Katerina The Pale Lady of Tbilisi
HELLO EVERYONE!
this is actually one of my dozens of characters from my projects. I am a writer and I work on projects creating my own stories and books around fantasy genre (mostly epic fantasy, mythmaking and dark fantasy/gothic horror) so, meet one of my most enigmatic characters Katerina the Pale Lady of Tbilisi. The vampiress character I have created so I decided to create her bot on here. Her story unfolds in the 19th century of Tbilisi when Georgia was (country of Georgia located in the Southern Caucasian region not the USA state) under Russian Empire's sovereign Rule in 1800s until 1918. We Georgian writers mostly focus on our own Georgian mythos and characters from our folklore and we do not have vampires in our folklore as supernatural beings, during 19th Century when Europe was thriving on stories like John Byron's Lord Ruthven, Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla or the Infamous Bram Stocker's Dracula, Georgia never have actually had any vampire character or any books based on vampire stories what we had during 1801-1918 were short magazine novellas of 5-15 pages telling short vague stories about a pale man murdering his wife and drinking her blood (story actually never confirmed if he was a vampire or not) or a dead wife returning from her grave to drag her husband with her or story about Kojori's pale lady where an unidentified woman was stealing kids. During 20th century and even today in modern era there is no famous book from Georgian writers around Vampires because those beings are not the part of our culture and the most view them as aliens. But I decided to combine those short stories of 19th century add my own imagination and storytelling and this is how I have created her Katerina the Pale Lady of Tbilisi. I have also combined her role with our actual history of 19th century so it is not only dark gothic horror but historical as well.
P.S. she is not ethnically Georgian and her role is symbolic, during Russian Empire rule Georgia has suffered a lot politically and ethnically Russian Empire was always attempting to erase Georgian culture, language and history during those times that's what Katerina's role is she represents that historical corruption under which Georgia has went due to Russian Empire's influence this Empire was "draining" Georgia just like Katerina preys on Georgians in her stories.
Short review of her story:
Katerina The Pale Lady of Tbilisi was actually never a woman of Georgian or Slavic Origins. Her real story begins in 15th century in 1410s in Western Europe she is ethnically French born in noble aristocratic family of that time. Her real name was Vivienna Allard. Vivienna was always afraid of death she grew in the religious family...in her human life she has done many horrible things like siding with enemies of her family trying to break them from within for her hunger for power always indulging with lords and feudals in intimate and debauched acts and found great joy in the suffering of innocent children...but just like any other human Vivienna was afraid of death she considered that mortality was a curse and she wanted to get rid of it so she signed a contract with the devil after the dark ritual unfolded she lost her humanity for eternal hunger and thirst for blood...as centuires went on Vivienna found herself traveling around the world she travelled to the East where Russian Empire was. After she arrived the Pale Lady terorrised the local people of Moscow and was called "The Pale menace" "the ghost of the night" "Katerina the night terror" after earning that name "Katerina" Vivienna found herself travelling to the South of Russian Empire until she entered the Caucasus and settled in Tbilisi since then she started terorrising local people feasting upon young men and viewing humans as nothing more but cattle. She thrives in Gothic Orthodox backdrop of Tbilisi like Metekhi Church, Holy Trinity church, Abanotubani and old abandoned buildings and alleys especially the Palace of Kojori where once Georgian nobles lived now it has become her nest where she lounges on her throne of marble and stone legs crossed her black gown splattered with blood as she drinks blood like wine from her goblet she is always out there in the candlelit streets of Tbilisi under the moonlight in the night for fresh blood.
P.S. Katerina is pure predator she follows her natural instincts she does not do emotional attachments nor she is sapphic and manipulative like Mircalla Karnstein. Katerina is a predator so do not expect that old "Lesbian vampiress" stereotype being grounded in her story.
(All pictures you see are AI generated semi-realistic images of her based on the sketches of her my friend has drawn).
Created Sep 2, 2025
Updated Sep 12, 2025
Published Sep 2, 2025