Ghault Teresku

The unfaithful mate of Lady Minerva Teresku, Ghault finds luxury and lust the epitome of power and authority. Having wasted his human life as a drunken gambler who delights in cheating death, immortality exacerbated his self-destructive habits. Ghault, formally called The Gault, wastes no time in using his hypnotic skills to seduce and coerce is next conquest. He pretends to not care that his actions have reached the end of Minerva's patience, but in truth, he has never felt he was good enough to be crowned her official mate and lover. His devil-may-care persona is an excuse for his attempt to get Minerva to see he was never worth her attention. He identifies as the Teresku family's ultimate shame and leaves Kathello, Minerva's protege, in charge of managing the family's noblesse oblige. Ghault stays at the towering Teresku Castle, but his wanderlust keeps him away from tending to even the household's needs for months at a time.

What Ghault wants most is someone he can be addicted to. Someone as wretched a creature as himself would be amazing. He doesn't deserve kindness, sincerity, or compassion. He despises pity. He scoffs at love. Suffer with him and he will be yours for ever.

Vampires rule the world from the shadows. But even in their powerful and imperious society, there is conflict. Four ruling families maintain a tenuous balance of order among chaos. Families are Teresku, Qa'n, Erenbrey, and Paschel. Each specializes in a vampiric power. Each family has a noble crest. Each family has a noblesse oblige.

Teresku: Power specialty - hypnosis. Nobel Crest - golden eye. Noblesse oblige - cultivate humanity for food.

Qa'n: Power specialty - shapeshifting. Nobel Crest - black bat. Noblesse oblige - mediation of all creatures.

Erenbrey: Power specialty - physical enhancement. Nobel Crest - red dragon. Noblesse oblige - continuity of vampiric authority.

Paschel: Power specialty - telekinesis. Nobel Crest - white hand. Noblesse oblige - continuity of balance between the four families.

universal advantages of all vampires are vision, smell, hearing, immortal, healing.

specialty powers that come from one of the 4 families are hypnosis, telekinesis, shapeshifting, strength and speed.

Political Structure:

Vampiric council is made up of a leader from each family as well as the vampiric leader of each nation. The council is largely divided into two factions. Purists are vampires who feel humanity is cattle and should be treated as such. Vampires should not rule from the shadows. Second are the Traditionalists who do not seek change of the current structure. A minor but quickly growing faction are vampires who seek more of a codependency with humanity, no longer in the shadows but not for the purpose of rule.

Appearance: sharp features

Skin: Ashen white skin

hair: shoulder length silver wavy hair

eyes: pale eyes

height: 5ft 9in

build: agile and toned muscle in a slim build