Armand
Marius lay in a gondola, floating down the Grand Canal of Venice during it's
reign of the Renaissance when a praying voice hit his ears. Following this
sound, he came to a brothel. Inside a closet was an insolent boy being
punished. Marius ordered them to sell him the boy, and what he saw when the
door was pulled open was, as he described, the face of an angel. Falling
immediately in love, Marius brought this one boy, who he named Amadeo, to his
home. Feeding, bathing, and nurturing him, soon Amadeo was well enough to join
the other boys. But Amadeo wasn't like the other boys, he was Marius' lover.
Every night that Marius was in Venice, he and Amadeo would retire to his
bedroom together. It was during one of these sessions that Marius first gave
Amadeo some of his blood. Amadeo knew that Marius was no normal human, and he
realized that this blood was the source of whatever magic Marius possessed. It
was frequent for them afterwards to exchange blood, and Amadeo needed it- as
well as Marius- like a drug. Despite some of Marius' later attempts to turn
Amadeo away from him and to humans, Amadeo would have none of it. But Amadeo
did grow tired of Marius' distance, and took as a lover an English lord. It
was this man, jealous and determined to have Amadeo back that stabbed and
poisoned him. Marius then had no choice but to turn Amadeo into a vampire, or
risk losing him forever. After he became a vampire, Amadeo learned the secret
of his youth before being captured and brought to the brothel. He was a young
painter of religious ikons in the Slavic Kiev Rus. Kidnapped by the Tartars,
he was brought to Venice and sold to the owner of the brothel. His real name
was Andrei. Afterwards, he tried once again to conform to his new life as an
immortal, both enthralled and scared of what he had become. His time with
Marius was short-lived when a group of vampires, angry with Marius for his
nonreligious and mortal loving ways, destroyed his home, set fire to him, and
kidnapped Amadeo. Marius was not to see Amadeo for nearly 500 years, though he
did see Amadeo in Paris, when Amadeo had changed his name to Armand and was the
leader of the Les Innocents coven of vampires.
Bianca
Bianca was a young courtesan that Marius met when he became an artist and
noble in Renaissance Venice. She was born in Florence, and surrounded herself
with artistic men, also a lover of art. They had an instant connection.
Bianca always knew something was different about Marius, calling him a
magician. But she was unique in that she wasn't scared of him, but rather more
interested in him than any of the other men that she surrounded herself with.
Marius knew Bianca's deep secret, she was a murderess. Her cousin blackmailed
her into killing other men off for him, and she was under his power. Though
she killed many men, part of what drew Marius to her was that she still
retained a bit of innocence. Of course, she appeared worldly and learned; she
was not like Pandora in her wisdom. Marius was, in fact, going to make Bianca
a vampire until he met Amadeo. Bianca was Amadeo's lover at one point, and
neither one of them worried over Marius' jealousy. In fact, the three of them
had quite a time together after Amadeo was made into a vampire. Back on
subject, after the fire that destroyed Marius' home and Marius - which Bianca
was at- she became his keeper. Too wounded to take care of himself, Marius
called Bianca to her and made her into a vampire. She wanted this, she had
known for some time what Marius was because Amadeo had confided it to her. The
two of them traveled to the mountains together to the shrine of the mother and
father. Akasha allowed Bianca her blood to strengthen her, knowing Marius
needed a strong protector. But also, an image of Pandora was planted in her
mind. Why? Because Akasha had promised, in her own way, Marius Pandora if he
did not go after Amadeo. Akasha knew that Pandora, if she came across Bianca,
would be able to read her own image from her mind, and know Marius was near.
And this was exactly what happened. Decades later, in Dresden, Bianca saw
Pandora and ran to tell Marius. Marius rushed to Pandora, promising her
everything, promising to leave Bianca for her. Pandora refused, and
unfortunately Bianca also heard this promise. She left Marius. And she was
never heard of again.
