The Life of Marius De Romanus Marius De Romanus
Name: Marius de Romanus (His actual last name is not known. De Romanus was a name that he gave himself, meaning of Rome, on the spur of the moment when he was asked by Botticelli was his last name was.) Eyes: Blue. Hair: Blond, wavy, to his shoulders. Parents: A Roman Patrician and a Celtic slave who died when he was born. Father adopted him and made him a legal Roman citizen. Siblings: Yes, brothers have been mentioned, though we don't know their names, ages, or numbers. Marius clearly has a different mother from all of them, but he was adopted by his father as a legal son. Mortal Occupation(s): Roaming historian, solider, and Senator Immortal Occupation(s): Venetian painter and filmmaker Mortal Age: Most people say, because of what was claimed in The Vampire Lestat, that Marius is around the age of 40, however, the more recent novel Pandora indicates that he is closer to 35. Maker: Druid God of the Grove Powers: Among them, the Mind Gift, the Fire Gift, the Cloud Gift, and the Killing Gift. Times slept: three 410 AD with the burning of Rome by Alaric [1] King of the Goths, waking to travel to Constantinople with Avicus and Mael [2] . In his own words, Marius said that "almost a hundred years had passed" (B&G pg. 132). This seems to be confirmed from his statement that the Goth ruler was in Ravenna, that he spoke of either Odoacer or Ostrogothic king Theodoric the Great [3]. 1200 AD after starting, "I was weary" [4]. Somewhere in the middle ages, in the 1300s since the plague was ravishing Italy, he awoke from his previous sleep and promptly went back to sleep to wake in the days of the Renaissance in year 1482 [5]. The Life Of Marius in DepthMarius De Romanus was born in 30 B.C. in Rome. He was an illegitimate child of a Roman patrician and a Celtic slave from the land of Gaul. In his mortal years, he travelled the Empire and much of the known world compiling a travelogue/history of the world. Contrary to his appearance in the movie Queen of the Damned (in which he was played by Vincent Perez), he has white-blonde hair curled at the shoulders and cobalt blue eyes. Due to his age, his skin is often described as being as pale and hard as white marble. When he was approximately 40 years old, he was abducted from a tavern by druids who followed the religion of the Gods of the Groves and was taken into their Grove. There, he was made into a vampire by the God of The Grove just before the yearly Feast of Samhain and instructed by the said God to go and try, with any means possible, to find out why vampires in other places - and himself as well -had been burned or destroyed when they have not been exposed to fire or the sun. Marius travelled to Egypt and became the caretaker of the original two vampires, Those Who Must Be Kept. Those Who Must Be Keptare the progenitors of all Vampires they are regarded as the King and Queen of the Vampires. Originally King Enkil and Queen Akasha of Kemet (now Egypt) circa 4000 BCE, they became the first vampires when an evil spirit named Amel was able to enter the body of Akasha through a wound and fuse with her flesh. Akasha then turned Enkil into a vampire by drawing out nearly all of his blood and then allowing him to drink nearly all of hers. [6]. (See: The Queen of the Damned) The term "Those Who Must Be Kept" was coined by the vampire Marius referring to the fact that what befalls Akasha and Enkil also befalls all Vampires; if they are injured, so are their children, if they die, so do all vampires. An example of this is explained in the story of Marius' life: The current caretaker of the two sought to be free of them, and placed them in the sun. The two lived, but weaker vampires were destroyed by spontaneous combustion. Long before Marius came into conservatorship of Those Who Must Be Kept, they were nearly completely inanimate, seated seemingly unconscious for centuries without moving This all came to an end in the 1980s, when the music of vampire rock star Lestat roused Queen Akasha.[7]. In so rising she killed her consort Enkil, draining him of blood and caused her guardian Marius to become imprisoned in the ice and remains of his house. ([6]. A Bit on The QueenAkasha thereafter travelled the world, striking down every vampire except Lestat, those whom Lestat loved and those she could not detect. It later becomes clear that Akasha intended for those vampires she has spared to become her "angels", or if they chose to fight her, they would become devils opposed to her.
