- The Van Alens used to own The Bank; it was their investment and brokerage house
- They "were related to" the Frick Museum, the Van Wyck Expressway, and the Hayden Planetarium
- Ancestry traces back to the Mayflower
- 6 U.S. Presidents were in their family tree
- They have been serviced by the Hazard-Perrys since the 1700s
Allegra
Full Name: Allegra Elizabeth Van Alen Chase
Status:Blue-blood; Gabrielle, The Uncorrupted, the Virtuous, Archangel of Light
Date of Birth: August 24, 1969
Originally from: Manhattan
Hair color: blonde
Eye color: green
Height: 5'7
Physical description: sad, beautiful, "a melancholy cast to her features", lovely, sorrowful-looking, platinum hair, "fair, blond hair, long and lustrous", "the most beautiful woman Schuyler had ever seen", "she had a face like a Renaissance Madonna- serene and peaceful", "knife-blade cheekbones"
Personality: "Sad"
Occupation: One of the highest ranking venators
Family members: Schuyler van Alen ("daughter"), Cordelia van Alen ("mother"), Lawrence van Alen ("father"), Stephen Chase (Schuyler's father), Charles Force ("twin"), Mimi and Jack Force (Sort of niece and nephew), Bliss Llewelyn (blood daughter)
Personal history: With Forsyth Llewellyn in 1982?
Began her education at Duchense School but transferred to Endicott Academy in MA during her junior year. As a student. she was cheerful, spirited, and athletic; captain of the girls' field hockey team and a natural-born leader.
She met and fell in love with a Red Blood, Stephen Chase. She was 21 when they eloped. Their marriage is the only instance of vampire-human bonding. The couple lived in hiding until Charles lifted the sanction (she violated the code and therefore was in a looooot of trouble) and allowed Allegra to return to the Coven.
When he died, she refused to take another familiar. That is why she she fell into a coma in 1995. Bonded to Stephen Chase (?). Was in a coma at the Columbia Presbyterian Hospital- on the top floor, in a private room that was outfitted like a suite in one of the city's best hotels that overlooks the Hudson. It even has a private bathroom.
History: She danced the waltz with Jack Force in a past life at the Headquarters of American History ballroom- wearing a long evening dress with a tight corset bodice and silk petticoats; Was Charles's wife in Egypt, when he was Pharaoh; was the Empress in Rome, Charles as her emperor. She was Rose Standish at Plymouth.
Allegra and Charles were blood-bound to each other for eternity. He saved her when she was attacked by the beast in Florence.
She was Gabrielle, one of the seven Archangels. She was the strongest, she came to Earth voluntarily to save the Blue Bloods.
Gabrielle had two trueborn daughters- children who were created as new spirits and not simply a reincarnation of an immortal one. While the first, Lucifer's daughter, was said to have been destroyed, she has been brought back every generation as a leader of the Dark... Bliss Llewellyn in this life. Her second was Schuyler Van Alen, Stephen Chase's daughter.
Her mutatus was the dove.
Known Past Lives: Rose Standish (Plymouth), Tomasia Fosari (Florence), Junia Tertia (Rome), Meni (Egypt)
Familiars: Stephen Chase
Conduit: Warren Hazard-Perry (deceased)
Bond: Broken with Charles Force; bonded with Stephen Chase (?)
Status:Blue-blood; Gabrielle, The Uncorrupted, the Virtuous, Archangel of Light
Date of Birth: August 24, 1969
Originally from: Manhattan
Hair color: blonde
Eye color: green
Height: 5'7
Physical description: sad, beautiful, "a melancholy cast to her features", lovely, sorrowful-looking, platinum hair, "fair, blond hair, long and lustrous", "the most beautiful woman Schuyler had ever seen", "she had a face like a Renaissance Madonna- serene and peaceful", "knife-blade cheekbones"
Personality: "Sad"
Occupation: One of the highest ranking venators
Family members: Schuyler van Alen ("daughter"), Cordelia van Alen ("mother"), Lawrence van Alen ("father"), Stephen Chase (Schuyler's father), Charles Force ("twin"), Mimi and Jack Force (Sort of niece and nephew), Bliss Llewelyn (blood daughter)
Personal history: With Forsyth Llewellyn in 1982?
