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BORN: A.D. 1463
BIRTHPLACE: Essex, England
Kattalakis, Darion A Katagari Were-dragon and warlord of great powers, Darion is cousin to Damos Kattalakis. He is also Damos’s greatest enemy. They have a blood feud that stems from the very beginning of their creation. Darion is the leader of his patria and is rumored to be the Slayer behind the attack that killed Damos’s parents. Should they ever cross paths, there is little doubt that neither one of them will survive.
Damos represents all Katagaria Drakos as Regis in the Omegrion.
BORN: 5925 B.C.
BIRTHPLACE: Arcadia, Greece
Kattalakis, Dimitri Dimitri is cousin to Damos, Sebastian, and Makis, and brother to Perseus. He is the anchor for his tessera and provides the stability they need. He functions as a peacemaker when necessary, but due to his volatile temper Dimitri is sometimes distracted from that calling. You don’t want to be that distraction. You might want to say a prayer for whoever is.
BORN: A.D. 812
BIRTHPLACE: Hexham, England
Kattalakis, Fang Katagari Were-Hunter and brother of Vane, Dare, Star, Anya, and Fury, Fang loves to crack bad jokes. The undisputed black sheep of the family, Fang asks for nothing and expects to get it. (“If you keep low expectations,” Fang says, “you’ll always be happily surprised.”)
Alienated from all of his family and filos except Vane and Anya (before she died), he walks the world alone. He is the true lone wolf. Fang is a drifter, and the worst sort of scoundrel.
Fang was harmed badly when attacked by Daimons alongside Vane. Vane rescued himself and his brother and took Fang to Sanctuary to recuperate. What Vane didn’t count on was Fang becoming completely (and dangerously) smitten with Aimée Peltier.
BORN: A.D. 1463
BIRTHPLACE: Essex, England
HAIR/EYES: black/hazel
WERE-FORM: brown timber wolf
Kattalakis, Fury Brother of Vane, Fang, Anya, Dare, and Star. He was born in human form and lived with his brother Dare and sister Star under the care of their Arcadian mother Bryani until puberty, when his Katagari-half took over (the opposite of what happened to Vane). Bryani tried to kill Fury when she discovered his true animal nature.
Vane saved Fury’s life when he first joined the pack by swearing brotherhood to him if he helped protect Bride McTierney. Fury is unreliable and selfish, but because of his mixed birth (and the fact that no one trained him to use his magic powers), he relies on his animal strength. When it comes to fighting, there are few better. Now he is the leader of the pack that used to shelter Vane and Fang. He claims the role of Katagari Lykos Regis at the Omegrion but he is pretty much just a figurehead, as he will always side with his brother Vane.
Not a great conversationalist. Fury’s favorite saying is, “No good deed goes unpunished.”
BORN: A.D. 1463
BIRTHPLACE: Essex, England
HAIR/EYES: blond/turquoise
WERE-FORM: white timber wolf (distinguishing brown spot)
Kattalakis, Makis An Arcadian Drakos born between Damos and Sebastian, Makis is the identical twin of Theren, who died protecting their sister from Slayers. Though he travels with Damos, Makis still longs for the return of Sebastian and the reunification of their scattered patria.
Makis takes great pleasure in the hunting and execution of the Slayers, and has vowed to track down everyone who was responsible for the slaughter of their village. He is relentless and cold to the Katagaria. To them, his name is synonymous with death. He will not rest until he lays waste to all bearing the blood of those who attacked his people.
BORN: A.D. 535
BIRTHPLACE: Wessex, England
Kattalakis, Markus A Katagari Were-Hunter and father of Vane, Fang, Fury, Dare, Star, and Anya. Markus tried to force the unwilling Bryani to accept him as a mate and failed, thus dooming him to a bitter life of powerless sterility. He later turned on his own sons, wanting to kill Vane and Fang for “allowing” their sister Anya’s death to happen. Markus made deals with Daimons for magic since he could no longer wield any. He was eventually banished to a fifth-century arena on an island to battle his wife for eternity.
WERE-FORM: brown timber wolf
Kattalakis, Matarina Markus’s youngest adopted daughter. Matarina was always very fond of Vane and Fang.
Kattalakis, Sebastian Arcadian Sentinel Drakos Were-Hunter and youngest of the direct Drakos Kattalakis descendents. Sebastian is the grandson of King Lycaon, and a prince of Arcadia. Always at odds with his older brother Damos, Sebastian was excommunicated from his patria after the death of his sister Antiphone. He wears a gold medallion around his neck that belonged to his mother.
