i was thinking , considering that it's said the traveller gene run in katherine veins due to her father being a a memeber of the group ... shouldn't Bonnie have the same gene considering that qetsyiah her ancestor was a traveller too?!maybe not a strong one , but it should exist anyway!
I get what you mean. my understanding was that Quetsiya was a witch but also a tribe of traveller, but she seemed unbound by spirit, Expression or Traveller rules.
Silas makes out to Bonnie that she was the most powerful Witch of all time but this could have been slightly embellished to suit his own purpose as he lies about a lot at that point. But she is quote powerful no doubt having created the immortality spell herself.
Tessa: (voiceover) Silas and I were the two most powerful members of a gifted people called Travellers. When we were engaged to be married, we decided to reach even further.
Tessa: the Travellers hid it (the anchor) after they killed me. They move it constantly.
Then I guess its kind of like the Originals - Klaus, Elijah, Rebekah and the rest of the family were the first. They have abilities and powers that the Salvatore brothers don't despite the fact they are descended from the same bloodline. I think the same happened in the the Questsyia line. She was powerful and as we see in the wedding preparations she seemed to also be connected to the spirits and Nature by growing a whole Garden for the wedding ceremony. She uses blood and sacrifice in her spells too to create the immortality spell and channels Expression in her charm necklace that we see Bonnie using when under the influence of Shane. I reckon over time the practice fractioned there were those who would not wish to use expression techniques, others did not want to be bound by the rules of balance and nature and leaned to the traveller way and some would only be about nature and the balance. SO they split and although they have a common ancestor in Qeutsiya they have very different practices and beliefs by the time you get to Bonnie's generation. If she is the line descendent then yes there would be a tiny bit of the marker of the traveller line in her lineage but filters down through evolution and that her family followed the spirit and nature path she is wired for that type of magic. As we saw though she can turn her hand to Expression but cannot control it very well. To then branch her into Traveller magic's would perhaps close the magic triad and if she could do all three we would be looking at the new Qeutsiya perhaps the new superpower.
Its a theory at least. lol
(Edited by TanithRea)
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Honestly i think it's weird they don't even talked abou this!because to me seems Logic to think that she has this gene considering tessa, her a ancestor was a traveller and used their magic ( infact she used a different language to cast spells!) ... They haven't explined well this stuff.... actually they don't even talked about their Blood ties since tessa come back from the other side (she actually talked with Damon , stefan Elena ecc but not with bonnie!!)before that ,it was always mentioned tessa Being her ancestor
Being a Traveller is not genetic, as they are a group of witches, not a species entirely. Being a Travellers seems to be a birthright, in the case of Mr. Petrov, Katherine and Nadia. Or it could be that a witch must have special gifts to be accepted as Traveller.
Anyway, these are only my deductions. Bonnie could be a Traveller if she wanted to join them. But that's highly unlikely.
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Like M.J. said,travellers are merely an ancient,huge and obviously world-wide coven of witches,not a species.And though,it's not a gene,it's a birthright so,yes,Bonnie and her family could join the travellers and start practising that kind of magic.But if they do so,they would all loose access to traditional magic.Besides,so could the Salvatores since the witch gene is present in their blood too as Silas was a witch.But there's a loophole:
Qetsiyah was probably banished from the coven when she created immortality(something Travellers are against) and with,probably,her entire bloodline lost their birthright in the coven.The same probably happened with Silas's bloodline.
Though,Qetsiyah was practicing traveller magic when she came back so it's possible that her descendants could start using it too despite not being in the coven.Because,despite not being a gene,it does give them the ability to practice traveller magic cause not just everyone can be a traveller.You obviously have to have natural gifts for it.