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.
