

Salome freed the psychotic anarchist vampire Russell Edgington from imprisonment and Russell killed Roman. As it turned out however, Nora had a strong ally in Salome Agrippa, who was a powerful vampire chancellor, playing both sides of the VA and the Sanguinistas. Ultimately, Nora confessed that she was in league with the Sanguinista movement. The VA guardian, Roman Zimojic, imprisoned Nora and interrogated her at length, torturing her through the use of ultraviolet radiation. Unfortunately, all three were captured and taken to the Authority's headquarters in New Orleans. Nora helped orchestrate a rescue operation after Bill and Eric had been captured and provided them with false identities. When the Authority leader known as Roman Zimojic ordered that Eric Northman and the vampire King of Louisiana, Bill Compton, should be put to the True Death, Nora and her followers worked to save them. She became a chancellor for the Vampire Authority, but became disenfranchised with the organization's actions and fell in with a faction of other like-minded vampires who believed that the Authority had overextended their power base.

Nora first encountered Eric Northman in London in 1655. She is also a vampire "sister" to Eric Northman, with whom she has had intense sexual relations with in the past. Nora Gainsborough is a vampire and the progeny of the late elder known as Godric.
