begins?

Declan, a chef, knows nothing of vampires or werewolves; when Hayley vanishes, her friends argue over whether to tell him the truth and decide to keep quiet.

Instead of a traditional pilot, how long was the Legacies presentation Julie Plec delivered to The CW?

The spin-off was ordered to series on May 11, 2018, with Matt Davis starring alongside Aria Shahghasemi and Quincy Fouse.

In The Originals, a weapon able to kill Klaus Mikaelson for good must be made from the wood of which tree?

White oak is the single wood that can end an Original, so the last surviving piece of the tree becomes a prize in season 3. One villain carves it into bullets.

What term does The Originals use for Hope Mikaelson, the only being of her kind in the franchise?

A tribrid carries three supernatural bloodlines at once: witch, werewolf and vampire. For most of the series only the witch side of Hope is active.

In The Originals, what happens to every vampire in an Original's bloodline when that Original is killed?

They die too, a rule discovered on the parent show when one Original's death wiped out everyone he had sired. It is why season 3's villains plan to imprison the Mikaelsons, not kill them.

In The Originals, what reward does Marcel promise the vampires who earn a place in his inner circle?

A daylight ring lets a vampire walk in the sun without burning, so Marcel hands them out as a loyalty prize. Newcomers such as Josh are left stuck in the shadows.

How does the series finale of The Originals leave the on-and-off romance between Rebekah and Marcel?

They get engaged in the finale, after Rebekah got cold feet over a proposal from Marcel earlier in the season. The pair leave the city together to start a new life.

What punishment does Klaus give Hayley in season 2 of The Originals for trying to flee with their daughter?

A wolf curse traps Hayley in wolf form, human only on the night of the full moon, as payback for taking their child from him. A young witch lifts it early in season 3.

Which star of the parent series appears in season 2 of The Originals as Tatia, a woman Elijah once loved?

Nina Dobrev crossed over for a single episode in 2014, while she was the lead of the parent show. Tatia is another of the identical doubles she played across the franchise.

Daniel Sharman joined The Originals in season 2 after playing Isaac Lahey on which supernatural series?

Teen Wolf cast Sharman as a werewolf from 2012, and his next show made him a witch. His character there is really Kol Mikaelson in a borrowed body.

Why does Elijah fail to recognise Klaus when the final season of The Originals begins?

He has lost his memories, erased at his own request at the end of season 4. Elijah knew he could never keep away from Klaus while he remembered him.

In The Originals, Klaus spends centuries keeping the siblings he has daggered stored away in what?

Coffins held the daggered Mikaelsons for decades or even centuries at a time, each sibling put to sleep by a dagger. Rebekah was the one Klaus mostly kept awake at his side.

What act activates the werewolf side of Hope Mikaelson in the final season of The Originals?

Killing a human is what wakes the werewolf gene, and Hope does it by accident while destroying a mob of attacking vampires with magic. Until then she had only been a witch.

After defeating the Mikaelsons at the end of season 3 of The Originals, what does Marcel do with Klaus?

Marcel keeps him prisoner inside the Mikaelson compound, walled in and pinned by a blade that causes constant pain. The other siblings escape only by being hidden in an enchanted sleep.

Which character from the parent series appears in season 3 of The Originals and helps shoot Lucien Castle?

Matt Donovan fires wooden bullets when the Mikaelsons follow their enemy to Matt's own home town. The shooting backfires, because death completes a transformation into something far deadlier.

Which co-creator of the parent series took no part in making The Originals?

Kevin Williamson, also the creator of Dawson's Creek, left the spin-off to his producing partner. It was the second attempt at a spin-off from the vampire drama.

Before The Originals, Phoebe Tonkin played the witch Faye Chamberlain in which short-lived American series?

The Secret Circle lasted one full season before it was cancelled in May 2012. Tonkin joined the vampire franchise later that year.

Jason Dohring, Detective Will Kinney in The Originals, is best known as Logan Echolls on which series?

Veronica Mars cast Dohring as Logan from 2004, a role he repeated in a 2014 film and a 2019 revival. He spent season 3 of the vampire drama as a detective.

Daniella Pineda, a season 1 regular on The Originals, later played Zia Rodriguez in which film franchise?

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom was the first film Pineda made for a major studio, and she returned as Zia in the 2022 sequel Dominion.

What does the resurrected Esther offer her vampire sons in season 2 of The Originals?

New mortal bodies are the offer: Esther wants her sons to jump into human hosts and live as people again. She means to destroy each vampire body left behind.

What kills Josh, the loyal friend of Davina, in the final season of The Originals?

Marcel's venom is injected into Josh during a fight with purists who wanted to extract it from Marcel's fangs. He dies moments later in Marcel's arms.

In The Originals, where does Freya hide from her aunt for a century of enchanted sleep?

The Fauline Cottage doubles as an asylum for witches, which made it the one place her aunt would never visit. Rebekah is later imprisoned there in a borrowed body.

Elijah Mikaelson, the composed elder brother in The Originals, is almost always dressed in what?

A formal suit is his uniform, part of the calm manner that sets him apart from the hot-headed Klaus. Elijah is also known for always keeping his word.

Klaus Mikaelson of The Originals goes by a short form of which given name?

Niklaus is the name used for the character as a boy, and the series credits a child actor as young Niklaus in its flashbacks.

In The Originals, Cami studies which subject in the hope of proving that nobody is born evil?

Psychology drew Cami in after a tragedy close to home, because she wanted to show that people cannot simply be evil.

In The Originals, Mikael raised Klaus as his own son, but what is the true relationship between them?

Stepfather and stepson is the truth, because Klaus was born of an affair his mother kept hidden. Mikael is father to the other siblings and spends centuries hunting them all.

