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Either way, Silas took advantage of Shane's grief and got him to orchestrate heinous acts. Silas wanted to take the cure so that he could die a mortal death and be with Amara, whom he presumed was dead. Elena, in anger, had stuffed the cure down Katherine's throat, making Katherine mortal. Silas began to viciously hunt Katherine , who unfortunately is used to being hunted. However, this time she wasn't able to escape because she trusted Damon when he called her to come urgently.

When she did, he fed her to Silas even after she begged him, "He needs all my blood. It'll kill me. Damon, please. I don't want to die. Silas drained Katherine with Damon's help, of course. Katherine hung on, still, and didn't die immediately, but being drained of the cure accelerated her aging process and natural death.

Finally, Silas reveals his true form to Stefan, and then Stefan realizes that he is part of the doppelganger legacy. Silas's true face is Stefan's. Silas reveals to Stefan that the universe had to be in balance with the immortal Silas and Amara, and thus created doppelgangers i. Stefan, Elena, Katherine, etc. Then after receiving all of this information, Silas locks Stefan in a safe where Stefan drowns, dies, and then wakes up again just to repeat the cycle for months.

Had he not been found, he could have been like that for decades. Qetsiyah and Silas had both been powerful witches set to get married. Qetsiyah loved Silas and considered him her soul mate. Silas cheated on her with Amara, her handmaiden.

That alone doesn't make this the worst thing that he did. While true that Qetsiyah was crazy in love with the emphasis on crazy, Silas manipulated her by using her love for him to get him what he really wanted--an eternity with her friend, Amara.

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Qetsiyah ended up creating the spell of immortality out of love for him, believing that Silas loved her as well and had intended to share the gift of immortality with her when they were to be married. However, this was not Silas' true intention. Although Qetsiyah was deeply more like obsessively in love with Silas, Silas did not reciprocate her love and affections. Silas, instead, was deeply in love with another young woman; a beautiful young woman named Amara who would become the oldest known ancestor of the Petrova family or bloodline.

Silas and Amara's love was so powerful that they both desired to spend an eternity together as immortal beings. Sadly for Silas and Amara, their love was strongly forbidden as Amara was the personal handmaiden to Qetsiyah and Silas was engaged to be married to Qetsiyah.

There was also the issue of social statuses that posed a problem for Silas and Amara being together. Silas was a powerful witch who was born into a wealthy, noble and rich family, while Amara was a normal human who was born into a poor, downtrodden family. Silas' engagement and marriage to Qetsiyah was seen to be normal within their society as both Silas and Qetsiyah were powerful witches, belonged to the same group of powerful witches The Travelers and were both born into wealth and nobility.

Therefore, Silas and Amara's love affair was kept secret between the two of them, out of fear of shame from society. Qetsiyah was unaware that he had no intention of spending eternity with her while she created the spell, blinded by Silas and her love for him.

Unfortunately for Silas, he was trapped in a situation with Qestiyah, to whom he was engaged. The immortality spell elixir in which Qetsiyah had created was to be consumed by both Silas and Qetsiyah on their wedding ceremony. As Qetsiyah was waiting for Silas to join her at the altar so that they could share their gift of immortality together, everything around Qetsiyah started to die, which indicated that Silas had betrayed her and that he was drinking the immortality elixir somewhere else.

It was at this time that Silas and Amara had consumed the immortality elixir and had become the world's very first immortal beings but this wasn't the worst of Silas' betrayal for Qetsiyah. Qetsiyah then tracked Silas down and discovered Silas and Amara, her own handmaiden, together.

Qetsiyah was strongly enraged and deeply hurt when she discovered that Silas had loved Amara and not her and wanted to spend an eternity with Amara instead of her.

Out of revenge, Qetsiyah created a Cure for Immortality, found Amara, petrified her and faked her death. Qetsiyah had faked Amara's death by saying that she had slit her throat and cut out her heart, as Qetsiyah had shown Silas holding a human heart in her hands it's presumed that Qetisyah might have murdered another innocent human in her plan to fake Amara's death. Silas discovered what Qetsiyah had "done" and was completely devastated, changing the life and the fate of the young witch forever.