Sebastian is mated to a twenty-first-century human, Dr. Channon MacRae.
BORN: October 3, 545
BIRTHPLACE: Hexham, England
HEIGHT: six foot five
HAIR/EYES: black/greenish-gold
WERE-FORM: dragon with bloodred and black scales
CURRENT LOCATION: Richmond, Virginia
FEATURED STORY: “Dragonswan”
Kattalakis, Star Arcadian sister of Vane, Dare, Fang, Anya, and Fury. Star was raised by Bryani, along with her Arcadian brother Dare.
BORN: A.D. 1463
BIRTHPLACE: Essex, England
Kattalakis, Taron Taron is the leader of his patria and the great-grandson of the first Lykos Katagaria. Proclaimed a Slayer when he turned twenty-eight, he has spent his adulthood thwarting the Sentinels after him.
Taron is still searching for his sister and two brothers that were lost to the patria during an attack. It is believed they were taken by the Arcadians and made into slaves. Taron won’t rest until he finds them and restores them to the lands where they were born. Until that day comes, he has vowed to lay waste to every Arcadian he can find.
BORN: A.D. 10
BIRTHPLACE: Gaul
Kattalakis, Theren (deceased) This Arcadian Drakos was the identical twin of Makis. He died protecting their sister from Slayers.
BORN: A.D. 535
BIRTHPLACE: Wessex, England
Kattalakis, Vane Arcadian Sentinel, Lykos Were-Hunter, and Aristo. Firstborn of the Kattalakis litter, Vane was born Katagaria but changed to Arcadian at puberty (opposite from his brother Fury). The Arcadians proclaimed him a Slayer on his twenty-fifth birthday, and they have pursued him ever since. The bounty on his head is staggering. As an Aristo his powers are legendary; few Sentinels have dared challenge him. Those who have paid with their lives.
Vane was doing a favor for the Dark-Hunters (protecting Sunshine Runningwolf) when Daimons attacked his pack and slaughtered his pregnant sister, Anya. Their father turned against him because of this. As a result, he and his brother Fang were subjected to the timoria. They were imprisoned in metriazo collars and left to the elements, the alligators, or the Daimons, whichever came first.
As Murphy’s luck would have it, it ended up being the latter. Vane managed to save both himself and his brother, but during their escape, Fang was almost fatally wounded by Daimons. Vane took Fang to Sanctuary to recover from his wounds.
Vane worked as a bartender at Sanctuary while Fang was ill, and was later banished from the safe house for attacking Stefan, who had come to kill Fang.
Vane was mated to Bride McTierney in 2004. He represents the Arcadian Lykos patria at the Omegrion and, through his brother Fury, pretty much represents the Katagaria branch as well.
BORN: A.D. 1463
BIRTHPLACE: Essex, England
HAIR/EYES: mottled dark brown/green
WERE-FORM: solid white timber wolf
FEATURED NOVEL: Night Play
Konstantinus, Ilarion The last surviving member of his Drakos filos, Ilarion was captured by humans when he was barely eight years old. He lived in captivity for four years where he was brutally tortured and cruelly displayed. He finally escaped, but not before his throat was damaged so badly by the humans that he could no longer speak.
Ilarion learned to hide where no one could find or track him. He trusts no one and refuses to let anyone near him. Antisocial to the extreme, he only interacts with women when his passionate appetite requires it. His powers are equal to, if not greater than, any Kattalakis.
BORN: A.D. 435
BIRTHPLACE: Norway
Kontis, Dorian Nickname: Dori. An Arcadian Were-leopard and brother of Ravyn Kontis. Dorian is the bonded mate of Terra and twin of Phoenix. Dorian often says he came into the world with one purpose: to harass his brothers and keep them from hurting each other.
He is a fair man, and he possesses a most wicked sense of humor. Aside from his mate, he prefers to keep to himself. As a young Sentinel, he was charged with the harsh duty of putting down one of his littermates who succumbed to the trelosa. Many say that his heart died that day.
He resides at the Serengeti Club, alongside his family. He also represents his patria at the Omegrion as the Arcadian Pardalia Regis.
BORN: March 10, A.D. 675
BIRTHPLACE: Athens, Greece
HEIGHT: six foot two
WERE-FORM: leopard
CURRENT LOCATION: Seattle, Washington
Kontis, Gareth This Were-leopard is the father of Dorian, Phoenix, and Ravyn Kontis. Gareth is the owner of the Serengeti Club in Seattle. He was not formally bonded to his mate, and so survived when the Were pack was slain by the humans.
