Why does silas want the cure

Silas refused to adhere to Qetsiyah's wishes, so she incapacitated him with the use of her magic. Qetsiyah then lured and imprisoned Silas with the cure for immortality on a desolate Island deep in an underground cave. Silas had two choices: take the cure, die a mortal death and eventually become a witch again and be with Qetsiyah for eternity on The Other Side or rot, starve and desiccate to fossilization as an immortal in darkness for eternity. However, Silas, being the brilliant and intelligent person he is, knew that this was her intention and therefore, he chose to desiccate and starve in darkness forever instead, both out of love and loyalty to Amara and out of spite, anger and revenge against Qetsiyah.

For two millenniums, Silas had lain buried, awaiting the day when someone would find him and free him from his tomb. Centuries later, a group of miners created a well above Silas' tomb. This allowed them to experience a mysterious "magic" that came from below that allowed them to see their lost loved ones. However, it required them to sacrifice blood.

They were all found bled out this means they may have sacrificed too much blood to maintain their reunions with their loved ones and died. A group of college kids had come to the island for spring break. A few weeks later, they were all found dead and drained of their blood they were more than likely sacrificed by someone to feed Silas. In , Atticus Shane ventured to the island to locate the well.

Shane spilled his blood in order to see his wife Caitlin again. He was then told what is needed in order to raise Silas, who could in turn revive her and his son, Sam.

In We All Go a Little Mad Sometimes , Professor Shane tells his students the story of the world's very first immortal, Silas, and his extremely tragic fate, as well as a legend that mentions his return.

His tombstone is donated to Whitmore College , but it is unknown who donated it. It is thought to be the world's first tombstone. He also lies by telling her that Silas had created a Cure for immortality before he was imprisoned by Qetsiyah , and that he took the Cure with him; the Cure was actually created by Qetsiyah.

To get the Cure, they must complete the map of the Hunter's Mark , which will also reveal a spell to enter Silas' tomb, where Silas and the Cure were hidden. He explains, " Silas will revive those who are sacrificed to bring him back.

Kol is struck with fear and starts rambling to Rebekah on how Silas will kill them all and states that Silas would bring hell on earth. Kol then decides to kill Shane to make sure Silas cannot be unearthed, unaware that Bonnie cast a spell to protect Shane. They had revealed to him a prophecy in which Silas' return would result in "the end of all time. He reveals he has traveled with many witches in his lifetime. The witches he met and traveled with in the 14th and 17th century knew about Silas.

The witches he knew in 's New Orleans also did. All of them told him about the destruction Silas will bring if freed. This leads to Kol shooting down Elena 's attempts to refute Silas' existence or power. This fear also leads to Kol betraying their truce by attempting to chop off Jeremy 's arms so that the map on the Hunter's Mark will never be completed; which leads to his death at Jeremy's hands, with Elena's assistance. She states that according to Shane , Silas asked Qetsiyah for help in a spell for immortality.

When she found out Silas' plan to give immortality to another woman , she buried him, knowing that she couldn't kill him. Silas refused to give Qetsiyah the satisfaction of winning, so he stayed buried, not taking the Cure.

The Five were created to kill vampires and find Silas. Once the members of The Five were to find Silas, they were to wake him, force him to take the Cure, and kill him. At the end of the episode, Shane had everything he needed and was on his way to freeing Silas. Bonnie cuts herself on the way down, and her blood drips down the hole onto Silas.

When Bonnie does the spell, the floor partially caves in, pinning down Shane, which breaks his leg, and opening the tomb. Bonnie goes in with a plan to get the Cure , and leave Silas where he is, but he creates an illusion of Grams using a connection from the blood she dripped on him.

Grams tries to convince her to free Silas. Jeremy tells Bonnie that if her Grams were there he would be able to see her, and that Silas is messing with her mind. Bonnie realizes this is how Silas was able to control Shane with visions of his dead wife, Caitlin Shane. Bonnie and Jeremy reach Silas, and quickly realize he is fossilized with the Cure in his hands. Bonnie tells Jeremy that in order to get the Cure, they must feed him blood.

