Timeline

This page contains the Timeline which displays all events that happened on The Vampire Diaries, The Originals and Legacies in chronological order. This includes events affecting characters found in Flashbacks and Flashforwards that have already come to pass.

22nd Century B.C.

 * Several decades prior to 2200 B.C., Arcadius, the world's first psychic, was born in the Mediterranean region.


 * Around 2200 B.C., Arcadius accidentally used his psychic gift to read the mind of a powerful village leader and learned his impure thoughts for very young girls, a revelation that caused the leader and the rest of the village to turn against him. Upon being bound and burned at the stake, Arcadius, in excruciating physical pain from the flames and emotionally distressed by the villagers betraying him, inadvertently unleashed a blast of psychic energy moments prior to his death that was so powerful, it created a new dimension called Hell.
 * After Arcadius created Hell, he began bringing in the spirits of those who had committed heinous sins in their lives, feasting on and tormenting their souls for eternity. This cycle would continue for another thousand years or so, when the Traveler witch Qetsiyah created her own afterlife dimension, which was a purgatory that trapped the souls of supernatural creatures. In most, but not all cases, this prevented anyone who was supernatural from finding peace or going to Hell until the Other Side's destruction in the 21st century.
 * Some time after Arcadius' death, his enemies forged a weapon known as the Staff of Arcadius. This weapon has the ability to disrupt a psychic's powers and inflicts them with an extremely painful headache.

8th Century B.C.

 * Seline, a powerful young psychic, was exiled to an island when villagers discovered her supernatural identity. Shortly afterward, another young psychic, Sybil, met the same fate, ending up on the same island and befriending Seline. The two then became so close that they referred to each other as "sisters" due to being the only family they had.
 * Due to their new home being scarce in resources, Seline showed her how to use her psychic abilities to both amplify each other's power level while also attracting ships in order to be rescued. However, when the first ship crashed into the jagged rocks on the coast, everyone on the ship perished, and Sybil vowed never to use her powers in that way again, believing that if they couldn't live on what "God" provided, then they didn't deserve to live at all. Seline, who had secretly become a cannibal in order to survive on the island, raided the ships for needed items and passed off the flesh of the dead sailors as being animal meat, deceiving Sybil while converting her to a cannibalistic diet.
 * 750 B.C.
 * When Sybil learned that she had been feeding on the flesh of innocent men all of her life, she became so distraught that she attempted to commit suicide by jumping off a cliff. When Seline found her dying in the forest, she prayed to "God" to save her, only for the spirit of Arcadius, a deceased psychic and ruler of Hell, to approach them instead. Seline, recognizing Cade by the stories they had heard about him, begged him to save Sybil's life at any cost. Cade ultimately agreed to given the sisters eternal life and youth, on the condition that they feed on the flesh of evildoers who were sent to hell upon death while bringing him their souls for eternal punishment.