Began her education at Duchense School but transferred to Endicott Academy in MA during her junior year. As a student. she was cheerful, spirited, and athletic; captain of the girls' field hockey team and a natural-born leader.
She met and fell in love with a Red Blood, Stephen Chase. She was 21 when they eloped. Their marriage is the only instance of vampire-human bonding. The couple lived in hiding until Charles lifted the sanction (she violated the code and therefore was in a looooot of trouble) and allowed Allegra to return to the Coven.
When he died, she refused to take another familiar. That is why she she fell into a coma in 1995. Bonded to Stephen Chase (?). Was in a coma at the Columbia Presbyterian Hospital- on the top floor, in a private room that was outfitted like a suite in one of the city's best hotels that overlooks the Hudson. It even has a private bathroom.
History: She danced the waltz with Jack Force in a past life at the Headquarters of American History ballroom- wearing a long evening dress with a tight corset bodice and silk petticoats; Was Charles's wife in Egypt, when he was Pharaoh; was the Empress in Rome, Charles as her emperor. She was Rose Standish at Plymouth.
Allegra and Charles were blood-bound to each other for eternity. He saved her when she was attacked by the beast in Florence.
She was Gabrielle, one of the seven Archangels. She was the strongest, she came to Earth voluntarily to save the Blue Bloods.
Gabrielle had two trueborn daughters- children who were created as new spirits and not simply a reincarnation of an immortal one. While the first, Lucifer's daughter, was said to have been destroyed, she has been brought back every generation as a leader of the Dark... Bliss Llewellyn in this life. Her second was Schuyler Van Alen, Stephen Chase's daughter.
Her mutatus was the dove.
Known Past Lives: Rose Standish (Plymouth), Tomasia Fosari (Florence), Junia Tertia (Rome), Meni (Egypt)
Familiars: Stephen Chase
Conduit: Warren Hazard-Perry (deceased)
Bond: Broken with Charles Force; bonded with Stephen Chase (?)
Cordelia
Full Name: Cordelia Edith Benjamin Van Alen
Status:Blue Blood; Seraphiel, Angel of Song
Date of Birth:Was over 100 when she died... born August 12, 1841
Originally from:New York
Hair color:White, blond in her youth
Eye color:Bright blue... green? (according to KEYS)
Height: 5'2
Physical description:Small, birdlike, still-beautiful, elegant, "looked to be in her eighties or nineties" but sometimes "young enough to be in her fifties or forties", sits ramrod strait, stern looking, wizened, diminutive
Personality: Elegant and stern, not very maternal (she refused to allow Schuyler to call her Grandmother, Grandma, or Nana). She is "a presence", an "enigma". Aloof and distant.
Occupation:Exiled from the Conclave, guardian of Schuyler
Family members:Lawrence Van Alen (husband, twin), Allegra Van Alen (daughter), Schyuler Van Alen (granddaughter)
Personal history: Cordelia was a precocious child, and in her youth she was known for her lovely soprana singing voice. She married Lawrence Van Alen in 1859 in a lavish bonding ceremony at the Van Alen mansion on Fifth Avenue. She was allowed to go beyond three times the normal human life span to prepare as the next mother to the Uncorrupted, Allegra and Charles, whose spirits were entrusted to her guidance according to the laws of the House of Records in 1969. Separated from Lawrence. They had both been banished from the Conclave. They agreed it was safer to separate, they didn't trust the wardens because they believed one of them harbored a Silver Blood.
Cordelia disapproved strongly with her "daughter's" affiliation with the red-blooded man. She is the one who changed Schuyler's birth certificate to her mother's last name instead of her father's and the one who enrolled Schuyler at Duchesne. She was Schuyler's guardian after Allegra went into a coma.
She presided over the New York Blood Bank Committee, the Central Park Conservancy, and served on the board of trustees for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, New York City Ballet, and the New York Philharmonic.
She was instrumental in calling up the spirit of the Watcher, the Pistis Sophia, in this cycle, to be be born and fostered in the Llewellyn household. She was attacked by a powerful young silverblood during the New York slayings of 2006 and nearly died permanently, but instead was able to cycle.
"On Eagle's Wings" was her favorite hymn.
History: Throughout Blue Blood history, Cordelia and Lawrence had been advocating for increased vigilance against the possible return of Silver Bloods.
