Appearing in "V3s: Part 1"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- The Seven (First appearance)
- Kwate (First appearance)
- Coleur (First appearance)
- Tomothy (First appearance)
- Sir Percival (First appearance)
Antagonists:
- Queen Cilla / Susan Vendermeer (First appearance)
- Rowkis (First appearance)
- Tryks (First appearance)
Other Characters:
- Rosa Belinski (First appearance)
- Cesar Belinski (First appearance)
- Mrs. Rubens (First appearance)
- Wilbur (First appearance)
Races and Species:
Realities:
Locations:
Items:
- Tryk Slayer
Synopsis for "V3s: Part 1"
A late-night stranded motorist on a New York roadside becomes bait when a vampire pack closes in, only for a hulking predator named Rowkis to tear through them with terrifying ease while the apparent victim, Susan Vandermeer, plays shaken survivor. Word of the massacre reaches Blade through Rosa and Cesar Belinski, and he works the scene like a crime investigator, noting wounds and residue that do not match vampire on vampire violence. He checks Susan’s story in a terse doorstep interview, clocks the tells that the ambush was staged, and follows fresh leads that point away from normal bloodsucker turf wars. Away from Blade, the veil lifts on the real threat: the Tryks, a species that hunts vampires as quarry, with Queen Cilla ruling from the shadows and treating the night’s kill as routine harvest. In parallel, a secretive cabal called the Seven; Kwate, Couleur, Tomothy, and Sir Percival among them watches Blade’s moves and the Tryk incursion, choosing to observe and position the Daywalker rather than intervene. Chasing a suspected nest, Blade runs into a Tryk in close quarters and discovers his usual playbook does not apply, surviving by improvisation and confirming new rules of physiology and weakness. Lore seeds hint at a purpose-built Tryk Slayer and a wider game in motion. The issue closes with Blade committing to learn exactly what a Tryk is and how to kill one cleanly, Cilla marking him as a complication to be managed, and the Seven deciding he is a piece to place on their board.
