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The Salter Family (Ukrainian: Солянка, Ancient Greek: Αλάτι, Modern Greek: Αλατίζων, Latin: salis, English: Salter; (translates as "salt maker") is one of the main families in The Vampire Diaries Series and arguably the fifth most important family after The Original Family, Salvatore and Petrova. The family is one of the oldest families introduced, originally coming from Greece and Ukraine before ultimately ending up in The Americas, more specifically Mystic Falls, Virginia. The Salter Family has been linked to both the Salvatore, Petrova and Bennett families since 1st Century BCE, also known as the Biblical Times.
The Salter Family's earliest known ancestor is Xanthe, an Immortal Warrior, though dating back even further is Xanthe's mother.
Known Family Members[]
Xanthe's Unnamed Mother: Xanthe's Mother birthed Xanthe.
Xanthe: Xanthe (/ˈzænθiː/; Greek: Ξανθή) is the daughter of Phoebe and sister to Katina. Without her the Vampire Darius Salvatore wouldn't be able to become the world's first Preeminent Vampire. Growing up Xanthe would live a quite hard life. At a young age her parents instilled a powerful sense of discipline within her, teaching her to respect others. Due to a war that struck out between two villages (over a land dispute) Xanthe would be forced into war and would kill every single person who was foolish enough to fight her. She soon became feared throughout the land due to her fearsome tactics in combat, her relentlessness, and her bravery in battle. Xanthe was born circa 4,500 BC April 4th in Scythia (modern-day Iran and Eastern Europe). Her mother died when she was young, with Xanthe mentioning to villagers that she had sisters whose faces she couldn't even remember. After her mother's death, she was honed into the warrior. After hundreds of years, it is said that she left her position in an effort to lose the loneliness she felt due to her immortality.
After she had started to fall ill from an Unknown Disease at the time she would learn of a way to become Immortal, via the usage of The Immortality Spell. In a hopes to not ruin her prestigious image she would hide the fact that she had became weak from sickness. After having the spell performed and being imbued with power of Immortality Xanthe would heal from her sickness. She would soon start to become praised as a Goddess after this point, and was revered as an unkillable war hero. After hundreds of years, she left her position in an effort to lose the loneliness she felt due to her immortality.It was after this time that she met Noriko (Quynh) and Lykon, and much later, Yusuf (Joe) and Nicolo (Nicky), all of whom were also immortal.
After multiple years of fighting wars and different causes she would hang up her name as a warrior and would distance herself from humanity, before ultimately leaving to go to a developing country known as Greece.
Because she had a weakened version of the perfected immortality spell, after a long time she would start to become weaker and weaker. Realizing this she would start to be unable to deal with the constant outburst of a new group of werewolves that terrorized the locals. Multiple centuries had passed (seven) when she would go on to imbue the vampire Darius Salvatore with tremendous and ultimate power in order to kill all of the werewolves that infested Ancient Greece. Xanthe would almost die doing this spell (alongside 17 other witches) and would leave her semi-frail for a long period of time. Xanthe would then use a spell after this to go into a hibernated-like state.
Katina (Katrina): Katina is the sister of Xanthe and daughter of Xanthe's Mother.
Phoebe: is the sister of Xanthe and daughter of Xanthe's Mother.
Xanthe's Unnamed Sisters: Are the sisters of Xanthe, Phoebe, Katina and daughter of Xanthe's Mother.
Damon Salter: Damon Salter is an old Vampire who was born in 1082 A.D. He is also a member of The Salter Family The Vampire Diaries novel puts Damon's age at more than 700 years old; while the memories of his involvement in efforts against first-generation Werewolves in Legacies makes him at least 900 years old. Little is known about Damon Salter's early life, though it is known that his family was of great wealth and stature.
In 1107 Damon would be shot with an arrow (by a thief) and would start bleeding profusely. Because the bleeding failed to stop he would try and try to stop it once more with various fabric, but to no avail. Damon would soon be found by Darius Salvatore, who would kill the thief by stabbing him in his neck. Damon would not long after this be given a choice by Darius. This is because he could only pity a man who had no hope left in his heart. Damon either could die by blood loss, becoming known as a man who was killed by a petty thief... or he could become a Vampire and serve in his group known as The Order. In The Early 1400s Damon would become the leader of The Order and would reign over it for over almost 6 decades.