Kontis, Georgette (deceased) The unbonded Were-leopard mate of Phoenix Kontis. Georgette was killed alongside her children when Isabeau betrayed the Weres and the humans attacked the clan.
Kontis, Phoenix Nickname: Nix. Arcadian Were-leopard Sentinel, twin to Dorian, and reluctant brother to Ravyn Kontis. He was born five minutes before his twin brother, Dorian, and is fond of saying that he took all of his brother’s meanness. In fact, his brother and two sisters are the only creatures he will interact with peacefully.
He was also Ravyn’s murderer, back when his brother’s human mate betrayed the Were pack. Phoenix was not formally bonded to his mate at the time (Georgette), and so he was doomed to survive when the humans slew his wife and children.
Cold and calculating, he is one of the few Sentinels who works alone and as such, he keeps the tattoo on his face hidden. As he says, he’s never been a team player and he’s too old now to change his ways.
He resides at the Serengeti Club with his family.
BORN: March 10, A.D. 675
BIRTHPLACE: Athens, Greece
HEIGHT: six foot two
WERE-FORM: leopard
CURRENT LOCATION: Seattle, Washington
Kontis, Ravyn An Arcadian Dark-Hunter/Were-Hunter leopard, Ravyn is the son of Gareth Kontis and brother to the twins Phoenix and Dorian. Ravyn was mated to Isabeau (a human) who betrayed Ravyn’s Were pack to her human family while the male Weres were out hunting.
The hunting party realized that the women and children were being slaughtered when the bonded males began to die instantly. The remaining males in the pack, led by Phoenix, turned on Ravyn and killed him (Wales, 1673). Ravyn then called on Artemis to seek revenge on Isabeau and her people.
When he made the bargain to become an immortal Dark-Hunter, Ravyn lost the ability to teleport, travel through time, and day-walk as a man. He can walk in daylight only in the form of a very small Arabian leopard. (In this form, he is often mistaken for a cat.)
Ravyn is stationed in Seattle, where his family owns a sanctuary (the Serengeti Club), but because of the laws of both Hunterkind, they are never to associate. He is classified as an exoristos, which forbids any member of his clan from even speaking his name.
After recently mating Susan Michaels (a very strange hand dealt by the Fates, since Ravyn is a Dark-Hunter and is not supposed to be able to mate … on top of the incredible rarity it is for a Were to be given the chance to mate twice in one lifetime), Ravyn asked Susan not to petition Artemis for his soul so that he might remain a Dark-Hunter.
BORN: 304 B.C.
BIRTHPLACE: Athens, Greece
HEIGHT: six foot six
HAIR/EYES: black
WERE-FORM: leopard
AGE AT DEATH: six hundred thirty-five
CURRENT LOCATION: Seattle, Washington
FEATURED NOVEL: Dark Side of the Moon
Kontis, Susan (née Michaels) Susan is the bonded mate of the Were-Hunter/Dark-Hunter Ravyn Kontis. She won the Sterling Award in 2000 for Investigative Reporting. Her career was later ruined when she wrote a story exposing a senator’s questionable spending practices, and then found out her source was bogus. She is currently employed by the undercover Squire Leo Kirby at the Daily Inquisitor in Seattle.
Susan’s father abandoned her and her mother when Susan was three. Years later, her mother died in a car wreck. She learned to sword fight in the SCA, and was once a martial arts student of the Dark-Hunter Dragon.
Susan was almost made a Squire by her boss when trouble started brewing around Ravyn in 2006. This would have forbidden her inevitable relationship with Ravyn, only she missed being officially sworn in and got off on a technicality. Clever Leo.
HAIR/EYES: dark blond/blue
CURRENT LOCATION: Seattle, Washington
FEATURED NOVEL: Dark Side of the Moon
Kontis, Terra A Were-leopard, and Dorian’s bonded mate. This lovely, tall brunette works in the kitchen at the Serengeti Club.
HAIR/EYES: brown/blue
WERE-FORM: leopard
CURRENT LOCATION: Seattle, Washington
Kontis, Zatira (deceased) Were-leopard and sister to Ravyn, Phoenix, and Dorian. Zatira died in 1673 alongside their mother, Phoenix’s wife and children, and the rest of their village when the humans attacked.
Kouris, Stefan The Katagari Were-leopard who represents his patria at the Omegrion as the Pardalia Regis.
Kouti, Sefia Pandora Pontis’s surviving sister. She is mated to a Katagari panther.
Kyriakos, Terecles Terecles was born to one of the now rare Tsakali (jackal) patrias who spurned Artemis. He is the archigos of his patria, and has vowed to see them survive no matter what. He and his patria move constantly and their location is unknown at this time. He could be in the past, present, or future.
