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Cutler. Other families who have held this position include the

Stewart family, who derived their last name from having held this post for many centuries.

Domus Domina: House of the Gray Lady, also known more commonly as the House of Records The position in the council that oversees the records of the cycles of

Expression, Expulsion, and Evolution. Currently represented by

Minerva Morgan, this seat was formerly filled by the Carondolet family.

Domus Lamia: House of the Vampyres The House of the

Vampyres oversees vampire-human relations, and its representative is also the head of the Conspiracy

Subcommittee, which keeps the false myths and misleading legends about the Blue Bloods alive in Red Blood society.

Currently represented by Seymour Corrigan, who is cousin to

Edmund Oelrich, the Chief Warden who perished in the Rio massacre.

Domus Fortis Valerius Incorruptus: House of the Pure

Blood, of the Uncorrupted, of the Valiant and the Strong, Protector of the Garden, Commander of the Lord’s Armies

The seat on the council given to the family of the reigning Regis, since the beginning of time the seat has been held by Michael and Gabrielle’s line; the Van Alen line is currently represented by Mimi Force since Charles Force’s disappearance.

THE COMMITTEE

“The Committee” is Blue Blood shorthand for the vast number of charitable causes, educational institutions, and foundations that are run by the Coven membership. The Committee has been responsible for the preservation of some of New York’s most important landmarks and has funded many of the city’s most prestigious cultural institutions. Under its official public name, the New York Blood Bank, it has raised money for blood research, HIV and AIDS, and hemophilia. To outsiders, it appears snobby, cliquish, and exclusive to the extreme; to insiders, it is sovereign.

Committee members are called Wardens. All Blue Blood families registered with the Coven are invited to join; most individuals receive their membership invitation around the age of fifteen, coinciding with their Transformation into immortal.

Under his tenure as Regis, Lawrence Van Alen opened the

Committee membership to include human Conduits; this policy was quickly revoked by Forsyth Llewellyn. It has yet to be reinstated.

The Committee’s Chief Warden is in charge of educating and ushering the newest generation of vampires to adulthood and imbuing them with the spirit of the vampires’ mission on

Earth: to bring light, truth, beauty, and art, and to bring Paradise to their Earthly home.

APPENDIX A:

List of Secondary Characters

Abeville, Toby: Blue Blood groom who gets bonded in Bali to

Daisy Van Horn.

Adriana: Housekeeper at the Duchesne school

Almeida, Don Alfonso (“Alfie”): An Elder from the South

American Coven, his family is part of the Blue Blood contingent that moved to Brazil in 1808, when the Portuguese royal family and many nobles chose to flee from, rather than fight, the Red

Blood conqueror Napoleon. The Rio Conclave said he went missing during his yearly sojourn into the Andes, and it was suspected that he had fallen victim to a Silver Blood attack. He returned seemingly unharmed, but we now believe he had been

Corrupted in a Silver Blood ruse to bring the New York

Conclave to Rio for slaughter. He hosted the dinner party where they were all murdered.

Almeida, Doña Beatrice: The wife of Alfonso Almeida, suspected to have also been Corrupted by the Silver Bloods

Amory, Summer: A Blue Blood debutante found drained by a

Silver Blood in her penthouse apartment in Trump Tower. Her last name is frequently misspelled as “Armory” in the Repository

Files (interns: please correct immediately).

Anders, George: One of the former Conduits who now serves as a librarian at the Repository

Anderson, Christopher: Lawrence Van Alen’s human Conduit for almost seventy years. After Lawrence’s murder on

Corcovado, Anderson chose freedom and forced amnesia rather than a position as a Repository scribe, but not before sending Schuyler and Oliver to Countess Isabelle for help.

Andrews, James, M.D.: Dr. Andrews was the doctor in charge of Dylan Ward at Transitions rehabilitation center.

Anka (No Last Name Given): The designer of Stitched for

Civilization, a high-end jeans line. She hired Schuyler and Bliss for an advertising campaign.

Archibald, Josiah Rockefeller: Retired from the Conclave for years, he was called back to serve as Inquisitor after the Rio

Massacre. As one of the seven ruling Wardens, he represents

Domus Magnificat, the House of Riches.

Bank, Charlie: Another teenage vampire sent to Transitions for

“rehab” during his Transformation

Barlow, Ambrose: One of the oldest living Elders in this cycle, Ambrose Barlow was relieved from emeritus status and called back to duty in the Conclave after the Rio Massacre. In Rome he was Caligula’s foreman Brittanicus before Caligula’s

Corruption was discovered. In The Van Alen Legacy

(Repository Record #404), when Bliss Llewellyn heard Forsyth and the Visitor mocking him, she assumed he must be one of the good guys and sent him an anonymous letter warning him that Forsyth was dangerous. Though Ambrose shared this letter with Minerva Morgan and Mimi, he was not strong enough to vote against Forsyth in the White Vote. He represents Domus

Stella Aquillo, House of the Northern Star.

Barlow, Margery: Elder emeritus, wife of Ambrose

Campbell, Superintendent: Police official assigned to investigate the disappearance of Maggie Stanford

Carondolet, Augusta (“Aggie”): A Blue Blood student at

Duchesne and one of Mimi’s crew of clones (platinum hair, spoiled-brattitude), Aggie was the first victim of the New York slayings. The Red Bloods were told her death was caused by a drug overdose, but in reality she was found fully drained in a back room at Block 122.

Carondolet, Cushing and Sloane: Aggie’s parents; they were kicked out of the Conclave for a time following her death for showing anti-Committee sentiment and calling for the White

Vote. They returned to serve on the council after Lawrence Van

Alen was made Regis. The couple perished during the Rio massacre.

Carter, Muriel (“Muffie”) Astor: One of most popular Blue

Blood socialites, she was educated at Miss Porter’s and

Vassar and enjoyed a successful career in public relations before marrying Dr. Sheldon Carter. She is the hostess of an annual fashion show at her Hamptons estate, benefiting the

New York Blood Bank, where Bliss made her return to modeling after the tragedy in Rio.

Carter, Sheldon, M.D.: A Blue Blood plastic surgeon and

Muffie Astor’s husband

Castañeda, Don Alejandro: Blue Blood heir to his father’s sugar and beverage fortune, whose bonding to Danielle Russell was planned by Lizbet Tilton

Chantal: The booking editor of Chic magazine; a small, short, pinched-looking woman with a pixie haircut and cat’s-eye glasses

Chen, Dehua: A young vampire from the Blue Blood coven based in Shanghai. Xi Wangmu, Angel of Immortality, was presented at the Four Hundred Ball along with her twin, Deming

Chen.

Chen, Deming: A young vampire from the Blue Blood Coven based in Shanghai. Kuan Yin, Angel of Mercy, was presented at the Four Hundred Ball in New York. Twin to Dehua Chen.

Corrigan, Seymour: A Warden emeritus called back to duty in the Conclave after Rio. He led the proceedings at the White

Vote called by Forsyth Llewellyn.

Coubertin, Baron de: The baron served as human Conduit to the Countess of Paris and was the key to an audience with her.

The demon Leviathan shape-shifted into his form at the Bal des