RE: [TheDarkGift] The Dark Gift:
I really wish Anne Rice would have devoted more time to the Magnus character. I would have liked to know how he became a vampire, and why he decided to choose Lestat as his heir. Gloria Right Fang Girl The Chihuahua; one tiny dog, one giant bundle of love! -Original Message- From: ava...@aol.com Sent: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:56:39 -0400 To: thedarkgift@yahoogroups.com Subject: [TheDarkGift] The Dark Gift: The Dark Gift: But all this was destroyed when the vampire Magnus first saw Lestat and decided to make him his heir. After a few strange apparitions and episodes, Magnus kidnapped Lestat and forced him to drink his blood, thus becoming a vampire. Confused and overwhelmed by his new senses and life, Lestat would soon be alone. For Magnus created him out of spite for the Parisian vampire coven's rules and intended to kill himself. He did so by jumping in a fire, after instructing Lestat on the most basic rules of vampire survival. Lestat kept himself hidden from Nicolas' or anybody else's view. He wrote letters to his family and his beloved friend, but they were alarmed and intrigued by his disappearance. Nicolas would never forgive Lestat for this and his sad story is worth a node of his own. Lestat's mother, Gabrielle, rushed to Paris after the strange news of his disappearance. She was fatally ill and, when Lestat finally agreed to see her, he could see her disease. He then made her his first fledgling (vampire child). They roamed Paris in delight and lived together in harmony for a while. Then, as life was sweetest, the Parisian vampire coven found them. Mother and son found refuge on the churches and the other vampires seemed to fear them for being able to "enter the house of god." They meet the lovely and dangerous Armand, leader of the ignorant vampires and narrowly escape many times. At the same time, wealth and immortal life was not enough for Lestat. He needed love and recognition; he needed the stage lights and Nicolas. He decides to buy the theatre and make a comeback, but Nicolas is even more disappointed, seeing that Lestat hides something. After discovering the secret, Nicolas begged for his vampire blood. And Lestat gave in, bringing about the first of many tragedies. Nicolas becomes mad and gets captured by Armand. Lestat and Gabrielle are also captured and, after a night of infinite philosophical discussions, they are responsible for a revolution inside the coven, ultimately destroying it. Armand would never forget that Lestat caused this downfall and then refused to live with him and teach him the ways of the new century. After all this, life in Paris was unbearable and Lestat travels around the world, leaving the theatre to Nicolas and searching for the vampire Marius, Armand's father, who is believed dead. But Gabrielle soon tired of this life and luxury and left to live in the jungles, leaving her son and vampire father in deep pain. Lestat finds Marius and discovers the vampires' ancient history in the stone bodies of Enkil and Akasha, the first vampire couple. He drinks from the powerful blood of Akasha, which would come in handy when he gets attacked by his north American fledglings Louis de Pointe du Lac and Claudia. Send any screenshot to your friends in seconds... Works in all emails, instant messengers, blogs, forums and social networks. TRY IM TOOLPACK at http://www.imtoolpack.com/default.aspx?rc=if2 for FREE Come one come all Mortals who are willing to stick their neck out for a vampire to feed upon. We will be willing to share our Dark Gift to you mortals if you pass our test.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheDarkGift/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheDarkGift/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: thedarkgift-dig...@yahoogroups.com thedarkgift-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: thedarkgift-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[TheDarkGift] The Dark Gift:
