Ablah grants Lizzie's first wish
Wish Granting is an exclusive and extraordinary ability of jinn to warp reality that best suits their desires within context of the wish grantee's wish. Jinni can grant or ignore any wish they choose and won't work against their own self-interest, such as the grantee can forget about wishing the granter dead. This is enacted when the jinni is commanded with a statement that begins with "I wish...". Everything following that the grantee experiences is, in fact, a potential reality that has occurred as a direct result of the wish.
Effects[]
When a wish is granted, it can effectively rewrite history, typically at a point in time and the time that follows, creating alternate (or wish) realities. Such wishes can alter time and events from small to grand scales that have ripple effects around the world. Ablah's granted wishes for Lizzie progressively got more detrimental that culminated in an apocalyptic reality that rewrote certain, major events in history. By contrast, Zied's granted wishes were more subtle with a localized scale that effected certain people at present time. To correct, change, or reset a previous wish, a new wish must be granted. Though different than a witch's witchcraft, a jinni's ability to grant wishes stems from magic and "magic always has a loophole". While Lizzie tried and failed to create the perfect wish, Ablah stated that as a result of resetting a wish, the loophole was that the journeys that she and the people she granted wishes with remained with them and it slowly drove them insane. Zied also reinforces this, stating that some encounters within a wish could alter a person's perception of reality, and though every mind is different, it could drive some people mad.
The number of wishes is entirely up to the discretion of the jinni. Once a wish commences, the jinni is tethered to the wish until their desire is granted as a result of the wish or the grantee ends up resetting their wish. Ablah gave Lizzie the ultimatum that she'd reset her wishes provided that she in turned gave her the urn, whereas, Zied made a deal with Landon, Alaric, and the Necromancer for three wishes or their souls would remain his. Despite their extraordinary ability, they're "cursed" so that they can only do what someone wishes them to do.
Throughout Legacies Series[]
Season One[]
In There's a World Where Your Dreams Came True, the jinni Ablah is released from Malivore and makes her way to the Salvatore Boarding School for the Young & Gifted. Unbeknownst to anyone else, she idly waits for an unsuspecting person to wish for something that she can use to her advantage, particularly gaining the urn to secure her freedom.
After being forgotten at the airport for monster-related problems between her father and Hope, Lizzie inadvertently makes a wish.
- "I wish Hope had never come to this school."
- —Lizzie
Ablah appears before Lizzie and grants Lizzie her first wish with a click of her fingers. Lizzie wakes up in a new, alternate reality of the Salvatore School. Alaric bursts into her room, telling her it's time for fight training, but Lizzie dismisses him, remarking that she isn't in the mood to watch Hope train. However, Alaric doesn't know who Hope is. Pleasantly surprised, Lizzie joins Josie at the docks the two train with their father.
However, as Lizzie walks around the Salvatore school, things are clearly different than before her wish was made. Most notably, they're poor as running a private school is expensive and how hard it is to get benefactors to support students.
Alone, Lizzie calls for Ablah advice. She realizes that Hope's dad wrote her mom a big check to fund the school when it opened, ergo, no Hope means no funding nor any fun. She demands for Ablah to fix it, but stops. She concludes that she'll waste her second wish trying to clean up her first wish, only to make things worse, and then her third gets wasted by wishing that she had never had any wishes in the first place.
Lizzie decides to take matters into her own hands within this new reality and find new recruits for the school herself. This inadvertently leads them to locate Hope and Alaric offering her guidance at the school. Frustrated, Lizzie calls Ablah back, mad that his is not what she had wished for. However, Ablah explains that she must choose her words carefully, as she did as Lizzie had wished. Hope had never came to the Salvatore School, until she had at this point in time. She commentates how fascinating that her father's dream couldn't be realized without Hope's presence. Ablah cautions Lizzie that precision is key and that she can only grant what it is she wishes for, she should figure out exactly what her heart desires, or, not.
- "I wish... that there was never a Salvatore School to begin with."
- —Lizzie
Ablah grants her second wish, creating a new reality. Lizzie finds herself that without the Salvatore School, she and Josie must now attend Mystic Falls High School. Josie finds her questions about their attendance there weird but Josie reminds her to play it cool should anyone start messing with her. Alaric reminds her that should she expose her powers, she risks becoming a target. Unlike her previous reality, Josie is flourishing and popular and Lizzie is ostracized.
