Elijah Mikaelson

Elijah Mikaelson is an Original Vampire, and also the second son of Mikael and Esther. He has six siblings, an older sister Freya, an older brother Finn, two younger brothers ( Kol and Henrik), a younger sister named Rebekah and a younger maternal half-brother named Niklaus. After Mikael's death, Elijah is the oldest Original alive.

Elijah is a member of the Mikaelson Family.

History
Elijah was born into a family of wealthy land owners (Mikael and Esther). Elijah was born in the New World (America). During Elijah's early life, He and Klaus both fell in love with a woman named Tatia, although she had a child by another man, both brothers fought over her but then realized family was more important. They lived among werewolves for about twenty years, and at first they could handle each other and keep out of major fights.

He enjoyed sparring with Klaus, much to the disapproval of his father, who didn't like the fact he was sparring with his step-son Niklaus whom Mikael viewed as reckless. One morning after a full moon, Niklaus comes out of the woods holding his dead little brother Henrik. Elijah comes running from the woods to Niklaus and Rebekah and sees that Henrik is dead.

Before Esther completed the vampire ritual, Mikael gave his children wine laced with blood from Tatia. Then he then stabs Elijah and his siblings through the heart with a sword and then makes them drink human blood. After becoming a vampire, Elijah (along with his family) makes sure that the White Oak Tree burns down completely, as it was the only thing capable of killing them. The ash from the tree was saved and could be used with a silver dagger to neutralize all of the Originals except for Niklaus was also a werewolf, so he is known as a hybrid.



Shortly after becoming a vampire, his mother was killed by "Mikael". After burying his mother Elijah, Klaus, and Rebekah promised that they will never turn their backs on each other and that they will always stick together as one, always and forever.

1492


Elijah was a nobleman in late 15th century in England where he met Katerina Petrova (a.k.a.Katherine Pierce), who reminded him of The Original Petrova and he then introduced her to his younger half-brother Niklaus. While Elijah was helping Klaus achieve his goal of breaking the Sun and Moon Curse, he started developing feelings for the Doppelgänger Katerina who Klaus was about to sacrifice and on the night before the full moon. He even confessed to Katerina that he didn't believe in love where she replied that was to sad for her to believe because whats the point of living without love. He tried to persuade Klaus to spare her life, but Klaus told him not to bother and the ritual would go on as planned. On the night of the full moon, Katerina took the moonstone and fled with the help of Trevor.



Klaus assumed Elijah helped her because of their discussion the night before about sparing her life and Elijah promised him that he would find her, and Klaus responded with a promise of his own: if he did not find Katerina, he would be killed. Elijah attempted to track down Katerina Petrova in the woods as she hid behind a tree. Elijah shouts out that Klaus will find her wherever she is and says he can smell her blood. Trevor comes and leads Elijah away from Katerina which allows her to escape. Trevor would later pay the price for his betrayal.

Season Two


Rose and Trevor called Elijah in the hope that he would pardon them because they were tired of constantly running from the Originals. They held Elena captive in the hope of using her as a bargaining chip. Initially skeptical of their claim of having the Petrova doppelgänger, he was surprised to find that Elena existed and that she was human. He forgave Rose because she helped Trevor out of loyalty to him, but he executed Trevor by decapitation for his betrayal of having helped the second Petrova doppelgänger, Katerina Petrova, escape.



As they were leaving the house that Rose and Trevor were hiding out in, the Salvatore brothers came to rescue Elena. They shot Elijah in the hand with a wooden stake, Elena then came out and threw a vervain grenade which exploded and burnt his face; however, he soon healed. Damon then staked him with a broken coat rack, pinning him to the wall; however, some time later, he came to back to life and pulled out the stake out of him.

When Rose and Damon went to see a vampire named Slater looking for information about the curse, Elijah appeared and gave a guy a 100 dollar bill in exchange for some coins, he was now outside listening, then moments later he threw some coins at the web-Café's special UV protected glass which sent the vampires inside running for cover. Later that night, he compelled Slater to call Rose (who was with Damon) and tell her that they can stop the sacrifice by dispelling the moonstone. Elijah then further compelled Slater to stake himself.

Then the next day, Elijah with the help of the allied Dr. Martin he found Elena through a locator spell and appeared at the window Elena was watching at and saw Elijah freaked out a little bit, Elijah told Dr. Martin that he knows exactly were she is right now. When Elijah found himself in Slater's apartment he killed the three vampire who was going to take her to Klaus, but surprisingly he let Elena and Damon live. When Dr. Martin asks him about it, he said that its was good that Damon was alive so he can protect Elena as he needs her alive.



