GIFTS: He can teleport and heal with his hands. He also has very strong telepathic abilities that enable him to not just read other people’s thoughts but also to alter them, bury their memories, or erase memories entirely. He can also compel people to do his bidding or mind control them. He has advanced shape-shifting abilities and can adopt the form and sound of any animal or person he studies, male or female. He has strong telekinetic abilities as well and, like Seth, a multitude of other gifts. But these are the ones he commonly displays in the books.
BOOK: Phantom Embrace
BIRTHPLACE: Sixteenth-century Russia
GIFT: He can see ghosts or spirits. He can also communicate with them, but—like Marcus—avoided doing so until Cat wandered into his life and stole his heart. He later learns how to infiltrate the dreams of the living, perform a ghostly version of teleportation, and even appear to those like Stanislav who don’t usually see ghosts.
aka CAT, Bastien’s sister
BOOK: Phantom Embrace
BIRTHPLACE: Eighteenth-century England
GIFT: She has psychometric abilities and can see the history of an object when she touches it, a gift that lingers with her after she dies and becomes a spirit. She later learns how to infiltrate the dreams of the living, perform a ghostly version of teleportation, and even appear to those who don’t usually see ghosts.
BOOK: Shadows Strike
BIRTHPLACE: Turn of the twentieth-century United States
GIFT: He has what he refers to as a photographic memory, raised to the nth power. He can remember every detail of every minute of every day he has lived, beginning with his own birth. He thinks his gift is appallingly boring and wishes he could do something more exciting like teleport or shape-shift. But his gift proved to be invaluable to Aidan in Blade of Darkness.
BOOK: Shadows Strike
BIRTHPLACE: United States
GIFT: She’s telepathic and can read minds.
OCCUPATION: To avoid the kind of close scrutiny that might land her in a top secret research facility as an unwilling guest, she poses as a FACS specialist—someone who has studied extensively the Facial Action Coding System, which categorizes the physical expression of emotion through minor contractions or relaxations of one or more muscles in the face. In layman’s terms, she claims she can discern truth and falsehood simply by reading someone’s expression. She is one of only two gifted ones in the series thus far who have succeeded in turning their gift into a lucrative profession without placing themselves at risk. And the very agencies most gifted ones fear—law enforcement, military, and certain intelligence agencies—are the ones who call her in to monitor interrogations… when she isn’t hunting vampires with Ethan.
BOOK: Blade of Darkness
BIRTHPLACE: European continent circa 1000 BC, but as the Roman Empire expanded, he joined many other Celts in migrating to Britain and north to Scotland.
GIFTS: Because he’s an elder, Aidan has quite a few gifts. He’s telepathic and can read minds. He can also alter memories, shape-shift, heal with his hands, and has telekinetic abilities.
BOOK: Blade of Darkness
BIRTHPLACE: United States
GIFT: She’s psychic and can see the past, present, and/or future of others with a touch. Like Heather, Dana is one of very few gifted ones in the series who earns a living by openly exercising her gift. Because her business is small and resembles that of many neighborhood psychics who aren’t gifted ones, she has not attracted undue attention.
BOOK: Awaken the Darkness
BIRTHPLACE: Sixteenth-century Russia
GIFT: He has strong empathic abilities. Unlike Bastien, he doesn’t have to touch a person in order to feel his or her emotions—he can do it from a distance. He can also manipulate other people’s emotions at will.
BOOK: Awaken the Darkness
BIRTHPLACE: Seattle, Washington, United States
GIFT: She’s a telepath and can read minds. Like many of the younger telepaths, she hears other people’s thoughts whether she wants to or not unless she concentrates on blocking them out, hence her desire for a home in the country.
BOOK: Death of Darkness
BIRTHPLACE: Unspecified, but he is thousands of years old and has lived long enough to have witnessed biblical events.
GIFTS: There is little Seth can’t do. He was born with every gift the other immortals in the series possess plus many that they don’t. Seth teleports… a lot. He’s so powerful he can also teleport people and/or objects—such as an army of special-ops soldiers and multiple tanks—to distant locations, sometimes without even touching them or accompanying them. He can heal with his hands, one of his most-often-used gifts. If he doesn’t restrain his power when he heals another immortal healer (only a healer), that man or woman gains new gifts. So technically he can actually bestow new gifts on some Immortal Guardians. Seth can shape-shift, something Dana found particularly disturbing at one point. He can read minds, alter or eliminate memories, and command the behavior of others using mind control. He’s an empath and can not only feel but also manipulate the emotions of others without touching them. Some of his gifts are stronger than they were originally. He has worked hard to increase his power over the millennia and has succeeded to such an extent that he has actually acquired new gifts none of the Others were born with. Most notably, he can control the weather and siphon away or drain the energy/power of an opponent without even touching him.
SPECIAL APPEARANCES: A Sorceress of His Own (The Gifted Ones: Book 1), Rendezvous with Yesterday (The Gifted Ones: Book 2), The Lasaran (Aldebarian Alliance: Book 1), and The Segonian (Aldebarian Alliance: Book 2).
BOOK: Death of Darkness
BIRTHPLACE: Colorado, United States
GIFT: None… until Seth’s father alters her on a genetic level and bestows upon her immortality and many of the gifts Seth possesses.
SPECIAL APPEARANCES: The Lasaran (Aldebarian Alliance: Book 1) and The Segonian (Aldebarian Alliance: Book 2)
BOOK: Broken Dawn
BIRTHPLACE: Seventeenth-century Canada
GIFT: He can shape-shift into any form he studies but prefers to only take the shape of animals.
SPECIAL APPEARANCES: The Segonian (Aldebarian Alliance: Book 2)
BOOK: Broken Dawn
BIRTHPLACE: United States
GIFT: She’s an empath but is unaware of her gift because it is so subtle. Nick, however, wonders if his emotions might influence her more than she thinks when they touch.
SPECIAL APPEARANCES: The Segonian (Aldebarian Alliance: Book 2)
BOOK: Cliff’s Descent
BIRTHPLACE: United States
GIFT: She’s a descendant of a healer and—like Jenna—never gets sick. She also has a photo graphic memory that enables her to remember everything she’s ever read.
BIRTHPLACE: Egypt. The date of his birth is unspecified, but he is thousands of years old and—like Seth and Zach—has lived long enough to have witnessed biblical events.
GIFT: David is the most powerful Immortal Guardian who isn’t an Other. He was born with very strong telepathic and telekinetic abilities. He can read other people’s thoughts and alter, bury, or erase their memories. He can also subject people to mind control and communicate telepathically over extraordinarily long distances. David is such a powerful healer that he can reattach severed limbs. He can shape-shift into any animal or person he studies. He can see ghosts or spirits. He can banish the same from structures if desired and has banished all of them from his homes except for Cat. He can drain or borrow energy from another with a touch. And in Death of Darkness, he gained the ability to teleport.