Top Ten Vampires from the world of the Blooddaughter

These are my favorite characters from the world that started with The Blooddaughter Trilogy, continued in the Vance Silver, Vampire, Hunter series and The True Tales of Elizabeth Bathory, Vampire, and also includes: Elena the Hunted, Lite Nite Bites, and Evelyn: Love Fiend in Training. This post is spoiler light, but there are a few minor spoilers. I apologize in advance for the crappy artwork, which I did myself.

1) Daiyu Long “Dai”

Bloodmother: Thalia, Twenty-Third Blood, Born: 1872, Vampire since 1906

Daiyu is just over a century old and grew up as a Chinese girl in late nineteenth century San Francisco. Her father raised her to be self-sufficient, bucking the culture and traditions. He came to America because it was the Land of Opportunity and he wanted to make sure his child grasped that opportunity with both hands. During her thirty-three years of human life, she didn’t let anything get in the way of her ambition. When she became a vampire during the 1906 earthquake, she became even more determined. No one got in her way twice.

Settling in Los Angeles she dominated the city’s vampire world. As an investment banking consultant, she takes money seriously. If money were power, she’d be the most powerful woman in California. She drives a black 1957 Ferrari 250 GT California, although she admits that the car has been repaired so many times that it only has a handful of original parts. It’s better to drive than to park it in a garage and admire it.

A monster by human and vampire standards, she may have killed more vampires in her century as a vampire than any other being in history. A rough translation of her name would be: The Black Dragon.

First Appearance: Nine Princes of Blood

2) Azure

Bloodfather: Vance, Twenty Fifth Blood, Born 1990, Pet from 2013, Vampire/Celestial since 2016

Born as a water elemental, a human with a magical affinity and the ability to control water, Azure was dragged into the vampire world initially as a vampire’s pet. Through a series of heroic and ill-planned events, Azure became a vampire and a celestial in the same moment. Possessing three supernatural magicks, Azure is a rarity in the world. Being part celestial makes her unique. She is soul bound to her bloodfather, and though normally celestials are forbidden from killing mortals, they may do so to protect their own lives. More than once, Azure has had to act as her bloodfather’s guardian angel–sometimes using lethal force to do so.

First Appearance: Blood Huntress

3) Elizabeth Bathory. aka “Elsa”

Bloodfather: Vlad, Sixteenth Blood, Born 1560, Vampire since 1614

The legendary Blood Countess sometimes puts a little effort into denying the rumors of her depravity. She will point out that all of the monstrous acts she is accused of occured during her life as a human. Elsa does not put value on human life, but no longer kills wantonly. Elsa is accustomed to the fineries of life and has gone to great efforts to ensure she remains wealthy enough to guarantee her standard of living. She overachieved on that front and has amassed incredible wealth. Because of her love for Elena, she tries to be ‘good’. She doesn’t always succeed. She believes she has atoned for the many people she killed by saving a life for each life she took.

First Appearance: Second Blood

4) Elena

Bloodmother: Elsa, Seventeenth Blood, Born 1599, Pet from 1616, Vampire since 1750

Like Azure, Elena started life as an elemental, though she never knew it when she was human. Her element was charisma. Her charm is probably what caused Elizabeth Bathory to spare her life and become romantically involved. As Elsa’s pet, Elena tamed the Blood Countess’ sadism. When it came time to make Elena into a vampire, things didn’t go as planned. Like Azure, Elena became a tri-elem possessing earth, charisma, and vampiric powers. As a tri-elem the supernatural community decided she was too powerful–too much of a threat–to be allowed to live. To ensure Elena had the strength to live, Elizabeth Bathory used a secret and forbidden ritual to add electrical and water elements to Elena’s powers. As a penta elemental, Elena became godlike in her abilities. Lucky for the world, Elena is pure of heart and unwavering in her principle of never killing anyone. Considers Elsa to be the love of her life

First Appearance: Elena the Hunted

5) Angel/Sera

Bloodfather: Osiris, Born 2495 BCE, Made in 2483 BCE Continued to age to Adulthood after being made.

Born in Egypt in the age of the Pyramids, her big secret is that her twin Sera is actually Angel in another body. She has a single consciousness spanning multiple bodies. Angel has a single mind and is aware and in control of multiple bodies at the same time. Her purple eyes indicate she might hold an even deeper secret.

First Appearance: Evelyn: Love Fiend in Training

6) Chrissy

Bloodmother: Kricket, Twenty Second Blood, Born 1901, Pet from 1919, Vampire since 1921

At almost a century and a half, Chrissy has seen dark things in her life. But, to those who meet her, she seems like a very exuberant party-girl with a body with such exaggerated hourglass proportions that it cannot possibly be natural. It’s not. Vampires can get aesthetic surgery too, but the process is a little different. Incredibly intelligent and driven, Chrissy parties hard in the public eye, but she’s also a neurosurgeon specializing in traumatic brain injury. The trick is to drink enough blood before the surgery, so the hunger pangs don’t interrupt her focus.

First Appearance: Lite Nite Bites

7) Vance Silver

Bloodmother: Dai, Twenty Fourth Blood, Born 1989, Vampire since 2014

A trained vampire hunter, Vance considered himself a holy soldier on the side of good. And then he died. When he came back as a vampire, he had to redefine what being good meant. Occasionally he realizes he can never be truly a champion of good, but he tries to make sure his evil deeds, like accidentally killing his prey, are overbalanced by the number of lives he saves by enforcing the laws of both the human world and the vampire world. In less than a decade as a vampire, his morality has earned him recognition from vampires who believe it’s more important to coexist with humanity than treat them as nothing more than food and entertainment.

First Appearance: Nine Princes of Blood

8) Hells

Bloodfather: Hasan. Twenty Third Blood. Born 1220BCE vampire 1194 BCE.

Helen Vasilissa Sparti was kidnapped in her twenties as a mortal but rescued by Angel and taken to Egypt where she became a vampire. Once the Trojan War ended she returned home to Sparta with her friend, Angel. For three milennia the they have been inseperable. She lives in a quiet vampire community that is small enough to function as a true democracy. But, she knows she’s the leader among them, the queen. Hells is patient and political but she is old and strong and will use her physical prowess if negotiantions don’t work

First Appearance: Evelyn: Love Fiend in Training

9) Shauna McAllister

Bloodfather: James, Second Blood, Born 1989, Vampire since 2012

The eponymous Blooddaughter, Shauna is less a story-maker and more the lynchpin connecting the stories of the original vampires with the story of Elizabeth Bathory. A vampire-fiction fan, Shauna successfully, if inadvertently, tracked down actual vampires and managed to become one. Shauna is young but powerful. She’s also idyllic and naive. The combination of prowess, naivete and idealism may or may not be good for the rest of the vampires of the world. Considers Elsa to be her best friend.

First Appearance: Second Blood

10) Artemis

Bloodfather: Kais, Sixth Blood, Born 6239 BCE, Vampire since 6210 BCE.

Goddess of the hunt, Artemis earned her place in mythology by hunting in the moonlight. An ancient vampire over eight millennia old, Artemis sometimes has trouble caring about humanity. She takes the secrecy of vampires seriously and enjoys the opportunity to hunt those who threaten the secret. Artemis participated in a ritual to hide her vampirism from magical detection but at the cost that each generation of her line can only have one vampire at a time. The myth that she hunts men who see her naked is completely true.

First Appearance: Blood Huntress

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