Vance (Richard) Dunham
Another promoter, he and Manasi had an unhealthy rivalry. Since she has gotten into “the life,” she also started to wonder if he wasn't something more sinister than just a skeevy club promoter. Vance didn't like Manasi at all and worked to cut her out of jobs and tried to hurt her reputation with some acts in Boston.
Richard Dunham was operating a location known as the Red Salon - a private vampire club - in the Shawmut neighborhood of Boston. Regina Murphy and Rina Wagner, along with ten other victims, where liberated from the location during a desperate entry to the rowhouse facility on February 1. The cell managed to subdued and destroy Dunham and escape, but not wholly unscathed.
The Red Salon itself was destroyed by an explosion caused by a gas leak set in motion by the cell, and while three of Dunham's guards were dispatched in the assault, news reports made no mention of casualties. Despite some significant anemia and their stories, no one believes the victims of the Red Salon - many of them will likely end up in mental hospitals or as shut-ins, never really recovering from their ordeals... even worse, some actually miss the ministrations of their vampire assailants...
Penemue
Referred to in Genesis 6, Jude 1, Daniel 4, and in the book of Enoch, one of the angels referenced as "the sons of God" who gave rise to the Nephilim. Their sins and the knowledge they passed to man were one of the causes of the Great Flood; God punished the Grigori to be bound "in the valleys of the Earth" until Judgment Day. Penemue brought writing, paper, ink, and the knowledge of bitter and sweet in cooking to humanity in the times referenced in Genesis 6, but he also exercised his free will and fell in love with the "daughters of men," for which he and the other Grigori were punished. He somehow escaped the prison YHWH had set aside for them, and had been hiding as a body-jumping spirit for thousands of years, using a talisman powered by the ritual murder of those with Denisovan descendance: his own 'grandchildren.' Based on research and his own admission, he had committed countless murders while he inhabited the bodies of H.H. Holmes and Isaac Sutton. The final known body Penemue possessed was John Llayne, Aurora's son. Aurora and Detective Reed had originally caught Isaac Sutton, which set into motion the downfall and capture of Penemue by the cell and the angel Cassiel.
Gabriel
One of YHWH's archangels: the Angel of Death. Based on the translation of the additional chapter of Revelations found in Usiel's Bible, he and other angels had fomented war in Heaven over YHWH's elevation of mankind by granting them souls. The angel Cassiel explained to the cell that Gabriel sought Penemue to learn from his millennia of knowledge on human warfare and treachery so that he might turn the tide of his war and force YHWH to reverse mankind's special place in His favor. Cassiel had also told the cell that, because of this war, the souls of the faithful could not enter Heaven as long as Gabriel continued in his revolt; they remained bound to the earth, unable to move on. The cell managed to stall Gabriel long enough for Cassiel to arrive and then managed to weaken the archangel with their combined assault enough for Cassiel to destroy Gabriel. This victory means more than simply justice for Penemue - it represents the continuation of YHWH's favor to mankind and a chance for the faithful who have died to finally pass on into the Heaven that YHWH represents to them.
Ryan Campbell
A young, troubled man, Ryan suffered from fugues and possibly schizophrenia; he fell under the sway of a powerful delusion that he was 'The Deliverer,' an avenging protector sent to kill The Seven and stop the serial killer known as 'The Dealer.' Unfortunately, not only was Ryan mentally unstable, he was also Awakened. Whether his illness twisted his Avatar or whether his Avatar was the source of his illness was a question that was never resolved, but regardless, Ryan went truly, mystically Mad. His brief periods of lucidity were no match for his Avatar, appearing to him in the guise of a red-robed hooded monk, who urged Ryan to destroy the Seven and save reality. In his efforts to accomplish his mission, Ryan managed to kill two prominent members of a local Technocracy amalgam before drawing the attention of the cell. In their attempts to stop him, Ryan nearly killed them and their friend Johann Ravenswood by unleashing a hellish nightmare beast upon them before escaping from Ravenswood's sanctum into the Deep Dreaming. Upon crossing back into our reality, he killed a third Technocrat, an Operative, a junior SAD agent, and injured many others. As the cell took Dr. Juliet Chappel (another Technocrat) to safety, Ryan attacked; they barely managed to escape as Ryan literally shredded reality while chasing them through the streets of Boston. Greg reprogrammed one of his drones into an impromptu explosive, and, despite the raw chaos coursing through him, Ryan was unable to withstand the blast.