In By the Light of the Moon, Elijah meets with Jenna Sommers who is Elena's aunt and was then invited to her house and when Elena saw Elijah she was a little bit of shocked and Elijah represented himself to her and then said thanks to Jenna for inviting him in and said to Elena that he hopes e sees her soon again. Then Elena ran up to warn her brother but then Elijah appeared right there and said to her that they should talk a little.

Elijah then say to her that he won't harm her or her family, Elena then asks why he killed the vampires who was going to take her, Elijah responds with saying that he didn't want her to be taken and then tries to make a deal with her to kill Klaus and keep her friends and family, he is then showing that he has no concern as to break the curse, but to find Klaus and kill him. Later Elijah ask Dr.Martin to break the tomb spell under Fells church and then frees Stefan from it, but compels Katherine to stay there until Klaus comes.



In Crying Wolf, Elijah takes on the surname of Smith and when Damon tries to get the truth out of Elijah at the Historical society meeting, Elijah overpowers him and tells him that he can kill him when he's completed his part of the deal. Later, when Damon and Alaric Saltzman are captured by the werewolves, Elijah comes to the Salvatore Boarding House to find Alaric dead and Damon being tortured by Jules. He offers them the Moonstone but when they try to grab it, he kills all the werewolves with amazing ease, causing Jules to run away without the Moonstone.

Elijah then releases Damon as Alaric comes back to life with the help of his ring, reminding the younger vampire that it was the third time that he saved his life. Under Bonnie's spell, Luka reveals that he, his father and Elijah all want Klaus dead, and the reason they are helping Elijah is because Klaus has Luka's sister, also a witch, and is forcing her to help him find a way to break the curse without the Petrova doppelganger, as he has been doing for generations with other witches. He

also reveals Elijah will return his sister to them if they help him but that they will kill Klaus after the sacrifice, when he is most vulnerable, meaning Elijah intended for Elena to die all along.



In The Dinner Party, Elijah goes with Jenna into the woods and talks, then Alaric comes and joins them he spend hours with Elijah and Jenna. Elijah and Jenna later go to the Grill and meet Damon, Andie and Alaric. Andie asks Elijah and Jenna if they would join the dinner party at the Salvatore boarding house, Elijah says it will be pleasure. When Elijah comes to the Boarding House for a diner party with Damon, Alaric, Jenna, Andie Star and John Gilbert. Elijah says if Damon tries to cross him Elijah will kill him and anyone in the house.

During the dinner party Elijah and Damon takes a drink together and Damon is about to use the dagger to kill Elijah but Alaric enters the room and says they forgot dessert and he quickly writes to Damon that the dagger will kill him if he uses it. When Elijah returns to the dinner party Damon says he doesn't have to protect John, Elijah begins to say that he will take Elena away from both Damon and John if Damon becomes a liability.



Alaric then stabs Elijah with the white oak ash dagger, seemingly killing him. It is later revealed however that the dagger has to remain in an Original to keep him dead. Elijah shows up at the lake house and tells Elena that their deal is off, and demands that Elena come with him. Elena threatens to turn herself into a vampire, but Elijah calls her bluff. Elena responds by stabbing herself, Elijah not wanting history to repeat itself begs her to let him heal her, as Elena moves towards him, she stabs him with the white oak dagger.

The day after he was neutralized, Damon is shown trying to torch Elijah's body (dagger still intact) with a flame thrower. However, this doesn't work and Katherine states that Elijah is indestructible.After Klaus almost killed Bonnie, a fearful Elena pulls out the dagger from his chest and waits until Elijah wakes up. Once he does, he thinks Elena is Katherine, calling her "Katerina". When coming to his senses, he recognizes that he has not been invited into the "Elena's" house, and starts to become disoriented until he finally gets out the house. While outside the house catching his breath, he see's Elena in the door way and rushes at her for neutralizing him but is stopped due to not being invited into her house.

When he and Elena talk about Klaus and how she needs his help to defeat Klaus, they drive to The Lockwood Mansion where Elijah needs to get a new suit. Elijah informs Elena that the curse of the sun and moon is fake, Klaus is an original vampire/werewolf hybrid, and that he had found a way to save the life of the doppelganger after the sacrifice and reveals he had once cared for Katerina. When Elijah and Elena come to The Salvatore Mansion, they see the Salvatore brothers fighting, which causes Elijah to remember something similar, when Niklaus attacks Elijah and blames him for Katerina escaping.



The day after he was resurrected, Elijah explains that the curse should be broken during a full moon and Klaus is preparing for it. Elijah shows an elixir that has a chance to resurrect Elena from the dead after the curse is broken. But Damon doesn't believe it. Elena tells everyone that they should understand why she is willing to do it.

