Undead characters of Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter
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This is an alphabetical listing of undead characters in Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series of novels.
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[edit] St. Louis vampires
[edit] Aubrey
Centuries old but not a master, Aubrey was a very powerful lieutenant of Nikolaos. Aubrey was partially insane as a result of punishments received from Nikolaos. At her orders, he blackmailed Anita by enthralling ("deep rolling") and threatening to kill Anita's friend Catherine. Ultimately, Anita killed Aubrey with a silver-loaded shotgun.
Appearance: Guilty Pleasures.
[edit] Asher
Asher is a Master Vampire of Belle Morte's line, and the lover of Jean-Claude and Anita Blake. Asher was formerly part of a menage-a-trois with Jean-Claude and Asher's human servant Julianna, until the Church burned Julianna at the stake as a witch and tried to "burn the devil" out of Asher with holy water in a form of Chinese water torture. The holy water left Asher badly scarred, and for many years he blamed Jean-Claude for rescuing him too late, and for failing to save Julianna.
Anita was able to see beyond the terrible scarring and came to love him, overcoming Asher's hatred for Jean-Claude (though Asher still carries heavy emotional baggage). Asher is now Jean-Claude's second-in-command. His main vamperic power is fascination: people who are caught by his gaze are fascinated by him and can't look away; Belle Morte said people he rolls completely become "love-besotted fools" and follow him around; and his bite is orgasmic, and his victim can have flashbacks of the orgasm hours or days later. Asher acquired Hyena as animal to call in Danse Macabre.
[edit] Bartolome
Formerly heir to a huge fortune, Bartolome is of Belle Morte's bloodline and a child vampire around the age of 12 or 13. At the end of Cerulean Sins, he chose to stay to help undo the damage he and Valentina inflicted on Gregory and Stephen thanks to Musette. For the most part, he is rather well-adjusted given the propensity of prepubescent vampires to go insane over time. He speaks fluent Spanish and English. He came along with Musette to St. Louis purely out of boredom.
Appearances: Cerulean Sins
[edit] Buzz
"Buzz the vampire" is a heavily muscled vampire bouncer at Guilty Pleasures. Approximately 20 years dead, Buzz does not have the inhuman mannerisms of older vampires. He typically guards the door in a t-shirt, regardless of weather conditions and enjoys flashing his fangs.
Appearances: Guilty Pleasures, The Lunatic Cafe, Incubus Dreams.
[edit] Damian
Damian is a green eyed, red haired Viking vampire. Through a series of accidents and emergencies, he became Anita's vampire servant (similar to the role of a vampire's human servant) and eventual lover, and as Anita's vampire servant, Damian became a member of Anita's second triumvirate with Nathaniel.
Damian was made by "She who must not be named" (later revealed to be Morvoren/Nemhain). He tends to have a calming effect on Anita, as shown in Cerulean Sins, because he was taught by she-who-made-him that her will was all important. His appearance changed slightly in Incubus Dreams, just enough to make him "breathtakingly" beautiful. Approximately 1000 years old, Damian will never be a master vampire, but because of the additional power of Anita and Nathaniel, he can physically walk in daylight—although doing so tends to drive him into a fear-induced insanity. This comes from witnessing Perrin, one of his Viking comrades who was also turned into a vampire, burst into flames from walking in the sunlight while he and the aforementioned Viking were in the "care" of Morvoren.
Damian lives in Anita's basement and works at Danse Macabre. He became slightly insane when Anita left St. Louis for six months, without her magic to control him or to make his heart beat.
First appearance: The Killing Dance
[edit] Dead Dave
Dave is an ex-cop who was kicked off the force after he became a vampire and who now owns a bar called "Dead Dave's". Though mad at the police for kicking him off the force, Dave sells and gives information to Anita to aid her investigations.
