Keys to the Repository (blue bloods)
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Sorboba, Sarina: Incredibly tall Eastern European model who was much favored by fashion designers
Stewart, Brooks: Conclave Elder who perished during the Rio massacre. Had a coughing fit when Kingsley Martin appears, alive and unharmed, during a Conclave meeting.
St. James, Grayson: A Blue Blood teen killed during the New
York slayings
Sully: Mimi and Jack’s chauffeur
Tilton, Elizabeth (Lizbet): The event planner Mimi hired to plan her bonding to Jack; famous for her lavish events
Tompkins, Abe: An Elder, once emeritus on the Conclave, called back to duty after the slaughter in Rio. As a former
Venator he represents Domus Veritas, House of the Venators.
Vanderbilt, Ava: Younger sister of Caroline and maid of honor at her sister’s wedding to Lord Burlington in 1872
Vanderbilt, Caroline: Eldest daughter of Admiral and Mrs.
Vanderbilt who marries Lord Burlington after the disappearance of his fiancée, Maggie Stanford
Vanderbilt, Admiral Sloane and Elizabeth: Parents of the
Vanderbilt girls, Ava and Caroline
Van Horn, Daisy: Blue Blood bride who has a destination bonding to Toby Abeville in Bali
Van Horn, Dashiell: Conclave Elder who persished during the
Rio massacre. Daisy is his daughter.
Verdugo, Balthazar: The designer at Muffie Astor Carter’s annual Hamptons fashion show
Whitney, Alice: Conclave Elder who represents the House of the Seven Sisters
Wilcox, Patrice: The stern, no-nonsense, all-black-wearing fashion director of Chic
Partial List of Duchesne Students
Blue Blood Students
Applegate, Cicely: Part of Mimi Force’s crew of clones
Crandall, Piper: The school’s biggest gossip and a valuable
Repository intern
Cutting, Bryce: Good friend to Jack Force; member of the lacrosse team
Forbes, Lucy: Head Girl. Senior (Repository Record #303 misidentified as a Red Blood, possibly due to Venator Force’s dislike of her). Reported that Mimi abused her human familiars by not waiting the mandatory forty-eight-hour rest period before feeding on them again.
Frost, Willow: Brannon Frost’s daughter
Harris, Lissy: A friend of Mimi’s and an attendant at her wedding in Newport during an earlier cycle
Kemble, Susan (“Soos”)
Kernochan, Francis (“Froggy”)
Kip, James Andrew ( Jamie): Red Blood Allison Ellison’s boy friend; also dated Ava Breton, another Red Blood
King, Rufus
Langdon, Bozeman (“Booze”)
McMillan, Blair: His father owns the largest record label in the world
Robinson, Bennet: Mimi supposedly threw up on his terrace during a DisOrientation party her freshman year
Sheridan, Katie: A friend of Mimi’s
Tuckerman, Carter: Junior Committee secretary
Van Rensslaer, Stella
Red Blood Students
While the students at Duchesne mostly come from old Blue
Blood families, a number of Red Bloods have also been allowed to enroll. Most of the human families are either very wealthy or connected to the Blue Bloods in some way. There are also students who have been granted financial aid and scholarships, in order to make the school more “diverse.”
Breton, Ava: A very popular Red Blood in Bliss’s class, whose friends are almost all Blue Bloods, though she doesn’t know it.
She was Jamie Kip’s familiar and girlfriend before he ditched her for Allison Ellison.
Ellison, Allison (Ally Elli): A Red Blood from Duchesne and
Jamie Kip’s girlfriend and human familiar. A scholarship kid from Queens, she is nonetheless very popular for her outerborough “exoticism.” Ally told Bliss about Dylan’s memorial service and the drug overdose cover-up of his death.
Mullins, Kitty: Jack’s human familiar; however, it appears he did not make use of the relationship very much, as Mimi describes him as always “tired and drained.”
Walsh, Haley: A girl in Bliss’s Ancient Civilizations class who thinks “Senior year is going to rock!”