They are attacked by Vaughn , who stabs Bonnie , and tries to force Jeremy to feed Silas. Katherine pretending to be Elena comes to his rescue and knocks Vaughn out, but instead of helping Bonnie, Katherine uses Jeremy to feed Silas. When Silas begins to move his arms, he grabs Jeremy's neck, taking his hands off of the box with the Cure, which allows Katherine to grab it and get away.

Bonnie lays motionless on the ground, watching Jeremy be fed on when Silas snaps his neck. In Stand By Me , Silas had removed his mask, and using some unknown abilities, took the form of Shane as he left his tomb.

He also took Bonnie with him, healing her while creating an illusion that makes him appear to be Shane. He explained that everyone Shane had sacrificed would be brought back, but when Bonnie still didn't want to go along with his plan, Silas told her that Jeremy was drained of blood and killed.

Bonnie, emotionally shattered by the news, started to lose control of her magic and Silas used this moment of vulnerability to tell her that she can bring Jeremy back.

He explained that she needed to help Silas because when Silas became an immortal, he lost his ability to do magic. He continued to say that the only reason Shane had been teaching Bonnie expression was so she could do Silas' work for him, since he was no longer a witch. He explained how Shane had completed the first two points of the Expression Triangle by orchestrating the death of 12 Town Council member's at Pastor Young's farm and the death of 12 hybrids in the underground tunnels below the old Lockwood Estate, and explained that there was still one more massacre left to complete the triangle.

He justified the massacres by assuring her that the humans used would find peace and that the supernatural creatures used would be brought back.

Bonnie still refused to help him, but Silas used her grief over Jeremy and her Grams against her, creating a vision of Jeremy asking for help. This gave Silas the power he needed over her to do his bidding.

Silas, sent Bonnie to Damon so she could be taken back home, where Bonnie told her friends of what "Shane" told her. She explained to her grief-stricken friends that to get Jeremy back she will have to complete the Expression Triangle , which had already begun to form thanks to Shane's earlier orchestrated massacres.

Bonnie had learned from Silas that Qetsiyah had created The Other Side so if he did take the Cure and die of old age while buried, he would be trapped in that supernatural purgatory. This is what caused him to create his plan to be awoken; he wanted Bonnie a descendant of Qetsiyah to use the power of the Expression Triangle to destroy the veil separating the living world from the Other Side, which would bring back every dead supernatural being, and make the Other Side nonexistent.

Then, he wanted to take the Cure and die so that he could be reunited with the woman he loved. Bonnie, who wanted to bring back Jeremy and Grams, tried to convince her friends to get on board by telling them that their dead supernatural friends and family could come back too, and that they just had to finish the triangle by killing 12 more people.

The group was shocked that Bonnie was willing to kill 12 people to bring back their loved ones, which would also bring back all of their dead enemies who were vampires, witches, werewolves, and hybrids. Silas, still posing as Shane , appeared when Bonnie returned home and asked her if she told her friends.

When she told him of their unwillingness to help, he told her that they were just afraid. Meanwhile, on the island, Rebekah came across the real Shane, who she believed to be dead until he grabbed her and frantically muttered one word: "Silas.

In Bring It On , it was discovered that Silas had been taking entire blood bank stocks of blood from several hospitals in order to sate his hunger, having been desiccated and deprived of blood for 2, years.

It is this discovery that causes Stefan to realize that Silas followed them back from the Island where they found him, and that he is in the Mystic Falls area. In Because the Night , Silas continued to try and harness Bonnie 's expression. He had revealed to her that he was not really Shane , and she questioned why he wouldn't reveal his true form. Wanting to continue the charade of being Shane, Silas used his guise to convince Bonnie's father that she must continue her lessons with him in order to help her control her magic.

