Black Dagger Brotherhood
There's very little we can say to introduce this series. If you haven't read it, I'm sure you've at least heard of it. If you've read it, chances are you are hooked. If you haven't, then I strongly suggest you make a quick trip to the bookstore, you have no clue what you are missing out on. The Black Dagger Brotherhood is one of those series that comes along and manages to transport you to a different reality. For the span of ohhhh... about one full day a year, we are in Caldwell New York. We are fighting with the brothers, we want to be their shellans and heal their wounds, past and present. So we'd like to introduce you to.... The Black Dagger Brotherhood.
In the shadows of the night in Caldwell, New York, there's a deadly turf war going on between vampires and their slayers. There exists a secret band of brothers like no other-six vampire warriors, defenders of their race. Yet none of them relishes killing more than Wrath, the leader of The Black Dagger Brotherhood.
The only purebred vampire left on earth, Wrath has a score to settle with the slayers who murdered his parents centuries ago. But, when one of his most trusted fighters is killed-leaving his half-breed daughter unaware of his existence or her fate-Wrath must usher her into the world of the undead-a world of sensuality beyond her wildest dreams.
Name: Wrath, The Blind King
Title: Wrath is the king of the vampire race and the only pure blood vampire left.
Book: Dark Lover (Black Dagger Brotherhood #1)
Shellan:
Family: His whole family was massacred by lessers before he transitioned.
Occuption: Member and leader of the Black Dagger Brotherhood whose duty it is to bring down the lessening society who want to hunt vampires into extinction
Appearence: I think a direct quote wil get this across best:
Wrath was six feet, six inches of pure terror dressed in leather. His hair was long and black, falling straight from a widow's peak. Wraparound sunglasses hid eyes that no one had ever seen revealed. Shoulders were twice the size of most males'. With a face that was both aristocratic and brutal, he looked like the king he was by birthright and the soldier he'd become by destiny.
Fantasy Cast: Jason Momoa
Name:
Book: Dark Lover (Black Dagger Brotherhood #1)
Hellren: Wrath
Family: She grew up in foster homes, not knowing that her father was a vampire, Darius, who has part of the Black Dagger Brotherhood.
Occuption: Journalist on the Caldwell Courier Journal (CCJ)
Appearence: Completely gorgeous, 5'9" tall, with thick long black hair, blue eyes, beautiful pale skin. Long legs, slim waist and great boobs. Yes, we hate her too.
Beth on being a vamp...
Whoa. Fangs. She had fangs.
She leaned in, prodded them a little. Eating with those puppies was going to take some getting used to, she thought.
On impulse, she brought up her hands, turned her fingers into claws. Hissed.
Cool
Fantasy Cast: Liv Tyler
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In the shadows of the night in Caldwell, New York, there's a deadly turf war raging between vampires and their slayers. There exists a secret bound of brothers like no other-six vampire warriors, defenders of their race. Possessed by a deadly beast Rhage is the most dangerous of the Black Dagger Brotherhood.
Within the brotherhood, Rhage is the vampire with the strongest appetites. He's the best fighter, the quickest to act on his impulses, and the most voracious lover-for inside him burns ferocious curse cast by the Scribe Virgin. Owned by this dark side, Rhage fears the time when his inner dragon is unleashed, making him a danger to everyone around him.
Mary Luce, a survivor of many hardships is unwittingly thrown into the vampire world and reliant to Rhage's protection. With a life-threatening curse of her own, Mary is not looking for love. She lost her faith in miracles years ago. But when Rhage's intense animal attraction turns into something more emotional, he knows that he must make Mary his alone. And while their enemies close in, Mary fights desperately to gain life eternal with the one she loves...
Name: Rhage
Book: Lover Eternal (Black Dagger Brotherhood #2)
Shellan:
Curses: Whenever he gets riled up, he gets his hulk on, but instead of turning green and ripping his shirt off, he he morphs into a dragon and eats anything that moves.
Occuptation: He is part of the Black Dagger Brotherhood, the strongest of all of them and his weapon of choice is his hands.
