This sexy and spellbinding new series centers on the Original vampire family and the dangerous vampire/werewolf hybrid, Niklaus "Klaus" Mikaelson, who, along with his siblings Elijah and Rebekah, helped build New Orleans' French Quarter, only to be exiled a century a go,. But a coven of witches desperate to reclaim their power lures the Mikaelsons back to their ancestral home, where the charismatic and diabolical vampire Marcel-Klaus's former protege-rules with his vampire army.