He explained to Bonnie that the final part of the Expression Triangle they were forming required killing twelve witches. He told her that the witches would all link themselves together in an attempt to remove the expression from her being; he emphasized that she endure them until they were all linked, and once they did, she was to overpower them and kill them.

His plan didn't go perfectly, however, due to interference from Caroline Forbes , who saw that Aja , the witch who was cleansing Bonnie, was about to kill her after learning of her involvement with Silas, and Caroline quickly stabs her, causing all twelve witches to die in succession. After the triangle was completed, Silas confronted Klaus , now only needing the Cure to complete his plans.

Klaus refused to give up its location the Cure was in Katherine 's possession; her plan was to use it to buy her freedom from Klaus, and Silas threatened the hybrid , telling him to bring him the Cure.

Klaus tried to attack him but Silas caught him off guard, stabbing the stake into his back, just below his heart. Silas snapped the tip of the stake off, leaving it embedded in Klaus' back before reminding him to bring him the cure and leaving the scene.

Later, it was revealed that Silas had not actually staked Klaus, but it was in fact an illusion in his mind that was so powerful it took Klaus' focusing solely on his anger and frustration toward Caroline in order to overcome it.

In Pictures of You , Silas appeared in Stefan 's, Damon 's, Jeremy 's and in Rebekah 's form, all in a ploy to get Bonnie on his side and get to maneuver his obstacles out of the way as he tries to secure the Cure from Elijah. He succeeds, in getting the cure, but fails to get Bonnie on his side.

Silas tries to convince her that they should work together, But Bonnie gets angry and makes him get out of her head. Silas is then later confronted by an empowered Bonnie , who has embraced her magical powers and become confident in her abilities. At the end, a part of his face can be seen, looking scarred and disfigured. He explains that it is a punishment from Qetsiyah , which he referred to as "Qetsiyah's revenge"--if she couldn't have him, she didn't want anyone to be able to love him either.

In She's Come Undone , Silas appears as Klaus to torment Caroline in order to find Bonnie , who is hiding from him while trying to come up with her own plan. When Caroline confesses she doesn't know where she is, Silas still as Klaus plants an illusion in her mind that he staked her in the heart. Then when Caroline wakes up, he appears as Matt and Klaus and then his monstrous form in the mirror of her car, while threatening to kill her mother if she doesn't help him find Bonnie.

When Bonnie arrives at Caroline's house, she sees Silas posing as Sheriff Forbes and then returns to his disfigured form. Caroline runs to find her mother injured by Silas, and he warns Bonnie not to break her promise to destroy The Other Side. He tells her that her promise is binding and she must answer to him if she breaks it. He then tells her not to hide from him again. In The Walking Dead , Silas realizes what Bonnie is planning to do, and causes Caroline to hallucinate that she must cut herself over and over.

He takes Caroline's form in order to find her, pretending to be Caroline to Stefan as well until he can get Bonnie alone. When he does, he taunts her by revealing that she never gained the ability to force him out of her head. He's been manipulating her the whole time, including making her believe that he was a deformed monster.

He tells her that Qetsiyah will never come to help her put him down, and that she either has the choice of destroying the veil, and allowing the supernatural dead to walk the earth, or have Silas walking the earth. He then causes Bonnie to believe that she was suffocating from lack of oxygen, before going to Damon in the form of Alaric in order to get Damon to convince her to help. However, Damon's knowledge of the tunnel routes allows him to realize it was Silas.

He attacks Silas, and holds him in chains, with Bonnie coming to attack him before he could react. Bonnie then used Expression to petrify him. Stefan and Damon then planned to dump his body in the ocean, and Alaric helps Damon put Silas' body into the trunk of his car and hands Damon the Cure from Silas' pocket. In Graduation , it's revealed that Silas was freed from his stone encasement when Bonnie died, after she closed the veil along with her ghost. Silas shows his true form, which is exactly the same as Stefan's.

