Redgrave also revealed he had no intention of freeing Jane and killed her in front of Balthazar. She grew angry and resentful, eventually losing her grip on reality altogether and becoming distanced from Balthazar. Charity was now permanently fourteen years old and blamed her brother for making her what she was. Unfortunately, this only made matters worse. Believing Jane would be set free and unwilling to abandon his sister, Balthazar reluctantly chose Charity, draining his terrified sister's blood and leaving her to be resurrected as a vampire. Redgrave then revealed he'd kidnapped Charity and Jane, and forced Balthazar to choose which of them would become a vampire. Balthazar attempted to attack his sire in revenge, but Redgrave proved too strong for him. When Balthazar awoke as a vampire, he was horrified by what he had become, viewing himself as being un-Godly. They also tortured and killed Balthazar's parents in front of him. The pair also tortured Balthazar for hours until, driven half-mad, he consented to being turned. Redgrave complied, turning Balthazar and making him permanently nineteen. Constantia was attracted to Balthazar and requested that Redgrave make him into a vampire to be a companion for her. Unfortunately, Balthazar's idyllic life was shattered forever in the year 1640, when he and his family were attacked by a pair of vampires, John Redgrave and Constantia, in their home one night. Balthazar didn't care about this, having no love for the Puritan church and even briefly considered converting so that he could marry Jane. They settled in a colony in Massachusetts, where they lived happily for several years, with Balthazar later forming a romantic attachment to a young woman named Jane, though this was not approved of by the community due to Jane being a Roman Catholic. Balthazar and his family emigrated to America from England in the 1600's along with many other Puritan families, shortly after the departure of the now-famous ship, The Mayflower. His parents were Puritans, who named Balthazar after one of the three 'Wise Men' in the Nativity Story.

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