The conception of a living Tribrid, a loophole of nature.
Loopholes are understandable ways for Nature to balance out the existence or the excess of magical creations. This is especially true with regards to immortality, as Nature has always decreed that all living things must die. They can also be natural occurrences created by Nature to serve as balance to the existence of something that goes against its laws. For example, the majority of the Mikaelson Family were turned into undead vampires, which went against the will of Nature; in order to balance this unnatural creation, it needed to have a weakness, and so Nature created one way for the source of the Original vampires' immortality, power, and continued existence to be used against them by taking it away. Another example of magical loopholes is the law that powerful, long-lasting spells must be bound to something that possesses similar or equal power and longevity. An example of this was the Other Side, a purgatory dimension for supernatural creatures that existed for over two thousand years. Qetsiyah bound the spell to Amara, the first immortal woman.
Throughout The Vampire Diaries Series[]
Season Two[]
In Rose, Elena learns that she's a Petrova doppelgänger and the key to breaking Klaus' curse. Rose also tells her that Katerina Petrova is the first.
Season Four[]
In Graduation, Silas explained to Stefan how spells are bound by Nature. Since Nature demands balance, every spell has a loophole. The spell that turned Silas into stone was bound by Bonnie with Expression—a living witch. When she died, the spell broke.
Season Five[]
In Original Sin, Qetsiyah explains to Stefan Salvatore that when Silas and Amara drank the immortality elixir, they violated the natural law that all living things must die. Nature found a balance by creating mortal shadow selves—doppelgängers—a ripple effect that persisted for 2,000 years.
In Man on Fire, Markos explains to Sloan that in the prophecy that the blood of the final two doppelgängers will undo witch magic. He demonstrates this by turning Sloan into a vampire. Preparing a chalice, Elena and Stefan's blood, and the proper spell, he successfully reverses Sloan's vampirism, which ultimately kills her. The spell, at large, can be used to remove their curse, as well as any impure magic.
In Promised Land, the Travelers successfully performed the spell, which broke their curse and allowed them to no longer rely on Traveler Magic to survive, as they were once again able to tap into the earth's magic after millennia of being mystically barred from doing so. However, even despite the fact that the spell was halted when Stefan was killed (albeit temporarily), its effects still managed to cover the entirety of Mystic Falls, forcing werewolves, witches, and Brotherhood of the Five hunters to relinquish their supernatural abilities upon walking across its borders. Vampires and hybrids were unable to cross the borders at all without risking being stripped of their vampirism and returning to the state they were in prior to being transformed - a corpse. However, this magic purification spell was eventually broken, allowing the return of the supernatural population to Mystic Falls.
Season Six[]
In I Never Could Love Like That, Josette Laughlin revealed that there was a loophole that allowed certain witches to keep their ability to practice magic after becoming a vampire due to their unique ability to siphon. These witches do not possess their own magic and instead can only practice witchcraft by siphoning magic from another source.
Season Seven[]
In One Way or Another, Ambrose claims that he can easily jump into the body of a transitioning vampire with help from a witch who can perform the soul-swap. This is due to his soul being trapped in the Phoenix Stone during its destruction and Rayna having burned his original body. Valerie performs the spell so that Stefan can regain his body, while Ambrose's soul is transferred into the corpse of Marty Hammond as it completely deteriorated.
Throughout The Originals Series[]
Season One[]
In Always and Forever, Sophie Deveraux explained that Hope Mikaelson's conception was one of Nature's loopholes. While Klaus believed her to be lying because vampires cannot procreate, she explained that it's because werewolves can. Magic had made him into vampire, but he was born a werewolf.
In Bloodletting, Hope continues to exploit loopholes as her blood, like her father, can create other werewolf-vampire hybrids by feeding them her blood before their transition and upon after they wake up to complete the transition.
Season Three[]
In A Ghost Along the Mississippi, Klaus, Camille, and Vincent exploit a loophole of the Serratura. The activation and use of the Serratura creates an impenetrable barrier, one that cannot be penetrated by anything living or dead. Due to the fact that a vampire in transition is neither dead or alive, they are able to void the barrier and pass freely through it.
Season Five[]
In There in the Disappearing Light, Vincent is able to exploit a loophole in the fact that Ivy is neither alive or dead, and as such, is able to access the Ancestral Plane. Vincent shows Ivy that the Ancestral Plane is not what they once thought it was and that in death, she will know no peace. Armed with this knowledge, Vincent and the other members of the New Orleans witch community severe the connection between the living and the Ancestors, effectively ending Ancestral Magic in New Orleans.
Throughout Legacies Series[]
In There's Always a Loophole, Hope Mikaelson learns that she was created as the loophole behind Malivore's creation. Hope realized that since the blood of a witch, werewolf and vampire created Malivore, only the combined blood of the three could kill him. This explains why Hope was able to remember the beings thrown into Malivore and why the bullet fashioned from his body did not harm her and her blood cured those that was struck with it.
Trivia[]
- Loopholes only occur when something should not happen in Nature, such as immortality. Witch laws state that everything should die.
- At first glance, it would seem that this law contradicts itself with the example of the spell cast by Dahlia to keep her and her niece immortal with no side effects. However, the loophole is that both must slumber for a century after being awake for just one year.
- Loopholes to spells do not always happen immediately after the spell is cast. The loophole to Malivore's creation occurred centuries after the spell was cast.
- It has been suggested by The Originals' writer, Carina Adly MacKenzie, that loopholes can in fact be closed with spells - this is in the case of Klaus' ability to procreate as the Original hybrid. Carina states that they once had a line that said "Jane-Anne closed the loophole with a spell", but it was cut. Whether or not Loopholes can be closed with magic remains unknown as no such spell has yet to occur.[1][2]