Appearance: Completely beautiful. 6'8" totally cut golden skinned body, blonde hair cut short at the back and longer at the front, teal blue eyes, perfect face. When his curse comes out he morphs in to a dragon like creature with purple and green scales, with a black mane, teeth like Jaws and long claws and a spiked tail.
Favourite Quote:
...he'd started to die on the inside, and now, over a hundred years later, he was mostly numb, nothing more than glossy window dressing and empty charm.
Fantasy Cast: Jessie Pavelka
Name:
Book: Lover Eternal (Black Dagger Brotherhood #2)
Hellran: Rhage
Health: She nursed her mother through Leukemia and watched her die, two years later Mary also tested positive for Leukemia, but it is now in recession.
Occupation: She works in a lawyers office and voluteers with a suicide hotline, but is trained to look after austic children.
Appearence: Pale skin, dark shoulder length hair, steel grey eyes and slim body with scars from her Leukemia treatments
Favourite Quote:
And why had those prayers focused heavenward? Well, it kind of made sense, didn't it? Even when there were no more options for the body the heart's wishes find a way out, and as with all warmth, love rises.
Fantasy Cast: Natalie Portman
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In the shadows of the night in Caldwell, New York, there’s a deadly war raging between vampires and their slayers. And there exists a secret band of brothers like no other - six vampire warriors, defenders of their race. Of these, Zsadist is the most terrifying member of the Black Dagger Brotherhood.
A former blood slave, the vampire Zsadist still bears the scars from a past filled with suffering and humiliation. Renowned for his unquenchable fury and sinister deeds, he is a savage feared by humans and vampires alike. Anger is his only companion, and terror is his only passion—until he rescues a beautiful aristocrat from the evil Lessening Society.
Bella is instantly entranced by the seething power Zsadist possesses. But even as their desire for one another begins to overtake them both, Zsadist’s thirst for vengeance against Bella’s tormentors drives him to the brink of madness. Now, Bella must help her lover overcome the wounds of his tortured past, and find a future with her…
Name: Zsadist
Book: Lover Awakened (Black Dagger Brotherhood #3)
Shellan: Bella
Appearance: Although a twin to Phury, with Zsadist's black eyes and shaven head they look nothing a like. He also has a scar across his face and his body is almost gaunt from only feeding on humans. He also has his nipples pierced and black blood slave bands around his drinking points.
Family: He has a twin, Phury, also in the Black Dagger Brotherhood, but they are nothing alike, and Z doesn't seem to trust or love him anymore then he does everyone else.
Past Relationships: Zsadist was taken as a child by his nanny, but when she died he was sold and bacame a slave. Once his transition hit, his Mistress then turned him into a blood slave where he was abused and humiliated for years and years. Until his twin Phury found him.
Favourite Quote:
"I was dead until you found me, though I breathed. I was sightless, though I could see. And then you came...and I was awakened."
Fantasy Cast: Wentworth Miller
Name: Bella
Book: Lover Awakened (Black Dagger Brotherhood #3)
Hellren: Zsadist
Appearance: Bella is supermodel beautiful, tall with a beautiful body, long mahoganey hair and sapphire blue eyes.
Friends & Family: Bella lived next to Mary, and was the one to realize that John Matthew wasn't human. She is also the sister of Rehvenge, although the Brothers know him by a different name...
Favourite Quote:
"What is your name?" she murmured.
He cocked an eyebrow at her and then went back to staring at his brother. "I'm the evil one, in case you haven't figured it out."
"I wanted your name, not your calling."
Fantasy Cast: Olivia Wilde
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In the shadows of the night in Caldwell, New York, there's a deadly war raging between vampires and their slayers. And there exists a secret band of brothers like no other - six vampire warriors, defenders of their race. Now, an ally of the Black Dagger Brotherhood will face the challenge of his life and the evil of the ages.
Butch O'Neal is a fighter by nature. A hard-living ex-homicide cop, he's the only human ever to be allowed in the inner circle of the Black Dagger Brotherhood. And he wants to go even deeper into the vampire world-to engage in the turf war with the lessers. His heart belongs to a female vampire, Marissa, an aristocratic beauty who's way out of his league. And if he can't have her, then at least he can fight side by side with the Brothers.