Elijah asks her why, she says that she is the doppelgänger, she is the key to breaking the curse, and if she doesn't do it, Klaus will never stop. Then she goes upstairs to explain it to Damon but Damon was convinced the elixir wouldn't work, so he forces her to drink his blood. When Damon comes back downstairs, Elijah says she doesn't need the elixir anymore, as feeding her vampire blood rendered it useless, before he goes he says to Damon that Elena will never forgive him.

After the curse is broken and Klaus is delivered to the brink of death, Elijah walks up to his brother. When he is about to rip his brother's heart out, Klaus reveals that he didn't bury their family at sea, their bodies are safe, and if he is killed, Elijah would never find them. After a moment of hesitation, Elijah saves Klaus escape before Stefan and Bonnie could stop them.



Two days after the ritual, Elijah is in the woods waiting for Klaus to wake after his transformation. When Klaus wakes, Elijah explains that Klaus stayed a werewolf for two days, even when the full moon went. Elijah reminds him of their deal - if he didn't kill Klaus, Klaus promised to reunite Elijah with their family, even though he was almost killed by him. Elijah and Klaus return to Alaric's apartment and find Katherine and Stefan waiting. Klaus explains before he can help Stefan, he has to stick by his deal to Elijah. Elijah explains to Stefan that his brother gave his word that he would reunite him with his family.Then Klaus suddenly appears behind him stabbing Elijah with the white oak ash dagger, neutralizing him. Elijah is later seen in a coffin about to be "reunited" with his family.

Season Three
In Our Town, Elijah is mentioned by Damon when he tries to find out who is in the 4th coffin, then later Stefan tells Klaus to remove his newly-turned hybrids from Mystic Falls after he seized the coffins containing the other Originals. When Klaus refuses, Stefan threatens to throw Elijah at the bottom of the ocean.

In The Ties That Bind, Elijah makes his first appearance in the third season After being un-daggered by Damon, before Klaus could reach the coffins. When Klaus moved his coffins to his house and had to go, Elijah appeared and killed his Hybrid by ripping Daniel's heart out, leaving Klaus shocked that Elijah's had awaken and said his name.

In Bringing Out The Dead, Elijah asks Klaus if he was surprised to see him since he wasn't the one to remove the dagger. He then fights with Niklaus and he fights back until he falls on Kol's coffin and then Klaus takes the dagger from Kol's body and says he will use it on Elijah. But Elijah dares him to use it, knowing that Klaus will have Kol to deal with. Klaus then tells Elijah that he killed their father (Mikael), Elijah then asks why their family still remains in the coffins and says, "Finn for over 900 years, Kol for over a century". Klaus says because of Stefan Salvatore and asks Elijah's help to destroy Stefan and help him get the fourth coffin in order to reunite their family. Elijah idly stands by as Klaus inserts the dagger back into Kol's heart. Elijah then meets with Damon and says to him that he left a note for him. Elijah then invites Damon to a dinner party at 'The Originals Mansion'.

At the dinner party they begin to talk about Tatia The Original Petrova, they reveal that Elijah and Niklaus both loved her equally and that it was her blood which was used to create 'The Originals'. Klaus then tries to make a deal with Stefan to which he rejects. Then Klaus threatens to kill Stefan if Damon doesn't return back with the coffin and asks Elijah to go with him. After sometime it is revealed that Elijah had un-daggered his siblings when they all start to enter one by one. Elijah then asks the Salvatore to leave as its their family business. Then Elijah and the other siblings decide on abandoning Klaus. And while Klaus continues to argue with them, their mother Esther arrives, and tells all of her children that she want them all be a family again.

In Dangerous Liaisons, Elijah prevents Rebekah from killing Elena as revenge for daggering her. He then tells her that Esther wants her family to live in peace with the other inhabitants of Mystic Falls and that she doesn't want war. Elijah is then in the morning seen prepare for the ball to night. During the ball, Elijah serves as the master of ceremony and leads the evening into a dance. He later joins Elena as she is going to talk to Esther where he reveals his suspicions to her. He doesn't believe that his mother's forgiveness is sincere and wants to know what she will tell Elena.

Elena promises to tell him what she says. Later, after Elena talked with his mother. She lied to Elijah by telling him his mother only wanted to apologize for trying to have her killed. Elijah and Elena then raised their glass of wine when his mother talked to everyone from the stairs, and then when she was finished everyone began to drink of the wine with Elena's blood in it.

