Valerie

## Overview

* Sub-series main character.
* Sub-series primary protagonist.
* Vampiric daughter of William "The Duke" Renaud.
* Vampiric sister to Donovan.
* Judged honorable by Michael.
* Appointed as Michael's Justice Enforcer.

#### Reclaiming Honor

Valerie was born after the WWDE happened.  She was born less than fifty years before Bethany Anne returned to Earth but isn't quite sure about her early life.  She was turned by force and lost a lot of her pre nacht memory. In The Dark Messiah Valerie is in NY to stop her vampire brother Donovan and his plans to take over NY. While everyone else is fighting off the Forsaken and Norsferatu, she heads towards Donovan to kill him. Michael intercepts her thoughts and realizes that here is an Honorable Vampire, so he follows her and ensures that her fight with Donovan was fair.
After she defeats and kills Donovan, Michael requests that she stay in NY and the Americas and become a force for Justice while he goes to Europe to take care of her father. Michael grants her some of his blood, which gave her the ability to walk in the daylight, project fear as well as making her stronger.

Valerie gathers a team to administer justice in what was New York City. The core of civilization there is centered around Manhattan with walls to help keep raiders out. She finds the existing Enforcers under Commander Strake corrupt and facilitating the blood trade using Weres to track and capture vampires. She takes out that leadership and in its place she puts a vampire (Royland), a Were (Cammie) and a human (Donnoly) to lead her revitalized Enforcers. Their first challenge is the 7 faction leaders who are essentially gangsters/warlords who survive at the convenience of Strake. Of those 7, she finds the only honorable faction leader is Jackson Mercer. The team relies on him to work with the population to accept the rule of the Enforcers for the good of all but especially against the sponsors of Commander Strake. Valerie also has a relationship with Mercer that he wishes to take to a higher level, but she sees more as friends with benefits.

At this point the UnknownWorld was at minimum feared but to many a vague threat. While the Weres and Vampires working in the Enforcers kept a low profile Valerie was a lightening rod for their anger and fear even though she had defeated Commander Strake.

Strake was the front for a group called the CEOs (Ian Monzon, Dmitri Cross and Alex Manning) who are located outside of old NYC. Valarie fakes her death and with Sandra and Diego heads to Chicago to take them out. She meets Terry Henry Walton and Charumati who point her toward where the CEOs are suspected to be hiding and finds a young, newly turned vampire Robin with the Black Plague, an organization of vampire assassins. Valerie kills many of the Black Plague members and with the help of Robin take out the CEOs. Valerie heads to what was Toronto to put an end to blimp piracy, Robin goes along to see if her parents were sold into Slavery.

Valeries experiences across Reclaiming Honor leads her to establish 3 principles/promises for herself:

1. Promise Number One to herself was never have any romantic thoughts about Michael. He was with Bethany Anne, in a sense. Two vampires that, as far as Valerie knew, could read minds. Best to figure out how to picture Michael as her grandfather or something, so she didn’t get her head ripped off by a jealous lover. Valerie thought. Another way to likely get her head torn off. For a moment she pondered the idea of the infamous Bethany Anne, wondering if she really was the type to tear heads off or if Valerie was letting the old rumors of her vampire days with the Forsaken get the best of her.
2. Promise Number Two time. She swore to herself right then and there to not let romance stuff get in the way of her duty, and to not let herself get in a position where her power might influence someone to go for her.
3. Promise Number Three. She was going to kick so much ass here that no one would ever consider attacking her, her people, or anyplace in this hemisphere ever again.

### Valerie's Elites

After Bethany Anne's return to Earth, Valerie joins Bad Company with her own forces and was sent out to enforce justice throughout the galaxy alongside her sidekick Robin. Two of Terry Henry Walton's soldiers, and a tech named Bob.  She later changed her title from justice enforcer to prime enforcer.

## References

1. ↑ Sloan, Justin; Anderle, Michael. The Reclaiming Honor Omnibus (Books 1-8): A Kurtherian Gambit Series (p. 645). LMBPN
2. ↑ Sloan, Justin; Anderle, Michael. The Reclaiming Honor Omnibus (Books 1-8): A Kurtherian Gambit Series (p. 1172). LMBPN Publishing. Kindle Edition.