Blue Bloods: Keys to the Repository

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 like-minded 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 H?tel 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.