Vampire Chronicles Series - Originally Published Oct. 2001
Random House
October 2002
Featuring: Marius
564 pages ISBN: 0345409329 Paperback (reprint) Add to Wish List
The golden-haired Marius, true Child of the Millennia,
once mentor to The Vampire Lestat, always and forever the
conscientious foe of the Evil Doer, reveals in his own
intense yet intimate voice the secrets of his two-thousand-
year existence.
Once a proud Senator in Imperial Rome, kidnapped and made
a "blood god" by the Druids, Marius becomes the embittered
protector of Akasha and Enkil, Queen and King of the
vampires, in whom the core of the supernatural race
resides.
We follow him through his heartbreaking abandonment of the
vampire Pandora. Through him we see the fall of pagan Rome
to the Emperor Constantine and the horrific sack of the
Eternal City itself at the hands of the Visigoths.
Bravely, Marius seeks a new civilization in the midst of
glittering Constantinople, only to meet with the blood
drinker Eudoxia. We see him ultimately returning to his
beloved Italy, where after the horrors of the Black Death,
he is restored by the beauty of the Renaissance. We see
him become a painter living dangerously yet happily among
mortals, giving his heart to the great Botticelli, to the
bewitching courtesan Bianca, and to the mysterious young
apprentice Armand.
Moving from Rome to Florence, Venice, and Dresden, and to
the English castle of the secret scholarly order of the
Talamasca, the novel reaches its dramatic finale in our
own time, deep in the jungle where Marius, having told hi
slife story, seeks some measure of justice from the oldest
vampires in the world.