| “ | I've been counting eclipses since I was imprisoned on this empty planet, and according to my running tally, I've been here for 6,771 supernaturally repeating days. | ” |
— Kai about the Prison Worlds
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The Prison Worlds are alternate planes of existence created by the Gemini Coven. The 1903 Prison World is where Lillian Salvatore, Malachai Parker and the Heretics were trapped, while the 1994 Prison world is where Damon Salvatore, Malachai Parker, and Bonnie Bennett were previously trapped before using the Ascendant to come back to present day Mystic Falls. The Prison Worlds were destroyed with the death of the Gemini Coven Leader, Malachai Parker. Though not leaders of a coven, Lizzie and Josie Saltzman, with Bonnie, created a new Prison World in order to entrap Kai once he was released from Hell.
Throughout The Vampire Diaries
Season Five
Before finding peace, Sheila Bennett told Bonnie that she had ensured a way of saving her from the the Other Side's destruction. When it did finally collapse in Home, Bonnie and Damon were engulfed by a bright light before being transported to an alternate dimension.
Season Six
After being engulfed in the white light upon the Other Side's destruction, Bonnie and Damon found themselves in what appeared to be a parallel world of Mystic Falls. They soon realized that they were in a different time, due to all the old cars parked on the streets that appeared to still be in nearly brand-new condition. After finding a newspaper in a nearby yard, Damon discovered the date on the paper was May 10, 1994. They later found out that the dimension they were in was stuck in a temporal loop, as the solar eclipse they experienced on their first day occurred at the same time each day afterward. However, they were aware of the time loop, and maintained their memories of the previous day.
In Yellow Ledbetter, Bonnie and Damon continued living together in the Salvatore Boarding House while they tried to figure out how they got to the prison dimension and how they could possibly get out, which led Bonnie to track down her Grams' grimoire in the hope that she could re-learn magic and use it to free them. Later that evening, the crossword puzzle Bonnie had been working on all day was mysteriously filled out by someone else, and Bonnie became convinced that they were not alone in this world.
In Welcome to Paradise, Bonnie and Damon argued amongst themselves about whether or not they were not the only ones trapped in this world as they came upon several clues that someone else was in their vicinity. After Bonnie and Damon got into an intense fight, Bonnie stormed off, and Damon went into Bell's Store to get some bourbon, where he finally came upon the person following them. It was a young man who identified himself as Kai, and who tricked Damon into consuming vervain. Kai was about to try to kill him when Bonnie arrived, and she was so worried about Damon that she managed to finally reactivate her magic and use pyrokinesis to create a boundary of flames around Kai to trap him. Damon then took the opportunity to knock Kai out, and they brought him back to the boarding house to question him about why he was in this dimension. After some threats on Damon's part, Kai finally admitted that he never intended to kill Damon -- he was merely trying to motivate Bonnie to get her magic back, as it was the key to returning them to their home dimension.
In Black Hole Sun, Bonnie and Damon continued questioning Kai, who informed them that they would need to use Bonnie's magic to harness the power of the solar eclipse using a mystical object belonging to his family called the Ascendant. After doing the requisite spells to prepare for their return home, the three went outside so Kai could figure out exactly where the power of the eclipse would be focused for their portal. While they were watching Kai work, Bonnie re-read their newspaper and realized that one of the main articles on the front page was a story about a young man named Malachai who killed most of his siblings in Portland, Oregon. Kai freely admitted that it was he who killed his siblings, and even confessed that their dimension was a Prison World created for him on May 10, 1994 by the Gemini Coven as punishment for his crimes. Bonnie, horrified by this story, refused to do the spell to return them home, even despite Damon's pleas that they needed to return to their loved ones. Later that night, Damon and Bonnie had dinner together, where Damon suggested that they steal the Ascendant and go home by themselves. However, they were interrupted by Kai, who came in and informed them of something he didn't mention earlier-- while he is a witch, he didn't possess his own magic, and instead could only siphon it from other witches to use for his own means. He then grabbed Bonnie by the arm and absorbed a portion of her magic before giving her and Damon an ultimatum: he could steal all of Bonnie's magic to the point of her death, kill Damon, and then use the Ascendant to go home alone, or they could all go home together as friends. This forced Bonnie and Damon to begrudgingly agree to his terms in order to ensure their survival.
