The Warlord Wants Forever (2006) (edit title/settings)

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• Myst the Coveted: the most beautiful Valkyrie, part chillingly fierce warrior, part beguiling seductress
• Nikolai Wroth: a Vampire general in Kristoff's army. Once human, now turned. Also known as the Overlord.
• Kristoff the Gravewalker: King of the Forbearers. Natural born vampire.
• Demestriu: King of the Vampire Horde.
• Murdoch Wroth: Nikolai's brother.
• Conrad Wroth: Nikolai's brother.
• Sebastian Wroth: Nikolai's brother.
• Furie: The Valkyrie queen, part Fury. She was kidnapped by the Horde.
• Annika: she is a Valkyrie.
• Lucia the Huntress: she is a Valkyrie, cursed to suffer great pain if she misses a target.
• Regin the Radiant: The more excited she gets , the more she glows
• Nïx the Ever-Knowing: she is a Valkyrie, believed to be a soothsayer.
• Daniela the Ice Maiden: she is a Valkyrie, an ice fey.
• Emmaline Troy: a half-vampire/ half-Valkyrie.

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• “Way to hurt my feelings, Wroth. She sniffled. Now I’ll really have to kill you.”

  Myst

• “Her sisters wouldn't discriminate between the two vampire factions. Kill first and then say, 'Gosh, were you actually good? My duh!'”

  Myst The Coveted

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• She was untouched, her human mortality unchanged. But soon an immortal daughter would be born from her—a daughter who possessed her courage, Wóden’s wily brilliance, and Freya’s mirth and fey beauty. Though this daughter enjoyed the power of lightning for sustenance, she also inherited Wóden’s arrogance and Freya’s acquisitiveness,

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• “My sanity will fail me long before my will does. Luckily, the only thing more interesting than a madman is a relentless one.”

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• “They’re evidence of the pain you’ve survived. Pain survived builds strength.”

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Mount Oblak Castle: One of Horde's strongholds in Russia
• New Orleans, Louisiana: the town where the Valkyrie live
• Blachmount Manor: Wroth's manor in Eesti
• Russia
• Eesti

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Glossary edit see section history

• The Valkyrie: When a maiden warrior screams for courage as she dies in battle, Wóden and Freya heed her call. The two gods give up lightning to strike her, rescuing her to their hall, and preserving her courage forever in the form of the maiden’s immortal Valkyrie daughter. Valkyrie take sustenance from the electrical energy of the earth, sharing it in one collective power, and give it back with their emotions in the form of lightning. Possess preternatural strength and speed. Also called Swan Maidens, Shield Maidens. Enemies of the Horde.
• The Forbearers: …his crown stolen, Kristoff, the rightful Horde king, stalked the battlefields of antiquity seeking the strongest, most valiant human warriors as they died, earning him the name The Grave-walker. He offered eternal life for eternal fealty to him and his growing army. An army of vampires consisting of turned humans, who do not drink blood directly from the flesh. Enemies of the Horde.
• The Vampire Horde: In the first chaos of the Lore, a brotherhood of vampires dominated, by relying on their cold nature, worship of logic, and absence of mercy. They sprang from the harsh steppes of Dacia and migrated to Russia , though some say a secret enclave live in Dacia still. Each vampire seeks his Bride, his eternal wife, the one who bloods him, or renders his body fully alive by giving him breath and making his heart beat. Have the ability to teleport, also known astracing. Also called The Daci. Enemies of most factions in the Lore.
• The Accession: And a time shall pass that all immortal beings in the Lore, from the strongest Valkyrie, vampire, and Lykae factions, to the phantoms, shifters, fairies, sirens…must fight and destroy each other.”Occurs every five hundred years. Or right now….
• The Lykae Clan: A proud, strapping warrior of the Keltoi People (or Hidden People, later known as Celts), was taken in his prime by a maddened wolf. The warrior rose from the dead, now an immortal, with the spirit of the beast latent within him. He displayed the beast’s traits: the need for touch, an intense loyalty to its kind, a craving for the delights of the flesh.Sometimes the latent beast rises…
• Ghouls: Even immortals beware its bite… A human turned savage monster, with glowing green skin, yellow eyes, and contagious bites and scratches. Their imperative is to increase their number by contagion. They’re said to travel in troops.
• The Wraiths: …their origin unknown, their presence chilling. Spectral, howling beings. Undefeatable, and, for the most part, uncontrollable. Also called The Ancient Scourge.

Series & Lists edit see section history

Followed by A Hunger Like No Other.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Kresley Cole (Author)

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Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
• Dewey: 813

Notes for Parents edit see section history

Explicit sexual scenes.

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Romance › Authors, A-Z › ( C ) › Cole, Kresley
• Books › Romance › Vampires
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Erotica › Anthologies

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