Magnus Ceperta-Forest: Magnus (Magnus Ceperta-Forest - (Ancestral Name: Magnus Salter), is the only child of Ashley Forest and was born to an unknown father on September 14, 1472. Due to the fact that Ashley (Magnus' mother) was unable to take care of him because of financial reasons he would be put of for adoption and would in a way disown his mother. He strived so hard to be something different than her, he wanted to be better. Thi mentality was so strong that he even made different life-altering decisions only because his mother did them before him. After he turned 20 Magnus would be turned by his mother in 1493 as he slowly rose up the ranks as a Knight. His mother turning him into a Vampire would only fuel his hatred for her even more. Eventually he would become feared and known as a warlord some time in the early 1500s and his name would become widely known in Europe, The Americas and Africa. In 1732 Magnus would kill August Salvatore-Knight with a group of werewolves. After she died she would go into transition and would transform into an Original Preeminent Vampires. Magnus and his werewolves would be killed and later it would be learnt that these people were apart of Rayna's Army.
Malcolm's Mother: Malcolm's Mother was the one who gave birth to Malcolm Salter.
Malcolm Salter: Malcolm's early life is quite unknown though he was adopted at a young age as Malcolm's mother (an unknown human Salter family member) gave birth to him and couldn't take care of him. Edward Montgomery (Malcolms Biological Father) was unaware of his son for a majority of his life and only learnt of his existence in the last moments before his death (Kai Parker Screwed Us). At the age of 24 Malcolm would be killed by Cyrus Salvatore in Evil Shall Perish.
Sophia's Mother: Sophia's Mother gave birth to Sophia Salter.
Sophia Salter: In the winter of 1832, a young girl named Sophia Salter would be born to a family of Nobles and Royalty. She would be taught how to use and create spells by her mother and she would fall in love with a man by the name of Darius Salvatore while on a visiting trip to Louisiana. She would fall so in love that she abandoned her family and began living with the man. They would later become married and the two would try and have a child. This is when Darius would reveal to Sophia that he was a Vampire. Sophia did not believe the words that left his mouth but when Darius proved to her his Vampiric Nature she begged him to turn her as well so that they could live forever. Darius would tell her that being a vampire's hard and she will regret not living out her mortal life. Sophia begged and begged and when Darius continued to turn her down she went to the place that Darius stores his weapons and ended her life. Darius would hear this go on and would rush to the scene as he gave her his blood and turned her into an immortal Preeminent vampire. Darius and Sophia would stay married for over a decade (leading to the conception of Hannah Salvatore in 1859) before Darius issued a divorce and left her. He stated the following. "I am sorry my love but being with someone for over 100 years is a little boring and deep inside I knew you knew this relationship wouldn't last forever. All things as they say.". After this point, Sophia became furious and went on killing sprees hoping to gain the attention of Darius but they never did they only deterred him from her further. She even relocated back to Mystic Falls and tried to find him but to no avail. Finally, she would find him happy with another woman and would come to terms with the fact that he will never love her as much as she loves him and she loves him so much that she wants to see him happy, causing her to understand her situation. After this point, Sophia would watch over Darius and have continued to for over a century.
Hannah Salvatore: Shortly after Darius Salvatore and Sophia Salter got divorced Sophia would learn that she was pregnant with Hannah. This would cause Sophia to relocate to Cherrysville, Louisiana due to the things said about the location and the recent exponential developments on Hospitals within the city and them making it easy for mothers to give birth. When she was born Hannah would be moved to Mystic Falls, Virginia and would continue to live there for quite a while.
At an unknown point of time Hannah would be recruited to The S-Team and would slowly but surely rise up the ranks until she reached Leader status. Once she did she would be assigned a mission to prove her leadership. This mission was to assassinate Darius Salvatore for being a "Threat" to the supernatural community.
Not aware of the fact that Darius was in fact her father she would start to research on him and would deduce that he was a cruel evil person. Many books made regarding him and all of them (mostly) describe his violence and the massacres that he had spawned as time progressed. She saw The Plague Massacre of 1600 and even the The 1804 Haiti Massacre that killed thousands of people, all caused by him. Due to his ways she hated him and started to want to kill him.