Partial List of Duchesne Faculty and Administration
Mr. Anthony: A boyish recent Yale grad and (overly) enthusiastic chemistry teacher. Dismissed from Duchesne for getting a student pregnant.
Mr. Korgan: Mr. Anthony’s boring, old replacement
Cecil Malloy: Dean of Students at Duchesne. Not an alum but
“a very adequate facsimile.”
Mr. Orion: A mustachioed, curly-haired Brown graduate with a penchant for oversized sweaters. He teaches Ethics and
English.
Madame Fraley: French teacher who looks like she’s been at the school since the 1880s (most likely a Blue Blood Enmortal)
APPENDIX B:
A Partial List of Canine Familiars
Canine familiars are part of a vampire’s soul transferred into the physical world to protect young Blue Bloods until they come into complete control of their powers. Canine protectors routinely merge back into the Blue Blood upon completion of their mission. The current generation of Blue Bloods is the most talented yet, and because none of the canine familiars have made an appearance since the attack at the cathedral, we may conclude that perhaps the young Blue Bloods are in close to full possession of their abilities. In the past, traumatic events have shown to make a young vampire grow up more quickly than expected.
BEAUTY
Schuyler Van Alen
Bloodhound (highest rank)
According to Schuyler’s journal (left in the 101st Street mansion and discovered by the Repository upon her disappearance), Beauty followed her home one day.
MISS ELLIE
Bliss Llewellyn
Chihuahua
Bliss’s Chihuahua canine familiar, named after her favorite character on Dallas
PATCH
Jack Force
Bloodhound (highest rank)
Jack’s canine familiar, a bloodhound he found the same evening that Mimi found Pookie
POOKIE
Mimi Force
Chow chow
Mimi’s canine familiar, a chow she found on the beach at the
Hamptons
SNOW WHITE
Aggie Carondolet
Chihuahua
Aggie Carondolet’s Chihuahua canine familiar, which she liked to dress in outfits that matched her own
APPENDIX C:
Dictionary of Terms
Author’s Note: All words in italic are from the Sacred
Language.
Abomination: Silver Bloods are called Abominations because they are vampires who have sucked the blood of their own kind and consumed their spirit. They carry the tortured souls of their victims in one body.
Absed Abysso : “Go back to Hell.” A command to a banish a
Silver Blood back to its rightful home
Adventurers Club: An elite Blue Blood organization founded in the early eighteenth century as a meeting place for likeminded globe-trotters eager to document and share their research and theories on natural and geographic phenomenon, located across from the Knickerbocker Club and Metropolitan
Museum of Art on Fifth Avenue
Advoco Adiuvo : An invocation that Schuyler uses, per
Cordelia’s instructions, so Lawrence will recognize her in
Venice
Alienari: A common trick of the Silver Bloods, used to disguise themselves as someone else
Altithronus: Audio recordings kept in the Repository of History
Animadverto: The vampire ability of “intelligent sight,” or an immense and perfect photographic memory so powerful a vampire has the ability to read and remember entire libraries
Aperio Oris: An incantation demanding that one reveal oneself
Argento Croatus: Silver Blood
Bal des Vampires: A party and congress held every other year by the Eu
ropean Coven. It was to be the party to end all parties at the Hôtel Lambert before it was given over to its new owners.
The celebration was infiltrated by Silver Bloods hunting for
Schuyler.
Bivio: A crossroads; a primal source of strength and power
Black Fire: The only thing that can destroy the sangre azul and kill an immortal vampire
Black Spells: Spells pertaining to the Dark Matter
Blade of Justice: Michael’s sword, one of only two archangels’ swords in the world, the other being Gabrielle’s. Only an archangel’s sword can kill another archangel.
Blood Bond: The holy matrimony and immortal bond between two vampires whose souls were twinned in Heaven.
Occasionally vampire twins are born as siblings in the human world. Bondmates are obligated to renew their vows in every cycle with a ceremony, usually in their twenty-first year, when they have come into their memories and powers and can recognize their spouse in his or her new physical shell. All it takes is for the couple to exchange the vow “I give myself to you” to become irrevocably one for that cycle. Only one couple in Blue Blood history has broken this bond—when Gabrielle forsook Michael for her human familiar.