In The World Has Turned and Left Me Here, as Kai, Bonnie, and Damon were preparing to do the spell the following day, Bonnie realized that the reason why Kai hadn't killed her was because he needed a Bennett witch specifically to do the spell. Since Kai was no longer needed, she telekinetically threw an axe into Kai's chest, and he fell to the ground, seemingly dead. However, before Bonnie and Damon could leave, Kai was revived and interrupted them, using a crossbow to shoot Bonnie in the stomach with an arrow in the process. He asked them if they really believed he hadn't tried to kill himself, and added that he had attempted in many times in many ways, but as the Prison World was meant to be his punishment, he was unable to die in it. He tried his best to prevent them from completing the spell, but Bonnie was able to magically throw Kai backward, allowing her to pull Damon into the light of the eclipse and throw him the Ascendant so he could leave and return to the real world in Mystic Falls, believing that she would die before she could get there
In Do You Remember the First Time?, Bonnie awakened in the Salvatore Boarding House with Kai, who was trying to reassemble the Ascendant. She temporarily neutralized him by killing him before she fled to the hospital to heal her injuries. She also rebuilt the Ascendant from the pieces she had stolen before she left, but she had forgotten one piece, and Kai revived himself and got to her before she could finish it and escape. He then forced her to do the spell again to get them out of the Prison World. However, when the two went into the tunnels, Bonnie tricked Kai by putting her magic in her teddy bear, Ms. Cuddles, and sent the bear and her magic to the living world so Kai couldn't absorb it from her and use it to escape. Kai and Bonnie were then left in the Prison World, still trapped and now magic-less as well.
In Fade Into You, Kai took Bonnie to Portland for Thanksgiving to have dinner at his family home, but eventually revealed that he had brought her there because he needed magic, and Bonnie's trick with her teddy bear made him realize that his older sister Jo had hidden her own magic in the hunting knife with which he had stabbed her in 1994. Bonnie argued that he still needed a Bennett witch to do the spell, but Kai corrected her and told her that all he needed was Bennett blood. He then took the magic from the knife and absorbed it before stabbing Bonnie in the stomach with it. With Kai now in possession of the Ascendant, Bonnie's blood, and the magic from the knife, he was able to ditch her in his yard and, at some point, escaped the Prison World, leaving Bonnie dying and without magic in Portland. Meanwhile, in the real world, two events shed light on the Gemini Coven and Kai's imprisonment; one was the Friendsgiving dinner at Elena and Caroline's dorm, attended by Jo, Liv, and Luke (as well as Tyler and Liam) and in Portland at Kai's family's home, where Damon, Stefan, and Alaric had traveled to meet the leader of the Gemini Coven, Joshua Parker. It was revealed that Jo and Kai were twins, and that they were the siblings of Liv and Luke, as well as the children of Joshua Parker and members of the Gemini Coven. Since in their coven's ancient tradition, leadership is determined by a ceremony called the Merge, in which a pair of twins in the coven casts a spell in which the stronger witch of the pair absorbs the magic of the weaker witch, essentially killing the weaker twin and doubling the strength of the stronger one. When it was learned that Kai did not possess magic of his own, and only had the ability to siphon it from others, Joshua and his wife, realizing Kai wasn't fit to lead the coven, continued having more children until they had a second pair of twins, Liv and Luke, who they planned to have lead the coven instead. When Kai learned about this, he went on a rampage to kill Liv and Luke to ensure that he and Jo would be completing the Merge instead, killing four of their siblings to get to the younger twins and seriously injuring Jo in the process. To save the twins, Jo agreed to do the Merge with Kai and to let him kill her to take her power and leadership of the coven, but it was ultimately revealed to be a trick-- since Jo had put her magic in the knife, Joshua and the Gemini Coven were able to overpower Kai, using a Bennett spell and the solar eclipse to lock Kai away in a Prison World for his atrocities against their coven
In I Alone, Liv used the Ascendant from their dimension to send Damon and Elena into the Prison World to get Bonnie back, not knowing when she did the spell that Kai had already escaped his prison. As Bonnie was still in Portland and not in Mystic Falls where Elena and Damon had arrived, the two paged Kai's pager to get a hold of her on a payphone to tell her the plan, and Bonnie hot-wired a car to get back to Mystic Falls and meet them at the Gilbert House. However, right before Bonnie returned to their meeting place, Liv, having been confronted by Kai at Scull Bar, was forced to pull Elena and Damon out of the Prison World early, not wanting them to be trapped if Kai hurt or killed her while they were there.
