Alethia has been in England since Rome left. But she was only a girl then. Now she's a Vampire of ill-repute. Living in the woods and wild places, she is a member of a "dead" Covenant, and a forgotten Bloodline.

Alethia was born before the Roman Invasion, and still speaks Briton and Latin, though both are long-dead languages. In 1551 she began training Emma Valgard in hunting and the sword to repay Omarosa for services rendered back three centuries and more ago in getting her to the Holy Land for the Crusades.