The Dark Gift: But all this was destroyed when the vampire Magnus first saw Lestat and decided to make him his heir. After a few strange apparitions and episodes, Magnus kidnapped Lestat and forced him to drink his blood, thus becoming a vampire. Confused and overwhelmed by his new senses and life, Lestat would soon be alone. For Magnus created him out of spite for the Parisian vampire coven's rules and intended to kill himself. He did so by jumping in a fire, after instructing Lestat on the most basic rules of vampire survival. Lestat kept himself hidden from Nicolas' or anybody else's view. He wrote letters to his family and his beloved friend, but they were alarmed and intrigued by his disappearance. Nicolas would never forgive Lestat for this and his sad story is worth a node of his own. Lestat's mother, Gabrielle, rushed to Paris after the strange news of his disappearance. She was fatally ill and, when Lestat finally agreed to see her, he could see her disease. He then made her his first fledgling (vampire child). They roamed Paris in delight and lived together in harmony for a while. Then, as life was sweetest, the Parisian vampire coven found them. Mother and son found refuge on the churches and the other vampires seemed to fear them for being able to "enter the house of god." They meet the lovely and dangerous Armand, leader of the ignorant vampires and narrowly escape many times. At the same time, wealth and immortal life was not enough for Lestat. He needed love and recognition; he needed the stage lights and Nicolas. He decides to buy the theatre and make a comeback, but Nicolas is even more disappointed, seeing that Lestat hides something. After discovering the secret, Nicolas begged for his vampire blood. And Lestat gave in, bringing about the first of many tragedies. Nicolas becomes mad and gets captured by Armand. Lestat and Gabrielle are also captured and, after a night of infinite philosophical discussions, they are responsible for a revolution inside the coven, ultimately destroying it. Armand would never forget that Lestat caused this downfall and then refused to live with him and teach him the ways of the new century. After all this, life in Paris was unbearable and Lestat travels around the world, leaving the theatre to Nicolas and searching for the vampire Marius, Armand's father, who is believed dead. But Gabrielle soon tired of this life and luxury and left to live in the jungles, leaving her son and vampire father in deep pain. Lestat finds Marius and discovers the vampires' ancient history in the stone bodies of Enkil and Akasha, the first vampire couple. He drinks from the powerful blood of Akasha, which would come in handy when he gets attacked by his north American fledglings Louis de Pointe du Lac and Claudia.
[TheDarkGift] Bio
Lestat de Lioncourt: Born in 1760, 1779 goes to Paris to become an actor with Nicholas. 1780 is turned by Magnus at age 21.(In QotD Movie, Marius is portrayed as his maker). Marius comes to Lestat and brings him to his island where he keeps the Mother and Father. When Lestat awakens Akasha, Marius sends him away. Lestat is awkened by the Music of Satan's Night Out in 1984. 1985 his concert is scheduled for Halloween in San Francisco. Other vampires plot his destruction because he revealed them to the public. 1991 Lestat tries to kill himself.That same year Lestat meets Raglan James and switches bodies to see if he could be? mortal again; James runs away with Lestat's vampire body intending not to return it, but Lestat retrieves it and kills him. 1994 Lestat meets Memnoch the Devil and accompanies him to Heaven and Hell. Ends up leaving hell and refusing to help Memnoch. Lestat loses an eye to him.
[TheDarkGift] Lestat de Lioncourt (Vampire)
Lestat de Lioncourt (Vampire) Lestat de Lioncourt (pronounced les-tät with a rather French flair, according to Blackwood Farm and Blood Canticle and page 151 in Memnoch the Devil) is a fictional character appearing in several novels by Anne Rice, including The Vampire Lestat. He is a vampire and the main character in the majority of The Vampire Chronicles, narrated in first person. Lestat is the seventh son of the marquis d'Auvergne and was born in 1760, in Auvergne, France in a castle belonging to his ancestors. Despite his apparent highborn background he grew up in relative poverty; his ancestors squandered the family riches. As the youngest in the family, Lestat stood to inherit nothing. His relationship with his father and brothers is strained due to irreconcilable differences. Perhaps the most pivotal moment in his mortal life was when the towns people came to him about the wolves coming into the village frightening all the people. In this encounter he was nearly killed by the pack of 8 wolves he was hunting in the mountains surrounding Auvergne. The death of his hounds and his horse in this hunt had a profound effect upon his apparent mental stability. He returned home a different person, determined to follow his own path. He goes into a deep depression about his encounter with