In The Day I Tried To Live, Bonnie, having spent nearly an entire year in the Prison World, and incredibly depressed to have to spend her birthday alone without any company whatsoever, decided she wanted to commit suicide. However Kai, who had just completed the Merge with his brother Luke and became the leader of the Gemini Coven, was feeling so remorseful about his actions after having absorbed Luke's empathy that he agreed to astral-project himself, Jeremy, Elena and Damon to the Prison World to try to get Bonnie out again. This plan ended up not working as intended, as the amount of power required to send all of them to the Prison World left them unable to alert Bonnie to their presence; fortunately, Damon managed to leave a note on the atlas pointing Bonnie to the Island off of Nova Scotia where Silas' headstone (which was full of Qetsiyah's magic-infused blood) was located. From there, all they needed to do was ensure that Bonnie would find the clue before she did anything drastic. However, they ran into further difficulties when Liv showed up, intent on killing Kai to avenge Luke's death even despite knowing that killing the leader of the Gemini Coven would result in the death of everyone in the coven, including herself, her father, and her sister Jo. Jeremy managed to save the gravely injured Kai and convince him to send the two of them back to the Prison World to try again while Damon saved Kai with his vampire blood. Jeremy came upon Bonnie attempting to kill herself by locking herself in the garage and suffocating herself with the fumes from Damon's Camaro, but when Bonnie was leaving her goodbye video message to everyone, she remembered Grams' parting words to her before she found peace -- "Stay strong." Too weakened to leave the garage, Jeremy began to panic, eventually getting so upset he was able to make contact with the button to the garage door, giving Bonnie fresh oxygen and saving her from dying. When she returned to the house, she found the clue left by Damon in the atlas, which including pertinent information such as the low tide of the ocean surrounding the island, and, renewed with hope, Bonnie took off for Canada in Damon's car to get the magic she needed to escape the Prison World.
In Let Her Go, Bonnie returned to Mystic Falls from Nova Scotia with her magic renewed thanks to Qetsiyah's blood. However, in the real world, Kai's incomplete Merge ceremony with Luke had caused several side effects and was making him, in his words, "magically diseased." When Jo and Alaric were reluctant to help them after Kai realized he needed Jo's magic to fully complete the Merge, he revealed that the spells that created the Prison Worlds were bound by the magic of the leader of the Gemini Coven, and that if he died, the worlds would collapse. Shocked and confused at the realization that there was more than one Prison World and not wanting the rest of the Gemini Coven to die along with Kai, Jo agreed to give up her magic and lose her status as a witch to complete the Merge. However, since Kai was bordering death prior to and during Jo's spell to give him her magic, the 1994 Prison world collided with another Prison World just as Bonnie was preparing to escape and return to her original dimension; instead of a spring day during a solar eclipse, she was suddenly in a winter night during an Aurora Borealis. Bonnie, extremely confused and scared, saw footsteps leading to the Salvatore Boarding House and followed them into the home, quickly realizing by the lack of electricity inside that something was seriously wrong. It was then that she found a journal, dated November 1, 1903, that discussed the power of the recurring Aurora Borealis in the dimension's time-loop, as well as a framed pair of photos of both Damon and Stefan from 1864. Just as Kai was being given Jo's magic in the real world, the Prison Worlds began colliding again, and Bonnie rushed back into the tunnels as her surroundings cut back and forth between the warm sunshine of spring 1994 and the cold snow of winter 1903. Realizing that the Northern Lights was a celestial event she could draw upon just like the solar eclipse in order to cast the spell, she sliced her palm with the Ascendant and stated the incantation to create the portal. Just before the portal to the real world opened up, Bonnie was suddenly approached by a woman with auburn hair and blue eyes, who looked confused and asked Bonnie who she was. Bonnie repeated the question, but before she could get an answer, she was transported back to the real world. Once she had reunited with Damon, she showed him the video she had unknowingly recorded as she was sucked into the portal, and Damon, completely shocked at what he saw, confessed that the woman was his mother, Lily Salvatore.