He later witnesses Damon snapping Kol's neck after the latter tried to kill Matt and promises his mother that he will keep Kol and Rebekah from ruining everything with the inhabitants of Mystic Falls. Unbeknownst to Elijah, his mother is planning on killing him and his siblings which she has done by linking them all as one through Elena's blood which she laced in the champagne that they drank. Esther regrets having to kill her children most notably Elijah, commenting on how moral he is to his brother Finn.

Elijah continues to distrust his mother and in All My Children, he talks with Rebekah about their mother, he ask if she found something weird about their mother. Rebekah meant he should ask Finn, but Elijah wouldn't talk to him since he knew that Finn hated being a vampire. Rebekah didn't believe that and said that there mother just wants the family to be whole again. Elijah then he goes to Elena's house and asks to come with him saying he want's to show her something, then they both went on a drive to the woods were Elijah used play as a boy. Elijah then yet again ask what his mother is up to. Elena begins to lie, but Elijah informs her that her heart skips a beat when she lies.

She tells him that she agreed to help Esther kill Klaus, but didn't know it would also kill the other Originals and that she wishes there was a way to help him. He causes the ground to collapse beneath them creating an opening to the caverns underneath and traps Elena below. He sends Rebekah to keep her there while he informs Stefan and Damon that they have until the end of the night to stop the spell by killing the witches who is with his mother, Abby and Bonnie. Trying to find an alternative solution, Alaric stabbed Kol with a dagger neutralizing Elijah along with Finn and Rebekah. Klaus, however, removes the dagger moments later, reawakening his siblings.

Elijah appears and stops Klaus from killing Damon and then demands the location of their mother or Elena dies. Damon means that they should be at the old witch house, where they confront their mother and brother. The family has a standoff, but after Damon kills Abby, the witch spirits leave Esther causing her and Finn to disappear. Elijah later tells Rebekah that they no longer have a mother only Esther and that Esther only turned them into vampires, they turned themselves into monsters.

He also admits that he is a hypocrite as he has not always acted morally, using whatever means to get what he wants. Rebekah tries to defend his actions that he did, saying that they are better then the ones trying to kill them, Elijah questions that and leaves the room. He writes a note to Elena explaining that she has good traits which he admires and that he is filled with regret for what he has done to her. Klaus informs Rebekah that Elijah is fleeing as Kol has.

In The Departed, Elijah shows up at Elena's house and suprisses her with his return, Elena said that Elijah was there and then Stefan and Matt came and saw him standing there with and when Stefan said Elijah's name, he said hello again to Stefan. Elijah said that he will take Alaric's stake and run from him until Elena dies from age, like Klaus and Rebekah ran from their father a 1000 years.

Elijah then begins to deal for Klaus's body with Elena and said that he will not revive Klaus in her's life time or her children's and said it may teach him some manners. But Matt didn't believe him and said why she should trust him since that all he had done is screwed her over in past, and Elijah said that he is very sorry for that.

And then said that Elena could have been dead when he came to her house and said that it is whether you want to trust me or not. Then Elena asked why Elijah wants Klaus back, he said Klaus is his brother they remain together. Elena then made the deal with Elijah to hand his brother back to him.

After Alaric staked Klaus with the white oak stake, Stefan told Elijah about it and then Elijah waited for Rebekah to come to him. When Rebekah came she said that Klaus is gone and that there was nothing she could do to stop it, they both hugged each other and cried over Klaus's death. Elijah said that Tyler Lockwood is dead, but the other vampires have survived and says that he nor Kol create their bloodline. Rebekah says that she didn't either and she was sure it was Klaus. Elijah wondered how could the vampires from Klaus's bloodline could still be alive.

Relationships

 * Elijah and Rebekah


 * Elijah and Finn


 * Elijah and Kol


 * Elijah and Klaus


 * Esther and Elijah


 * Elena and Elijah


 * Elijah and Katherine


 * Klaus, Elijah, and Rebekah


 * Damon and Elijah


 * Stefan and Elijah


 * Elijah and Jenna


 * Elijah and Rose


 * Elijah and Alaric


 * Elijah and Jonas

Personality
Elijah is a man who lives by a code of honor and morality that has been with him since he was a human. As he told Elena in All My Children, he valued qualities such as compassion, honor and virtue long before his mother turned him into a vampire. When he was turned into a vampire, his beliefs were magnified and they developed in him a man who strongly believed in honor and loyalty. Whenever he would give his word to someone, he would keep it. This earned him the trust of Elena, Jonas Martin and a few others. He would also gain a respect for human life unseen in many vampires. He also showed a respect for human conventions: in Katerina, when he collected a series of coins from a nearby guitarist so as to send a message to Damon and Rose, he didn't compel him, instead giving him a $100 in exchange. He was also reluctant to kill anyone when unnecessary such as when he tried to save Elena's life.