Silas stabs Stefan and asks him if he knows what it feels like to be starved for 2, years before locking Stefan in a safe and dumping him at the bottom of the quarry. Over the course of the summer, Silas drank vast amounts of blood, drinking from the people of Mystic Falls casually before wiping their memories that he was ever even there.

Later, he continued moving around freely in his true form, tricking Damon into believing he was Stefan and reading Damon's thoughts to find the location of Katherine Pierce until he touched Jeremy , whose remnants of the Hunter's Mark could sense that it was Silas. He left, going to the Salvatore house where a now cured Katherine was taking a bath. He initially pretended to be Stefan until he let slip who he was. She fled, getting Jeremy and Damon to help her escape.

Silas spoke with Damon, bringing up the fact that Stefan was missing and telling him that he'd only bring him to Stefan's location if he got Jeremy to bring Katherine back. Damon called Jeremy, deciding to comply with Silas' demands but Katherine escaped Jeremy, much to Silas' annoyance. More FS Movie News ». View all Movies Sites. More TV News ». More FS Entertainment News ». View all TV Shows Sites. More Reality TV News ». View all Celebrities Sites. More Fantasy News ».

More Gaming News ». More ESports News ». More Food News ». Stefan relived every murder he committed, and everyone he ever compelled began to remember the things Stefan wanted them to forget. He was arrested for his past crimes Caroline made the charges disappear by erasing the victims' memories and shot by Dorian Williams, whose father and sister Stefan Ripper-ed.

During the series finale, Stefan and Damon fought to save Mystic Falls from Katherine and from being incinerated by Hellfire. Their plan meant one brother would have to sacrifice himself.

Fans thought it was Damon, but they were shocked to learn Stefan injected his blood into Damon at the last minute and took his place. Stefan died a hero much to the dismay of Stelena fans and joined his best friend Lexi in the afterlife, though crucially, Stefan got to say goodbye to Elena after his death. When the Cure first surfaced during season 4, Damon told Elena he couldn't imagine anything more miserable than being human.

Even when Damon offered to take the Cure during season 6, Elena and Stefan doubted whether Damon would regret the decision. Once Dobrev departed the series , and her character was laid to rest for 60 years give or take , it seemed Damon would remain forever and always a vampire. But like Stefan and Katherine, somebody chose for him. During the series finale, both Salvatore brothers were willing to sacrifice themselves to save Mystic Falls, but Stefan injected his older brother with his blood and took Damon's place.

Stefan's death ensured both Katherine and Hell were destroyed, and it was a pivotal moment in Stefan's quest for redemption.

Presumably, Damon made a better human than anyone anticipated. While the Vampire Diaries finale's final moments confirmed he and Elena lived a happy life together, details were scarce. Legacies references Damon , establishing he's married to Elena now the town's doctor , and they likely have at least one child. Apparently, they've managed to keep knowledge of the Cure from spreading despite Stefan's prediction in season 6 that Damon would be under constant threat from those seeking the Cure for themselves.

After a sufficient amount of time passed, Caroline would give it to her. Silas appeared as Elena and explained that the spell that had turned him into stone was broken when the witch Bonnie who bound it died. And then the big reveal: Silas created the immortality spell 2, years ago. He could never die, so nature needed to find a balance — a version of him that could be killed. A shadow self. Then he staked him in the stomach, asked him if he knew what it was like to starve for 2, years, put him in the large safe, and pushed it into the quarry.

So not only was Stefan buried alive, the safe filled up with water as it sank. Everyone will just think Stefan has left town. So will Silas pose as Stefan now in Mystic Falls, or will he go off to do whatever in another city?

Does this mean everything Silas said about wanting to die and be with his one true love was a lie? Regardless, Wesley should have fun next season. She, however, wanted Damon to take it when she saw that Vaughn had shot him with a werewolf venom-laced bullet borrowed from Connor.