He is the father of Claudia, Gabrielle, Nicki and Louis.
A self-acknowledged imp, he was responsible for the dissolution of the Paris coven, with which he clashed in his first year as a vampire, thereby earning both the hatred and love of the coven leader, Armand.
He was also partly to blame for the awakening of Akasha ,in the late 1980s, when he decided to become a rock star and chose as the subject of several of his songs the legend of Those Who Must be Kept.
He is the main character in all of the chronicles, and narrator of two and most of another. It's speculated that, in physical appearance at least, he's modelled on Stan Rice, Anne's poet husband.