However, his turning into a vampire also brought out darker sides to his personality. Namely, he was now willing to kill whenever it suited his needs and showed little remorse about it. Elijah also had little to no tolerance for those who broke their words to him, shown when he killed Trevor for betraying him and imprisoned Katherine for her own betrayal. Despite the fact that he always kept his word, he was proficient at finding loopholes in the deals he made and was very careful with those that he proposed, making it clear that whenever he did something, he hadn't promised not to do it. Ultimately, he would always do whatever he needed to do to accomplish his needs.

Elijah's main quality is however his intelligence which he uses to deadly effect whenever it is needed. He doesn't act rashly but always plans carefully ahead and knows what to do and when to do it. This makes him very unpredictable and dangerous so much that few are capable of actually trusting him.

However, everything that Elijah did, he did to preserve and protect the one thing he values most: his family. When he was human, Elijah was very close to his siblings, his brother Niklaus and his sister Rebekah in particular. Nevertheless, like all his siblings, he feared and respected his father, Mikael. When his father had apparently killed his mother and his brother Finn and Kol had fled their village, he swore to be "always and forever" with Niklaus and Rebekah. To this end, he helped Niklaus break the curse that prevented him from releasing his werewolf side. Also, despite the fact that he tried to kill Niklaus, he was shown to still care for his younger brother. He was devastated when he learned of Klaus's death at Alaric's hands and, in his only true moment of weakness, he embraced his sister Rebekah for comfort while tears are visible in his eyes. He was also reluctant to leave Niklaus behind when Alaric was hunting them, claiming that, no matter what he had done, he was still his brother. It was also suggested in the same episode that, instead of hating Klaus, Elijah was actually disappointed by him.

Powers and Abilities

 * Super Strength - Originals are much stronger than normal vampires, werewolves, and humans.


 * Super Speed - Originals are much faster than normal vampires, werewolves, and humans.


 * Heightened Senses - Original vampires have extremely keen senses of hearing, sight, smell, and taste.


 * Accelerated Healing - Originals injuries heal faster than normal vampires, werewolves, and humans.


 * Durability - Originals can take far more trauma than normal vampires, werewolves, and humans can without much discomfort or injury. Originals can heal faster than normal vampires when exposed to vervain and wood does not seem to weaken them.


 * Mind Compulsion - Originals can compel the minds of humans, vampires, and hybrids.


 * Vervain Detection - They able to detect when vampires and humans are on vervain. It's unknown if it's due to their advanced age or one of their abilities.


 * Immortality - Originals are nearly indestructible, and will live forever.


 * Dream Manipulation - Vampires can control dreams and subconscious. The vampires can produce and modify dreams, bestow nightmares or lucid dreaming. Other effects of this ability is the distortion of reality and trapped in the dreams.


 * Emotional Control - Vampires have a limited degree of control over their own emotions, allowing them to switch off their humanity to make killing easier.

Weaknesses

 * White Oak Stake - A white oak stake is the only thing that can permanently kill an Original, It comes from an Ancient White Oak tree during the time of the genesis of the Vampire Race, at this point there is no more of them since the only one was used on Mikael.


 * Silver Dagger and White Ash Wood - A silver dagger dipped in the ash of the white oak tree will kill an Original but only as long as the dagger remains in their heart.


 * Stakes - Stakes will not permanently kill an original but it does neutralize them for a few hours.


 * Vervain - Vervain burns originals just like it does with the other vampires, although an original will heal very fast to the point where the damage done by the vervain is gone in seconds.


 * Uninvited Invitation - In order to enter any house owned by humans, they had to be invited by that person. Once invited the vampire cannot be uninvited. If a vampire lives in a house, other vampires can enter freely and if vampire is in the house without being invited in it will become disoriented and will begin to suffocate.


 * Sunlight - Sunlight also burns Originals like normal vampires, but it cannot kill them.

Attitude Toward Humans
Elijah respects human life. He is shown to be generally gentle, caring, considerate and tender with humans, the opposite of his brother Klaus, who is shown to have little to no regard for human life. He has not been seen compelling a human except Elena as he needed information from her and Carol Lockwood (for a change of suit). Elijah is the only vampire who has not been seen feeding on humans. When he was revived, he was drinking from a blood bag rather than feeding on a living human. However its unknown if Elijah always feeds like this or if the blood bag was just given to him by Elena. Elijah gives Elena an elixir that has a chance to resurrect the person who drinks it. The elixir was meant for Katerina before she escaped and now he gives it to Elena, so she has a chance to survive after the sacrifice.

