List of Blood+ characters
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The Blood+ anime, light novel, and manga series feature an extensive cast of characters designed by Chizu Hashii and co-created by Production I.G and Aniplex. The series is set within fictionalized versions of various real-life cities, including Okinawa, Japan; Hanoi, Vietnam; Yekaterinburg, Russia; Paris, France; London, England; Fayetteville, North Carolina; and New York City.

The main character of the series is Saya Otonashi, introduced as an ordinary teenage girl who is adopted into the family of Kai and Riku Miyagusuku years before the story of the series picks up. She cannot remember her past, and her life is dramatically changed when she learns that she is a chiropteran—a vampire-like creature—who was born in 1833. She survives by drinking the blood of others or receiving it through blood transfusions, and she is the only one who can destroy other chiropterans and her twin sister Diva. Saya and Diva are the "queens", descendants of a line of supremely powerful chiropterans that are always born as twin females. Aiding Saya in this century-long quest is an organization called the Red Shield, with a man named David assigned to be Saya's primary "handler." Saya, forced to return to her former life, is reunited with Hagi, her chevalier—a special form of chiropteran created by feeding a human the blood of a queen, which causes a powerful bond to form and compels the chevalier to serve and protect his queen at all costs.

As the series progresses, it is revealed that Diva has five cavaliers to aid her: Amshel Goldsmith, Solomon Goldsmith, Karl Fei-Ong, James Ironside, and Nathan Mahler. They have formed their own organization, Cinq Flèches, which they use to create additional chiropterans from Diva's blood. Working against both sides are the Schiff, a group of escaped artificial chiropterans created by Diva's group who attack both sides in search of the blood of Saya, Diva, or one of their chevaliers in hopes that one will be the right blood to save them from a fatal and painful disease they call the Thorn.

The Red Shield is an organization dedicated to eliminating Diva and chiropterans. The organization was started by the grandchildren of Joel Goldschmidt, who first found Saya and Diva in 1833 and raised them at the Zoo. He separated the sisters after birth, raising Saya like his own daughter while locking the unnamed up in a tower for scientific reasons. Joel took care of Saya, while his assistant Amshel provided for Diva's basic needs. Joel was killed by Diva in 1883 on his 72nd birthday after Saya released her from the tower to sing at his birthday party.

The leadership of the Red Shield is passed down from father to son, with the current leader being Joel Goldschmidt VI. Many of its members have endured tragic encounters with chiropterans in the field, and all members of the Red Shield carry an item containing a piece of red crystal taken from the crystallized body of a destroyed Chiroptera.

According to the Blood+ light novels, the organization's name is taken from the idea that the members are Saya's shield of blood, incapable of killing chiropterans themselves but willing to die to protect her.

The Goldsmiths are a branch of the Goldschmidt family. Cinq Flèches, a pharmaceutical company owned by the Goldsmiths, is also active in other industries, operating hundreds of companies, including food production, the high-tech industry, and military contracts. The group has influential contacts within the United States government. This company is what causes humans to turn into chiropterans when hearing Diva's Song, most likely because they put Delta 6-7 in the food they distribute.

The Schiff are soldiers created by a group of scientists led by Boris using Diva's blood, under the sponsorship of Amshel Goldsmith. Slaves at first, the ten Schiff decided they wanted to be free and escaped from the lab where they were created, killing most of the humans there. Trained only for fighting, they mostly know no other way of living or getting what they want except by force. However, they are deeply attached to each other.

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