Paolo Ortega

Paolo Ortega is a Red Court vampire and Duke of the Red Court of Vampires. He first appeared in the novel Grave Peril.

Biography
Paolo Ortega was a Duke and warlord of the Red Court of Vampires.

Paolo is definitely no slouch in hand-to-hand combat, and a highly skilled strategist, as one would expect from a Red Court Warlord. He is also officially employed as a professor of mythology.

Born in Spain at the end of the 15th century and one of Cortez's conquistadors. During his time in South America, he fell in love with a local princess and married her. She turned out to be a Red Court vampire, and turned Paolo into a vampire. Paolo's abilites allowed him to rise through the ranks, and he was a Warlord of the Red Court.

Paolo is definitely no slouch in hand-to-hand combat, and a highly skilled strategist, as one would expect from a Red Court Warlord. He is also officially employed as a professor of mythology. Really Seven Hundred Years Old: Paolo was one of Cortez's conquistadors.

He married Arianna Ortega, and was quite devoted to Arianna. Arianna is equally devoted to making his life miserable.

In Death Masks, he arrives in Chicago to duel with Harry Dresden. During the duel, Ortega was concealing a handgun under his flesh mask, and attempted to shoot Harry, thus violating the Code Duello rules. He fled the Wrigley Field, where the duel was being held, and returned to South America. Ortega, along with many innocents, was assassinated by Blackstaff Ebenezar McCoy using a decommissioned satellite he pulled from orbit.