Esther, Elijah's mother however mentions that he is no better than the others causing him to reflect that he kills, tortures and manipulates others to get what he wants, mainly to protect his family. Esther says this to Elijah and his two brothers Kol and Niklaus, "For a thousand years, I’ve been forced to watch you. Felt the pain of every victim, suffered while you shed blood. Even you, Elijah, with your claim to nobility, you’re no better. All of you. You’re a curse on this Earth. Stretched out over generations." When his brother was entombed, Elijah offered Elena a deal to hand Klaus back to him and in exchange no one will harm her. But after the loss of his brother, (Klaus) Elijah and Rebekah hugged for a few seconds. Then it is unknown if whether Elijah agreed that Elena had to die like Rebekah was.

Appearances
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Season 2

 * Rose


 * Katerina


 * The Sacrifice


 * By the Light of the Moon


 * Crying Wolf


 * The Dinner Party


 * The House Guest  (neutralized)


 * The Last Dance  (neutralized)


 * Klaus


 * The Last Day


 * The Sun Also Rises


 * As I Lay Dying

Season 3

 * Ordinary People  (flashback)


 * The Ties That Bind 


 * Bringing Out The Dead


 * Dangerous Liaisons


 * All My Children


 * The Departed

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Name

 * "Elijah " from the Hebrew אֱלִיָּהוּ (eliyyahu) meaning YAWEH is my God. It's the name of a Prophet who was carried to the heavens in a chariot of fire. It was a popular name during the middle ages.

Trivia

 * Elijah is the first Original to appear in Season 2 with Klaus being the second.


 * He is the first vampire shown compelling Elena and the first Original Vampire to be neutralized by Elena.


 * Elijah is the first vampire to be since he is an Original shown compelling other vampires (Slater and Katherine).


 * Elijah does not appear in the books, but his appearance seems to be modeled after the Klaus of the books.


 * Elijah presents himself to everyone under the guise of an historian by the name of Elijah Smith. This mirrors Damon in the novels when he presents himself to Elena's family as Damon Smith. However it is unknown if Elijah actually is a historian or not.


 * Elijah is absent for only three of the fifteen episodes between his first appearance (Rose) and his last appearance (As I Lay Dying) of Season 2.


 * Elijah and Rebekah are the only Originals who weren't hunted down by Klaus before being neutralized. Rebekah was neutralized by Klaus when she choose Stefan over him, and Elijah was neutralized because he tried to kill Klaus


 * Elijah, Rebekah, and Klaus are the only characters who have met the Original Petrova and her two Doppelgängers as humans.


 * Elijah is one of only three recurring characters to appear in more than 10 episodes during their inaugural season. The others being Anna, who appeared in eleven episodes during Season 1. And his sister Rebekah who appeared in seventeen episodes during Season 3.


 * Elijah was the first member of the Original Family to make their first appearance in a present day episode.


 * Elijah has been neutralized 4 times in season 2 and once in season 3. He has a total of 5 times:


 * 1) By Damon Salvatore in Rose


 * 1) By Alaric Saltzman in The Dinner Party


 * 1) By Elena Gilbert in The Dinner Party


 * 1) By Klaus in As I Lay Dying


 * 1) By Alaric Saltzman (via Kol) in All My Children 


 * Elijah and Alaric are the characters who have died most on the show. Elijah have died 5 times on the show and Alaric has died 8 times on the show. But now since Alaric is dead, Elijah can top that.


 * Since Elijah has been killed (neutralized) 5 times within a period of a few months, and is over 1000 years old, it is statistically quite possible he may have already been neutralized hundreds or thousands of times in the past. Though this has not been shown or confirmed.


 * Both Elijah and Rebekah has both been given an episode when they are just neutralized.


 * Just like Elijah was neutralized 4 times in season 2, so was Rebekah in season 3.


 * Elijah was called, in Bringing Out The Dead, by Damon his "favorite Original," stated with sarcasm.


 * Among of all the Originals. Elijah can be considered the most loyal and moral.


 * Elijah and his Half-Brother both loved The Original Petrova Doppelganger just like what the Salvatore brothers did for Katherine Pierce and now for Elena Gilbert.


 * Elijah is always seen wearing different suits on the show in almost every episodes he's on.


 * Elijah has met/interacted with every one of the main characters except for Tyler. But he did mentioned him when he died.


 * Elijah, Kol and Finn are the only vampires in show, who haven't shown their fangs and bloody red eyes. Also, all aforementioned vampires are originals.


