Why Do The Travelers Need Doppelganger Blood?

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Hope remained for the Travelers as an ancient prophecy stated that the blood of the doppelgängers, the shadow-shelves of Silas and Amara,

would be able to reverse Spirit magic

. It would also allow them to lift the curse placed on them.

Do doppelgängers have to be blood related?

So far, every Doppelgänger was related to each other on the show. Apparently, yes.

It doesn’t have to be one bloodline because the blood relation does not have to be direct

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Was Silas a traveler?

The Travelers were an ancient community of gifted witches who apparently used powerful magic to achieve great things, including things that were frowned upon by other witches.

Qetsiyah and Silas were two members of the Travelers

and considered to be their most powerful members.

Is Qetsiyah a traveler?

Qetsiyah (Ancient Greek: Kετσία), known in current times as Tessa, is

a witch of the Traveller subculture

, known for creating the first immortality spell as well as the only cure for it. Qetsiyah was engaged to another witch named Silas, whom she was madly in love with.

Who was Katherine’s baby daddy?

Throughout The Vampire Diaries

In the season four finale of The Vampire Diaries, Graduation, Katherine slept with

Niklaus Mikaelson

and conceived her daughter, Adyelya.

Who is Damon doppelgänger?

Stefan and his brother Damon Salvatore died in 1864. Like the Mikaelsons before them, they both fell in love with a Petrova doppelganger, this time known as

Katherine Pierce

. Stefan was the first to turn and convinced his brother to join him, but Damon resented him for it.

Why is Elena Katherine doppelgänger?

It was later revealed that Elena was not the first Petrova doppelgänger, but Katherine was as the original’s blood was used to create a doppelgänger

to break Klaus’ curse

. Elena bribed Katherine with blood to tell her her story.

What is traveler magic?

Traveler Magic is

a form of witchcraft that is strictly used by a subculture of witches known as the Travelers

. This form of magic specializes in spirit possession, a form of dark magic, as well as an emphasis on “collective” magic.

What is a traveler witch?


Technically Traveler’s are witches

. Traveler’s originated from Quetsiyah’s coven. When she created the immortality spells the rest of the coven (who later became the Gemini Coven), cursed them, they are called Traveler’s because they cannot settle down, they cannot gather as a coven and perform magic together.

Is Elena a traveler?

We also know that Elena is a descendant of Katherine, being a Petrova doppelganger. This makes

Elena also a traveller

And by extension her daughter Stephanie is also a traveller.

How did Qetsiyah make the cure?

Enraged,

Qetsiyah found a way to reverse the spell

, creating a cure for Immortality, she forced Amara to drink the cure and killed her, first slitting her throat before ripping out her heart, which made Silas get angry, she later entombed him in a cave on a deserted island.

How did Amara become immortal?

It is revealed that Qetsiyah did not murder Amara, but instead, used her as a physical anchor for the spell in creating the Other Side.

Qetsiyah needed an anchor which was both indestructible and eternal to bind the spell

, hence Amara, who was immortal.

Who is stronger Qetsiyah or the hollow?

They are pretty much the same in power. Both are revered by different people as the most powerful witch.

Qetsiyah seems more skilled in overall magic than the Hollow

though. The Hollow seems more skilled in battle magic though.

Is Markos Nadia’s father?

Nadia Petrova (Bulgarian: Надя Петрова) is a Vampire and a member of The Travellers.

Nadia is also the daughter of Katherine Pierce and Markos

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Why is the Petrova family cursed?

History. The book explaining the curse. According to legend, centuries ago when vampires and werewolves wreaked havoc upon the Aztecs,

a powerful shaman used a moonstone and the sacrifice of Petrova blood to cast a curse on them

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Why was Katherine’s daughter taken away?

As to why Katherine had to give the baby away, you have to understand in the 1500’s it was

“improper” and “embarrassing” for the family to have a young unmarried daughter get pregnant

. To hide the family’s shame, Kathrine’s father gave the child away to an anonymous family.

Why is the doppelganger so important?

Blood: Doppelgängers, being mystical and recurrent, are

sources of great magical power

. The blood of a doppelgänger can be used to link supernatural beings with the help of magic conducted by any witch.

Is Rayna Cruz Elena’s doppelganger?

On the accidental doppelgänger

We threw in a couple jokes about it, but truthfully, there is no mythological reason for it.” We’ve been wondering if there was any significance behind Rayna Cruz being an Elena look-a-like (and who can blame us with the million doppelgängers she has), but

apparently there isn’t

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Do doppelgangers actually exist?

The team concluded that the chances of someone looking exactly like someone else in all eight features is about one in 1 trillion. This means:

There’s definitely a mathematical chance for two doppelgängers to exist, but it’s highly unlikely

. Mostly people do not come across doppelgangers of themselves.

Who is Elena’s birth father?

Elena Gilbert is born on June 22, 1992 in Mystic Falls, Virginia to

John Gilbert

(David Anders) and Isobel Flemming (Mia Kirshner) while they were still in highschool. With the help of John’s brother Grayson, Isobel and John flee town days later, leaving Grayson and his wife Miranda to adopt Elena as their own.

Why does Klaus have doppelgänger?

For centuries, Klaus continued

looking for ways to break the Hybrid Curse

, for which he needed a Petrova doppelganger. The ritual that could undo the curse also needed a witch to channel the power of a full moon into the moonstone. Then Klaus would need to sacrifice a werewolf and a vampire.

Which original bloodline is Katherine from?

The original doppelganger of the

Petrova bloodline

, Katherine turned herself into a vampire when she was being hunted by Klaus for her blood. In 1864, she moves to Mystic Falls and meets the Salvatore brothers. She convinces them both that she loves them and ends up turning them into vampires.

Why are doppelgängers destined to be together?

The idea that male and female doppelgangers were meant to be together was debunked by Markos, the leader of the Travelers. He revealed they were drawn together

because of magic

. Season 5 focused heavily on the consequences of the Amara-Qetsiyah-Silas love triangle.

How did Stefan get out of the quarry?

The relationship between the cured vampire/human doppelgänger Stefan Salvatore and the ancient Traveler witch Qetsiyah. Qetsiyah rescued Stefan from the safe that

Silas locked him in at the bottom of Steven’s Quarry in the Season Five episode Original Sin

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Why do the travelers not want Silas and Amara together?

The travelers want the blood of the last 2 doppelgängers(aka silas and amara dead?)

so that they can get rid of spirit magic which they consider impure or perverted magic

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