Vendramina Merlot

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**Vendramina Merlot**, better know as "**Lady Merlot**", is an ancient vampire born in Florence, Italy (then known as The Republic of Florence) to an unnamed father and mother in the early 1500s. She is the founder and leader of The Merlot Coven and is a recurring character of *Venom & Blood*.

## Biography

### Early Life

Vendramina was born in the early 1500s in modern day Florence, Italy. She was raised by her father due to the death of her mother during childbirth.

She was stunningly beautiful as a human, and seemed to become even more beautiful with age. Her father was an aspiring painter. He taught her how to see the beauty in the world, even through all the ugly.

### Last Human Years

One day when Vendramina was in her late 20s, she discovered that her father had gone missing without a trace. She spent months searching for him, but to no avail.

She was discovered by a vampire one night when he heard her crying by a tree. He was in awe at her beauty even through her tears. He offered to grant her with a delicious gift that would bring her a lifetime of satisfaction. Mesmerized by the vampire's haunting beauty, she agreed to his offer and was taken to the vampire's hideout and subsequently turned.

### Early Vampire Life

The years following her transformation, she was taught and trained by her creator. She looked up to her creator as a father figure obeyed his orders and rules that he set for her.

Vendramina became fascinated with vampire history and wanted to know more, but her creator did not have answers for her. All he knew was that the vampire that turned him during the era of The Black Death was killed shortly after by vampire hunters. That vampire turned multiple humans who were on the brink of death from the plague. He informed her that the first vampires are long dead and that the history died with them.

It would be a century before she made the discovery that the vampire that created her, was the cause of her father's death and disappearance all those years ago. Upon this discovery, she grew enraged and after a brief fight, she successfully killed her creator. She would spent the next few centuries traveling Europe as a lone vampire.

### Finding Her Mate

In the early 1830s, while on her travels, she landed in Patras, Greece where she met Alexander. They quickly fell in love and he agreed to become a vampire in order to spend the rest of eternity with her. After his transformation, he became even more infatuated with Vendramina and she became his purpose for existing. They spend the next few decades in Europe together until they moved to America, specifically New York City, at the turn of the 20th century.

### The Merlot Coven

From the early 1910s to the early 1970s, Vendramina turned and recruited a total of five vampires to her coven. Josef Sendall, Judy Day, Vincent Carr, and Francis Taylor were all turned by Vendramina herself. Dimitri Mikhailov was recruited to the coven in the early 70s.

Every vampire that Vendramina turned and added to the coven were always beautiful or had something unique to them that she found beauty in. She found beauty in Josef's albinism, Judy's features and her fierce attitude, Vincent's looks and his undying loyalty, Francis' passion for justice, and she recruited Dimitri for his stature and strength.

Every coven member is still currently apart of the coven except for Josef. He didn't like the restraint he felt being under Vendramina and Alexander's leadership, so he left in the 1930s to be on his own and later started his own coven, The Sendall Coven.