But fate curses him with the very thing he wants. When Butch sacrifices himself to save a civilian vampire from the slayers, he falls prey to the darkest force in the war. Left for dead, he's found by a miracle, and the Brotherhood calls on Marissa to bring him back, though even her love may not be enough to save him.
Name: Brian "Butch" O'Neal aka Dehstroyer
Book: Lover Revealed (Black Dagger Brotherhood #4)
Shellan: Marrisa
Appearance: Dark brown hair, hazel eyes, a busted up nose, a rough but handsome face. Packing some muscle and around 6 foot as a human.
Addictions: Past & Present: Butch has had a hard life, he was a coke addict when he was younger and now his best friend is a glass of scotch, his favourite: Lagavulin.
Favourite Quote:
""When the females tie you down, do they paint your toenails and shit? Or just do your makeup?" As V laughed in a loud crack, the cop said, "Wait....they tickle your pits with a feather, right?"
Fantasy Cast: Julian McMahon
Name: Marissa
Book: Lover Revealed (Black Dagger Brotherhood #4)
Hellren: Butch
Appearance: One of the great beauties of the vampire race, she has a slender body, pale blonde hip length hair and light blue eyes.
Previous Relationships: Marissa was Wrath's shellan for 200 years although he was never her lover and they never lived together, she broke it off with him in Dark Lover. In consequence she has become more shunned then ever from the glymera as they believe she must be defective in some way.
Favourite Quote:
She was so alone. Caged in a beautiful, wealthy, fancy nightmare where the bogeymen wore tuxedos and smoking jackets and the vultures swooped down on wings of satin and silk to peck out her eyes.
Fantasy Cast: Scarlett Johansson
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In Caldwell, New York, war rages between vampires and their slayers. There exists a secret band of brothers-six vampire warriors, defenders of their race. Now the cold heart of a cunning predator will be warmed against its will...
Ruthless and brilliant, Vishous, son of the Bloodletter, possesses a destructive curse and a frightening ability to see the future. As a pretrans growing up in his father's war camp he was tormented and abused. As a member of the Brotherhood, he has no interest in love or emotion, only the battle with the Lessening Society. But when a mortal injury puts him in the care of human surgeon, Dr. Jane Whitcomb compels him to reveal his inner pain and taste true pleasure for the first time-until a destiny he didn't choose takes him into a future that cannot include her...
Name: Vishous
Book: Lover Unbound (Black Dagger Brotherhood #5)
Shellan: Jane
Appearance: 6'6" of muscled warrior, with black hair and diamond white eyes with navy blue rims, as well as a tattoo on around his eye and on his hand and groin.
Talents: As well as being able to read minds, V also has dreams of the future and knows how each of the Brother are going to die, he just doesn't know when.
Favourite Quote:
"Shh." He cranked her head to the side with a twist of his wrist, exposing her throat. "When I want you to beg, I'll tell you."
Fantasy Cast: Matthias Streitwieser
Name: Dr Jane Whitcomb
Book: Lover Unbound (Black Dagger Brotherhood #5)
Hellren: Vishous
Appearance: Jane has a slender body, with short blonde hair and dark green eyes framed with rimless glasses, although not stunningly beautiful she is compelling.
Profession: Jane is a doctor in a busy hospital, cheif of the Trauma Division, she is driven and direct with a take-no-prisoners attitude, but also possessive and compassionate with her patients.
Favourite Quote:
"Take off your coat."
"Excuse me?"
"Take it off."
"No."
"I want it off."
"Then I suggest you hold your breath. Won't affect me in the slightest, but at least the suffocation will help pass the time for you."
Fantasy Cast: Kate Bosworth
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In this "frighteningly addictive" paranormal romance sage there's a war raging between vampires and their slayers. Here are the stories of a secret band of brothers like no other-six vampire warriors, defenders of their race. And now a dutiful twin must choose between two lives...
Fiercely loyal to the Black Dagger Brotherhood, Phury has sacrificed himself for the good of the race, becoming the male responsible for keeping the Brotherhood's bloodlines alive. As Primale of the Chosen, he is obligated to father the sons and daughters who will ensure that the traditions of the race survive, and that there are warriors to fight those who want all vampires extinguished.
