Nobleblood (A Vision of Fangs #2)

Book 1 Recap | （Spoilers Do not read if you haven’t read A Vision of Fangs 1 Loreblood!）

Sephania Lock is a human woman living in a dark world of vampires. She is from Nuhav, the home of the humans, which sits in the bleak shadow below the mountain city Olhav, home of the vampires.

At the beginning of the book, Sephania is locked in a tower (Sutlis Spire), telling her story to a vampiress chronicler named Kleora. Each “part” begins with what’s happening in the present, in the tower, while the chapters tell her story leading up to the present.

Sephania is treated with all manner of torture and evil shit in Sutlis Spire, at the hands of Kleora and her manservant thrall, Bregsitch.

She begins her tale essentially at birth.

She was an orphan living in the House of the Broken in Nuhav, under the tutelage of kind Father Cullard.

Her best friend growing up was Baylen Sallow, a sullen boy who went down a dark path.

Sephania quickly learned Father Cullard was not the kind almshouse abbot she thought he was.

Seph ran away and stayed with the Diplomats, a ragtag band of homeless youths with a vile adult leader named Dimmon Plank.

Her childhood friend Baylen had become a Diplomat.

Here, at a young age, Sephania was sexually assaulted by Dimmon Plank.

She had one friend, Jinneth, whose brother Jeffrith she inadvertently killed trying to protect herself.

Seph was quickly sold off to the underground fighting gang called the Grimsons.

Here, Sephania meets the leader of the Grimsons, Lukain Pierken, a half-human, half-vampire (dhampir). She trains as a boy would, fighting to earn her freedom. She makes friends in the Firehold (the Grimsons’ home), and spends the majority of her formative years here.

Eventually, Sephania goes to fight her first public match at a shadowgala for a nobleblood vampire named Lord Skartovius Ashfen.

Sephania fights all sorts of people at the shadowgalas.

She loses to a dhampir named Garroway, and defeats her childhood friend Baylen.

With a mind twisted by violence, Seph gets her first taste of blood and kills Baylen.

After some hairy situations, Sephania escapes the Grimsons and Lord Skartovius’ gaudy mansion, Manor Marquin. The dhampir Garroway leads her away... into the arms of Skar and his giant vampire friend, Vallan Stellos.

It is with these three—Skartovius, Vallan, and Garroway—that Sephania will hitch her future. She wishes to free the humans in Nuhav from the tyranny of their vampiric oppressors in Olhav, led by the Five Ministries of vampire overlords.

There are also vampire hunters and assassins coming after her throughout the book, pining after what’s called the “Loreblood” in her veins.

It’s a unique, mysterious blood with strange powers.

The vampires coming after her, namely a wicked vampiress spy-leader named Alacine Mortis, want to use Seph’s special blood as a weapon.

But no one really understands it completely.

In trying to learn to understand it, Sephania is given a mission (by the destitute and outcast Chained Sisters leader, Keffa Caernyd) to break into a tower and retrieve a “Relic” that will teach them more about the Loreblood.

This is all a diversion. Sephania explains in a climactic scene to Chronicler Kleora that, essentially, Seph planned to be captured. She’s right where she wants to be imprisoned in Sutlis Spire, even though her situation seems dire.

At the conclusion, Skar, Vall, and Garro save our feisty heroine from her imprisonment. Many people are killed, many people are betrayed, and we learn that Sephania’s best friend Jinneth—who has played a vital thread throughout the book—is not who she seems.

In fact, Jinneth is someone completely different!

(Hopefully this has jogged your memory as to who Jinneth is, who Overlord Verant is, and what it all means! We start book 2 in the present, since Sephania is no longer telling her story to anyone, she’s living her story.)

Enjoy Nobleblood!