“Nothing of consequence, dear sister, unless you’re more attached to that new plaything of yours than I thought. According to Amalia Giroux, Elijah’s pain is so intense that it is equal to the pain of one hundred vampires at once. It would kill a hundred normal vampires, but Elijah is strong enough to suffer through that agony for eternity. To offset Elijah’s suffering, we have to sacrifice those hundred vampires—an eye for an eye, in a manner of speaking.”

- The Originals: The Resurrection, Chapter 22