Diana Bishop
This is the university where Diana is conducting her research when she first encounters Ashmole 782.
What is Oxford University?
This Oxford library is where Diana first encounters the mysterious manuscript after summoning it from the stacks.
What is the Bodleian Library?
Matthew is this type of supernatural creature.
What is A Vampire?
These two women are Diana’s aunts and raise her after the death of her parents.
Who are Sarah Bishop and Emily Mather?
These are the three supernatural species represented on the Congregation.
What are witches, vampires, and daemons?
Diana’s academic specialty is this field, which becomes particularly important when she encounters Ashmole 782.
What is the history of alchemy?
Ashmole 782 has another name that becomes increasingly important to the supernatural creatures pursuing it.
What is The Book of Life?
Matthew works professionally in this scientific field.
What is genetics/genetic research?
This Oxford witch is Diana’s friend and colleague but ultimately betrays her.
Who is Gillian Chamberlain?
This council governs the supernatural creatures and works to prevent their existence from becoming known to humans.
What is the Congregation?
Diana’s parents, Rebecca and Stephen, died when she was this age.
What is seven years old?
Diana encounters Ashmole 782 in this particular room of Oxford’s Bodleian Library.
What is Duke Humphrey’s Reading Room?
This powerful vampire is Matthew’s mother.
Who is Ysabeau de Clermont?
This powerful witch and member of the Congregation becomes obsessed with obtaining Ashmole 782 and controlling Diana’s abilities.
Who is Peter Knox?
Members of this species are known for their extraordinary creativity and often work as artists, musicians, writers, or other kinds of creators.
What are daemons?
Although Diana has spent years avoiding her witchcraft, this particular ability begins to emerge as a major part of her story.
What is timewalking?
The manuscript is especially significant because it may contain information concerning the origins and nature of these three supernatural species.
What are witches, vampires, and daemons?
Matthew’s scientific work is connected to his interest in this problem affecting vampire reproduction.
What is the declining ability of vampires to reproduce/create new vampires?
This vampire is Matthew’s oldest surviving son and becomes an important ally to Diana after she arrives at Sept-Tours.
Who is Marcus de Clermont?
Unlike vampires, who can create new members of their species, witches inherit their supernatural abilities through their family lines.
What are witches?
Diana discovered that her parents did this to her to protect her from the danger of other witches discovering her power.
What is Spellbound?
Diana’s ability to summon Ashmole 782 is unusual because the manuscript has been missing for this approximate length of time.
What is more than 150 years?
Matthew has been alive for roughly this many years when he meets Diana.
What is approximately 1,500 years?
This vampire, a member of the de Clermont family, initially views Diana with suspicion and challenges Matthew’s decision to become involved with her.
Who is Baldwin de Clermont?
This is the name for the rules that govern how witches, vampires, and daemons are permitted to interact with one another.
What is the Covenant?