by Petra Landon
Sienna McAlister
The daughter of Lady Bethesda and the Oracle, she walked away from her heritage to make a life away from the Wizards. Offered sanctuary in the Pack Lair by the Alpha, she works with the team investigating the past and her mother. Like her father, she is a seer who has had visions that involve Tasia. The visions have only been shared with Jason LaRue.
Scot McAlister
An influential Guardian and husband of Lady Bethesda, he’s a respected seer known as the Oracle. One of the contingent of Guardians sent to Chicago to question Lady Bethesda, he was killed by the explosion at the Registry. His many predictions include the Council of Chosen and The Prophecy.
Jason LaRue
A Guardian hand-picked by the First Wizard to liase with the Shifters investigating Lady Bethesda. He’s also responsible for Sienna’s protection. The son of two Guardians who perished in the explosion in Chicago, he’s an old acquaintance of Sienna’s from high school and is the only one aware of Sienna’s vision.
Lady Esmeralda
An ex-Guardian, she defeated Lady Bethesda to become the First Wizard and now represents her brethren on the Council of Chosen.
Gabriel Azevedo
A Guardian who defected from the GCW to work with the same Lombardi Vampires now allied with Lady Bethesda. He is believed to have been killed by the Clan when he rejected them to run away with one of their prisoners. Very few know that he is Tasia’s father and the prisoner he helped rescue from the Vampires was her mother.
Ted Anderson
A Guardian responsible for unleashing Shifter mercenaries to terrorize low level Wizards in San Francisco, as a means to ferret out a Chosen. He was once best mate to the erstwhile Gabriel Azevedo and the Alpha suspects that the Wizard Anderson seeks is Tasia.
VAMPIRES
Franciszka
The Mistress of the local Vampire nest in San Francisco. She has a relationship with the Alpha and his Pack, but not with the other local Chosen factions in her city.
Rafaelo Bianchi
A shrewd, canny and ruthless Vampire who serves Lady Bethesda, at the command of his Master, the Pure Blood who leads the Lombardi Family in Venice.
FIRST ONES
ElThor
Represents the First Ones on the Council of Chosen. His moniker means The First One, in the Ancient tongue.
TorElnor
A First One who leads the Setik in North America.
Roman Durovic
Handpicked by TorElnor to be his successor, Roman gets involved with the investigation into Lady Bethesda. Due to his missteps with her, he also has a prickly relationship with Nandini.
SivoTar
An influential Eru leader.
Nandini Rathore
The daughter of Lady Bethesda and her second husband, the Indian First One, Tribhuvan Rathore. She’s believed to be the second daughter from The Prophecy.
Tribhuvan Rathore
A powerful First One and leader of a mystical sect believed to worship and receive their powers from a Snake God. Their group (referred to as a Kabila) is headquartered in Nagalok at the foothills of the Himalayas in India.
Mahen Rathore
Nandini’s twin and heir to the Kabila.