Dracula
He cannot take Camelot by force. So he means to inherit it.
- Affinity
- Elder blood · Shadow sympathy
- Standing
- The First and Eldest
The architect of the whole trilogy's engine. Patient. Ruthless. Wrong about exactly the things that will undo him.
The first vampire. Old as the Order's ruin and present at it — one of the Ascension Project's original creations. Where lesser vampires reach for power, he has had it, and has spent centuries learning when not to use it.
He will not march on Camelot's runic walls. He will reach through a knight's shadow-keyed blade, into a queen's dreams, and engineer the prophesied heir on his own terms — a daywalking, magic-wielding child born of Camelot's own queen. A weapon. A puppet. An inheritance.
His arrogance is the only thing keeping him from already winning: he misreads Arthur as soft, the Round Table as fragile, his bride as obedient. He is wrong about all three.