Known Past Lives: Catherine Carver (Plymouth), Isabella Arosoto (Florence), Julia Caesaris (Rome)
Familiars: Anthony Smith (1919-1925), David Lancaster (1926-1943), Tobias West (1943-1969), Dmitri Stefan (1969-1982), Kenneth Lindsey (1983-1999), Rigoberto Morales [also her hairdresser] (1999-2006)
Conduit: James Owen Perry (deceased)
Bond: Lawrence Van Alen
Status:Blue Blood; Seraphiel, Angel of Song
Date of Birth:Was over 100 when she died... born August 12, 1841
Originally from:New York
Hair color:White, blond in her youth
Eye color:Bright blue... green? (according to KEYS)
Height: 5'2
Physical description:Small, birdlike, still-beautiful, elegant, "looked to be in her eighties or nineties" but sometimes "young enough to be in her fifties or forties", sits ramrod strait, stern looking, wizened, diminutive
Personality: Elegant and stern, not very maternal (she refused to allow Schuyler to call her Grandmother, Grandma, or Nana). She is "a presence", an "enigma". Aloof and distant.
Occupation:Exiled from the Conclave, guardian of Schuyler
Family members:Lawrence Van Alen (husband, twin), Allegra Van Alen (daughter), Schyuler Van Alen (granddaughter)
Personal history: Cordelia was a precocious child, and in her youth she was known for her lovely soprana singing voice. She married Lawrence Van Alen in 1859 in a lavish bonding ceremony at the Van Alen mansion on Fifth Avenue. She was allowed to go beyond three times the normal human life span to prepare as the next mother to the Uncorrupted, Allegra and Charles, whose spirits were entrusted to her guidance according to the laws of the House of Records in 1969. Separated from Lawrence. They had both been banished from the Conclave. They agreed it was safer to separate, they didn't trust the wardens because they believed one of them harbored a Silver Blood.
Cordelia disapproved strongly with her "daughter's" affiliation with the red-blooded man. She is the one who changed Schuyler's birth certificate to her mother's last name instead of her father's and the one who enrolled Schuyler at Duchesne. She was Schuyler's guardian after Allegra went into a coma.
She presided over the New York Blood Bank Committee, the Central Park Conservancy, and served on the board of trustees for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, New York City Ballet, and the New York Philharmonic.
She was instrumental in calling up the spirit of the Watcher, the Pistis Sophia, in this cycle, to be be born and fostered in the Llewellyn household. She was attacked by a powerful young silverblood during the New York slayings of 2006 and nearly died permanently, but instead was able to cycle.
"On Eagle's Wings" was her favorite hymn.
History: Throughout Blue Blood history, Cordelia and Lawrence had been advocating for increased vigilance against the possible return of Silver Bloods.
Known Past Lives: Catherine Carver (Plymouth), Isabella Arosoto (Florence), Julia Caesaris (Rome)
Familiars: Anthony Smith (1919-1925), David Lancaster (1926-1943), Tobias West (1943-1969), Dmitri Stefan (1969-1982), Kenneth Lindsey (1983-1999), Rigoberto Morales [also her hairdresser] (1999-2006)
Conduit: James Owen Perry (deceased)
Bond: Lawrence Van Alen
Lawrence
Full Name: Lawrence Theodore Winslow van Alen
Nick Names: Teddy
Status: Blue Blood Enmortal; Metraton, Hevenly Scribe
Date of Birth: Well over 100, became an Enmortal [105 according to obit, but probably lowered to seem more possible)... according to the papers before he fled to Venice, he legally died in 1872
Originally from: New York but fled to Venice
Hair color: Silver-flecked white, blond in his youth
Eye color: Blue
Height: Tall, 6'0
Physical description: Tall, thin, leonine hair flecked with silver; aristocratic hawkish nose, arrogant chin, commanding and intimidating figure
Personality: Loves Bellinis
Occupation: Reinstated Conclave Member and newly appointed Regis
Family members: Cordelia van Alen (wife, twin), Allegra van Alen (daughter), Schyuler van Alen (granddaughter)
Personal history: Lawrence was a prodigious reader and writer of historical books, and was the founding director of the Repository of history... many of the books in it are from his personal collection. During his tenure as Committee Warden (1710-1790), he made the secondary and collegiate education of young Blue Bloods a neccessary provision to their progression, regardless of their ability to remember the knowledge from past cycles.
