Our Macabre Family Tree

[trader]

Well, not really art work,but a fan creation.. here's a chart I made this weekend...let me know if it needs any corrections or additions...

[Vlad's Little Angel]

Good Gosh, that is ACE! Looks totally legit, like something you'd see at an important meeting of some sort...

[Syd Gill]

Ian sired Spade and Timothy as well.

Looks great! Created a new thread for it -- otherwise it would have gotten lost!

[wildchild1954]

I didn't think that sounded right Tee so I did some research.

Halfway to the Grave, Page 97, lines 9 - 13: "That's when Ian appeared among them, but he was different. You can guess how. He was a vampire, and he changed me that night. Charles and Timothy were changed as well by two other vampires."

First Drop of Crimson, Page 330, lines 3 - 4: "Such was the tie between Spade and Mencheres, the vampire who sired him."

So we know that Mencheres sired Ian while he was gone from the penal colony. When Ian returned he changed Bones, Mencheres changed Spade, but we haven't been told (yet) who changed Timothy. Trader does have Spade in the correct line on her tree.

As a side note, I would like to know what the different colors and the dotted lines mean.

[theredhead02]

Well the blue i believe are the ghouls. not sure about the others tho.

[trader]

Tee - thanks for moving this to its own thread. yes, blue, dotted line boxes are the ghouls.

The bright yellow boxes are for the co-rulers. The light yellow boxes are for who was there "that night" Bones was changed. We don't know who sired Timothy, but since Ian or Mencheres couldn't, the other possibilities, unless it's a new vamp, might be Vlad or Gorgon.

Green is Vlad's line. There is a dotted line between Vlad and Mencheres since Mencheres took Vlad under his wing when Tenoch died, so I wanted to show that connection between them.

The names with strikethrough have met their final death.

I wanted a way to show the connections between Max, Human Justina and their offspring Cat, so I colored them purple, and connected them with those funny dotted/dashed lines. And Vampire Cat is sired by Bones so she is under his line. If you have any suggestions on a better way to show that, please let me know. For Cat, it shows both her human parents and her vampire sire, so she's a little different. Plus as a main character, I thought she needed some shading.

And finally ghosts in gray. I included Fabian because I consider Fabian adopted by Cat and Bones, but mostly Cat.

I had a lot of fun doing this. bontempscutie and I were talking about some of the other minor characters I can add, like Ian's butler from OFITG, but sometimes it isn't said directly who was the minor character's sire.

Sam says this in EKOD, for example: “I was a Legacy. Used to belong to Tick Tock, but he died in the war over a year ago. Mencheres was Tick Tock’s Master, so he inherited all his property when Tick Tock died, me included

I'm making an assumption that Mencheres was his sire, but maybe he wasn't.. he could have acquired him in some other way, right? but he was clearly part of Mencheres line, so I included him.

how about Anubis? Did Patra sire him? I'd love it if people offered some suggestions on other characters to add. I have to say I was really surprised at how this looked when it came together.

[pinksapphire]

Love it

[wildchild1954]

I don't think you need to worry about the characters like Sam, Selene, and Kurt. They are humans who provide blood for the vampires they "belong" to. They're property so they don't have sires.

[trader]

WC, I wasn't going to put property on it, I just referenced that EKOD quote for the statement Sam makes about Tick-Tock.But we do have Band-Aid, and some others that escape my mind right now...I could add them, but do we know explicitly that Bones sired them?

[wildchild1954]

I don't think so. I wouldn't worry about the ones who make short "cameo" appearances though - there are too many of them and their sires are rarely, if ever, mentioned.