Qetsiyah gave Silas an ultimatum after Silas had found out that Amara had "died": to surrender to her, give up his immortality and take the cure so that he would become a mortal witch again, with the intention that he spend the rest of his mortal life with Qetsiyah instead.

Silas refused to adhere to Qetsiyah's wishes, so she incapacitated him with the use of her magic. Qetsiyah then lured and imprisoned Silas with the cure for immortality on a desolate Island deep in an underground cave. Silas had two choices: take the cure, die a mortal death and eventually become a witch again and be with Qetsiyah for eternity on The Other Side or rot, starve and desiccate to fossilization as an immortal in darkness for eternity.

However, Silas, being the brilliant and intelligent person he is, knew that this was her intention and therefore, he chose to desiccate and starve in darkness forever instead, both out of love and loyalty to Amara and out of spite, anger and revenge against Qetsiyah.

For two millenniums, Silas had lain buried, awaiting the day when someone would find him and free him from his tomb.

Centuries later, a group of miners created a well above Silas' tomb. This allowed them to experience a mysterious "magic" that came from below that allowed them to see their lost loved ones. However, it required them to sacrifice blood. They were all found bled out this means they may have sacrificed too much blood to maintain their reunions with their loved ones and died. A group of college kids had come to the island for spring break.

A few weeks later, they were all found dead and drained of their blood they were more than likely sacrificed by someone to feed Silas. In , Atticus Shane ventured to the island to locate the well. Shane spilled his blood in order to see his wife Caitlin again. He was then told what is needed in order to raise Silas, who could in turn revive her and his son, Sam.

In We All Go a Little Mad Sometimes , Professor Shane tells his students the story of the world's very first immortal, Silas, and his extremely tragic fate, as well as a legend that mentions his return.

His tombstone is donated to Whitmore College , but it is unknown who donated it. It is thought to be the world's first tombstone. He also lies by telling her that Silas had created a Cure for immortality before he was imprisoned by Qetsiyah , and that he took the Cure with him; the Cure was actually created by Qetsiyah.

To get the Cure, they must complete the map of the Hunter's Mark , which will also reveal a spell to enter Silas' tomb, where Silas and the Cure were hidden. He explains, " Silas will revive those who are sacrificed to bring him back.

Kol is struck with fear and starts rambling to Rebekah on how Silas will kill them all and states that Silas would bring hell on earth. Kol then decides to kill Shane to make sure Silas cannot be unearthed, unaware that Bonnie cast a spell to protect Shane.

They had revealed to him a prophecy in which Silas' return would result in "the end of all time. He reveals he has traveled with many witches in his lifetime. The witches he met and traveled with in the 14th and 17th century knew about Silas. The witches he knew in 's New Orleans also did. All of them told him about the destruction Silas will bring if freed.

This leads to Kol shooting down Elena 's attempts to refute Silas' existence or power. This fear also leads to Kol betraying their truce by attempting to chop off Jeremy 's arms so that the map on the Hunter's Mark will never be completed; which leads to his death at Jeremy's hands, with Elena's assistance.

She states that according to Shane , Silas asked Qetsiyah for help in a spell for immortality. When she found out Silas' plan to give immortality to another woman , she buried him, knowing that she couldn't kill him. Silas refused to give Qetsiyah the satisfaction of winning, so he stayed buried, not taking the Cure.

The Five were created to kill vampires and find Silas. Once the members of The Five were to find Silas, they were to wake him, force him to take the Cure, and kill him. At the end of the episode, Shane had everything he needed and was on his way to freeing Silas. Bonnie cuts herself on the way down, and her blood drips down the hole onto Silas.