Josie explains that she wants Lizzie to steal their dad's watch, a magical object, so she can show Connor that she's a witch and then have sex with him after Homecoming. With a horrible day, Lizzie confronts Ablah once again, believing that she's manipulating things to make her miserable and that there's not world in which this reality would happen. Explaining that she can't lie, Ablah tells her that everything she is experiencing is, in fact, a potential reality that has occurred as a direct result from her wish. This world does make sense. Alaric built the Salvatore School so she could thrive. Lizzie and Josie were born of a dangerous coven known for breeding psychotics, and so he built a safe place to shield them from their darkest impulses. Lizzie then went and wished his dream away because it wasn't perfect. Now, the students here don't care about protecting Lizzie's fragile ego and the "school freak" while Josie gets to shine. Lizzie want to get out this situation and Ablah tells her that she can use another wish, but reaffirms that language is important. Like Lizzie, she doesn't want to be here as she's been granting awful wishes to self-involved humans for nearly 500 years.
Unwilling to use her "final" wish, Lizzie goes to deliver the watch to Josie, but witnesses Dana and Connor kissing in the parking lot. She tells Josie about this, but Josie shuts her down, citing that she's paranoid. The two get into an argument, and Josie tells her that she's done trying to protect her, and that she is the reason their father is always drunk and mother is always out of town. Lizzie becomes angry and upset at Josie's words, and siphoning from the watch, begins to lose control of the magic while revealing it to the students.
Much to their surprise, Hope, Jed, Kaleb and Pedro, arrive in a car with the Mikaelson crest on the side. Lizzie scoffs when she sees Hope, fixes the situation before them and asks Alaric to come with them. Lizzie learns that as a result of her wish, the Mikaelson school was created in it's absence. This realities' Hope explains that despite her father having a checkered past, it all changed when she was born. There wasn't a school he could send someone like her to, so he built this one, and it's been quite the success. Hope even extends in offer to Alaric to become the new headmaster of the European branch that her father is establishing. Lizzie is disgusted with the direction of the this reality, and elects to use her final wish.
- "I wish Hope Mikaelson was never born."
- —Lizzie
Lizzie's third wish is more detrimental than the last and it plunges her into a reality in which supernatural creatures have been outed and actively hunted down and exterminated by Triad Industries; Rafael Waithe and Emma Tig are among those already dead. As sundown approaches, Lizzie is found by Kaleb and Jed and explain that the patrols will be out soon and they need to leave. They explain that she had told them that her father could help them leave Mystic Falls, perhaps to Mexico. Alaric is running a sort of Supernatural Railroad, a Resistance, at the Salvatore Boarding House. While for Lizzie this is a new reality that she lacks context for, Alaric believes it to be amnesia triggered by the trauma. Lizzie doesn't understand but Alaric is just happy that she's home. However, they can't stay for much longer. Triad's closing in every day. He goes on to explain that when Klaus Mikaelson lost everything that anchored him to his humanity, he shut it off two years prior and started a war, outing supernaturals in the process. Triad had an ugly, racist platform to stand on, and nothing's been safe ever since. Lizzie asks about her sister, but he tells her that she's dead. Distraught to find out that Josie is dead in this reality, Lizzie begins to have a breakdown but is subdued by Penelope.
Lizzie awakes in the basement below the Salvatore Boarding House, and calls out to Ablah. She laments that the third wish is always tricky and offers her better luck on her next one. Confused, Lizzie doesn't understand that she has more wishes. She explains that a jinni can grant or ignore any wish they choose, but they won't work against their own self-interest. She offers that if she'd like another wish to reset her life right back to where they began, she can do that, but on one condition. Ablah want the urn, and Lizzie realizes that she used her words against her right from the start.
Refusing to give Ablah the urn, Lizzie leaves the basement and heads upstairs, where Alaric reveals they are about to fight Triad. Alaric tells Lizzie about the merge and how she became so scared of Josie—seeing her as her biggest threat—that she went dark and accidentally killed her. An emotional wreck, Lizzie reveals to Alaric that there was a reality in which he did everything he could to protect his daughters, including building a school for them, which helped hundreds of people. She promises to fix the situation, and seeks out Ablah.