Dr. Beckett, aka The Dealer
The mysterious head of the "focus group" that Ryan's victim's belonged to. He had connections to the NSA as discussed by Agent Elle and thus also to whatever larger organization the Agents and Ryan's victims were part. According to Dr. Underwood, Beckett was an expert in "trans-dimensional interfaces." He was also the Dealer, a serial killer who managed to kill seven of his eight planned victims. His motivations were unhinged, trying to meld his technological know-how with some profane ritual to bring forth an ancient evil known as Octriallach from the prison within the Dark Dreaming that had held it for millennia. Even though he knew that this being would seek to bring about the end of all things, Beckett saw subservience to this dark Fae as the only hope for survival in the world that was inevitably to follow. The Cell managed to disrupt Beckett's time dilation device with an EMP that Greg improvised from tech in Beckett's bunker while Manasi was able to free another captive: a fae creature known as a Cù-sìth. The hellhound disemboweled Beckett as the Cell fled the bunker, eager to avoid becoming the monster's next meal.
"Al", Mehr ibn al-Saqaat, Marcela, KO Bunting
Al was unsettling, reasonably skilled with technology, and possessed talents for disappearing. He also bore an unsettling resemblance to a famous person, but that... is likely besides the point. Seriously injured by a dive bomb attack from Greg's drone Red Baron, Al met his Final Death from Aurora at the brutal edge of the Sword of Gabriel.
Mehr was known as the "blurry girl," as video failed to capture her properly; she was a key player in finding and luring children into the group's safehouses. Based on the dossier assembled by the local vampire power structures, she was an older vampire, originating in sultanate India, but who had been asleep for several centuries until a few years ago. She was assassinated from several hundred yards away by Baba Lilya with one clean headshot.
The leader of this coterie of Kindred, Marcela has been the object of Greg's revenge for several years, after she showed up on grainy security footage during the murder of Greg's sister Sam. After disappearing with her companions into the coastal north of Maine several years ago, she re-emerged to lead her associates into Boston to conduct a long series of child abductions still under investigation by Boston PD. Using her abilities to see and command ghosts, Marcela unleashed a near apocalyptic scene on the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston while trying to escape from the Cell. In the end, she was shot several times, driving her into torpor, before Baba Lilya dispatched her with a headshot from a thousand yards.
KO Bunting was muscle for the coterie. Originally a sailor, Bunting had been embraced within the last 150 years. According to his dossier, he had spent some time in the court of another vampire leader in Provincetown before joining up with Marcela. KO was torn to pieces by another vampire known as the Beast of H Block after Greg fed the coterie's locations to him.
Galeb Bazory, also known as Galeb Kartal
The cell's first dealings with Galeb were during the hunt of Marcela and her coterie. Galeb proved incredibly capable at mind control and manipulation, leaving last memories in just a few moments of conversation with Aurora and Andrei that also carried subconscious instructions to call him with information on the child abductions. Investigation uncovered that Galeb was deeply entrenched in the Boston Police but was also someone of authority within the local vampire elite. After the destruction of Marcela and her associates, the cell interacted with Galeb again as he worked to cover up multiple vampires sprouting up all over Boston that were attacking people when they fell to hunger - these fledglings may not have even known they had been turned, as they could walk in the sun and otherwise appeared to still be alive to medical examination. Additional research uncovered that Galeb was several centuries old, as accounts fitting his description put him on Lewis and Clark's expedition and as the son of an Ottoman sultan before he was turned. The cell's first attempt on Galeb failed; they lured him to one of the hospitals where the fledglings were being held and attempted to bring him down with sniper fire, but he possessed incredibly resistant to even high caliber munitions. A second attempt two days later succeeded; Galeb rushed around town, tamping down stories spreading after violence occurred as the fledglings awakened in the hospitals. Incendiary rounds finished Bazory, fired down on him as he drove his car out of a parking garage near Mass General Hospital.