 * He is the only one who fell in love with the three Petrova doppelgangers: Tatia Petrova, Katherine Pierce (Katerina Petrova) and Elena Gilbert. The others ones who fall in loves with them only fell in love with one or two of them.

Season Two

 * (To Rose) "Oh, when you called and invited me into this armpit of civilization......which is a mere three hours from the town we know as Mystic Falls......I surmised it had everything to do with Katerina." - Rose


 * (To Trevor) "Well, yes, you are the guilty one. And Rose aided you because she was loyal to you. That I honor. Where was your loyalty?" - Rose


 * (To Damon and Stefan) "Excuse me. To who may be concern, you’re making a great mistake if you think that you can beat me. You can’t." - Rose


 * (To Damon and Stefan) "I repeat, you cannot beat me. So I want the girl, I’m gonna count to 3 or heads will roll." - Rose


 * (To Katerina back in 1492) "She’s here. Katerina! I know you’re near, I can smell your blood. It’s pointless to run, Klaus will find you wherever you are." - Katerina


 * (To Slater) "Very nicely done. I’m a special vampire. Hmm, now I want you take this and drive it through your heart. (He gives him a stake. Slater takes it.) I know. (He’s compelling him) But it’s necessary. (Slater drives the stake through his heart. He falls on the floor, he’s dead. Jonas rejoins Elijah) It had to be done. He delivered his message. Won’t be long now." - Katerina


 * (To Jonas) "Your shadow spell was successful. I was able to track that girl. However I did have a little run in with one of the brothers that killed me. Actually I spared him. He’d die before he let anything happen to her, they both would. She’ll be kept safe. That’s precisely what we need her to be. Safe." - The Sacrifice


 * (To Jenna and Elena) "Hey, I'm Elijah. (He gets closer to Elena.) It's a pleasure. (They shake hands.) Or I can get someone to pick it up tomorrow. Thank you so much for inviting me into your home, Jenna and Elena...(He looks at her.) I hope to see you again sometime soon." - By the Light of the Moon


 * (To Elena) "If I wasn’t being trustful, your family would be dead and I’d be taking you to Klaus right now. Instead, I’m here and I’m preparing to offer you a deal." - By the Light of the Moon


 * (To Elena) "Do nothing. Do nothing, live your life, stop fighting and then, when the time is right, you and I should draw out Klaus together and I should make sure your friends remain unharmed. Then I kill him." - By the Light of the Moon


 * (To Elena) "I am a man of my word, Elena. I make a deal, I keep a deal." - By the Light of the Moon


 * (To Katherine) "Good evening, Katerina. Thank you for having the good sense to be frightened." - By the Light of the Moon


 * (To Katherine) "As for you, however, you shall not exit until i say so. When Klaus comes, he will want to know exactly where you are." - By the Light of the Moon


 * (To Damon) "You young vampires, you are so arrogant. How dare you come in here and challenge me?" - Crying Wolf


 * (To Damon) "I am an Original. Show a little respect. The moment you cease to be of use to me. You are dead......So you should do what I say. Keep Elena safe." - Crying Wolf


 * (To Damon) "So do you realize this is the third time i have saved your life now?" - Crying Wolf


 * (To Damon) "Just one moment. Can I just say that if you have anything less than honorable intentions about how this evening is going to proceed, I suggest you reconsider. Because, you know, although Elena and I have this deal, if you so much as make a move to cross me, I'll kill you and I'll kill everyone in this house. Are we clear?" - The Dinner Party


 * (To everyone at the Dinner Party) "Well, the lore says that there was this wave of anti-witch hysteria. It broke out in the neighboring settlement, so these witches were rounded up. They were tied to stakes in a field together and, uh, burned. Some say you could hear the screams from miles around us. They were consumed by the fire." - The Dinner Party


 * (To Damon) " It's quite a collection you have here. It's a funny thing about books. Before they existed, people actually had memories." - The Dinner Party


 * (To John and Damon) "Gentlemen, there's a few things we should probably get clear right now. I allow you to live solely to keep on eye on Elena. I allow Elena to remain in her house living her life with her friends as she does as a courtesy. If you become a liability, I'll take her away from you and you'll never see her again." - The Dinner Party


 * (To Elena) "Our whole family was. Our origin as vampires is a very long story, Elena. Just know... We're the oldest vampires in the world. We are the Original family, and from us all vampires were created." - Klaus


 * (To Elena) "I need some air. I'm still feeling a tad... dead." - Klaus


 * (To Elena) "I'm a little behind on the times, but I believe the term you're looking for is OMG." - Klaus