When Bonnie does the spell, the floor partially caves in, pinning down Shane, which breaks his leg, and opening the tomb. Bonnie goes in with a plan to get the Cure , and leave Silas where he is, but he creates an illusion of Grams using a connection from the blood she dripped on him. Grams tries to convince her to free Silas. Jeremy tells Bonnie that if her Grams were there he would be able to see her, and that Silas is messing with her mind.

Bonnie realizes this is how Silas was able to control Shane with visions of his dead wife, Caitlin Shane. Bonnie and Jeremy reach Silas, and quickly realize he is fossilized with the Cure in his hands.

Bonnie tells Jeremy that in order to get the Cure, they must feed him blood. They are attacked by Vaughn , who stabs Bonnie , and tries to force Jeremy to feed Silas.

Katherine pretending to be Elena comes to his rescue and knocks Vaughn out, but instead of helping Bonnie, Katherine uses Jeremy to feed Silas. When Silas begins to move his arms, he grabs Jeremy's neck, taking his hands off of the box with the Cure, which allows Katherine to grab it and get away. Bonnie lays motionless on the ground, watching Jeremy be fed on when Silas snaps his neck. In Stand By Me , Silas had removed his mask, and using some unknown abilities, took the form of Shane as he left his tomb.

He also took Bonnie with him, healing her while creating an illusion that makes him appear to be Shane. He explained that everyone Shane had sacrificed would be brought back, but when Bonnie still didn't want to go along with his plan, Silas told her that Jeremy was drained of blood and killed.

Bonnie, emotionally shattered by the news, started to lose control of her magic and Silas used this moment of vulnerability to tell her that she can bring Jeremy back. He explained that she needed to help Silas because when Silas became an immortal, he lost his ability to do magic. He continued to say that the only reason Shane had been teaching Bonnie expression was so she could do Silas' work for him, since he was no longer a witch. He explained how Shane had completed the first two points of the Expression Triangle by orchestrating the death of 12 Town Council member's at Pastor Young's farm and the death of 12 hybrids in the underground tunnels below the old Lockwood Estate, and explained that there was still one more massacre left to complete the triangle.

He justified the massacres by assuring her that the humans used would find peace and that the supernatural creatures used would be brought back. Bonnie still refused to help him, but Silas used her grief over Jeremy and her Grams against her, creating a vision of Jeremy asking for help. This gave Silas the power he needed over her to do his bidding. Silas, sent Bonnie to Damon so she could be taken back home, where Bonnie told her friends of what "Shane" told her.

She explained to her grief-stricken friends that to get Jeremy back she will have to complete the Expression Triangle , which had already begun to form thanks to Shane's earlier orchestrated massacres. Bonnie had learned from Silas that Qetsiyah had created The Other Side so if he did take the Cure and die of old age while buried, he would be trapped in that supernatural purgatory.

This is what caused him to create his plan to be awoken; he wanted Bonnie a descendant of Qetsiyah to use the power of the Expression Triangle to destroy the veil separating the living world from the Other Side, which would bring back every dead supernatural being, and make the Other Side nonexistent. Then, he wanted to take the Cure and die so that he could be reunited with the woman he loved. Bonnie, who wanted to bring back Jeremy and Grams, tried to convince her friends to get on board by telling them that their dead supernatural friends and family could come back too, and that they just had to finish the triangle by killing 12 more people.

The group was shocked that Bonnie was willing to kill 12 people to bring back their loved ones, which would also bring back all of their dead enemies who were vampires, witches, werewolves, and hybrids. Silas, still posing as Shane , appeared when Bonnie returned home and asked her if she told her friends.

When she told him of their unwillingness to help, he told her that they were just afraid. Meanwhile, on the island, Rebekah came across the real Shane, who she believed to be dead until he grabbed her and frantically muttered one word: "Silas. In Bring It On , it was discovered that Silas had been taking entire blood bank stocks of blood from several hospitals in order to sate his hunger, having been desiccated and deprived of blood for 2, years.

It is this discovery that causes Stefan to realize that Silas followed them back from the Island where they found him, and that he is in the Mystic Falls area. In Because the Night , Silas continued to try and harness Bonnie 's expression.

