Who is D, the Vampire Hunter?
D is a dhampir, half vampire and half human, and not by accident: the novels eventually establish that he was genetically engineered by the Sacred Ancestor, the first and greatest of the vampires, whom later books decline to distinguish from Dracula. The Ancestor ran crossbreeding experiments on countless subjects. D is the one success, a vampire built without the usual weaknesses, and he has shortened even his own name to a single letter in refusal of his father.
He is more than ten thousand years old and looks seventeen or eighteen, beautiful enough that his face is a plot device in nearly every book. Both races shun him: humans fear the Noble blood in him, and the Nobility despise the human half. So he rides the Frontier alone, taking contracts.
