Of Secrets, Scales and Stolen things parents moodboards.
The collection of Esther's and Mikael's other lovers and the other parents of the Mikaelsons siblings.
He only wanted to continue his bloodline and had no interest in a child, he picked Esther and Mikael both because they were strong; a witch and warrior, prefect protection to raise and having watched them with Freya he believed they would treasure the child.
He never found out he was wrong.
Fae siblings, Elijah's third Parent, the lord of his court and Elijah's aunt, banished to watch over him, the worse babysitter turn his biggest fan.
Rowan used a glamour to appear as a warrior to impress Mikael, and charm him into inviting him home, Esther worked out he was more than he seemed and agreed to his terms behind Mikael's back.
They would have a child, the three of them and when that child turned 30 Rowan would claim them. He planned to use the child to empower his court as after years in the human world it would have absorbed much energy of the human world and by 30 the amount it could would lessen. Esther turning Elijah at 24, froze him at that age leaving him unknowingly to continue to absorb the energy, making Rowan's plan work much better than he ever intended, as while he was delayed from claiming the power the very promise of it was power enough among the courts.
AshFlower attempted a coup against her brother because she was bored, she found watching his get even more boring and tried to end her banishment early by leading the toddler to his death, she was thwarted by the baby dragon. It wasn't until her nephew's love died under his teeth that she found anything interesting in the boy.
Frankly she believes he should murder more of those he loves, and has been whispering such in his ears ever since.
Not that he can hear her but she likes to pretend she's part of his blood lust
Werewolf, Klaus' blood father.
The first of the other parents beside Mikael that Esther loved and the first Mikael is unaware of. He was her comfort and escape from the loss of Freya.
A Harpy and Nature Spirit, Kol's other mothers.
Aello in her youth had watched Qestiyah's wrath and following it attached herself to the blood line to watch them out of interest, this led to the 'new world' following Ayana, where she met a nature spirit and upon falling for her named her Callirhoe.
They noticed Esther's loneliness and longing to return to Ansel while Mikael was away and approached her.
Kol was a deal at first, a trade.
They gave her what Esther needed to bind Finn's growing dragon half and she would carry a child for them, since neither could themselves, however as she held the baby, she found she couldn't part from him.
She broke the deal and used magic to bind Kol's other halves, leaving him only a witch and cast another to keep them away from him.
Kol's additional talent and feelings of a connection to nature came from his Callirhoe's sibling spirits reaching for him to make up for her inability to.
Aello vanished at some point during the centuries following Kol's turning but Callirhoe remained, watching their baby was a distance.
She left the ocean to die, to wander into the land that was cut off from her for a long life at last but during her last journey she found a curiosity, a woman with a clutch of children each half to the land as her.
Fascinated by the woman-witch, Vesna settle down to stay for the story and fond herself enjoying the stay. however when she found herself growing regret full of her future end, she forced herself to leave.
Leaving behind a little something for Esther to remember her by.
Caoilte had no idea he could have children being an herald of death.
He only finds out when he hears the scream of death that could only have come from him, half the land away.
