Using AI to imagine the characters from the Innkeeper’s Chronicles by Ilona Andrews

The Innkeeper’s Chronicles are serialized novels published by the fantastic writing duo of Ilona and Gordon Andrews (frequently referred to as Ilona Andrews or House Andrews) on their blog.

Here is a short blurb of the series taken from their website:

“ Welcome to Gertrude Hunt, a quaint Victorian Bed and Breakfast in a small Texas town. Your innkeeper, Dina Demille, will see to your every need. No matter what accommodations you require, the inn will oblige. Physics are not an issue for us. Rest assured that your safety is our first priority.

If you encounter Caldenia ka ret Magren on the grounds, do not be alarmed. Her Grace has retired from Galactic tyranny and is enjoying a permanent vacation at our inn. Please do not feed the dog. Also, if you meet vampire knights, please refrain from offering them coffee. It is best for everyone involved.

Enjoy yourselves, relax, and above all, remember the one rule all visitors must abide by: the humans must never know.”

In order of appearance, I present:

Dina Demille

Sean Evans

“His russet-brown hair was cut short. His square jaw was clean-shaven. Tall and broad-shouldered, he had a strong, fit body, honed by exercise to a lean, muscular precision. He looked like he could pick up a fifty-pound rucksack, run across the city with it, and then beat an ungodly number of enemies to a bloody pulp with his bare hands while things exploded dramatically in the background. He was said to be unfailingly polite, but something in his stare communicated a clear “don’t mess with me” message.” (Excerpt From Clean Sweep)

Caldenia ka ret Magren

“[…] Her Grace Caldenia ka ret Magren was taking her tea. She looked to be in her mid-sixties, but it was the kind of sixties one achieved after living for years in the lap of luxury. Her platinum-gray hair was pulled back from her face into a smooth knot. She had a strong profile with a classic Greek nose, pronounced cheekbones, and blue eyes that usually had a slightly forlorn look unless she found something funny. She held her teacup with utmost elegance, gazing down at the street with a slightly sardonic, melancholy demeanor.” (Excerpt From Clean Sweep)

Lord Soren of Krahr, Baron of Nur Castle

“He was big with broad shoulders, a great wealth of brown and gray hair cascading down his back. A short beard traced his square jaw. Human males tended to bulk up with age. For vampires that process was even more pronounced: they grew more muscular and grizzled. The one looking at me now had to be close to sixty.” (Excerpt From Clean Sweep)

Arland of Krahr

“He wore black armor shot through with carmine. His long hair, a golden ash-blond, spilled over his wide shoulders and onto his breastplate. He held a long spear with the blood-colored banner of House Krahr.” “If you had to cast Lucifer before he fell, he would look just like that. About thirty, he wasn’t just handsome, he was beautiful, but it was beauty with a touch of wicked edge. He had the kind of face that would stop traffic and when the cars finally finished piling up, he would quietly chuckle to himself about it.” (Excerpt From Clean Sweep)

and bonus — Maud and more Gertrude Hunt!

Maud Demille

“The cloak came free, revealing Maud in syn-armor, her short blue-black hair flying.” “The last time we met, she’d had a long waterfall of hair all the way down to her waist, like most vampire women. She loved her hair.” (Excerpt From One Fell Sweep)

Gertrude Hunt

“The Gertrude Hunt Bed-and-Breakfast sat at the entrance of the Avalon Subdivision, on three acres of land, most of it taken up by the orchard and garden. Several mature oaks shaded the house, and a four foot hedge bordered the lawn along the side facing the street. The building’s original fish-scale wood siding had long rotted away and been replaced by a more practical, modern version in deep hunter green. Built in the late 1880s, the three-story inn had all the overwrought American Queen Anne features: a deep wraparound porch with short Corinthian columns guarding the entrance, three small second-story balconies, overhanging eaves, and both bay and oriel windows projecting seemingly in random places. Like many of the older Victorian houses, the inn was asymmetric, and if one looked at it from the north side and then from the south, it wouldn’t even look like the same house. Its eastern wall featured a small tower; its western side sported a round, protruding sunroom. It was as if a medieval castle and a Southern-belle, antebellum mansion had a baby and it had been delivered into the world by a gothic wedding-cake decorator.” (Excerpt From Clean Sweep)

Let me know if there is anyone else you would like to see!