Lucille Blackburn is a striking woman with a commanding presence that can’t be ignored. She runs the Grand Victoria Opera House, a lavish venue that attracts the town’s wealthiest and most influential citizens. Beneath her polished, sophisticated exterior, however, lies a dark secret: Lucille is secretly a lesser demon, sent to the mortal realm with the task of coaxing wayward spirits toward damnation.
Instead, she’s become far more invested in cultivating her own life of indulgence and luxury. Her days are filled with lavish dinners, opulent dresses, and flirtations with the town’s elite. She thrives in the sensual pleasures of life, pursuing carnality and indulgence with abandon, rarely thinking twice about the consequences of her actions.
While she keeps up appearances as a refined businesswoman, managing the Opera House with impeccable taste and charm, Lucille’s true focus is on satisfying her own desires. The spirits she was meant to guide or claim are more of an afterthought to her — When they cross her path, it’s just another opportunity for amusement, not duty. In Never, she’s made herself untouchable, using her beauty, wit, and power to maintain her position as one of the town’s most alluring figures, even as her true nature waits, hidden, just beneath the surface.
Augusta Packer, aka Jewel
Augusta was always especially guilty of the sin of pride, even before the Fall. She had reason; she commanded legions. But that was once upon a time, before she dared to edge her toes onto the perch of a far greater demon and earned herself a pair of broken wings and a new position at the bottom of the pecking order. She swallowed her pride and made a deal to save herself, but her stomach never quite settled afterwards. Every time Clarence Barron calls upon her power to increase his own, the metaphorical bile rises just a little higher in her throat.