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Towards the end of the series, Domenico double-crossed Gerbert and encouraged Gebert’s captive Juliette to break free of her bonds to go to America and kill Matthew (who had humiliated Domenico when he tried to retrieve Diana from Sept-Tours).

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The Congregation want Diana Bishop because of her access to Ashmole 782, or the Book of Life, and to punish Matthew and Diana for breaking the covenant by mating.īest Returning British TV Series from 2021 By Louisa Mellor Key Congregation members in season one included witches Peter Knox and Satu vampires Baldwin Montclair (Matthew’s brother), Domenico Michele and Gerbert d’Aurillac and Demon Agatha Wilson (mother to Nathaniel, who’s expecting a child with fellow demon Sophie). Your punishment is death by beheading and fire.Ī council consisting of nine members (at any given time, three witches, three vampires and three demons), the Congregation convenes in Venice to hold trials, deliver punishments and maintain the shaky peace between the creatures, built on a covenant which forbids inter-species relationships. You have committed treason against The Congregation. Everybody wanted it – Matthew Clairmont to learn about the origins of vampires and why they could no longer sire, Peter Knox to learn how witches could destroy vampires… Diana stood up to Knox and the Congregation, and made powerful enemies.Īfter discovering that her father was a Time Walker and that she shared his power, Diana and Matthew used three objects from his past to travel back to Elizabethan England where they could hide from Knox, Gerbert and Satu, who had pursued them to New York.īefore Diana and Matthew Time Walked, his vampire lab colleague Miriam and ‘son’ Marcus took swabs of Diana’s DNA to study her witch origins.

Her access to the book made her a target. When academic work led her to call up ancient tome Ashmole 782 from the Bodleian library (a book missing for centuries that no other creature had been able to find), she experienced uncontrollable magic as The Book of Life revealed its secrets. She would only be able to access her magic at times of great need and for her own protection.Īs a result, Diana grew up believing that she had little magic, and after her parents were killed, shunned witchcraft entirely. Diana was already showing evidence of prodigious magic as a child, so to protect her from Knox, her parents cast a spell to hide her powers. Though she refused him, Knox continued to be obsessed with her and later insisted on personally testing her young daughter’s magical powers. Here’s a bit more detail on how the first season unfolded… Diana’s Powersīefore Diana was born, her mother was pursued by Peter Knox, one of the three witches who sit on ruling council The Congregation. To escape pursuit, they used Diana’s magic to ‘Time Walk’ back to Elizabethan England, where season two finds them…

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While she began to learn how to use her magic, Diana and Matthew were forced into hiding by three witches intent on punishing them for their interspecies transgression and wanting Diana’s help in destroying the vampires. Diana discovered that her parents had spellbound her prodigious powers for her own protection as a child.

She also came into contact (and we’re talking contact) with Matthew Clairmont, a geneticist investigating magical creatures’ disappearing powers and a 1500 year-old vampire.īy the end of the season, Diana and Matthew had broken the sacred covenant forbidding interspecies relationships and ‘mated’ for life. When her academic career took her to Oxford’s Bodleian Library, she came into contact with a sought-after powerful book thought to contain the secret to vampire creation. What magical power she displayed she wasn’t able to control. Born to witches but orphaned as a child, Diana spent her life avoiding magic.