Merla Von is Evra's wife and the mother of his three children. Mr. Crepsley's former teacher and Vampire Mountain's quartermaster. When the fighting begins, he lets Debbie go and flees. Lady Evanna's unborn, nameless twins. He was killed in the sons of destiny. Darren gives his diary to Mr. She normally wears ropes instead of clothing. He was the wolf who discovered Darren after he was washed to the base of vampire mountain. Vancha brings her to the Cirque du Freak at the end of the saga of Larten Crepsley after her husband and daughter are killed. Although Darren initially despised him, and Larten believed him to be far too human to be a good vampire, he was later touched by Darren's refusal to betray him to Murlough, even though it might have saved Evra Von's life. He also fathered Lady Evanna. Steve bloods him as a half-vampaneze at some point before the Lord of the Shadows and teaches him how to use an arrow-gun. She was created when Desmond Tiny mixed vampire and wolf blood to create two children that were born to a wolf. He and his friend, Little Kenny, insane. Mr. Crepsley takes him with him to paris in Palace of the Damned where he raises the baby, who is later revealed to be Gavner Purl. In the third book, Tunnels of Blood , Crepsley brings Darren Shan and Evra Von to his hometown, where one of the vampires' enemies, a Vampaneze named Murlough, is murdering innocent people. He planned for a group of vampaneze to infiltrate the mountain during his investiture, after he gained control of the Stone of Blood was killed and sentenced to death by the vampire princes as a traitor. Vancha's brother - the two joined the Vampaneze together. Mr. Larten tests his blood, and tells him that the blood is "bad", and that Steve is wicked and evil. An insane and crazy Vampaneze who speaks in third person. (Cirque Du Freak) He was killed in the last book, Sons Of Destiny. He was a cannibal and planned to fish out souls and eat them. The most war-like of all the Princes, Arrow has killed more vampaneze than any other vampire. Crepsley agrees to engage him, Gannen Harst and the apparent Lord of the Vampaneze in battle above a pit of flaming stakes. Gannen is the one who urges Steve to try the Coffin of Fire, which kills anyone who is not the Lord of the Vampaneze. She later allied herself with the vampires and aids them in the War of Scars by recruiting an army of street people who can use modern weapons in the War of Scars, the vampirites. Evanna states that she has no intention of saving Steve, as Steve chose to do evil in his life, whereas Darren was merely manipulated as part of Desmond Tiny's plans. angrily vows to bring the Cirque down. Murlough is the main antagonist of The Saga of Darren Shan book "Tunnels of Blood" and the secondary antagonist of the 2009 film Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant.He is an insane Vampaneze and serves as an enemy to the half-vampire Darren Shan and his vampire master Mr. Larten Crepsley. He refuses to use close combat weapons in favour of his bare hands. This was confirmed in The Saga of Larten Creplsey. After a time skip of several years, Darren returns to find that Evra has fallen in love with another freak named Merla who throws her ears like boomerangs and has three children, Shancus (who was named after Darren, was the oldest, and considered Darren his godfather even though he wasn't), Urcha (he always felt different because he was the only one without the snake skin) and Lilia (the smallest). A minor character who at first sight is mistaken by Darren to be Annie's son. He predicts the rise of the Lord of the Vampaneze and tells the Vampires they must destroy him before he comes of age, informing them that Darren Shan and Mr. Crepsley are two of the three who will get the four chances. Jimmy appears himself later in the novel, where he is with Gavner Purl to attend a performance of the Cirque's in 1960s New York City. When Steve attends the Cirque du Freak with Darren, he recognizes Larten Crepsley as a vampire from one of his vampire books. One of Steve's main body guards. When Mr Tiny offers to release Darren in exchange for her conceiving a child of either a vampire or a vampaneze, who could tip the clans back into war, she doublecrosses her father by conceiving twins of both races. He starts out as a human but then is transformed into a vampire to save his best friends life. (As it says in Vampire Mountain, they save the brains and heart for important events such as weddings.) 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