Fans didn't person to hold agelong to spot a large alteration from the publication arsenic the opening country of the Vampire Academy TV series—which sees respective members of the Dragomir household killed successful a car—takes spot before author Richelle Mead's communicative begins. 

"We realized there's a full play worthy of large accidental close present conscionable successful the past," co-creator Julie Plec told E! News. "And so, wherefore not usage that arsenic substance alternatively of arsenic memory? Why not statesman our communicative wherever we tin instrumentality vantage of immoderate of these large twists and turns?"

Co-creator Marguerite MacIntyre added that viewers tin expect to spot much changes, but that longtime fans volition "see everything that you emotion eventually."

"What we've done is played with time," she explained. "If you loved thing successful publication six, you mightiness spot it successful the archetypal season. If you emotion thing successful publication two, it mightiness beryllium successful play five."

The determination to statesman the TV bid with what were lone flashbacks successful the books allowed Plec and MacIntyre to deepen the relationship betwixt Rose (Sisi Stringer) and Lissa (Daniela Nieves), the show's astir important relationship. 

"So overmuch of Rose and Lissa's friendship—what they experienced increasing up, the things they saw, the trauma that happened to them, the losses they suffered—was told arsenic portion of their backstory," Plec explained to TVLine. "The archetypal happening we did was ask, 'Why would we privation to archer that arsenic a representation erstwhile we could ticker it hap successful existent time?' So we backed up the opening of the communicative successful the discourse of the girls' friendship, portion inactive doing different elements of the communicative that were circumstantial to the archetypal book."

After creating (and past expanding) The Vampire Diaries beingness for years, Plec said she was excited to found a caller supernatural mythology.

"We took each the unthinkable inspiration from Richelle Mead's books—all her rules, her mythology, her characters—and we folded that into this vampire dominion that we built from scratch," Plec told Entertainment Weekly. "I've ne'er done a satellite physique that intricate before. It was a cardinal times harder than thing I've done."

That includes creating a caller language, which was built by linguist Dave Peterson, who antecedently crafted Dothraki for Game of Thrones.

While St. Vladimir's Academy is acceptable heavy successful the woods of Montana successful the books, the showrunners decided to determination the supernatural schoolhouse to a much international, lush location. Additionally, the vampires' royal tribunal is nary longer successful Pennsylvania, moving some locations overseas.

"It's successful this beautiful, epic mounting due to the fact that we were capable to sprout it successful Spain," MacIntyre told TVLine. "So you get each this ocular candy, positive the full satellite comes unneurotic successful 1 dominion. Nothing is abstracted anymore. It's a chill mode to archer the story."

In their ngo to modernize Vampire Academy, which was archetypal published successful 2007, Plec and MacIntyre prioritized diversifying their cast. 

"No 1 told america that we needed to person azygous accents oregon immoderate benignant of taste uniformity," Plec said successful an interrogation with TVLine. "They fto america observe casting from each implicit the world, letting these actors beryllium their true, authentic selves, alternatively than conscionable casting based connected what it says the quality looks similar successful the books."

The bid made respective tweaks to the narration betwixt Rose and Dmitri (Kieran Moore), her guardian emotion interest, including changing their ages "because that was a small thing that we mightiness not bash now," MacIntyre told J-14. "She's inactive learning, but she's of age. He's besides not her teacher." (In the archetypal book, Rose is 17 and Dmitri is 24.)

While "it's each a small spot different," MacIntyre assured fans that " the romance is there...and really the extent of their narration is truly strong."

While the quality doesn't marque his debut until the 2nd publication successful Mead's series, the amusement is introducing fan-favorite Adrian early. E! News exclusively reported that Leo Woodall, who volition look successful the upcoming 2nd play of The White Lotus, is acceptable to play St. Vladimir's Academy's atrocious boy.

Adrian volition marque his debut successful occurrence six, and Peacock described the royal Moroi as "charming, devastatingly bully looking, and amusive loving," adding that helium has "a penchant for creation collecting, throwing ragers, and drinking excessively much…a flaw little to bash with addiction than a conflict to medicate an interior acheronian helium tries to hide."

Showrunner Julie Plec besides teased Adrian's accomplishment successful an interrogation with E! News this summer, referring to his signature enactment from the books, saying, "You mightiness perceive the operation 'Hello, small dhampir.'"