As his first mate, the Chosen Cormia wants to win not only his body, but his heart for herself. She is drawn to the noble responsibility behind the emotionally scarred male. But Phury has never allowed himself to know pleasure or joy. As the war with the Lessening Society grows grim, tragedy looms over the Brotherhood's mansion, and Phury must decide between duty and love....
Name: Phury
Book: Lover Enshrined (Black Dagger Brotherhood #6)
Shellan: Cormia
Appearance: Like all the brother he is big and muscled but Phury has beautiful sShoulder length hair in a streaks of varying shades of blondes and brown. Golden yellow eyes and very handsome.
Siblings: Phury is Zsadist's twin and as soon as Phury transitioned he started looking for Zsadist and has spent his entire life trying to save him, whether he wants to be saved or not.
Favourite Quote:
Every day Phury slept alone, if he slept at all. Food gave him little pleasure. Females were out because of his celibacy. And every second he was worried about what Zsadist wouls pull next and who would get hurt in the process. He felt like he was dying from a thousand cuts, slowly bleeding out. A target by proxy for all his twin's muderous intent
Fantasy Cast: Theo Theodoridis
Name: Cormia
Book: Lover Enshrined (Black Dagger Brotherhood #6)
Hellren: Phury
Appearance: Cormia is very beautiful with a slim body and long wavy blonde hair, often pulled into a chignon and jade coloured eyes.
Previous Address: Cormia has always lived on the otherside with the rest of the Chosen, but has never felt like fit in.
Favourite Quote:
“... I feel as though I am shelved. That I have been given the words to the story of my life, but that I have remained largely unread...”
Fantasy Cast: Diane Krueger
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J. R. Ward's Black Dagger Brotherhood novels have introduced readers to a "different, creative, dark, violent, and flat-out amazing" (All About Romance)world. Now, as the vampire warriors defend their race against their slayers, one male's loyalty to the Brotherhood will be tested-and his dangerous mixed blood revealed...
Caldwell, New York, has long been the battleground for the vampires and their enemies, the Lessening Society. It's also where Rehvenge has staked out his turf as a drug lord and owner of a notorious night club that caters to the rich and heavily armed. His shadowy reputation is exactly why he's approached to kill Wrath, the Blind King and leader of the Brotherhood.
Rehvenge has always kept his distance from the Brotherhood-even though his sister is married to a member, for he harbors a deadly secret that could make him a huge liability in their war against the lessers. As plots within and outside of the Brotherhood threaten to reveal the truth about Rehvenge, he turns to the only source of light in his darkening world, Ehlena, a vampire untouched by the corruption that has its hold on him-and the only thing standing between him and eternal destruction.
Name: Rehvenge
Book: Lover Aveneged (Black Dagger Brotherhood #7)
Shellan: Ehlena
Appearance: Big muscled body like a Brother, with dark hair in a mohawk and amethyst eyes. He has a star tattooed on each of his pecs.
Bloodlines: Rehv is half symphath on his father's side as his mother was abducted and kept in the symphath colony. He cages his dark half by dosing up on dopamine.
Favourite Quote:
"You keep showing up here? Being who you are?" There was a pause. "I'm going to fall in love with you."
Fantasy Cast: Marco Da Silva
Name: Ehlena
Book: Lover Avenged (Black Dagger Brotherhood #7)
Hellren: Rehvenge
Appearance: Curvy body, strawberry blonde hair to her shoulders and toffee coloured eyes.
Bloodlines: Ehlena's family used to be in the glynmera but after being double crossed her family were left with nothing and Ehlena is now responsible for her father who was pushed into schizophrenia by the betrayal and his shellan's suicide.
Favourite Quote:
He cursed some. Cursed some more. "You know," she muttered, "if I add a soundtrack and some machine guns to this, we'd have a Die Hard movie."
Fantasy Cast: Rose McGowan
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In the darkest corners of the night in Caldwell, New York, a conflict like no other rages. Long divided as a terrifying battleground for the vampires and their enemies, the city is home to a band of brothers born to defend their race: the warrior vampires of the Black Dagger Brotherhood.