 * (To Elena) "Easiest way to discover the existence of a doppelganger or to get your hands on some long, lost moon stone is to have every single member of two warring species on the lookout." - Klaus


 * (To Elena) "So as you've seen, nothing can kill an Original. Not Sun, not fire, not even a werewolf bite. Only the wood from one tree. A tree my family made sure burned. Yes. The witches won't allow anything truly immortal to walk the earth. Every creature needs to have a weakness in order to maintain the balance." - Klaus


 * (To Elena) "My family was quite close, but Klaus and my father did not get on too well. When we became vampires, we discovered the truth. Klaus was not my father's son. My mother had been unfaithful many years before. This was her darkest secret. Klaus is from a different bloodline. Of course, when my father discovered this, he hunted down and he killed my mother's lover and his entire family. Not realizing, of course, that he was igniting a war between species that rages until this day." - Klaus


 * (To Elena) "He's both. A hybrid would be deadlier than any werewolf or vampire. Nature would not stand for such an imbalance of power. Therefore the witches, the servants of nature, saw to it that my brother's werewolf side would become dormant." - Klaus

(Elena and Stefan) "Tonight is the full Moon. We should assume that Klaus is prepared to break the curse. Klaus is a vampire born of a werewolf bloodline. The curse has kept his werewolf aspect from manifesting. But if he breaks it... He'll be a true hybrid." - The Last Day

(To Damon) "The problem, Damon, you talk a good game but you don't actually know anything. She'll never forgive you. And never for a vampire... It's a very long time." - The Last Day

(To Stefan) "Bonnie did the locator spell. They're at Steven’s quarry. Just as the moon hits its final phase. She's to stay hidden until then. He cannot know that she's alive. You're very honorable. I won't fail you." - The Sun Also Rises

(To Stefan) "Well, Klaus was not my only brother. I had siblings; Parents. I had a family. Over the centuries, Klaus hunted them down one by one and he took them from me. He scattered them across the seas where their bodies couldn't be found." - The Sun Also Rises

(To Klaus) "Hello brother. In the name of our family, Niklaus." - The Sun Also Rises

(To Klaus) "Yes, I've been cleaning up your little mess along the way. You've had your fun. I believe we have a bargain. You gave me your word Niklaus." - As I Lay Dying

(To Klaus) "You've been busy. Almost 2 days. Full moon came and went. You remained a wolf." - As I Lay Dying

(To Stefan) "You understand how important family is, or you wouldn't be here. My brother gave me his word that he would reunite me with my own." - As I Lay Dying

(Klaus to Elijah) "I suppose, brother. You have been "reunited" with our family." - As I Lay Dying

Season Three
(To Klaus back in the middle ages) "Oh look, our sister has arrived. Watch my fast approaching victory." - Ordinary People

(To Klaus) ''"So, Niklaus....What'd I miss?" - ''The Ties That Bind

(To Klaus) "You look surprised to see me, so it wasn't you that removed the dagger from my chest." (Elijah attacks him; Klaus flies through a window) - Bringing Out The Dead

(To Klaus) "What have you done? See, I've learned not to trust your vulgar promises, Klaus." - Bringing Out The Dead

(To Rebekah) "Leave. Are you challenging me?" - Dangerous Liaisons

(To Elena) "Well, her ability to forgive my brother after everything he's done to destroy this family strikes me as a little strange to say the least. It has me asking questions I never thought I'd ask. Can I depend on you to tell me what she says?" - Dangerous Liaisons

(To Elena) "And for what reason did she need to speak to you in private? Elena. Should I be concerned about my mother's intentions?" - Dangerous Liaisons

<p style="margin-left: 24px">(To Elena) "You know, one thing I’ve learned on my time on this Earth… be careful what you wish for." (Elijah breaks a hole into the Earth, grabs Elena, and jumps down the hole with her.) - All My Children

<p style="margin-left: 24px">(To Rebekah) "My talk of virtue. When it suits my needs, I kill, maim, and torment. Even today, I terrorized an innocent. I used your hatred of her to get what I wanted. Wielded you like I would a sword. My sister." - All My Children

<p style="margin-left: 24px">(To Rebekah) "Mother made us vampires. She didn’t make us monsters, we did that to ourselves." (Elijah leaves.) - All My Children

<p style="margin-left: 24px">(To Elena) "I give you my word, Elena. I will not revive Klaus within yours nor even within your children’s lifetimes. Perhaps that will finally teach him some manners." - The Departed

<p style="margin-left: 24px">(To Matt) "And for that, I am deeply ashamed. But know this, she could have been dead the instant I walked through that door tonight. So Elena, I leave it to you to make the decision whether to trust me or not." - The Departed