For centuries, the supernatural world had chased myths of the Cure, believing it to be a potion, an elixir hidden away with the world’s first immortal, Silas. The Salvatore brothers, Klaus, Elena, Bonnie, Rebekah, and their rivals all sought it—each for their own desires. But no amount of research, no prophecy from the Brotherhood of the Five, had uncovered the truth.

The Cure was not a vial. It was a person.

Two thousand years ago, Qetsiyah had crafted a punishment crueler than mere death. She did not simply create a way to undo Silas’s immortality—she forged it into living flesh. A being bound by magic, existing only to strip away what was never meant to be. Sealed away with Silas, this person had lain dormant, neither fully alive nor dead, waiting for the moment their purpose would be fulfilled.

But when the tomb is finally opened, when centuries of dust settle and ancient magic stirs once more, the world learns a terrible truth:

The Cure has a mind of their own.

And after two millennia of imprisonment, they are done being used.