First appearance: Guilty Pleasures
[edit] Gretchen/Gretel
Jean-Claude made Gretchen a vampire almost 200 years ago. Pale, with wavy blond hair falling near to her waist, Gretchen is hopelessly in love with Jean-Claude in every sense of the word, and erroneously sees Anita as the primary obstacle to his love. Although she "has not used that name in 100 years", Gretchen was originally named Gretel, and Jean-Claude still at times calls her by that name. A master vampire, she has strong mental powers, a resistance to silver, and the power of flight.
In The Lunatic Cafe, Gretchen attacks Anita, and as punishment, Jean-Claude reduces her to a skeletal state (withdrawing her animating force, as her creator) and confines her to her coffin for almost three years. In Narcissus in Chains, Anita learns that Gretchen is still confined and forces Jean-Claude to free her. However, Gretchen still hates Anita for coming between her and Jean Claude, and in Cerulean Sins, Anita states that Gretchen's confinement has driven her "even crazier" than she was before.
Appearances: The Lunatic Cafe, Narcissus in Chains.
[edit] Hannah
Hannah is the vampiric lady love of Willie McCoy. Willie refers to her as Angel Fangs. Hannah also gets possessed by the Traveler when Vampire Council members are in town. Hamilton erroneously called her "Candy" in "The Harlequin"; she later wrote in her blog that Candy had been Hannah's original name during the first draft of Burnt Offerings, and that the mistake will be corrected for the paperback edition of the book.
First appearance: Burnt Offerings
[edit] Jean-Claude
Master of the City of St Louis, Jean-Claude is the lover of Anita Blake. He is part of the triumvirate consisting of Anita Blake and Ulfric of the St. Louis werewolves, Richard Zeeman. He is what in earlier times would be called an incubus. He carries the ardeur, which is like a sexual vampirism. He passed this onto Anita.
[edit] Liv
A large Nordic vampire with bodybuilder muscles who pledged her loyalty to Jean-Claude when he became Master of the City of St. Louis. Jealous of Jean-Claude's affection for Anita, Liv later betrays him and his followers to the Traveler, who had promised her the ability to kill or at least dominate Anita. Anita was only minorly affected but punished Liv with final death for her betrayal and for her role in Padma's abuses of several local werecreatures.
Appearances: The Killing Dance, Burnt Offerings.
[edit] London
A master vampire of Belle Morte's line that recently moved to St. Louis; often called "The Dark Knight". He can feed the ardeur every two hours, which makes him a potential potent pomme de sang, but the drawback is that he becomes addicted to the ardeur. London made a deal with Jean-Claude to protect him from his addiction (and Belle Morte, who had used it against him), but he later becomes addicted to Anita's ardeur.
Appearances: Danse Macabre
[edit] Malcolm
A powerful master vampire, Malcolm is Head of the Church of Eternal Life in St. Louis, where being a permanent member means you will live forever (stakes, fire, and crosses aside). Anita is not altogether happy with this organization, since it tends to create plenty of emotionally messed-up vampires (of which she doesn't really need more). He is described by Anita to be an "undead Billy Graham." Malcolm has not required blood-oaths of the vampires under him, hence he has no control over them except their words of obedience, which provides no assurance the vampires will not become dangerous predators.
Unfortunately, other branches of the Church nation-wide have likewise not blood-oathed their members. Worse yet, Incubus Dreams reveals the Church is holding back on teaching its vampires, in effect not showing the members how to be vampires to their full potential or explaining the effects of what they can now do. For example, the Church considers drinking from the inner thigh "too sexual" and does not explain how to do so without the donor bleeding to death.
Unlike many of the Church's members, Malcolm himself is aware of his vampire powers, and Anita knows of two: He can make himself appear to be more handsome than he is, and he is able to read the minds of anyone he shakes hands with.
Unlike most vampires in the series, Malcolm is extremely religious; he says that being undead has not changed his beliefs. When threatened by the Harlequin, he asks Anita to find a priest to hear his confession, so he can die absolved.
First appearance: Guilty Pleasures.
