Lycanthrope characters of Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter
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This is an alphabetical listing of lycanthrope characters in Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series of novels.
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[edit] Werewolves
[edit] Cassandra
About Anita's height, with wavy, waist length brown hair and hazel eyes, Cassandra claimed to be a new werewolf in town. In reality, she was a member of a triumvirate with Sabin and Dominic and was part of a plot to sacrifice Anita, Jean-Claude and Richard in order to save Sabin from a fatal disease (which was brought on by not drinking human blood). Their scheme was unsuccessful, and Cassandra was killed by Harley. Harley was an associate of Edward's and was killed by Anita, who owed Edward a favor in return because of his death.
Appearance: The Killing Dance
[edit] Gwen
Sylvie Barker's girlfriend, a psychiatrist and a powerful werewolf, with long wavy blond hair and a dainty, "china doll" appearance.
Appearances: Burnt Offerings.
[edit] Jamil
Skoll, or first enforcer of the pack. Jamil is just shy of six feet, with rich brown skin and waist length hair woven with corn rows. He is an alpha werewolf with enough power to keep Richard out when he let his power wash over the pack. It is traditional for the new Ulfric to kill all his predecessors supporters but Richard let Jamil live to ease the transition. He is very loyal to Richard. Gwen also once commented that he was homophobic, that he thought 'every lesbian woman was a woman waiting for the right man'.
[edit] Jason Schuyler
Stripper at Guilty Pleasures, best friend to Nathaniel. Occasional lover of Anita, also Jean-Claude's pomme de sang. He's in his early 20's, a Gemini, has blonde "baby-fine" hair and sky blue eyes with a mischievous glint to them. Jason is also Anita's height and loves to tease her or flaunt his being a stripper. He has an intense fear of rotting vampires or anything similar due to being rotted on by two vampires (Bettina and Pallas) in a sexual context.
In Narcissus in Chains, Jason has cut his hair short "businessman short, and in the more recent novels, Jason has taken on a more complex role as Anita's friend and sometimes "fuck-buddy", showing a surprisingly quick and discerning mind, quick to assuage Anita's fears when she breaks down having tortured Deputy Thompson in Blue Moon, and to point out how she has neglecting Nathaniel at the beginning of Danse Macabre.
Appearances: The Lunatic Cafe, Bloody Bones, The Killing Dance, Burnt Offerings, Blue Moon, Narcissus in Chains, Cerulean Sins, Incubus Dreams, Danse Macabre.
[edit] Irving Griswold
A short, balding werewolf with a day job as an investigative reporter for a Saint Louis newspaper. Irving remains closeted at his day job in order to avoid discrimination, and frequently exchanges information with Anita. Irving was particularly persistent in his attempts to meet and interview Jean-Claude, but got more than he bargained for.
Appearances: Guilty Pleasures, The Laughing Corpse, Circus of the Damned, Narcissus in Chains.
[edit] King Lykaon of Arcadia
The pack refer to themselves as lukoi to honor King Lykaon, who Richard describes as an ancient king who did not hide that he was a werewolf. (In Greek myth, Lycaon was the first king of Arcadia and was cursed by Zeus to turn into a wolf).
Mentioned: The Killing Dance.
[edit] Marcus Fletcher
He was the former Ulfric of the werewolf pack. He was as a surgeon and one of the pack's only doctors. He had a lupa named Raina, who together helped put both werewolves and wereleopards into pornographic snuff films. He was killed by Richard in a battle for supremacy and eaten by the entire pack.
Appearances: The Lunatic Cafe, The Killing Dance.
[edit] Raina Wallis
Raina was a fantastically beautiful werewolf. She was the lupa of the werewolves, psychotic bitch, and an extreme sadist. She often used her sexuality to manipulate other wolves into doing her bidding. She and Marcus helped punish werewolves and wereleopards for refusing her by putting them into pornographic snuff films. She was shot and killed by Anita in The Killing Dance. Ironically, now her "munin" (spirit) now "haunts" Anita . Sometimes Anita calls her to get information or help with healing. In return Anita must do her a favor (usually something sexual).
Appearances: The Lunatic Cafe, The Killing Dance. In munin form in most of the books following The Killing Dance.
[edit] Rashida
Rashida is one of the werewolves attending Jean-Claude in Circus of the Damned. She is beautiful and slender, with dark skin and a close-cropped haircut.