An Enmortal, he bonded to Cordelia Benjamin in 1859... he went into a self-imposed exile in 1873. He separated from Cordelia and lived in Venice. They had both been banished from the Conclave. They agreed it was safer to separate, they didn't trust the wardens because they believed one of them harbored a Silver Blood. He hid in plain sight as a professor of linguistics and history at the University of Venice.
Until recent events cleared his name and reputation, Lawrence was considered an agitator, a traitor, and a troublemaker. When he returned to New York, he called the white bote and Michael was deposed. He allowed the Venator teams to re-form and return to their full power.
Lawrence was killed at Corcovado with Leviathan's poison spear... by Leviathan or Dylan disguised as Leviathan.
History: In Plymouth, John Carver called a White Vote and lost to Myles Standish (Michael).
Known Past Lives: John Carver (Plymouth), Ludivivo Arosto (Florence), Gnaeus Magnus Pompey (Rome)
Familiars: Unknown
Conduit: Christopher Anderson
Bond: Cordelia Van Alen
Nick Names: Teddy
Status: Blue Blood Enmortal; Metraton, Hevenly Scribe
Date of Birth: Well over 100, became an Enmortal [105 according to obit, but probably lowered to seem more possible)... according to the papers before he fled to Venice, he legally died in 1872
Originally from: New York but fled to Venice
Hair color: Silver-flecked white, blond in his youth
Eye color: Blue
Height: Tall, 6'0
Physical description: Tall, thin, leonine hair flecked with silver; aristocratic hawkish nose, arrogant chin, commanding and intimidating figure
Personality: Loves Bellinis
Occupation: Reinstated Conclave Member and newly appointed Regis
Family members: Cordelia van Alen (wife, twin), Allegra van Alen (daughter), Schyuler van Alen (granddaughter)
Personal history: Lawrence was a prodigious reader and writer of historical books, and was the founding director of the Repository of history... many of the books in it are from his personal collection. During his tenure as Committee Warden (1710-1790), he made the secondary and collegiate education of young Blue Bloods a neccessary provision to their progression, regardless of their ability to remember the knowledge from past cycles.
An Enmortal, he bonded to Cordelia Benjamin in 1859... he went into a self-imposed exile in 1873. He separated from Cordelia and lived in Venice. They had both been banished from the Conclave. They agreed it was safer to separate, they didn't trust the wardens because they believed one of them harbored a Silver Blood. He hid in plain sight as a professor of linguistics and history at the University of Venice.
Until recent events cleared his name and reputation, Lawrence was considered an agitator, a traitor, and a troublemaker. When he returned to New York, he called the white bote and Michael was deposed. He allowed the Venator teams to re-form and return to their full power.
Lawrence was killed at Corcovado with Leviathan's poison spear... by Leviathan or Dylan disguised as Leviathan.
History: In Plymouth, John Carver called a White Vote and lost to Myles Standish (Michael).
Known Past Lives: John Carver (Plymouth), Ludivivo Arosto (Florence), Gnaeus Magnus Pompey (Rome)
Familiars: Unknown
Conduit: Christopher Anderson
Bond: Cordelia Van Alen
Schuyler
Full Name: Schuyler Theodora Elizabeth Van Alen Chase
Nick Names: Sky
Status: Dimidium Cognatus: Half-blood
Date of Birth: September 1, 1991
Originally from: Manhattan
Hair color: blue black, down to her back; has bangs
Eye color: bright blue
Height: 5'7
Physical description: "Schuyler was startlingly pretty, with a sweet, heart-shaped face; a perfectly upturned nose;and a soft milky skin--but there was something almost insubstantial about her beauty", "Always looked like she was drowning in fabric", "Dark wavy hair", "Blue Black hair", "small", "Displayed a chic that Bliss didn't know how to match", looks like a "young Kate Moss". Streaks of pale blue lines blossomed in an intricate pattern down her forearms, visible under her pale skin. The prominent blue veins appeared a week before her fifteenth birthday and become more prominent as time progresses. She doesn't wash her hair for weeks at a time sometimes and occasionally wears half-moon glasses. She has a great figure, slim and waifish. She is gorgeous when she's all made up. She's "transcendent".