Before he became a vampire who hunts his own kind, Mikael of The Originals lived as what sort of warrior?

A Viking warrior and landowner, Mikael met his wife after she was captured in a raid. The couple later left Norway for a new land across the sea.

In The Originals, Marcel, who saved Davina from a ritual sacrifice, has a strict ban on harming whom?

Children are off limits to Marcel, a rule rooted in his own harsh boyhood. He steps in whenever he sees a child mistreated or used.

The teenage witch Davina rises in The Originals to which title, leader of all the city's covens?

Regent is the office that speaks for every coven and can call on the power of the Ancestors. Vincent holds the same post at another point in the series.

In The Originals, how does Marcel appear to decide whether Josh or his friend Tina stays a vampire?

A coin flip is only cover for a test of loyalty. Tina grabs for the coin and is killed, while Josh is allowed to live.

Where does Freya of The Originals shelter the soul of a dying sibling, as she does for Elijah?

Her pendant keeps a soul safe until the body can be restored. Elijah arrives there in pieces, so Freya and Hope first have to mend his fractured soul.

Which season 3 villain of The Originals, the first vampire Elijah ever sired, ends up sunk in the ocean?

Tristan was a cruel French nobleman when Elijah turned him around 1002. The Mikaelsons finally imprison him at the bottom of the ocean, using his own sister as leverage.

In The Originals, which Mikaelson brother's death as a boy led his parents to make his siblings immortal?

Henrik was killed after slipping out one night with Klaus to watch the men of a nearby village change shape. The loss left his father obsessed with making the rest invulnerable.

Which human priest in The Originals, the uncle of Cami, is driven mad by a witch's hex?

Kieran speaks for the city's humans and wins the respect of Klaus by showing no fear of him. Turning him into a vampire fails to break the hex.

Which close friend of Marcel in The Originals was turned into a vampire while dying of a World War II wound?

Thierry was found by Marcel outside a veterans' hospital and became his closest friend and right-hand man. Elijah later kills him as a warning to Marcel.

In season 1 of The Originals, Klaus compels which violinist friend of Davina to poison them both?

Timothy poisons himself and Davina under the compulsion, in an attempt to kill the powerful young witch. Davina survives, but he does not.

Which actor plays the witch Vincent in The Originals, joining the main cast from season 2?

Yusuf Gatewood first appeared as a guest in season 1 and stayed with the series until the end of its fifth and final season.

In The Originals, which witch once married to Vincent becomes the body that holds the spirit of Rebekah?

Eva Sinclair had killed the young to steal their power, and her own mind later rises again to wrest the body back from Rebekah.

Which rocker vampire from the music scene becomes a love interest for Elijah in season 2 of The Originals?

Gia left home at an early age after a rocky upbringing and found her place among the city's musicians. She is played by Nishi Munshi.

Freya of The Originals executes her mother by turning her host body into a flock of which birds?

Starlings burst from the body of Lenore Shaw, the witch whose form Esther had taken over. The birds died moments after the change.

What is the name of the style of magic Kol Mikaelson teaches a witch in 1914 in The Originals?

Kemiya is the technique Kol passes on to Mary-Alice Claire, part of his plan to forge a dagger that would work on Klaus.

When The Originals begins, what has Marcel forbidden the witches of the French Quarter to do?

Practise magic and a witch risks execution, because Marcel has a secret weapon that gives him total control over the covens.

Which season 1 witch in The Originals is magically linked to the pregnant Hayley, sharing every injury?

Sophie Deveraux uses the link as leverage over the Mikaelsons, since any injury to her would also strike Hayley and her unborn child. Davina eventually breaks the spell.

How do Klaus and Hayley protect their newborn daughter at the end of season 1 of The Originals?

They fake her death and send the infant away with Rebekah, the one person Klaus trusts to protect her. Hayley's real grief at the parting helps to sell the lie.

Killed by witches in the season 1 finale of The Originals, Hayley revives as a hybrid thanks to what?

Her daughter's blood was in her system when she died, enough to bring her back in transition. It makes Hayley the first hybrid with no sire.

Which character from the parent series arrives in season 1 of The Originals determined to kill Klaus?

Tyler Lockwood arrives set on killing Klaus and tries to turn Marcel's vampires against him. Rebekah cuts his speech short by snapping his neck.

Which warlock from the Mikaelsons' past returns in season 1 of The Originals and drains Rebekah for power?

Papa Tunde practises sacrificial magic, channelling the people he overpowers, and Marcel was the one who first brought him to the city. He ends by offering himself as a sacrifice.

Which witch, left to die by Rebekah decades earlier, returns in season 1 of The Originals to expose her?

Genevieve had been used to summon Mikael to the city, then infected with a deadly illness so that she could never tell. Resurrected, she reveals the plot to Klaus.

Which resurrected Harvest girl kills her own aunt in season 1 of The Originals, claiming she lacks faith?

Monique owes her return to the aunt she kills, who had spent months fighting to finish the ritual and bring her back. She goes on to kill Hayley in the finale.

Francesca, who offers Elijah support in season 1 of The Originals, secretly belongs to which werewolf clan?

Guerrera is the pack she secretly leads, hidden behind her public image as a philanthropist and the head of a criminal empire. Cami is the one who uncovers her bloodline.

Which title belongs to the season 1 finale of The Originals, in which Rebekah makes a brief return?

From a Cradle to a Grave follows a birth and a death in the same hour, with Hayley killed soon after her daughter arrives.

Steven Krueger, who plays Josh in The Originals, went on to play coach Ben Scott in which drama series?

Yellowjackets is the Showtime series Krueger joined in 2019, after five seasons as Josh. On the vampire drama he began as a recurring guest and ended as a regular.