He had revealed to her that he was not really Shane , and she questioned why he wouldn't reveal his true form. Wanting to continue the charade of being Shane, Silas used his guise to convince Bonnie's father that she must continue her lessons with him in order to help her control her magic.

He explained to Bonnie that the final part of the Expression Triangle they were forming required killing twelve witches. He told her that the witches would all link themselves together in an attempt to remove the expression from her being; he emphasized that she endure them until they were all linked, and once they did, she was to overpower them and kill them.

His plan didn't go perfectly, however, due to interference from Caroline Forbes , who saw that Aja , the witch who was cleansing Bonnie, was about to kill her after learning of her involvement with Silas, and Caroline quickly stabs her, causing all twelve witches to die in succession.

After the triangle was completed, Silas confronted Klaus , now only needing the Cure to complete his plans. Klaus refused to give up its location the Cure was in Katherine 's possession; her plan was to use it to buy her freedom from Klaus, and Silas threatened the hybrid , telling him to bring him the Cure. Klaus tried to attack him but Silas caught him off guard, stabbing the stake into his back, just below his heart.

Silas snapped the tip of the stake off, leaving it embedded in Klaus' back before reminding him to bring him the cure and leaving the scene.

Later, it was revealed that Silas had not actually staked Klaus, but it was in fact an illusion in his mind that was so powerful it took Klaus' focusing solely on his anger and frustration toward Caroline in order to overcome it. In Pictures of You , Silas appeared in Stefan 's, Damon 's, Jeremy 's and in Rebekah 's form, all in a ploy to get Bonnie on his side and get to maneuver his obstacles out of the way as he tries to secure the Cure from Elijah. He succeeds, in getting the cure, but fails to get Bonnie on his side.

Silas tries to convince her that they should work together, But Bonnie gets angry and makes him get out of her head. Silas is then later confronted by an empowered Bonnie , who has embraced her magical powers and become confident in her abilities.

At the end, a part of his face can be seen, looking scarred and disfigured. He explains that it is a punishment from Qetsiyah , which he referred to as "Qetsiyah's revenge"--if she couldn't have him, she didn't want anyone to be able to love him either. In She's Come Undone , Silas appears as Klaus to torment Caroline in order to find Bonnie , who is hiding from him while trying to come up with her own plan. When Caroline confesses she doesn't know where she is, Silas still as Klaus plants an illusion in her mind that he staked her in the heart.

Then when Caroline wakes up, he appears as Matt and Klaus and then his monstrous form in the mirror of her car, while threatening to kill her mother if she doesn't help him find Bonnie.

When Bonnie arrives at Caroline's house, she sees Silas posing as Sheriff Forbes and then returns to his disfigured form. Caroline runs to find her mother injured by Silas, and he warns Bonnie not to break her promise to destroy The Other Side. He tells her that her promise is binding and she must answer to him if she breaks it.

He then tells her not to hide from him again. In The Walking Dead , Silas realizes what Bonnie is planning to do, and causes Caroline to hallucinate that she must cut herself over and over. He takes Caroline's form in order to find her, pretending to be Caroline to Stefan as well until he can get Bonnie alone.

When he does, he taunts her by revealing that she never gained the ability to force him out of her head. He's been manipulating her the whole time, including making her believe that he was a deformed monster. He tells her that Qetsiyah will never come to help her put him down, and that she either has the choice of destroying the veil, and allowing the supernatural dead to walk the earth, or have Silas walking the earth.

He then causes Bonnie to believe that she was suffocating from lack of oxygen, before going to Damon in the form of Alaric in order to get Damon to convince her to help. However, Damon's knowledge of the tunnel routes allows him to realize it was Silas.

He attacks Silas, and holds him in chains, with Bonnie coming to attack him before he could react. Bonnie then used Expression to petrify him. Stefan and Damon then planned to dump his body in the ocean, and Alaric helps Damon put Silas' body into the trunk of his car and hands Damon the Cure from Silas' pocket.