Appearances: Circus of the Damned.
[edit] Richard Zeeman
Richard, the ulfric or "wolf-king" of the local werewolf pack, is one of Anita's primary love interests. See Richard Zeeman.
[edit] Shang-Da
Hati or second enforcer of the Pack. He is a tall chinese man with an intensity to his gaze which is unnerving. He never seems comfortable unless he is dressed elegantly with polished wingtips. Shang Da transferred form the San Francisco Bay pack and took the role of Hati without any fights because no one else wanted the position that badly.
He is the first lycanthrope that Anita met who carries a gun, a snub nose .38, and is comfortable doing so. First Appearance: Blue Moon.
[edit] Stephen
Slightly taller than Anita, with blond hair and blue eyes, Anita describes Stephen as as beautiful as a china doll. Stephen is one of the strippers at Jean-Claude's club Guilty Pleasures (stage name "Harlow") and serves as one of Jean-Claude's personal wolves. He is one of the many beautiful yet vulnerable sex workers Anita takes under her wing during the course of the series. His twin brother Gregory is a wereleopard. Stephen is currently dating the wereleopard Vivian.
Appearances: Circus of the Damned, The Lunatic Cafe, The Killing Dance, Burnt Offerings, Narcissus in Chains, Cerulean Sins.
[edit] Sylvie Barker
Richard's Geri, or second-in-command and a good friend to Anita. She is a lesbian, has short curly brown hair and is about five foot six inches, currently dating Gwen. Sylvie is an alpha were and one of the few others, besides Richard, that can partially shapeshift. She also has a collection of bones that came from her enemies, such as Fernando, Padma's son. She occasionally takes out the collection and runs her hands over the bones to comfort herself.
Appearances: The Killing Dance, Burnt Offerings, Blue Moon, Narcissus in Chains.
[edit] Wereleopards
[edit] Caleb
One of Micah's leopards. He has a bit of a wise ass streak and a tendency to ignore orders.
First appearance: Narcissus in Chains.
[edit] Cherry
She was a nurse before they found out she was a lycanthrope, and one of the few local wereleopard that has medical knowledge. When it was revealed to her bosses that she was a lycnathrope, she was one of the first one to be laid off because of "budget cuts." She acts as Anita's medic when needed, and can assist Dr. Lillian. She's tall and slender, a natural blonde, clear headed or a fount of information, but not someone Anita trusts completely to guard her back.
Appearances: Burnt Offerings, Narcissus in Chains.
[edit] Elizabeth
She made Gabriel a lycanthrope, and is the only one who misses him. She hates Anita because she herself isn't strong enough to lead the pard.
First appearance: Burnt Offerings.
[edit] Gabriel
A sinister looking wereleopard with dark curly hair, Gabriel was the alpha of the St. Louis pard, Blooddrinkers Pard. While living, Gabriel was called leoparde lionne(a protective leader) by pard members. Posthumously, pard members admitted Gabriel led as a lion passant.
Gabriel was a severe sadomasochist who contracted lycanthropy when Elizabeth shifted into leopard form during sex and mauled him nearly to death, the crowning moment of his life. Gabriel forced his pard to participate in Raina's pornography operation, and eventually fixated on the idea of raping and mauling Anita on film while she attempted to kill him. Anita was successful in that scenario, and Gabriel died.
According to his pard, Gabriel was called a lion passant, because he ruled but did not actively protect the pard. (Although Gabriel did protect the pard in some ways, such as helping Zane quit drugs, protecting Nathaniel as he explored his darker urges, and helping Cherry to regenerate a severed leg, he was not willing to risk his personal safety for the pack).
Appearances: The Lunatic Cafe, The Killing Dance.
[edit] Gregory
His twin brother Stephen is a werewolf. Like his brother, Gregory is a stripper (stage name: "Marlowe") at Jean-Claude's strip club Guilty Pleasures. When they were children, they were sexually abused and pimped-out by their father, Anthony Dietrich. Gregory played a role in Raina's porn movies, raping and hurting the werewolves, but once Anita became the Nimir-Ra, he stopped.
Appearances: Narcissus in Chains.
[edit] Merle
Stepped down as Nimir-Raj of Micah's pard in favor of Micah. Now bodyguard to Micah, resembles an aging biker. Merle wouldn't sacrifice his human form for his pard, the Maneater Clan, so Micah stepped in and attempted to stand up to Chimera.
