Blue Bloods: Keys to the Repository

Height: 5’2”


Cordelia Van Alen was, until her untimely expiration, the matriarch of the Van Alen family. She was Schuyler’s grandmother and acted as her legal guardian after Allegra fell into a coma. One of the Coven’s longest-serving Wardens, Cordelia nevertheless found herself in a diminished position in the Conclave after she clashed once too often with the ruling Elders.

Born in 1841, Cordelia was a precocious child, and in her youth was known for her lovely soprano singing voice. She married Lawrence Van Alen in 1859 in a lavish bonding ceremony at the Van Alen mansion on Fifth Avenue. She was allowed to go beyond three times the normal human life span to prepare as the next mother to the Uncorrupted, Allegra and Charles, whose spirits were entrusted to her guidance according to the laws of the House of Records in 1969.

Throughout Blue Blood history, Cordelia, along with her exiled bondmate, Lawrence, has been agitating for increased vigilance against the possible return of the {REDACTED} {REINSTATED/BY ORDER OF THE REGIS LVA} Silver Bloods. {ALL REDACTED MENTION OF SILVER BLOOD REINSTATED IN CURRENT RECORDS BY ORDER OF REGIS LVA} She was instrumental in calling up the spirit of the Watcher, the Pistis Sophia, in this cycle, to be born to and fostered by the family of Forsyth Llewellyn.

During her long tenure as one of New York City’s most active social matrons, Cordelia presided over the New York Blood Bank Committee, the Central Park Conservancy, and served on the board of trustees for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, New York City Ballet, and the New York Philharmonic.

Elegant, birdlike, and imperious, Cordelia was intimidating and aloof in manner, even in her relations with her granddaughter. However, she always avowed to intimates among the Coven that while she was instrumental in many great causes and charities, her greatest joy in life was watching Schuyler grow up.

Cordelia was attacked by a powerful young Silver Blood during the New York slayings of 2006, but fortunately did not suffer from Full Consumption. Before her “death,” she pressed upon Schuyler to find her grandfather, Lawrence Van Alen, whom Cordelia guessed was still living in Venice.

Current Status: Expired in this cycle. Will return in the next Expression.





LAWRENCE VAN ALEN


Metraton, Heavenly Scribe

Birth Name: Lawrence Theodore Winslow Van Alen (also called “Teddy”)

Origin: Enmortal. Does not adhere to the cycle of Expression and Expiration.

Known Past Lives: John Carver (Plymouth), Ludivivo Arosto (Florence), Gnaeus Magnus Pompey (Rome)

Bondmate: Cordelia Van Alen

Assigned Human Conduit: Christopher Anderson

List of Human Familiars: Unknown

Physical Characteristics:

Hair: White (blond in his younger years)

Eyes: Blue

Height: 6’0”

Until recent events cleared his name and reputation, Lawrence Van Alen was considered by many in the Coven to be an agitator, a traitor, and a troublemaker. Upon the founding of the New World, as John Carver, he lost his prominent position in the Conclave after losing the White Vote. The council had voted to follow Myles Standish (Michael), as they have always done, regardless of the suspected return of the Silver Bloods.

Lawrence was a prodigious reader and writer of historical books, and was the founding director of the Repository of History. Many of the books in our library are from his personal collection. During his tenure as Committee Warden (1710–1790), he made the secondary and collegiate education of young Blue Bloods a necessary provision to their progression, regardless of their ability to remember the knowledge gleaned from past cycles. According to his speech before the Conclave, “Blue Bloods must understand our place in the world before we can attempt to change it. You may be able to call up an entire encyclopedia, but nothing is more meaningless than a brain with no heart and no reasoning.”

An Enmortal, he bonded to Cordelia Benjamin in 1859 and disappeared from the Coven’s records after his self-imposed exile around 1873 (dates still unconfirmed). According to Cordelia’s diaries, they had decided to separate, believing that Lawrence would be safer conducting his research on his own. For as long as he lived, he believed that the Silver Bloods had infiltrated the highest echelons of the Conclave.