In Graduation , it's revealed that Silas was freed from his stone encasement when Bonnie died, after she closed the veil along with her ghost. Silas shows his true form, which is exactly the same as Stefan's. Silas stabs Stefan and asks him if he knows what it feels like to be starved for 2, years before locking Stefan in a safe and dumping him at the bottom of the quarry. Over the course of the summer, Silas drank vast amounts of blood, drinking from the people of Mystic Falls casually before wiping their memories that he was ever even there.

Later, he continued moving around freely in his true form, tricking Damon into believing he was Stefan and reading Damon's thoughts to find the location of Katherine Pierce until he touched Jeremy , whose remnants of the Hunter's Mark could sense that it was Silas. He left, going to the Salvatore house where a now cured Katherine was taking a bath.

He initially pretended to be Stefan until he let slip who he was. She fled, getting Jeremy and Damon to help her escape. Silas spoke with Damon, bringing up the fact that Stefan was missing and telling him that he'd only bring him to Stefan's location if he got Jeremy to bring Katherine back.

Damon called Jeremy, deciding to comply with Silas' demands but Katherine escaped Jeremy, much to Silas' annoyance. He then went to the gathering in the town square where Rudy Hopkins was giving a speech. At that moment, Silas decided to reveal himself, explaining to the town that he had gained a lot of strength through his blood-letting in the summer and though he was once limited to only getting into one person's head at a time, he could now control a whole town square.

He psychically commanded them all to stay where they were as he viciously slit Mayor Hopkins' throat in front of the town and Bonnie 's ghost, completing his vow that Bonnie would suffer for breaking her promise to drop the veil to the Other Side, before ordering them all to find Katherine for him. In True Lies , while those he mind controlled hunted Katherine, Silas found Elena at Whitmore College using his abilities to convince her that he was Stefan.

When he got a message from one of his mind controlled slaves that Katherine had been spotted on Route 9, he asked Elena, under the pretense of looking for Jeremy who was with Katherine, where they would be going.

Elena told him about an old campground their family used to go to and Silas left, implanting a psychic command in Elena to kill Damon before he left. Arriving at the campground, he confronted Matt Donovan but discovered his abilities didn't work on him, and when he pried into Matt's mind saw that a group he was familiar with, The Travelers , had already manipulated Matt's mind to see through and spy on Silas.

Annoyed by the inconvenience, he snapped Matt's neck, killing him. Jeremy found Matt's body and Silas, who had figured out that the Gilbert Ring must be what could bring Matt back to life.

Jeremy, mustering all his courage, stood up to Silas, telling him that because he was a member of The Five , none of Silas' psychic abilities worked on him either, and that he knew that Silas wasn't as strong or fast as a vampire. Picking up a hatchet, Jeremy attacked him and the two fought rather evenly for a moment until Jeremy got the upper hand.

Silas admitted that he wasn't quite as strong as Jeremy but his immortality did give him an edge, skewering himself while Jeremy was grappled to his back, impaling Jeremy as well.

Silas was then struck by shotgun rounds from Katherine, immobilizing him long enough for Jeremy, Matt, and Katherine to escape. Silas made his way to a local store, commanding the clerk to cut his wrist and bleed into a cup so Silas could drink his blood and recharge his energy.

At that moment, he was approached by the Travelers who intended to incapacitate and re-imprison him as their history dictated they should. One of them, Nadia , killed the other, saying that she had her own agenda and needed Silas free. In The Vampire Diaries season 5, Silas goes after Katherine whose blood now contains the immortality cure. After feeding on her and becoming a mortal witch once more, Silas sets out to destroy the anchor but soon finds out the anchor is none other than Amara, who he thought to be dead.

Unfortunately for Silas, spending a couple of millennia as the anchor had sent Amara a bit crazy and she immediately fed on his cure-filled blood so she could also become mortal and die.

By the end of The Vampire Diaries season 5, Silas gets his wish of dying alongside Amara after Stefan fatally stabs him and Amara then kills herself.