Personality: "Painfully shy", "Quiet", "Kept to herself"
Occupation: Duchesne Student, Committee Member
Family members: Allegra van Alen (mother), Cordelia van Alen ("grandmother"), Lawrence van Alen ("grandfather"), Stephen Chase (father), Charles Force (Sort of uncle; not blood related), Mimi and Jack Force (Sort of cousins; not blood related)
Personal history: She was born prematurely and was perpetually underweight. She did not speak until her fourth birthday, when she suddenly began using full sentences. Schuyler's half-blood heritage means she has many powers that vampires her age do not, but also that her mixed blood makes her weaker and her Transformation unstable. Her immortality is in question. Best friends with Oliver Hazard-Perry, very into Jack Force. She has a friendly, gorgeous bloodhound named Beauty that has dark fur. Modeled for 'Stitched for Civilization', the hottest jeans company in the world; was on a huge billboard in Times Square. After the battle at Corcovado, Schuyler was accused of her grandfather's murder and she and Oliver fled to Europe. Eventually Jack retrieved them, revealing Leviathan was after her to use as a sacrifice to open a gate to hell. She started school at Hamilton High (public school), under the name Skye Hope, using her shape-shifting abilities to pose as the daughter of an ex-hippie traveling singer. Leviathan made an attempt during Mimi and Jack's bonding ceremony... Turns out the gate was under St. John's church. Mimi saved Schuyler. Jack as injured and drank from Schuyler. Jack broke his bond, forcing Schuyler to flee once again, this time with Jack. They received sanctuary at the European coven in Florence.
History: This is her first cycle.
Familiars: Oliver Hazard-Perry
Pet: Bloodhound named Beauty
Conduit: Oliver Hazard-Perry
Bond: N/A
Nick Names: Sky
Status: Dimidium Cognatus: Half-blood
Date of Birth: September 1, 1991
Originally from: Manhattan
Hair color: blue black, down to her back; has bangs
Eye color: bright blue
Height: 5'7
Physical description: "Schuyler was startlingly pretty, with a sweet, heart-shaped face; a perfectly upturned nose;and a soft milky skin--but there was something almost insubstantial about her beauty", "Always looked like she was drowning in fabric", "Dark wavy hair", "Blue Black hair", "small", "Displayed a chic that Bliss didn't know how to match", looks like a "young Kate Moss". Streaks of pale blue lines blossomed in an intricate pattern down her forearms, visible under her pale skin. The prominent blue veins appeared a week before her fifteenth birthday and become more prominent as time progresses. She doesn't wash her hair for weeks at a time sometimes and occasionally wears half-moon glasses. She has a great figure, slim and waifish. She is gorgeous when she's all made up. She's "transcendent".
Personality: "Painfully shy", "Quiet", "Kept to herself"
Occupation: Duchesne Student, Committee Member
Family members: Allegra van Alen (mother), Cordelia van Alen ("grandmother"), Lawrence van Alen ("grandfather"), Stephen Chase (father), Charles Force (Sort of uncle; not blood related), Mimi and Jack Force (Sort of cousins; not blood related)
Personal history: She was born prematurely and was perpetually underweight. She did not speak until her fourth birthday, when she suddenly began using full sentences. Schuyler's half-blood heritage means she has many powers that vampires her age do not, but also that her mixed blood makes her weaker and her Transformation unstable. Her immortality is in question. Best friends with Oliver Hazard-Perry, very into Jack Force. She has a friendly, gorgeous bloodhound named Beauty that has dark fur. Modeled for 'Stitched for Civilization', the hottest jeans company in the world; was on a huge billboard in Times Square. After the battle at Corcovado, Schuyler was accused of her grandfather's murder and she and Oliver fled to Europe. Eventually Jack retrieved them, revealing Leviathan was after her to use as a sacrifice to open a gate to hell. She started school at Hamilton High (public school), under the name Skye Hope, using her shape-shifting abilities to pose as the daughter of an ex-hippie traveling singer. Leviathan made an attempt during Mimi and Jack's bonding ceremony... Turns out the gate was under St. John's church. Mimi saved Schuyler. Jack as injured and drank from Schuyler. Jack broke his bond, forcing Schuyler to flee once again, this time with Jack. They received sanctuary at the European coven in Florence.
History: This is her first cycle.
Familiars: Oliver Hazard-Perry
Pet: Bloodhound named Beauty
Conduit: Oliver Hazard-Perry
Bond: N/A