Ablah pressures her into accepting her offer—the urn for resetting her wish. Lizzie refuses and tries to think of the perfect wish, one where they can both get what they want. Lizzie finally realizes what she needs to wish for that will reset the reality.
- "I wish that you had never met the monster that sent you to Malivore."
- —Lizzie
Lizzie believes that the whole situation can be fixed by wishing that Ablah never met the monster that sent her to Malivore. Ablah realizes that if she never went to Malivore, she would have completed her 500 years of service and she'd be free. She'd have no need for the urn. Lizzie tells her to take or leave her wish. With a plausible loophole, Ablah tells her that her wish is her command. However, before snapping her fingers, she explains that there's a catch. Though they will never have met, it means she won't remember the Merge, at least not consciously. Lizzie will become like all those poor souls she helped over the centuries who used their final wishes to reset their realities. Though they found their worlds just as they left them, their minds weren't. Because somehow their journeys stayed with them and slowly drove them insane. Ablah believed that Lizzie will eventually find out her father's secret, as you inevitably will, and history will likely repeat itself, and she'll kill Josie all over again. As Lizzie attempts to take back her wish, Ablah snaps her fingers and reset the reality.
Lizzie, finds everything as she had previously left it, completely unaware of her travels with Ablah through three realities.
Season Four[]
In Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost, Alaric, Landon, and the Necromancer, are stuck in Limbo searching for a way back to the mortal coil. There they discover the jinni, Zied. Between the three of them, Zied offers them a contract—three wishes in exchange for their souls, provided that they use them right.
After debating over the contract, and to the order of how they'd use their wishes, Zied agrees to the new terms and accepts the signed contract. Landon is first to make a wish.
- "Bring the three of us back to life."
- —Landon
Landon and the Necromancer reappear on the mortal coil, laying atop their grave-sites. However, they discover that Alaric is no where to be found. Making their way back to the boarding school, they're interrupted by Zied who explains that he granted his wish exactly, though doesn't know why Alaric remains in Limbo. Landon believes he's attempting to get them to burn through their wishes, but Landon decides to head into the school. Zied cautions them. If they're supposedly dead and his friends see them, only for them to fail and use their second wish, this encounter could alter their perception of reality. and drive them mad.
Despite the warning, Landon appears to Wade, making him believe he's dreaming about his ghost to learn what's happened at the school and to Alaric. While he and the Necromancer find Alaric at the hospital in a coma, the Ferryman appears and drags them back to Limbo.
Zied confesses that he knew the Ferryman wouldn't let them leave Limbo and reveals that he wants something. He wants Peace but has created a staggering debt owed to the Ferryman, hence why he's collecting souls to help him collect coins.
With their first wish wasted, Alaric's, the second wish has a lot to accomplish. Namely, it's got to bring their souls back from Limbo, put them back into our bodies two of which are dead, one of which is alive and somehow has to bypass the Ferryman's powers so they don't just end up back in Limbo.
- "I wished for you to become The Necromancer again."
- —Alaric
While Landon and the Necromancer are collecting information about what the other collectors have wished for, Alaric makes the second wish. Alaric believed that the Necromancer could sufficiently resurrect them all back to life, subverting the Ferryman's powers and be able to use his wish for peace before succumbing to the dark magic.
In part, Alaric's wish worked as the Necromancer reverted to his old ways and after learning of what happened to him, his daughters and Hope, believed it to be punishment enough to live through that, repeating the same mistakes, only to eventually wind back up in Limbo. The Necromancer then resurrects Alaric, opting to leave Landon in Limbo for him to torture.
Returning to the bar, Zied comments that the second wish was effectual. The Necromancer has brought Landon's soul back to work in his Salvation army, though, Zied cautions him that he'll be enlisting too if he doesn't wish for Peace. Instead, the Necromancer decides to use his wish, the third and final, to be free of his contract.
- "What I wish for is to be free of my contract with you."
- —The Necromancer
Unbeknownst to the Necromancer and revealed by Zied that Alaric had wished that he become the Necromancer again, but that his powers only be capable of returning him and Landon to life while specifying that if he wished for anything other than Peace, the third and final wish be rendered null and void.