the wolves and the meaning of life, and with a friend, Nicolas, a violinist, he leaves Auvergne and heads for Paris, intending to become an actor. During a performance, he attracted the attention of an ancient vampire named Magnus, who would watch him and soon abduct and hold him prisoner. As a vampireFinding Lestat, Magnus makes him a vampire, against his wishes. However, Magnus, weary of life, commits suicide soon after by throwing himself on a huge bonfire, leaving Lestat to fend for himself without any kind of guidance. Lestat finds himself heir to nearly inexhaustible wealth, and begins an adventure that leads him all around the world. Lestat has always been a very lonesome creature. In his childhood the only member of his family that he had any connection with was his solitary mother. Gabrielle de Lioncourt was a beautiful woman of Italian descent from whom Lestat inherited his blond hair and good looks. Gabrielle was the only member of her family who could read and often immersed herself in her novels, neglecting the mundane life around her. Lestat both admired her and hated her for this, yet he was the only person of her family she could also confide in so they developed a silent but strong bond. For this very reason Lestat made Gabrielle his first vampire companion when Gabrielle came to Paris in search of Lestat, wishing to see him before she succumbed to her fatal disease. Lestat also made his mortal best friend, Nicolas de Lenfent, a vampire as well. Nicolas, having fled Auvergne with Lestat to come with Lestat to Paris, knew him very well and they were very close. They both worked at a small theatre called "Renaud's", Lestat starting off as a stage hand and then, to his surprise, becoming star of the show while Nicolas became a violinist in the theatre's small orchestra. After Lestat was abducted and made a vampire he tried to distance himself from his mortals friends and family, but he still provided for them. He bought Nicolas an apartment and many other luxuries, such as a Stradivarius violin, with his newly acquired "coin of the realm". The whole time Nicolas was very suspicious of Lestat and his new life and that suspicion grew when Lestat disappeared with his mother the night she came to visit and Gabrielle returned magically healed. Lestat eventually gave into the love he felt for Nicolas and made him a vampire as well after saving him from the coven of religious vampires, the self-proclaimed Children of Darkness, which were led by the powerful vampire, Armand. After Nicolas rejected Lestat as his new maker and sunk into madness and Lestat collapsed Armand's coven, Lestat bought Renaud's old theatre and gave it to Armand and Nicolas to do with it whatever they wished, while he and Gabrielle left Paris to explore the world. Throughout his long life, Lestat is plagued by common philosophical questions, such as "Are my actions good or bad?", "Is there a God?", "Am I in His plan?", "What happens after death?", "What makes a person happy?" He finds himself more in love with humanity than ever before, despite his relationship with mankind being savage. For a while, he sees life as "the Savage Garden", filled with beauty and death. In the space of only a few centuries, Lestat becomes one of the most powerful of all vampires, surpassed only by the most ancient ones who age in the millennia. This is in part because the blood he receives from Marius, one such ancient, is incredibly powerful, and because he has a relationship with the vampire queen Akasha. Because of his boldness, Lestat's seniors refer to him affectionately as 'the Brat Prince', a t
[TheDarkGift] Lestat de Lioncourt
Lestat de Lioncourt Lestat is the narrator of the novels The Vampire Lestat, Queen of the Damned, The Tale of the Body Thief, and Memnoch the Devil. Marius' description of him as "Brat Prince" is highly accurate. Lestat's charisma and refusal to fail get him into and out of more trouble than any other vampire, or most humans, for that matter. "Lestat, ever the maverick and the laughing trickster. Six feet tall, a young man of twenty when made, with huge warm blue eyes and thick flashy blond hair, square of jaw, with a generous beautifully shaped mouth and skin darkened by a sojourn in the sun which would have killed a weaker vampire, a ladies' man, an Oscar Wildean fantasy, the glass of fashion, the most bold and disregarding dusty vagabond on occasion, loner, wanderer, heartbreaker and wise guy." - The Vampire Armand ?http://lestat.darksideoftheglass.com/lestat.htm?
