Caroline Forbes is a character from the TV show Legacies, which is a spinoff of The Vampire Diaries. She is the mother of two of the main characters of Legacies, but she was absent from the show for a long time. In the show, it was explained that Caroline was traveling around the world to find a way to stop a deadly family curse that her daughters were affected by. Caroline finally returned to the Salvatore School in the series finale of Legacies, where she took over as headmaster after Alaric left. Candice King, the actress who played Caroline, explained that she had taken a break from acting to start a family, which is why Caroline was absent from the show for so long. King also revealed that she would have returned to the show for a fifth season if it had been renewed.