VAMPYRIA CHARACTER GUIDE
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Students and former students of the Grande Écurie
Diane de Gastefriche
Under this false identity of noble baronette, Auvergne commoner Jeanne Froidelac goes to Versailles to take revenge for the massacre of her family.
Proserpina Castlecliff
Born in England, this young lady joined the school of the Grande Écurie in the hope of curing herself from the illness that is eating away at her.
Tristan de la Ronciere
This dashing knight born in the Ardennes seems to miss his native forests, where he used to hunt with his brothers. His mother sent him to Versailles to restore the family’s reputation at the Court.
Helenais de Plumigny
Born in the wealthy Beauce region, the beautiful and proud Hélénaïs is the daughter of one of the richest lords in France: Baron de Plumigny, the kingdom's main supplier of guinea fowls, capons and chickens.
Naoko Takagari
The discreet Naoko is the daughter of Japan's daytime ambassador to Versailles (the nighttime ambassador being of course a vampyre). Beneath her calm appearance, she hides a terrible secret...
Rafael de Montesueño
Always dressed in black in the fashion of the Spanish court, where he comes from, the melancholic Rafael is an exceptional horseman. What is the reason for his mourning?
Francoise des Escailles
A brilliant student at the Grande Ecurie, Françoise is often the object of jokes from her classmates... until a terrible fate befalls her, which will make everyone stop laughing.
Suraj de Jaipur
The Maharaja of Jaipur, in faraway India, sent his best blade to Versailles. Suraj is on a mission to forge a military alliance with the Immutable.
Lucrece du Crèvecoeur
A year older than Jeanne, she preceded her at the Grande Ecurie and became the cruellest squire of the King of Shadows... Fear her wrath and her death-silver gauntlet!
Courtiers of Versailles and Paris
Alexander of Mortange
The Viscount of Clermont was transmuted in his nineteenth year and seems to have kept his teenage soul after two centuries walking the earth. "In love with the idea of love", he is driven by a passion as incandescent as his flamboyant red hair.
Edmée de Vauvalon
The Marquise de Vauvalon is one of the most prominent courtiers at Versailles… and the fiercest too. Easily bored, she relies on her lover Marcantonio de Tarela to find ever more bloody entertainment for her.
Ézéchiel de Mélac
The French Minister of the Armies is a brutal and rigid soldier, often in opposition to the hushed ways of the Princess of Ursins, Minister of Foreign Affairs. He is also Governor of Paris.
Raymond de Montfaucon
The director of the Grande Écurie is a severe man, plagued by fits of anger. He descends from a long line of torturers ennobled by the King: the executioners of the gibbet of Montfaucon...
Raoul de Montfaucon
The older brother of Raymond de Montfaucon obtained the post of Royal Executioner. It is rumored that he is the most gifted expert in his morbid art that the kingdom of France has ever seen.
Sister Vermillonne
The venerable Sister Vermillonne is a nun of the Hematic Faculty. She officiates as a Sister of Final Care at the Parisian hospice of the Incurables. There, she takes care of the unfortunate victims of the ghoul attacks that ravage the capital.
Madame Therese
The governess of the Grande Écurie is a severe and strict woman. But beneath her austere dresses boils an all-consuming ambition that makes her as dangerous as the worst bloodsuckers.
Courtiers from abroad
Sterling Raindust
Lord Sterling Raindust is attached to the English Embassy in Paris. Both a diplomatic agent and a spy, he carries out secret missions on behalf of Vice-Queen Anne Stuart. He sports a spiky hair crest, a silver pin in his ear, and a wry look at existence. Its motto ? “No future”.
Hyacinthe de Rocailles
Hyacinthe de Rocailles is the privateer captain of the Funeral Bride ship. The reputation of cruelty of this immortal is well established. He is also a virtuoso alchemist, a follower of the darkest magic. A piece of black leather covers his left eye socket, hiding a demonic eye.
Pale Phoebus
Pirate captain Pale Phoebus was born somewhere on the east coast of the Americas, before becoming in a few years the worst terror of the ocean. From the Lesser Antilles to Cape Cod, the fiercest sailors whisper his name only in low voices. Because he plunders merchant ships as well as those of other pirates.
Madame M.
The mysterious Madame M., enchanteress of the seas, lives in a lost retreat in the middle of the Bermuda Sea...
Criminals and Fronde rebels
The Fronde rebels
In secret, a vast network of mortals is preparing a revolution against the Magna Vampyria. Not only in France, but also in the Americas. To free the whole world from bloodsuckers. To end the Age of Shadows. To eradicate vampyres, ghouls and other nocturnal abominations forever.
Jeanne Froidelac
Accused of practicing alchemy illegally, Jeanne's family is slaughtered by the King's soldiers in the small Auvergne village of Butte-aux-Rats. What experiments were Jeanne's parents conducting on behalf of the Fronde, and why didn't they tell her anything about it?
Cléante
Agent of the Fronde on board the privateer ship The Funeral Bride, Cléante is ready to risk his life to serve the cause.
Commander Zéphirine
Zéphirine is the commander of the Fronde in Martinique. A wise strategist, she also relies on her intuition to decipher omens and read the future in tarot cards.
[Medallions by Loles Romero]
