Carter, Dick:
Carson, Douglas:Sue's married older brother.
Carson, Sue:
Chlesea: A springer spaniel with long brown ears like satin.
Clarke, Mrs: The admissions secretary at the high school.
Frances: A girl that is eager for any attention from Elena.
Gilbert, Elena:
Gilbert, Margaret: Elena's little sister who is twelve years younger than her.
Gilbert, Judith: Elena and Margeret's Aunt who stepped in to raise them when their parents were killed in a car crash.
Fell, Honoria: The crypt was build for her by the people of Fell's Church. A secret place for one who had secret powers in life. She saw things no one else could see. She never used her powers for harm. When she died they built this monument so that she and her husband could lie in peace.
Fell's Church: A young town in Virginia by vampire standards. The oldest buildings had been put up a century and a half ago. In the Civil War a log of blood soaked the ground. A place like that draws the supernatural to it. It draws evil to it.
Flowers, Mrs: She has a boarding house on the edge of town.
Forbes, Caroline:
Grimesby, Mrs: She's the town librarian and she knows a lot about the founding of Fell's Church.
Gudren: She was Katherine's German maid.
Halpern, Ms: Trig teacher at the high school.
Honeycutt, Matt:
Klaus: The people in the village called him evil. He is the one that turned Katherine into a vampire. He killed with Alexander's army. He fought in the Trojan War. He is is one of the Originals. In his earliest memories he carried a bronze ax.
Kennedy, Deanna: A friend of Sue's.
Lapis Lazuli: An amulet against daylight. Without it direct exposure to the sun kills a vampire.
Lowen, Dr: He is a doctor at Fell's Church Clinic.
Maxwell, Robert: He is Judith's finacee.
McCullough, Bonnie: Her grandmother in Endinburgh has the second sight. It always skips a generation so Bonnie has it.
McCullough, Mary: Bonnie's older sister. She works at Fell's Church Clinic as a nurse.
Newcastle, Brian: The high school principal.
Old Ones: Every vampire was made by another vampire, changed by the exchange of blood. But somewhere, back in time, had been the Originals, the ones who hadn't been made. They were where the line of continuity stopped. No one knew how they'd gotten to be vampires themselves. Use white ash wood when going up against an Original.
Rachael: She's with the Gonzaga in Florence Program. She was a snack for Damon.
Raimbaud of Auvergne: A werewolf who was cured when a carpenter cut off one of his hind paws. He thanked the carpenter for ridding him forever of the accursed and damnable form.
Saltzman, Alaric: A graduate student from Duke University who majored in parapsychology.
Salvatore, Damon:
Salvatore, Conte di Guiseppe: Damon and Stefan's father who wasn't a father.
Salvatore, Stefan: He drives a sleek black 911 Turbo and he's from Italy. He's also a vampire.
Smallwood, Tyler: The werewolf virus was passed along to him.
Smallwood, Gervase of Tilbury: He lived in the 1200s. He wrote a book around the year 1210 AD. One of the things it talks about is werwolves. He is Tyler's many greats grandfather.
Snow Dance: It's a Christmas dance only there's a Snow Queen instead of a Christmas Queen.
Summer Solstice: It's a day for magic, for marking the change of the seasons. A day when the line between the visible world and the invisible world is thin. When you can see ghosts, they used to say. When things happen.
Summoning Spell: Ingredients: Hair, blood, three candles, bottled water, chalk to draw a circle on the floor and something to make a small fire in. The spell has to be done at midnight. Stick a pin halfway down the one in the center. Stir the dried flakes into a wineglass of water. Throw the hair into the fire. Say the following aloud three times.
Vampire: There's some confusion after changing. Human blood is needed so the body will have the strength to finish the change. A wooden stake hammered through the heart will kill a vampire. You have to invite a vampire in.
Vervain/Verbena officinialis: As long as you have it with you a vamp can't take over your mind. It is no good against werewolves.
Werewolf: A werewolf who hasn't been bitten himself has to be initiated. You can have the werewolf virus all your life but never even know it because it's never activated. The virus remains dormant unless the secret of waking it up is known. You have to kill and taste fresh blood. After that, at the first full moon you can change. There's a cure for werewolves besides the traditional silver bullet. It is commonly reported and held by grace and worth doctors that if a werewolf be short of one of his members, he shall surely recover his original body.
Yangtze: Bonnie's dog that ended up getting killed by Katherine.