Rayna Mikaelson

Rayna Iliya  Mikaelson is a main character on Legacies, a former major recurring character on the eighth season of The Vampire Diaries and on The Originals before being promoted to a main character in the fifth season. Rayna is the tribrid daughter of Niklaus Mikaelson and Katherine Pierce. She is the granddaughter of Ansel Alden, Esther Mikaelson, Teodosi Petrov, and Veselina Nikolova, as well as the step-granddaughter of Mikael. She is also a distant relative of Lana, Eve, and Cary. She is the paternal younger half-sister of Hope, Miranda, and Grayson Mikaelson and the maternal half sister of Nadia Petrova; as well as the adoptive sister of Marcel Gerard via her father.

She was named Rayna by her father, who took inspiration from his reign as the King of New Orleans and that his daughter would grow up a Queen. Her middle name is Iliya after Elijah — since Iliya is the feminine Bulgarian of Elijah — and she takes the surname of her father's side.

Rayna was conceived in The Vampire Diaries season four episode A Night Well Spent, and it was revealed that Katherine was pregnant in the premier episode The Originals. She was then born in The Originals season one episode From a Cradle to a Grave. As a result of her nearly-unique heritage, she is the world's third vampire-werewolf-witch hybrid. She inherited the werewolf gene from her father as well as the witch gene from both of her parents, while her vampire legacy came from her father who is the Original vampire-werewolf hybrid and the son of the Original Witch. Through her mother's Redfern lineage, Rayna is witch royalty.

In From a Cradle to a Grave, Rayna along with Grayson and Hope were sent away to be raised by Rebekah and Nadia, in order to protect them from their father's enemies: the Guerrera Wolves, Esther, and Dahlia. Her death was faked to protect her. However, in season two's The Brothers That Care Forgot, Esther had found Rebekah whilst she is with Nadia, Hope, Grayson, and Rayna at the park, this is signified by the presence of starlings. At the end of the second season, Rayna is living with Katherine and the Mikaelson's in the Abattoir, and by the end of the third season, she is living with Hayley, Elena, Miranda, and Hope on the road. By the fourth season, she lives with Katherine and the Mikaelson Family at the Abattoir.

After having the Hollow's spirit separated into four members of her family, she and Katherine leave for Mystic Falls. She becomes a student at the boarding school and as time goes by, she and Hope become determined to see their father again, despite the consequences that could ensue.

Rayna is a member of the Mikaelson Family, the Petrova Family, and the Alden Family. Rayna is by birthright a member of the North East Atlantic Pack as well as the ruling witch coven of all witch coven, the Eternity Coven, which Rayna's parents' families were born into. She is also a member of the Gyldenløve Family, a bloodline of powerful witches, and is one of the four children to be fathered by the Original Hybrid.

Season Four
In A Night Well Spent, Niklaus Mikaelson and Katherine Pierce slept together and conceived a daughter.

Season Five
In The Originals, the witch Sophie Deveraux revealed that Katherine alongside Elena and Hayley were, in fact, pregnant with Klaus' children. She revealed that the babies are one of Nature's "loopholes". She later revealed that it was because of Klaus' werewolf side that Hope, Miranda, and Rayna were conceived. Sophie then demands that Klaus help her or she will kill the babies, Hayley, Elena, and Katherine.

Klaus initially had no interest with having anything to do with the children, even telling to the witches that they made a mistake if they thought they could get to him by using Hayley, Elena, Katherine, and their children as leverage. But after words of consideration from Elijah Mikaelson, and an exchange from Camille O'Connell, he later changed his mind. When Elijah asked him about Hayley, Elena, Katherine, and their unborn children, Klaus replied to him that "every king needs heirs."

Season One
In Always and Forever, Elijah tells Sophie that he believes these children will be a way for Klaus to finally be happy. Sophie is glad he feels that way, as she blackmails him. If he gets Klaus to co-operate with their demands, since Marcel Gerard already drove the werewolves from the French Quarter, nobody will have to know of the existence of three hybrid babies. In a later phone conversation with Rebekah Mikaelson, Elijah swears he will not let anything happen to the babies.

Name Edit

 * Rayna comes from the feminine Bulgarian name Райна, which is the equivalent of the Latin name Regina, which means "Queen".
 * Iliya is a feminine name of Bulgarian origin and variant of the name Elijah, which means "My God is Yahweh".  Her middle name is in honor of her uncle, Elijah Mikaelson, who also happens to be her step father.
 * Mikaelson is of Scandinavian origin and means "Son of Mikael".
 * If Rayna was truly to follow Norse traditions, then her surname should technically be Niklaussdottir (daughter of Niklaus) opposed to Mikaelson (son of Mikael).