All 5 Doppelgängers In The Vampire Diaries Explained

The Vampire Diaries doppelgängers and their connection to the supernatural world took five seasons to unravel. After Elena Gilbert fell in love with Stefan Salvatore during season 1, she discovered she bore an uncanny resemblance to his ex: a 500-year-old vampire named Katherine Pierce, aka “Katerina Petrova.” Elena searched for answers that weren’t forthcoming but later seasons provided more of what she and viewers were looking for. In the First Century BCE, there existed powerful witches known as Travelers. The two most powerful of these Travelers were Silas and Qetsiyah who wanted their love to be eternal, so they concocted an elixir that would make them immortal.