Keys to the Repository (Blue Bloods 4.50)

Eyes: Blue

Height: 6’0”

Until recent events cleared his name and reputation, Lawrence Van Alen was considered by many in the Coven to be an agitator, a traitor, and a troublemaker. Upon the founding of the New World, as John Carver, he lost his prominent position in the Conclave after losing the White Vote. The council had voted to follow Myles Standish (Michael), as they have always done, regardless of the suspected return of the Silver Bloods.

Lawrence was a prodigious reader and writer of historical books, and was the founding director of the Repository of History. Many of the books in our library are from his personal collection. During his tenure as Committee Warden (1710–1790), he made the secondary and collegiate education of young Blue Bloods a necessary provision to their progression, regardless of their ability to remember the knowledge gleaned from past cycles. According to his speech before the Conclave, “Blue Bloods must understand our place in the world before we can attempt to change it. You may be able to call up an entire encyclopedia, but nothing is more meaningless than a brain with no heart and no reasoning.”

An Enmortal, he bonded to Cordelia Benjamin in 1859 and disappeared from the Coven’s records after his self-imposed exile around 1873 (dates still unconfirmed). According to Cordelia’s diaries, they had decided to separate, believing that Lawrence would be safer conducting his research on his own. For as long as he lived, he believed that the Silver Bloods had infiltrated the highest echelons of the Conclave.

According to Conduit Hazard-Perry’s notes, Lawrence was hiding in plain sight as a professor of linguistics and history at the University of Venice. Upon his return to the New York Coven after the attack at the Repository, Lawrence immediately called for the White Vote and won the title of Regis. During his brief tenure as head of the Coven, he opened up the Repository Files on the Croatan/Silver Bloods and was instrumental in allowing the Venator teams to re-form and return to their full power in order to meet the growing threat of the Silver Bloods’ return.

During his investigation into troubling events in Rio de Janeiro, Lawrence was slain, allegedly by Leviathan himself. Eyewitnesses at the scene are not credible: Bliss Llewellyn does not remember anything, Oliver Hazard-Perry is human (Red Blood testimony is inadmissible), and Schuyler Van Alen is a person of interest in the investigation and has yet to be brought in front of a full tribunal to ascertain the truths of the events on the night in question.

Lawrence’s prodigious research notes, labeled only Van Alen, Legacy—Paths, have been missing since his Conduit retired from service. It is the Repository’s belief that these documents are now in the hands of Schuyler Van Alen.

Current Status. Finished. (If the Conclave is to believe Schuyler’s account, the Enmortal has been extinguished forever from the Light.)

STEPHEN CHASE

Human Familiar

Birth Name: Stephen Bendix Chase

Origin: September 1, 1967, San Francisco, California

Bondmate: Allegra Van Alen Chase

Physical Characteristics: (according to high school records)

Hair: Blond

Eyes: Blue

Height: 6’3”

Not much is known about Stephen Chase, Schuyler Van Alen’s Red Blood father. In fact, according to the official records, his name is misspelled with a “V” (“Steven Chase” according to the Van Alen family tree in Masquerade [Repository Record #202]). This could be a result of Allegra Van Alen’s hope to keep the identity of her human familiar a secret, or a result of a common clerical error. Allegra always maintained that she met Stephen, an artist in San Francisco, at his gallery opening in 1990. However, new documents unearthed by a research team led by Oliver Hazard-Perry (which include Allegra’s high school diary) indicate that they may have met earlier. It has just come to light that Stephen Chase may have been the same person as Bendix Chase, a boy who was in the same year as Allegra at Endicott Academy, a boarding school in Massachusetts. If so, then Ben/ Stephen was her first and only human familiar.

In any event, in the fall of 1990, Allegra made Stephen her bondmate, against the Code of the Vampires, breaking her blood bond to her brother, Charles. His name appears on Schuyer Van Alen’s birth certificate, but it is unknown whether he lived to see his daughter. The documents are unclear on the time of his death, again, perhaps a deliberate deception on Allegra Van Alen’s part—it is our belief that she did not want the Committee to know very much about her human husband, and many documents pertaining to his whereabouts are missing or were destroyed. We can only assume that he is dead, as he has never been in contact with either his comatose wife or his errant daughter.

Current Status: Presumed deceased

OLIVER HAZARD-PERRY

Human Familiar/Human Conduit

Birth Name: Oliver Aloysius Fitzgerald Hazard-Perry II

Origin: October 18, 1992, New York, New York

Physical Characteristics:

Hair: Brown

Eyes: Hazel

Height: 5’11”

Born to one of the oldest human families in service to the vampires, Oliver Hazard-Perry was assigned to Schuyler Van Alen from the moment of his birth. Like all human Conduits, Oliver has been trained in the art of secrecy and vassalage. He has performed admirably well, and as Schuyler’s human Conduit, Oliver has gone above and beyond the call of duty. It is noted that he is not only her best friend, but her confidant, protector, and “partner in crime,” according to a Repository intern posted at Duchesne. However, he displayed uncharacteristically poor judgment by allowing her to take him as her human familiar, marking him with the Sacred Kiss, an offense that has so far gone unpunished, due to an order from the Regis (Lawrence Van Alen, 2007).