First appearance: Narcissus in Chains.
[edit] Micah Callahan
Micah Callahan arrived in St. Louis as the Nimir-Raj of the Maneater Clan. Merging his pard with Anita's pard, the Blooddrinkers Pard, they rule as Nimir-Raj (King) and Nimir-Ra (Queen). Coordinator of the Lycanthrope Coalition(Coalition for Better Understanding Between Lycanthrope and Human Societies), Anita's live-in lover and closest companion. Has chartreuse yellow/green eyes that won't shift back to human eyes, a result of too much time in animal form, forced by Chimera. He is about the same height and same size as Anita, with rich brown hair, and extremely easy-going.
The name Micah is interesting in that it could be translated to mean "one who is like God".
Appearances: Narcissus in Chains, Cerulean Sins, Incubus Dreams, Micah, Danse Macabre.
[edit] Nathaniel Graison
Nathaniel is a striking wereleopard in his early twenties, approximately 5'6" with long mahogany auburn hair, lilac eyes, "pretty" rather than handsome features, and a muscular swimmer's body. In his animal form, Nathaniel is a black were-leopard. A stripper at Guilty Pleasures, (stage name: "Brandon"), Nathaniel is one of Anita's lovers and a member of her second triumvirate. For several novels, Nathaniel was Anita's pomme de sang.
Nathaniel has been reluctant to share details of his past. Anita has been able to learn that Nathaniel's parents died when he was young, and that Nathaniel and his older brother Nicky were in the custody of an abusive man. Nicky protected Nathaniel at first, but also died when Nathaniel was quite young, at which point Nathaniel ran away. At some point in his late teens, Nathaniel was found by Gabriel. By that point, Nathaniel was a drug addicted prostitute, and was so submissive and masochistic that he was literally incapable of saying no to any torture proposed to him. Gabriel helped Nathaniel stop taking drugs but was unable or unwilling to address Nathaniel's other problems and simply pimped Nathaniel, restraining customers from taking too much advantage of him.
After Anita took control of the St. Louis pard, Nathaniel attached himself to Anita for protection. Nathaniel has been working to become more assertive and self-reliant, if only to please Anita. He is still highly submissive and is happy to take the "wife" position in Anita's increasingly large harem - cleaning, cooking, and generally providing emotional support. In Incubus Dreams, Anita inadvertently marked Nathaniel as her animal servant, forming a triumvirate between Anita, Nathaniel, and Damian.
Appearances: Burnt Offerings, Blue Moon, Narcissus in Chains, Cerulean Sins, Incubus Dreams, Danse Macabre.
[edit] Noah
One of Micah's bodygards. Third in line for the Maneater Clan's leadership.
Also appeared in Cerulean Sins
First appearance: Narcissus in Chains.
[edit] Vivian
Hamilton describes Vivian as African-American, with Irish genetics as well, for a very pale but dark coloring. She makes Anita think of a delicate beautiful doll and feel protective of her. Throughout the mid and later novels, Vivian has been dating Stephen, a werewolf and Gregory's twin. (As explained by Richard in the novel Narcissus In Chains, interspecies dating of shape-shifters is acceptable as long as the shifters are not alphas, as long as they are weak they can date whoever they want without social stress. Alphas, however normally date their own species, with some maverick exceptions such as Richard and Raina.)
Appearances: Burnt Offerings, Narcissus in Chains.
[edit] Zane
Tried to be alpha when Gabriel died; happy to hand things over to Anita. Dating Cherry. Has fangs on upper and lower teeth that won't shift back (result of too much time in animal form).
First appearance: Burnt Offerings.
[edit] Wererats
[edit] Bobby Lee
Bodyguard for Anita, has a thick southern drawl. First appearance: Narcissus in Chains.
[edit] Claudia
Bodyguard for Anita. She stands at around 6'6. More muscular than most men, and with a take-no-guff attitude. Comfortable with handguns. Also described as beautiful even without makeup.
Appearances: "Narcissus in Chains", Danse Macabre, et al.
[edit] Igor
Former bodyguard for Anita. Covered in tattoos. Killed by a serpentine lycanthrope.
[edit] Lillian
Doctor. Frequently patches up shapeshifters in their unofficial infirmary. Middle age in apperence, sure hands.