Hannah would then be given one of The Preeminent Stakes in order to permanently kill Darius and would also get in possession of The Darius Sword. Once this happened she would train vigorously with the two weapons, before finally deciding that she was ready to take him on. With the s-team's blessings she would charge Darius' Estate in Mystic Falls and would enter it. Once she did Darius would almost instantly know that someone had entered his house. When he saw Hannah he would almost instantly mistake her for her mother (Sophia) and would ask if it was her. She questioned how he knew her mother, before she engaged in combat with Darius. The battle raged on for several minutes as Darius then slammed Hannah to the ground and threw her through the walls of his house causing her to end up on the ground and out of the house. Darius would soon jump down as he then grabbed a wooden plank and snapped it in half, mistaking Hannah for a Vampire due to her overwhelming skill. As he was about to end Hannah's life Hannah would quickly move out of the way, causing her to grab her weapons. She then stabbed Darius with the Preeminent Stake in his shoulder, which caused him momentary pain. Once the pain became lesser and his wounds started to heal Darius would realise that the Darius Sword was on the ground and lied there beside an exhausted Hannah. Darius would pick it up, curious as to why she was in possession of the weapon. Nonetheless, Darius would stab Hannah in the chest, before ripping it out of her chest and stabbing it into her heart. As her lifeforce faded and started to become trapped in the stone she would realise that Darius was her father and would shakily say "Father" before closing her eyes. Darius wondering what she meant by "Father" would release the blade from her heart and would cause Hannah to unexpectedly become awake again. After this she would tell Darius that she believed that he may be her father but said that it was just a hunch, stating that it was impossible (due to Darius being a Vampire). The two would clash once more as the battle got more and more intense. Eventually Darius would be able to get the Preeminent Stake from Hannah which caused him to stab it into her. As this happened Hannah would then die, ending her life as a Human.
After she awoke as an Original Preeminent Vampire. Her bloodlust would cause her to go to the nearest human life, which was situated within a cabin. Hannah would kill two unknown men who were in the cabin, though she still fiend for blood. This would eventually lead to her killed 17 others. After completing her transformation Hannah would pass out on the ground, learning that she was a Ripper. Later she would wake up in the S-Team headquarters and would be given a scientifically designed serum that stopped her from being a ripper. This helped and made it so that she didn't have to kill multiple people to feed and it wouldn't be hard to live off blood bags. Not long after this she would learn that she was in fact an Original Preeminent Vampire which confirmed her thinking that Darius Salvatore was her father into being the truth.
Vixen's Mother: Little is known about Vixen's Mothers early life and prior to her death it is unknown what she was doing. Vixens unnamed mother gave up her last life and granted it to Vixen, ending her life in the process. She was also given the life and power of 8 more shamans, turning Vixen into a Supernatural Huntress.
Vixen: Vixen was born in Salem Massachusetts, and was trained by her mother to fight the supernatural except those that aren't evil. Because of this work ethic Vixen grew up well rounded. At some point in her life she would move to Mystic Falls, Virginia and would be enlisted in The Salvatore School for The Young & Gifted. Shortly after this she would meet Samara Gilbert in 2019. At the end of her mother's life, and the aid of the shaman, and seven other Shamans Vixen's mother magically transformed her final life, and title with the ritual passed down to her daughter turning her into a Supernatural Huntress with 9 lives.
Many Unnamed Others -
Relatives[]
Xanthe's Mothers Spouse: He is the father of Xanthe and the spouse of Xanthe's mother.
Unnamed Salvatore: An unnamed Salvatore had a child with a Salter and passed down the Sword of Alexandria to her.
Darius Salvatore: Darius Salvatore is the Ex-Husband of Sophia Salter and is the father of Hannah Salvatore.
Edward Montgomery: Edward had a child with an Unknown Salter who had the hunter known as Malcolm Salter.
Surname[]

The Salter Family Crest
English: occupational name for an extractor or seller of salt (a precious commodity in medieval times), from Middle English salt 'salt' + the agent suffix -er. English: occupational name for a player on the psaltery, a string instrument, Middle English, Old French saltere 'psaltery'.
Trivia[]
- Most Salters tend to be female.
- The Salters share very close ties with The Salvatores, Bennetts, Petrovas, and even the Gilberts.
- In terms of hair colour most Salters have orange/red hair (i.e Vixen's Mother, Sophia , Sophia's Mother, Malcolm's Mother, etc)
- The Salter Bloodline is very easily traced.