[edit] Meng Die
Meng Die is short, delicate, and described by Anita as resembling a "China doll." She typically dresses in skin-tight leather. Originally turned by Jean-Claude himself, Meng Die is an extremely powerful master, an accomplished fighter, and like Jean-Claude himself can call wolves. Unlike many of the master vampires of Belle Morte's bloodline, Meng Die does not appear to possess any variant of the ardeur. Although she is sexually accomplished, she does not have any particular abilities related to love or lust.
Meng Die is powerful enough to become a master of a city in her own right, and aggressive enough that her former master was happy to "loan" her to Jean-Claude, thereby reducing the risk that she would try to seize her former master's territory for herself. Jean-Claude originally invites her to visit his territory in order to increase his strength and defend his territory against challengers. However, once Jean-Claude acquires other, less difficult master vampires, he begins to regret inviting Meng Die into his retinue, as her power, aggression and sexual jealousy of Anita make her one of the most difficult of his vampires to control.
Meng Die particularly resents Anita because one of her lovers, Requiem has left her, in order to increase his chances of forming a relationship with Anita. She attempts to kill him with a silver knife and injures him in the process. Afterward, she is locked into a coffin bound with crosses and chains. She cracks the coffin with a power spike from Jean Claude and is finally released in Danse Macabre
Appearances: Narcissus in Chains, Cerulean Sins, Incubus Dreams, Danse Macabre
[edit] Nikolaos
The master of the city in Guilty Pleasures and more than 1000 years old, Nikolaos has the appearance of a young girl about 12 (and sounds like Shirley Temple when not angry). Based on the description, Nikolaos has some of the traits of what Hamilton later describes as a nighthag - a vampire that could draw power from fear, but she lacks the tell tale sign of decomposing on her victims during sex and/or feedings. Her mental and physical strength are formidable. Nikolaos has a variety of master-level abilities, including the ability to call rats and wererats, to fly, and to wake during the day. Anita kills Nikolaos in Guilty Pleasures, making Jean-Claude master of the city.
First (and only) Appearance: Guilty Pleasures.
[edit] Primo
With brute strength, and being a powerful vampire who formerly looked to The Dragon as his mistress, Primo works under Buzz at Guilty Pleasures and repeatedly lets people in who are not supposed to be allowed, causing fights until Jean-Claude and Anita intervene. He is almost powerful enough to beat Jean-Claude, until Anita steps in and blood-oaths him. He wants to be master of the city, but is not powerful enough. Seems to be able to feed off violence, like Jean-Claude feeds on sex. Also caused Anita "harm from a distance". He can rapidly heal fatal wounds by drinking the blood of a preternatral creature.
First Appearance: Incubus Dreams
[edit] Requiem
Jean-Claude's third in command, Requiem is a British-born vampire that Belle Morte offered to buy from his master to complete her blue-eyed trio: Jean-Claude the Darkest, Asher the Lightest, and Requiem the Brightest-eyed. He has the power to raise lust—straight lust—similar to Jean-Claude's ardeur (Anita describes his power as "like hours of really good foreplay packed into seconds"). However, Requiem is always fiercely polite and sees taking advantage of this power as rape, refusing to use it uninvited. He has black hair and a trimmed mustache. His name comes from being "poetic, but damn depressing".
Appearances: Incubus Dreams, Danse Macabre, The Harlequin
[edit] Robert
A beautiful blond, Robert is first introduced as one of the strippers at Guilty Pleasures, and later is promoted to its manager. Although a century old, Robert is essentially a coward, and repeatedly backs down in confrontations with Jean-Claude's enemies.
Robert marries Monica Vespucci and they are able to conceive a child. Shortly thereafter, he is killed by Sabin's triumvirate as part of a plot to heal Sabin.
Appearances: Guilty Pleasures, The Lunatic Cafe, Bloody Bones, The Killing Dance.
[edit] Truth
Brother of Wicked, Truth is nearly killed trying to capture a fleeing vampire from the Church of Eternal Life on Anita's command. He is blood oathed by Anita. With Wicked, he helped to slay his entire bloodline, and together he and his brother have traveled alone for years. Noted warriors, the brothers are called "The Wicked Truth."
