High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Original Vampires, known as "The Originals", are the world`s first and most dangerous vampires in the fictional universe of The Vampire Diaries. They were created through an occult blood ritual performed by their powerful witch mother, Esther. She turned her husband, Mikael, and her five children, (Finn, Elijah, Niklaus, Rebekah, and Kol) into vampires in the ancient times, in order to protect them from werewolves.