In I'm Thinking Of You All The While, Kai, the leader of the Gemini Coven, dies and the the prison worlds collapsed.
Season Eight
In It's Been a Hell of a Ride, Lizzie and Josie, instructed by Bonnie, created a new prison world and banished Kai with no way of escaping.
Spells
- Prison World Banishment Spell: A powerful, interwoven spell that calls on the power of a celestial event, focused into an Ascendant, in order to create and banish a person (or more) to a prison dimension while binding the prison world to the current leader of the Gemini Coven. When cast, the spell creates an exact replica of the world, except for the people within it, that perceptually repeats the same day as when banished. The spell also acts as a protection spell for the banished target, preventing their death in all manners, as its purpose is to act as a prison.
- Incantation: Sanguinem filio, sanguinem effurgarex perpetuum. Sanguinem filio, sanguinem effurgarex perpetuum. Phasmatos filio, Phasmatos effurgarex perpetuum.
- Requirements: Celestial event, Ascendant, Blood of a Bennett witch
- Used by: In Fade Into You Joshua Parker, and his coven, performed this spell upon his son, Kai, after he slaughtered his siblings while he was under the ruse that the coven was gathering to channel eclipse for the Merge ceremony. In Let Her Go, it was revealed that the Gemini Coven previously banished the Heretics to the first prison world in 1903. Kai assumed that the Coven attempted the spell a second time in I'm Thinking Of You All The While though it was later revealed that the spell has another purpose than to trap a target within a prison world. In It's Been a Hell of a Ride, Bonnie taugh Josie and Lizzie the spell, with her own added twist, and banished Kai back to the newly created February 17, 2018 prison world with no eclipse or Bennett blood to free himself.
- Prison World Liberation Spell: A dimension-transcending spell that allows a (Bennett) witch to open a portal between the different prison worlds and the mortal plane by harnessing the power of it's corresponding celestial event, freeing themselves. Whoever stands in the light will then be transported to the mortal plane.
- Incantation:
- 1903's Prison World: Sangima Maerma, Bernos Asescenda.
- 1994's Prison World: Sangina Mearma, Ascendarum Cavea.
- Requirements: Blood of a Bennett witch, Corresponding Ascendant, Corresponding celestial event (Eclipse, Aurora etc.)
- Used by: Bonnie Bennett performed this spell in order to successfully teleport Damon to the mortal plane in The World Has Turned and Left Me Here. She later performed the same spell in order to send her magic-infused teddy bear to the mortal plane in Do You Remember the First Time?. Off screen, Kai would perform this spell, using Bonnie's blood to free himself. In Let Her Go, she performed the 1994, spell for a final time to free herself. In A Bird in a Gilded Cage She would later perform the 1903 spell to free herself, Damon, Elena and Lily from the Prison World, while leaving Kai behind. In I'd Leave My Happy Home For You, Kai performed the 1903 liberation spell to free himself and Lily's Heretics.
- Incantation:
- Prison World Transportation Spell: The spell allows a witch to transport a set amount of people to one of the Prison Worlds. According to Kai, there is a limit to the amount of people one witch can transport, implying two at most, while more witches can transport more people.
- Requirements: Ascendant, Blood of a Bennett witch, Celestial event or the Gemini Coven's Leader
- 1994's Prison World: TBA
- 1903's Prison World: Sangiema Meam Et Nos Mundo Carcerema.
- Used by: In Home, Sheila assured Bonnie that when the Other Side collapsed, she would be okay. In her last moments Bonnie and Damon, who she had physical contact of by holding his hand, was transported to the 1994 prison world to escape the Other Side's destruction. In I Alone Liv performed the 1994 Transportation spell to send Elena and Damon to the prison, using Lucy Bennett's blood, in order to go in and free Bonnie. In A Bird in a Gilded Cage, Bonnie Bennett and Kai Parker performed this spell in order to transport themselves, Elena and Damon to the 1903 Prison World.