After the bond, the vampires are stronger, but if the bond is broken, the betrayed vampire may bring the other to a blood trial, to face a sentence of death.
Blood-lock: The most powerful security system in the Blue
Blood arsenal; it only opens for the blood of an angel
Blood Manifest (Transformation): The process in which a vampire’s blue blood cells, their vampire DNA, starts to take over, typically around age fifteen. The fangs grow in, the body switches from needing nourishment from food to needing nourishment from human blood, memories of previous cycles start to come back, and specific powers begin to manifest. The process can make the young vampire weak, and may include memory shock, dizziness, and sickness.
Blood Marks: The blue marks that appear on the arms of young vampires during their Transformation. They look like a sapphire light shining through the skin. The marks are a map of the vampire’s personal histories—the sangre azul asserting itself.
Blood Trial: The process in which the most serious offenses against the Code of the Vampires are resolved. It requires the blood and memories of the accused to be consumed in order to tell true memory from false. The trial can only be performed by
Gabrielle, as one of the highest-ranking Venators. Schuyler inherited her mother’s gift. The Blood Trial involves a great risk of temptation for the one who performs it. If the accused is found guilty, the offender’s blood will be burned in complete destruction.
Blue Bloods: Vampires: fallen angels doomed to live their eternal lives on Earth. They have superhuman speed, hyperintelligence, a photographic memory, and heightened senses. They live by the Code of the Vampires, which is a pledge to bring peace and beauty to the world. They do not abuse their human familiars or feed on their own kind.
Book of Laws : The Blue Blood record of all investigations, judgments, and punishments
Breath of God: The ability of any Blue Blood to bring light to the tunnels of Lutetia with a wave of the hand above a torch
Burning: The burning the blood of a vampire, thus destroying the immortal blood and all its memories
The Call: The hypnotizing seduction a vampire can use to call a human to him or her for the Caerimonia Osculor
Caerimonia Osculor (the Sacred Kiss): The regulated ritual of feeding on a human familiar’s blood. There are stringent rules, as no human is ever to be abused or fully drained. The
Code of the Vampires forbids performing the kiss on another vampire. The Sacred Kiss marks a human as the vampire’s own—they will always be bonded.
Candidus Suffragium (the White Vote): A vote for the leadership of the Coven; it must be unanimous. The White Vote should only be called if a Conclave member feels that the Regis is not leading the Coven properly. It has been called in America only three times: in Plymouth, after Roanoke, when John Carver attempted to unseat Myles Standish; in New York, after the
Silver Blood was called to the Repository, and Lawrence van
Alen replaced Charles Force; and by Forsyth Llewellyn, after
Paris, where Mimi Force prevented a unanimous vote.
The Code of the Vampires (the Code, or the Blue Blood
Code): A stringent rule of ethics, not unlike the Ten
Commandments. The Blue Bloods hope the Code will help bring about their eventual return to Paradise. It states that humans are not to be dominated or toyed with, but to be respected, so that the Blue Bloods will bring light and harmony and peace to this world.
Compulsion: A seed of an idea that can be placed by a vampire using the glom
The Conclave of Elders (the Conclave): The Coven’s highest leadership. The Conclave makes decisions for the future of the race.
Conduit: A Blue Blood’s human assistant and caretaker who helps him (or her) navigate the human world and keep the Blue
Blood existence a secret. A position of exalted servitude, many
Conduit families serve their Blue Blood families for hundreds of years as doctors, lawyers, accountants, financiers, and even best friends. Every member of a vampire family is assigned a
Conduit at birth, but many have let go of their Conduits in recent years. If a vampire expires, a Conduit is given two choices: work in the Repository, or have his or her memory erased.
The Conspiracy: A subset of the Committee, dedicated to keeping the existence of the Blue Bloods a secret from the Red
Bloods by spreading false information and legends. Many of the myths are rooted in truth.
