Dayan, Darius, Syndil and Barack - all of these secondary actors are provocative in their own right, giving Feehan fans many more books to look forward to reading.
Carpathian males are predators by nature.
They need human blood to survive, but it is against their laws to harm their human prey. For some males, the ones that can no longer bear the never-ending black void within themselves, turning vampire is their only escape. When they turn, they can feel the momentary high experienced from killing humans. For many males, the lure of feeling once again, no matter how evilly gained, is powerful and overwhelms them. Once they turn, however, there is no going back and their souls are forever damned.