Мелисса де ла Круз - Keys to the Repository

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 European 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.