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Avicus, Cyril, Teskhamen--Egyptian blood drinkers made by the priests of Akasha's cult well before the Common Era, drinking the Mother's blood but not made by her.

Marius--A Roman patrician, kidnapped by the Druids, and brought into the Blood shortly after the birth of Christ, or at the dawn of the Common Era. Made by Teskhamen, who was shortly thereafter presumed dead.

Pandora--A Roman patrician woman named Lydia, brought into the Blood by Marius in the first century.

Flavius--A Greek slave brought into the Blood by Pandora during the first century.

Mael--A Druid priest, the kidnapper of Marius, brought into the Blood by Avicus, and presumed dead.

Hesketh--A Germanic cunning woman, brought into the Blood by Teskhamen in the first century. Murdered in the eighth century.

Chrysanthe--A merchant's wife from the Christian city of Hira. Brought into the Blood by Nebamun, newly risen and named Gregory, in the fourth century.

Zenobia--A Byzantine woman, brought into the Blood by Eudoxia (now dead), who was made by Cyril around the sixth or seventh century.

Allesandra--A Merovingian princess, daughter of King Dagobert I, brought into the Blood in the seventh century by Rhoshamandes.

Gremt Stryker Knollys--A spirit who enters the narrative in the eighth century (748).

Benedict--A Christian monk of the eighth century, brought into the Blood by Rhoshamandes around the year A.D. 800.

Thorne--A Viking, brought into the Blood by Maharet around the ninth century of the Common Era.

Notker the Wise--A monk and a musician and a composer brought into the Blood by Benedict around A.D. 880, maker of many musician vampires as yet unnamed.

Eleni and Eugenie de Landen--Fledglings of Rhoshamandes made in the early Middle Ages.

Everard de Landen--A fledgling of Rhoshamandes made in the Middle Ages.

Arjun--A prince of the Chola dynasty in India, brought into the Blood by Pandora around 1300.

Santino--Italian vampire made during the time of the Black Death. Longtime Roman coven master of the Children of Satan. Presumed dead.

Magnus--An elderly alchemist who stole the Blood from Benedict during the 1400s. The maker of Lestat in 1780.

Armand--A Russian icon painter kidnapped in the vicinity of Kiev and brought to Venice as a slave, and made into a vampire by Marius around 1498.

Bianca Solderini--A Venetian courtesan made in the Blood by Marius around 1498.

Raymond Gallant--A faithful mortal scholar of the Talamasca, presumed dead in the sixteenth century.

Lestat de Lioncourt--Seventh son of a French marquis, made a vampire in the year 1780 by Magnus. Author of the second book in the Vampire Chronicles, The Vampire Lestat.

Gabrielle de Lioncourt--Lestat's mother, made by him in the Blood in 1780.

Nicolas de Lenfent--Close friend of Lestat, made into a vampire by Lestat in 1780 and long dead.

Louis de Pointe du Lac--A Louisiana French colonial plantation owner, brought into the Blood by Lestat in 1791. Louis began the books known as the Vampire Chronicles with Interview with the Vampire in 1976.

Claudia--An orphan, brought into the Blood around 1794. Long dead.

Antoine--A French musician, exiled to Louisiana and brought into the Blood by Lestat around 1860.

Daniel Malloy--An American male of about twenty who enters the narrative when he "interviews" Louis de Pointe du Lac about his life as a vampire, resulting in the publication of Interview with the Vampire in 1976. He is brought into the Blood by Armand in 1985, some nine years later.

Jesse Reeves--Mortal descendant of Maharet, brought into the Blood by Maharet in 1985.

David Talbot--Superior General of the Talamasca, brought into the Blood in 1992 by Lestat. David, the victim of a body switch, lost his original biological body, that of an elderly man, before being made into a vampire in the body of a much younger man.