Blue Bloods: Keys to the Repository (17 page)

Whitney, Alice
: Conclave Elder who represents the House of the Seven Sisters

Wilcox, Patrice
: The stern, no-nonsense, al -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 Al ison El ison’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 al owed to enrol . 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 al Blue Bloods, though she doesn’t know it. She was Jamie Kip’s

familiar and girlfriend before he ditched her for Al ison El ison.

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.” Al y 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 ful 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 fol owed her

home one day.

MISS ELLIE

Bliss Llewel yn

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 cal ed 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 Hel .” 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 wil 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 “intel igent 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 al 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 kil an immortal vampire

Black Spells
: Spel s pertaining to the Dark Matter

Blade of Justice
: Michael’s sword, one of only two archangels’ swords in the world, the other being Gabriel e’s. Only an archangel’s sword can kil

another archangel.

Blood Bond
: The holy matrimony and immortal bond between two vampires whose souls were twinned in Heaven. Occasional y vampire twins are

born as siblings in the human world. Bondmates are obligated to renew their vows in every cycle with a ceremony, usual y 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 shel . Al 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

Gabriel e 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 cel s, their vampire DNA, starts to take over, typical y 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 tel true memory from false. The trial can only be performed by Gabriel e, 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 wil be burned in complete destruction.

Blue Bloods
: Vampires: fal en angels doomed to live their eternal lives on Earth. They have superhuman speed, hyperintel igence, 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.

Book of Laws
: The Blue Blood record of al investigations, judgments, and punishments

Breath of God
: The ability of any Blue Blood to bring light to the tunnels of Lutetia with a wave of the hand above a torch

Burning
: The burning the blood of a vampire, thus destroying the immortal blood and al its memories

The Call
: The hypnotizing seduction a vampire can use to cal a human to him or her for the
Caerimonia Osculor

Caerimonia Osculor
(the Sacred Kiss)
: The regulated ritual of feeding on a human familiar’s blood. There are stringent rules, as no human is ever

to be abused or ful y drained. The Code of the Vampires forbids performing the kiss on another vampire. The Sacred Kiss marks a human as the

vampire’s own—they wil always be bonded.

Candidus Suffragium
(the White Vote)
: A vote for the leadership of the Coven; it must be unanimous. The White Vote should only be cal ed if a

Conclave member feels that the Regis is not leading the Coven properly. It has been cal ed in America only three times: in Plymouth, after Roanoke,

when John Carver attempted to unseat Myles Standish; in New York, after the Silver Blood was cal ed to the Repository, and Lawrence van Alen

replaced Charles Force; and by Forsyth Llewel yn, after Paris, where Mimi Force prevented a unanimous vote.

The Code of the Vampires (the Code, or the Blue Blood Code)
: A stringent rule of ethics, not unlike the Ten Commandments. The Blue Bloods

hope the Code wil help bring about their eventual return to Paradise. It states that humans are not to be dominated or toyed with, but to be respected,

so that the Blue Bloods wil bring light and harmony and peace to this world.

Compulsion
: A seed of an idea that can be placed by a vampire using the glom

The Conclave of Elders (the Conclave)
: The Coven’s highest leadership. The Conclave makes decisions for the future of the race.

Conduit
: A Blue Blood’s human assistant and caretaker who helps him (or her) navigate the human world and keep the Blue Blood existence a

secret. A position of exalted servitude, many Conduit families serve their Blue Blood families for hundreds of years as doctors, lawyers, accountants,

financiers, and even best friends. Every member of a vampire family is assigned a Conduit at birth, but many have let go of their Conduits in recent

years. If a vampire expires, a Conduit is given two choices: work in the Repository, or have his or her memory erased.

The Conspiracy
: A subset of the Committee, dedicated to keeping the existence of the Blue Bloods a secret from the Red Bloods by spreading

false information and legends. Many of the myths are rooted in truth.

Consummo Alienari
: The little known fifth factor of the glom. It al ows complete control over another’s mind, subsuming the other’s wil . For Red

Bloods it means instant death; for vampires irrevocable paralysis.

Contineo
: A spel that holds a ward in place

Corruption:
The process by which a Blue Blood becomes a Silver Blood. By marking a Blue Blood vampire with the Sacred Kiss, the Silver Blood

poisons the
sangre azul
, turning the Blue Blood into a monster like itself. It is not an immediate transformation however, and the poisoning is dependent on the amount of blood drawn from the victim. The process can be reversed, or stopped with adequate intervention. The Corruption is

complete once the infected Blue Blood takes a fel ow Blue Blood vampire to Ful Consumption, taking another immortal spirit into its own

consciousness.

Coven
: A group of vampires living in an area and registered with the Blue Blood community (ex: the New York Coven, the European Coven)