He is ruthless and exacting. No one wants to cross him. It is said he can only be tamed for very short periods of time and only by the hand of a tempting woman.
BORN: 892 B.C.
BIRTHPLACE: Carthage
HEIGHT: six foot five
Laminas/Limani The Atlantean term for “haven.” This refers to portals between worlds (bolt-holes). The word is also used to describe any Were-Hunter sanctuary or safe house.
Leonides, Patrice An Arcadian Were-lion, Patrice is Regis of the Litarian patria.
MacRae, Channon, Dr. A History professor at the University of Virginia specializing in pre-Norman Britain. Channon’s mother died of cancer when she was nine. She is mated to Sebastian Kattalakis.
HAIR/EYES: honey brown/blue
FEATURED STORY: “Dragonswan”
Marvin the Monkey Small brown spider monkey with a fondness for carrots. Marvin is the only real, non-Were animal in Sanctuary, and is its mascot. Watch out: He likes to steal billiard balls off the tables during games. He likes fruit, and is very good friends with Wren Tigarian.
CURRENT LOCATION: New Orleans, Louisiana
Metriazo Collar This thin silver collar sends tiny ionic pulses into the body of a Were-Hunter, thus preventing its victim from using his magic powers. It will effectively stop a shapeshifter from changing shape, and can only be removed by magic.
Moretti, Vincenzo Since Were-jackals keep to themselves, not much is known about this Katagari Were-Hunter. He represents the Tsakalis patria at the Omegrion as Regis of his clan.
Nearas The term used to describe virgin Were females who are cresting.
Omega Wolf Slang term for the scapegoat of the pack whom everyone picks on.
Orian (deceased) Strati warrior who was the bonded mate of Anya Kattalakis, sister to Vane and Fang. By all rights Anya should have died when Orian died, only she was pregnant at the time.
Patria Name for the family grouping of Were-Hunters of the same race and animal genus. The existing Were patria are: Balios (jaguars), Niphetos Pardalia (snow leopards), Drakos (dragons), Panthiras (panthers), Gerakian (hawks, falcons, bald eagles), Pardalia (leopards), Helikias (cheetahs), Tigarian (tigers), Litarian (lions), Tsakalis (jackals), Lykos (wolves), and Ursulan (bears).
Peltier, Aimée The only daughter of the Peltier clan, Aimée works at Sanctuary as bookkeeper and waitress, as well as taking care of all the necessary permits and bribes. She fell in love with Fang Kattalakis while nursing him back to health after a Daimon attack. (A dangerous proposition for Fang.) Anyone else who looks at Aimée gets a meeting with her brothers and father in the back room.
BORN: Brussels, Belgium
WERE-FORM: bear
CURRENT LOCATION: New Orleans, Louisiana
Peltier, Alain The eldest Peltier son, Alain manages the bar for his parents. He is also the bouncer no one wants to cross.
WERE-FORM: bear
CURRENT LOCATION: New Orleans, Louisiana
Peltier, Aubert (aka Papa Bear) Patriarch of the Peltier clan. At seven feet tall, no one messes with Papa Bear. (He does give great hugs, though.) A lot of fun and easygoing, Papa Bear believes in giving everyone a chance—until they prove him wrong. He is fiercely protective of Mama and their children. Especially Aimée.
WERE-FORM: bear
CURRENT LOCATION: New Orleans, Louisiana
Peltier, Bastian (deceased) A Peltier son, Bastian was killed by Arcadian Sentinels as a cub along with his brother Gilbert.
Peltier, Cherif One of the Peltier quadruplets, Cherif works as a bartender and waiter at Sanctuary. He also doubles as a bouncer when needs be, as most of the Peltier brothers do.
WERE-FORM: bear
CURRENT LOCATION: New Orleans, Louisiana
Peltier, “Cody” Francois The fraternal (older) twin of Kyle, Cody tends to let the mischievous Etienne lead him astray. He works as the band’s roadie. He keeps their equipment working, and runs the soundboard at night.
WERE-FORM: bear
CURRENT LOCATION: New Orleans, Louisiana
Peltier, Devereaux Nickname: Dev. One of the Peltier quadruplets, and bouncer at Sanctuary. Dev keeps a close eye on all the females at the bar to make sure no one harasses them—unless they want to be harassed—with the exception of Aimée. No one touches her. Keep an eye out for his bow-and-arrow tattoo, which he has because he thinks it’s funny. He is not a Dark-Hunter.