Appearances: Incubus Dreams, Danse Macabre
[edit] Valentina
Child vampire brought over by a vampire pedophile, Valentina is Musette's helper and an expert torturer. She is one of the few who has seen Marmee Noir in person. Pain is her substitute for sex because she is a small child. Jean-Claude describes her as disturbed, and she is fond of trying to break strangers. She is not without a sense of honor, however, and despises child molesters; along with Bartolome, she chooses to stay to undo the damage they did to Stephen and Gregory. Anita strongly suspects she stayed also because she is afraid of Marmee Noir. Valentina is also of Belle Morte's bloodline, and Belle refers to her as "Petite Morte" - Little Death.
Appearances: Cerulean Sins, Danse Macabre
[edit] Valentine
A vampire with dozens of human kills, Valentine was the only vampire survivor of an earlier fight between his nest of vampires and Anita, Manny, and Edward. During that fight, Anita received the scars she possessed at the beginning of Guilty Pleasures, and Valentine's face was scarred by holy water. Valentine promised to kill Anita when Anita's work for Nikolaos was completed, but was himself killed by Edward.
Appearance: Guilty Pleasures.
[edit] Wicked
Brother to Truth, Wicked is a vampire of considerable power. Together with his brother, he was able to kill his entire bloodline after their Sourdre de Sang went insane and the vampires of their line began randomly killing people. The council voted on whether or not to kill Wicked and Truth also, with Belle Morte actually voting to save them, but the brothers were left masterless, which weakened them, until Incubus Dreams, when Anita binds them to Jean-Claude. Wicked and Truth ("The Wicked Truth") are considered among the greatest of all vampire warriors.
Although in Incubus Dreams it is stated that Wicked is not a master, in a later book, Danse Macabre, he is a Master Vampire. It is unclear whether this is a continuity error, or if being masterless had reduced his power enough that he was no longer a master vampire.
First Appearance: Incubus Dreams
[edit] Willie McCoy
Willie is a small-time hood turned vampire. The first vampire friend of Anita's, he is one of only two or three vampires Anita has known before and after being turned. Willie is dating the vampire Hannah. He manages "The Laughing Corpse" for Jean-Claude. Willie also gets possessed by the Traveler when Vampire Council members are in town.
First appearance: Guilty Pleasures
[edit] Yasmeen
An "exotic" looking master vampire with dark skin and hair, Yasmeen and her human servant, Marguerite, are Jean-Claude's allies during the events of Circus of the Damned. Yasmeen is difficult to control and threatens Anita and Larry whenever she has the opportunity. She also enjoys making Marguerite jealous. She gets torn apart by Alejandro in the final battle of that novel.
Appearance: Circus of the Damned.
[edit] The Vampire Council and their followers
[edit] Branson vampires
Sometime after Jean-Claude's ascension to Master of St. Louis (after Guilty Pleasures and before the events in Bloody Bones), the Vampire Council decided that Branson, Missouri had become sufficiently populous to split off from Jean-Claude's territory and support its own group of vampires. They promised Jean-Claude that they would appoint a vampire of equal or lesser power to himself, and permitted Seraphina and her retinue to take up residence in Branson.
[edit] Myerton vampires
The apparently fictional city of Myerton, Tennessee served as the setting for Blue Moon, the eighth novel in the Anita Blake series.
[edit] New Mexico vampires
In Obsidian Butterfly, Anita meets a number of vampires based in the vicinity of Albuquerque and Santa Fe.
[edit] Other vampires
[edit] Other
[edit] Zachary
Zachary is a former animator who returned from the dead as the leader of a pack of ghouls. He was able to remain 'alive' and to maintain a human appearance by sacrificing vampires to charge a magical gris-gris. Zachary was killed when Anita destroyed the enchantment sustaining him (Guilty Pleasures).
Appearance: Guilty Pleasures.