First appearance: Guilty Pleasures.
[edit] Louis Fane
Louis is about 5'6", with black hair and eyes, and is known as "Louie" to his friends. A biology professor at Wash U, Louie is Richard's best friend, and is currently dating Ronnie, Anita's best friend.
Appearances: Guilty Pleasures, The Lunatic Cafe, The Killing Dance.
[edit] Rafael
He is the Rat King and one of Anita's friends. Rafael is Latino, and is described as "tall, dark and handsome" (Lunatic Cafe) with a stern face and sensual lips. He has a crown branded into his forearm to mark him as Rat King and his clan is called the Dark Crown Clan. He and Nikolaos were in conflict over control of the city's rats and wererats until Anita killed her. Anita saved his life so he offers her bodyguards or any other help when she needs them. Rafael also has treaties with Richard and Jean-Claude. He has an ex-wife who moved with his child to another state to get away from him because of what he is. He has visitation rights.
Appearances: Guilty Pleasures, The Lunatic Cafe, Narcissus in Chains.
[edit] Werehyenas
[edit] Ajax
Blond werehyena who acts as bodyguard to Narcissus. Lover of Ulysses. Had his arms and legs cut off and the stumps burned so that he could not heal the damage by Chimera.
First Appearance: Narcissus in Chains.
[edit] Bacchus
A werehyena with dark, curly hair and eyes of a strange shade of gold. Lover of Dionysus.
First Appearance: Narcissus in Chains.
[edit] Dionysus
Lover of Bacchus, his tongue was cut out and presented to his lover by Chimera.
First Appearance: Narcissus in Chains.
[edit] Narcissus
Owner of the club, Narcissus in Chains (a BDSM club), and leader of the city's werehyena population. An effeminate hermaphrodite, he became pregnant following his relationship with Chimera. Narcissus is into both sides of BSDM and Asher topped him after Narcissus met with the triumvirate of Anita, Jean-Claude, and Richard. Under the old ruling of Raina and Marcus, Narcissus was given favors and not allowed to let his hyena population grow over 50 members. Once Richard became Ulfric, the old deals were voided and Narcissus decided he wanted to be able to make some of the decisions for the lycanthrope population of St. Louis versus having the decisions made for him.
First Appearance: Narcissus in Chains.
[edit] Ulysses
Dark-haired werehyena who acts as bodyguard to Narcissus. Lover of Ajax.
First Appearance: Narcissus in Chains.
[edit] Werelions
[edit] Haven
Werelion brought with Augustine from Chicago as a pomme de sang candidate for Anita, and to try and take over the local pride. Pale, with short, spiky blue hair, dyed so that many hues of blue are present, all mixed together, just like real hair. His eyes are also a pale blue. Anita calls him Cookie (spicifically not Cookie Monster). He has tattoos of Cookie Monster, Bert and Ernie from Sesame Street, and has implied thathe has more.
First Appearance: Danse Macabre.
[edit] Joseph
Rex of the St. Louis pride. In his pride, there is a male coalition; they rule the pride together.
In Narcissus in Chains, it is mentioned he has a mate (named Amber) who is pregnant and on strict bed-rest. They've tried three other times to have a child, but generally the change from human to animal form is too stressful for the body to carry a child to term.
Appearances: Narcissus in Chains, Danse Macabre.
[edit] Justin
Joseph's brother. He is part of Joseph's male coalition; they rule the pride together.
Appearances: Danse Macabre.
[edit] Noel
A werelion in the St. Louis pride.
First Appearance: Danse Macabre.
[edit] Pierce
Werelion brought with Augustine from Chicago as a pomme de sang candidate for Anita, and to try and take over the local pride. A brunette, with hair that looks like it might curl, but it's cut too short to have a chance. The swell of his shoulders shows that he lifts weights as more than a casual hobby.
First Appearance: Danse Macabre.
[edit] Travis
A werelion in the St. Louis pride.
First Appearance: Danse Macabre.
[edit] Weretigers
[edit] Christine
A blonde weretiger, Christine is a lycanthrope who belongs to no social group (neither pack, nor pard, nor pride). Gabriel embarrassed her by reciting the poem "Tyger, Tyger" at a lycanthrope meeting. She is a rarity, since tiger-based lycanthropy is hard to contract. Hence there is no tiger social grouping because of low membership, she speaks in a few books for the lycanthropes who are uncommon in their strain of the disease.