Consummo Alienari : The little known fifth factor of the glom. It allows complete control over another’s mind, subsuming the other’s will. For Red Bloods it means instant death; for vampires irrevocable paralysis.
Contineo: A spell that holds a ward in place
Corruption: The process by which a Blue Blood becomes a
Silver Blood. By marking a Blue Blood vampire with the Sacred
Kiss, the Silver Blood poisons the sangre azul, turning the Blue
Blood into a monster like itself. It is not an immediate transformation however, and the poisoning is dependent on the amount of blood drawn from the victim. The process can be reversed, or stopped with adequate intervention. The
Corruption is complete once the infected Blue Blood takes a fellow Blue Blood vampire to Full Consumption, taking another immortal spirit into its own consciousness.
Coven: A group of vampires living in an area and registered with the Blue Blood community (ex: the New York Coven, the
European Coven)
Croatan: An ancient name for the Silver Bloods, meaning
“Abomination”
Cycle of Expression: What vampires call the length of their lifetimes. After approximately one hundred years, the physical shell expires, leaving only a single drop of blue blood, which will be implanted in a vampire woman when it is time to call up the spirit for another cycle. Between cycles the vampire rests, evolving, until his or her next Expression. The closely monitored cycles are key to the Blue Bloods’ continued invisibility to the world.
Dimidium Cognatus: A being who is half human, half vampire.
Unlike the other Blue Bloods, this is a new spirit without a past.
The only example in current history is Schuyler Van Alen.
Dissipation: Another term for Full Consumption
Dormi: A spell to put someone instantly to sleep
Elder: The title of Elder is given to a Blue Blood who has served the Committee well for many cycles. This title is usually given upon the one hundredth Cycle of Expression.
Emeritus Member: A Conclave member who has retired. Many were called back to duty after the Rio massacre.
Enmortal: Vampires who choose not to rest and keep the same physical shell over many centuries. They are exempt from the reincarnation cycles; they also do not require the p
roximity of other vampires in order to live. Some Elders are Enmortals, but it requires a special dispensation from the Conclave.
Eversor Lumen (Light-Destroyer): Azrael’s sword, which she receives at every bonding to Abbadon. To be used only in direst need, to be kept hidden from foes, and to strike to kill.
Eversor Orbis (World-Breaker): Abbadon’s sword, received at every bonding to Azrael. To be used only in direst need, to be kept hidden from foes, and to strike to kill. Unlike the archangels’ swords, which are a bright white flame, this sword is dark gray and edged with silver, with terrifying black marks. It looks more like a primitive ax than a sword.
Evolution: The passive resting stage of the vampire’s life, while the spirit awaits its next incarnation. The foremost mission of the vampire race is to evolve to a point where God can forgive them and welcome them back into Heaven.
Expulsion: What the vampires call their experience of “death.”
The expulsion of the spirit from the physical world.
Facio Valiturus Fortis: A blessing meaning, “Be strong and brave”
The Four Hundred: According to the Code of the Vampires, only four hundred vampires from each coven are allowed to express at one time. There was some confusion in Blue
Bloods: Repository Records #101, which incorrectly stated that there are only Four Hundred vampires in the world. This is wrong and a clerical mistake on the part of overworked
Repository scribes.
Four Hundred Ball: Known as the Patrician Ball in the nineteenth century: the vampire-only, multimillion-dollar party of the year. A tradition that reaches back centuries, where new
Committee members are presented to Blue Blood society. An event that celebrates status, beauty, power, money, and blood
—Blue Blood.
Frango: A counterspell that breaks a ward on a place
Full Consumption: When a human or vampire is drained of all of his or her blood through the Sacred Kiss. To do this to a human is the biggest taboo of the Code of the Vampires; to do it to another vampire is Abomination.
The Gates of Hell: The seven gates forged by the Blue Blood
Order of the Seven to secure the Paths of the Dead. They are meant to keep Lucifer and the Silver Blood demons imprisoned in the underworld. Their physical manifestation in the glom appears to be twelve feet wide and forged into the crust of the earth, but the true barrier is the spirit and protection of Michael.