Arianna Ortega is a Red Court vampire and Duchess of the Red Court of vampires. She first appears in the novel Changes, but was already mentioned in Proven Guilty.^[1]

Biography

Daughter of the Red King, Arianna has been alive since prehistoric times. She has hated Europeans since Conquistador Hernán Cortés' exploration of Mexico, the Caribbean and Central America (early 16th century) and his subsequent conquest of the Aztecs.

She married Paolo Ortega (a descendant of the conquistadors) to torment him as revenge against Europeans. This she does by repeatedly cuckolding and returning to him feigning love.^[1]

In Proven Guilty, she was one of the bidders on Harry Dresden when Madrigal Raith tried to sell him on eBay.

In Changes she goes to the White Council's HQ in Edinburg as an ambassador plenipotentiary. Her mission to negotiate peace is a ruse ment to further her plot of revenge against Harry, lull the White Council into a false sense of security while the Red Court are massing for a new attack and infect the White Council with a disease. She is abetted in this by new Senior Council member Cristos.

In Changes, Arianna Ortega found out about Margaret Angelica, daughter of Harry Dresden, and had her kidnapped^[2], to use her in a bloodline curse to wipe out her family. Arianna was later killed by Harry. Her plan to kill Dresden's family not only failed, but led to the destruction of the Red Court.

References

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Proven Guilty, ch. 26
2. ↑ Changes, ch. 02

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