John Matthew has come a long way since he was found living among humans, his vampire nature unknown to himself and to those around him. After he was taken in by the Brotherhood, no one could guess what his true history was- or his true identity. Indeed, the fallen Brother Darius has returned, but with a different face and a very different destiny. As a vicious personal vendetta takes John into the heart of the war, he will need to call up on both who he is now and who he once was in order to face off against evil incarnate.
Xhex, a symphath assassin, has long steeled herself against the attraction between her and John Matthew. Having already lost one lover to madness, she will not allow the male of worth to fall prey to the darkness of her twisted life. When fate intervenes, however, the two discover that love, like destiny, is inevitable between soul mates.
Name: John Matthew also known as Tehrror
Book: Lover Mine (Black Dagger Brotherhood #8)
Shellan:
Appearance: Dark short hair, blue eyes and after he has transitioned he is Brother big and heavily muscled. At the beginning of Lover Mine he has Xhex's name tattooed on his back.
Before the Brotherhood: JM was discovered by Mary before he hit transition, he had no idea he was a vampire and was living in squalor and would have died if he hadn't been found and helped through his transition.
Favourite Quote:
“I would hold you up. I will ever hold you up and hold you dear, lover mine.”
Fantasy Cast: Ryan Berry
Name: Xhex
Book: Lover Mine (Black Dagger Brotherhood #8)
Hellren: John Matthew
Appearance: Xhex is all lean muscle and built for fighting, she has very short black hair and gunmetal grey eyes.
Her Bad Side: Xhex, like Rehv, is half symphath and to rein in her bad side by wearing a cilice belt around her thigh.
Favourite Quote:
Meeting his shocked stare, she said, "What, like you didn't think I'd have a second knife? Fucking idiot."
Fantasy Cast: Charlize Theron (Aeon Flux stylie)
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Few authors give readers such a “powerful rush”* as #1 New York Times bestselling author J.R. Ward does in her phenomenal books of the Black Dagger Brotherhood. Now she returns to that fiercely intoxicating world in a new novel of a woman’s journey from terrifying enslavement to an erotic rapture that proves equally dangerous…
Payne, twin sister of Vishous, is cut from the same dark, warrior cloth as her brother: A fighter by nature, and a maverick when it comes to the traditional role of Chosen females, there is no place for her on the Far Side… and no role for her on the front lines of the war, either.
When she suffers a paralyzing injury, human surgeon Dr. Manuel Manello is called in to treat her as only he can- and he soon gets sucked into her dangerous, secret world. Although he never before believed in things that go bump in the night- like vampires- he finds himself more than willing to be seduced by the powerful female who marks both his body and his soul.
As the two find so much more than an erotic connection, the human and vampire worlds collide … just as a centuries old score catches up with Payne and puts both her love and her life in deadly jeopardy.
Name: Dr Manuel Manello or Manny to his friends
Book: Lover Unleashed (Black Dagger Brotherhood #9)
Shellan: Payne
Appearance: Although Manny is 45 years old he still has a fit body and is tall for a human male. He is exteremly attractive with slightly greying dark brown hair and mahognary eyes.
Hobbies: Manny doesn't have much out side his job as Chief in hospital. But he does have a racing horse he loves called Glory.
Favourite Quote:
“You have balls.”
“And they’re made of brass. Big as church bells, too.”
Fantasy Cast: Joe Manganiello
Name: Payne
Book: Lover Unleased (Black Dagger Brotherhood #9)
Hellren: Manny
Appearance: Payne is very beautiful, she has long black curly hair that she wears in a braid, eyes like V, crystal with navy blue rims, tall for a female and slightly muscled from fighting.
Family: Payne is V's twin sister, although V didn't know about Payne, Payne watched V from the Otherside and grew enraged when she how he was treated. When she saw their father, the Bloodletter's attempt at castrating V and was told he died, she got revenge by killing their father.
Favourite Quote:
"Yes. I am in love with him. And if you try to dissuade me by the fact that I have not lived yet enough to judge, I say unto you...fuck off.”
Fantasy Cast: Kate Beckinsale
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In the darkest corners of the night in Caldwell, New York, a conflict like no other rages. The city is home to a band of brothers born to defend their race: the warrior vampires of the Black Dagger Brotherhood.