- Prison World Projection Spell: A spell used to send one or more people to the prison world albeit partially where people existing in the prison world are unable to see, hear or touch them. However, with enough power, the witch is able to give the targets a tangible presence, allow them to physically interact with the world.
- Incantation: Phasmatos Tribum, Invocia Cavea, Misero Mundi.
- Requirements: Candles, Intended vessels passing through, Incomplete Ascendant
- Used by: In The Day I Tried To Live, Kai Parker used this spell on Elena, Damon and Jeremy, allowing there spirits to access the prison world in order to send a message to Bonnie. The spell was evidently powerful enough to allow physical interaction (an astral form) with the Prison World when performed with a single person, as seen when Jeremy held the map. Though Kai's power was fleeting and susceptible to the overuse of his magic.
Characteristics
- The worlds repeat the same day on a temporal loop, though its prisoners are all aware of the fact that the day is repeating itself.
- The worlds have made duplicates of all physical matter at the time the spell was performed, this also includes magical objects i.e. The Cure, Silas' Tombstone and the knife, which contained Jo's magic.
- The worlds can only be accessed by using the Ascendant, combined with the blood of a Bennett witch and the power of a recurring celestial event such as an eclipse or an Aurora Borealis.
- The prisoners of these worlds do not seem to be able to die or age at all.
- It is confirmed in Let Her Go, that the prison worlds are linked to the current leader of the Gemini Coven such that if anything life-threatening happens to him/her, the worlds are effected as well (e.g. the merging and/or destruction of the realms).
- It is confirmed in The Downward Spiral, that there are two prison worlds; The 1903 prison world and the 1994 prison world.
- However, in It's Been a Hell of a Ride, another prison world was created by Josie and Lizzie with the help of Bonnie; the 2018 prison world.
Residents
Former Inhabitants
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Trivia
- The Prison Worlds were created by the Gemini Coven using a spell from the Bennett Family, and are bound to the life of their current leader.
- The death of their current leader risks the collapse of the prison worlds, this collapse would lead to the death of all prisoners (as they would collapse with it) thus causing their souls to either be sucked into Hell or leading them to find peace.
- It is very possible that the "Prison World Banishment Spell" is a variant spell of Qetsiyah's "Creation of the Other Side" Spell as both were worldwide dimensions, bound and anchored to either living or immortal beings, respectively.
- Kai confirmed that there are only two prison worlds in The Downward Spiral.
- It is believed that Sheila Bennett had been involved with the creation of the 1994 Prison World; this is based upon her age, as she would have been alive, as well as the Bennett Spell was found in her Grimoire.
- However, it is also possible that she simply just gave them her blood, as the blood of a Bennett witch was needed to escape Kai's prison.
- It is also possible that the Bennett Family and Gemini Coven have close ties and have been working together across time to create the prison worlds, seeing as the former were descendants of Qetsiyah and the latter was one of the covens that originally cursed the Travelers.
- The identity of the Bennett witch that assisted the 1903 Gemini Coven members is currently unknown, though because it was in Shelia's grimoire, it can be inferred that it was her mother, Amelia.
- Though not explicitly stated, it can be assumed that the 2018 prison world is bound to both Lizzie and Josie, and possibly Bonnie, as they were the ones to create the new dimension after the fall of the Gemini Coven with Kai's death.
- Bonnie Bennett is the only main character to visit all three prison worlds.
- Damon is the only main male character to visit any prison world. He visited only two original prison worlds.
- Elena Gilbert visited only two original prison worlds.
- In order to travel to the 1994 Prison World to try to bring Bonnie back, Damon obtained the blood of Bonnie's cousin Lucy Bennett in order for Liv to cast the spell with the Ascendant.
- In I'm Thinking Of You All The While, both Prison Worlds come to an end when Kai kills himself taking the rest of Gemini coven with him.
- In It's Been a Hell of a Ride, a new prison world was created just for Kai; his own personal hell.
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