Appearances: The Lunatic Cafe, The Killing Dance, Narcissus in Chains.
[edit] Gideon
A handsome weretiger with blonde-brown hair, his eyes are yellow-and-orange, due to too much time in animal form. His voice sounds like he is growling. He is a servant of Padma.
Appearances: Burnt Offerings
[edit] Other
[edit] Cesar
A werejaguar from New Mexico, acted as a "sacrifice" for a lycanthrope Aztec stage show run by Itzpapalotl.
Appearances: Obsidian Butterfly.
[edit] Gil
A timid werefox, sought out Anita's protection when alpha lycanthropes began disappearing. He is the only werefox in town, and relies on the protection of other lycanthropes, such as werewolves, since he has no pack of his own.
Appearances: Narcissus in Chains, Incubus Dreams.
[edit] Kaspar Gunderson
Tall and pale, with downy feathers in place of hair, Gunderson was a proud and cruel European prince and hunter. Centuries ago, he was cursed by a witch to transform into a swan in the hope that he would learn kindness. Instead, Gunderson walked the Earth, becoming increasingly more bitter. One of the few shapeshifters who transformed into prey rather than a predator, Gunderson had an uneasy relationship with most other shapeshifters. Although he was a shapeshifter, he wasn't a lycanthrope and could transform from a human to a swan and back repeatedly without a period of unconsciousness. Gunderson's curse prevented him from aging, and he claimed that he could not be killed, even with silver. However, he is eventually killed by Edward, who gives his feathered skin to Anita as a gift. It is alluded to that he is the basis of the main character of Swan Lake.
Appearance: The Lunatic Cafe.
[edit] Melanie
A lamia capable of turning her legs into a serpent's tail, Melanie is apparently a true immortal and does not appear to be killable by any means. She has retractable fangs in her mouth and is venomous. Melanie can turn willing men into snake people, her "harem" of potential mates. She first appears as a member of Mr. Oliver's retinue, but ultimately gets a job as a member of Jean-Claude's circus troupe, performing at The Circus of the Damned.
Appearances: Circus of the Damned
[edit] Orlando King
Orlando King was one of the country's most famous lycanthrope hunters. After surviving a savage attack, he apparently "softened" his stance regarding shapeshifters and began preaching tolerance. Eventually, Anita learned the true story -- after surviving a werewolf attack, King found that he had been infected with werewolf lycanthropy. King decided to kill as many shapeshifters as possible before the next full moon, assuming that if he took sufficiently dangerous missions, he would himself be killed before his first change. Ultimately, however, none of the shapeshifters he fought was able to kill him, and before his first change, King was infected with six different kinds of lycanthropy: werewolf; wereleopard; werelion; werebear; werehyena, and weresnake.
King became a panwere, able to shift to any of the six animal forms with which he was infected, and developed a multiple personality disorder.
- The primary personality was Orlando King himself, a famous former lycanthrope hunter.
- Chimera, King's secondary personality was the result of King disassociating himself from many of the killings for which he had felt ashamed during his life. Chimera had control of King's body at times, and also had complete control of King's lion, wolf, hyena, and leopard forms.
- Coronus: Coronus of the Black Water clan was King's personality in his were-anaconda form, and was a distinct personality. In this form, King was the leader of the Black Water clan, a South American tribe of Anacondas. These weresnakes were notable in that when they died, they did not revert to human form. The snake-man form was apparently the normal state.
- Boone: Boone was King's other distinct personality. Interestingly, Boone could manifest not only a werebear form, but could also appear in human form as a person who did not resemble King at all. He was originally the leader of a pack of werebears, before King made Boone infect him and then killed him.
King considered capturing Anita as his mate when he believed that she was a werewolf/wereleopard panwere, but eventually settled for torturing and raping as many people as possible. Anita finally killed him by draining his life energy. King may be survived by a child, as Narcissus was pregnant with his child at the end of Narcissus in Chains.
Appearances: Narcissus in Chains.
[edit] Seth
A werejaguar from New Mexico, who serves Itzpapalotl, cutting himself as "offerings" to his mistress and her servants, allowing them to drink from the bleeding wounds until they healed.
Appearances: Obsidian Butterfly.