Now back in the Brotherhood - and unrecognisable as the vampire leader he once was - Tohrment is physically emaciated and heartbroken beyond despair. When he begins to see his beloved in his dreams - trapped in a cold, isolating netherworld - Tohr turns to a self-serving fallen angel in hopes of saving the one he has lost. When he's told he must learn to love another to free his former mate, Tohr knows they are all doomed . . .
Except then a female with a shadowed history begins to get through to him. Against the backdrop of the raging war with the lessers, and with a new clan of vampires vying for the Blind King's throne, Tohr struggles between the buried past, and a very hot, passion-filled future . . . but can his heart let go and set all of them free?
Name: Tohrment
Book: Lover Reborn (Black Dagger Brotherhood #10)
Shellan: Wellsie, however, she was murdered. He was mated again to No'One (Autumn)
Appearance: Tohrment is Brother-sized, big and broad, but military short dark hair and navy blue eyes.
Widowhood: Tohr was mated 200 years ago to Wellsie and it was love at first sight. However, after coming to terms with her death he mated again to No'One
Favourite Quote:
...now dressed in the Captain Asshole costume- which included, for no extra charge, the cape of disgrace, the booties of shame, and the keys to the Fuck Up mobile.
Fantasy Cast: Sam Worthington
Name: No'One, renamed by Tohr Autumn
Book: Lover Reborn (Black Dagger Brotherhood #10)
Hellren: Tohrment
Appearance: No'One covers herself under a black cloak, but beneath she i extremely beautiful and has long blonde hair and dove grey eyes.
On Names & Family: After being kidnapped and raped by a symphath during her needing, she gave birth to Xhex, but killed herself immdiatley afterwards. When she awoke she was on the Otherside and named herself No'One and has been trying to make up for her sins ever since.
Fantasy Cast: Gwyneth Paltrow
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Name: Qhuinn
Book: He hasn't had his own book, but has been in it since about half way through
Shellan/Hellren: It better bloody well be Blay!
Appearance: Qhuinn has one blue eye and one green eye, black hair and has many piercings both easily visible and not so easily visible
Mismatched Eyes: Because of Qhuinn's mismatched eyes he is an outcast from the glymera and a disappointment to his family. After his transition his father was so angry that his eyes didn't go one colour that he struck him.
Favourite Quote:
As Qhuinn looked at his best friend's handsome face, he felt as if he'd never not known that red hair, those blue eyes, those lips, that jaw. And it was because of their long history that he searched for something to say, something that would get them back to where they had been. All that came to him was . . . I miss you. I miss you so fucking bad it hurts, but I don't know how to find you even though you're right in front of me.
Fantasy Cast: Parker Hurley
Name: Blaylock
Book: He hasn't had his own book, but has been in it since about half way through
Shellan/Hellren: Qhuinn...OR ELSE!
Appearance: Blay has blue eyes and short red hair and fair skin. Unlike Qhuinn he doesn't have any piercings but dresses like a gentleman.
Sexuality: Although Blay has been with women, he is gay, and has always been in love with Qhuinn.
Favourite Quote:
“Say the word. Say the word and I wont go.Say the word, Qhuinn. Do it and I'll spend the night with you. Better yet, Why dont you just kiss me-”
Fantasy Cast: Leighton Schultz
Name: Lassiter
Book: He doesn't have a book of his own yet, but he appeared in Lover Enshrined
Mate: Unknown!
Appearance: He has long black and blonde hair, white eyes and has more piercings then you can shake a stick at.
Species: Lassiter is a fallen angel who was sent by Wellsie to help Tohrment and get him back in the game.
Favourite Quote:
“Christ, don't you ever knock?"
"It's Lassiter. L-A-S-S-I-T-E-R. How is it possible you're still getting me confused with someone else? Do I need a nametag?”
Fantasy Cast: Jason Lewis
Book: First appears in Dark Lover
Hellren: Tohrment
Appearance: Fiery red hair and sherry coloured eyes.
Death: Wellsie and her and Tohrs unborn baby died when she was attacked by lessers
Fantasy Cast: Karen Gillan
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