He awoke again in 1482 and visited Rome and Florence briefly before settling in
Venice as a rich, eccentric gentleman who painted for his own pleasure. Here,
he opened a home for neglected and abused boys who had talent, fell in love
with the Venetian courtesan Bianca Solderini, found the mortal Armand. In 1499,
the Children of Darkness (led by Santino) destroyed his house, severely injured
Marius, and took Armand (whom he had made a vampire by this time). After the
ordeal, Marius and Bianca (who helped him in his recovery and whom he made a
vampire to aid him), lived very briefly in many northern Europe towns before
they settled for awhile in Dresden. Here Marius found Pandora and begged her in
vain to leave her companion, Arjun, and return to him. It was also here that
Bianca left him after she heard Marius tell Pandora he would send her away if
Pandora would be with him again. The last known places where Marius lived and
kept the divine vampire parents was on an island in the Aegean Sea; in a large,
bustling city in the early part of the 1900s; and in an unspecified, icy region
of the far north in a secluded, underground dwelling. After the events of The
Queen of the Damned (after living on the 'Night Island' in Miami), it is
revealed in the novel Merrick, that Marius and Pandora had reunited in New
Orleans. After New Orleans, in the novel Blood and Gold, Marius is living in a
modern house in San Francisco with Daniel Molloy.
[edit] Personality and powers
Marius is an exceptionally sagacious, wise and optimistic vampire. He is one of
the oldest known to still survive, a true Child of the Millennia. Because he
has drunk so often from the vampire queen Akasha from whom the vampiric life
fount originated, he is immensely powerful and possesses a number of advanced
powers: with his mind, he can ignite objects (pyrokinesis) (the "Fire Gift"),
the ability to fly (the "Cloud Gift"), very strong telekinesis, and can move
with such speed that only other powerful blood drinkers are able to track his
movements. He can read minds with ease and can block his own mind from being
read by using the "Mind Gift". It is also implied in Blood and Gold that he has
the ability to hypnotize/put mortals under his thrall (the "Spell Gift").
Another ability he possesses is the "Killing Gift" (killing by using
telekinetic pressure/force). He has a great passion for the arts and is a
master painter and great scholar. He loves to read and to write. Marius'
interests include all manner of intellectual and artistic pursuits. He is
bisexual, having had both male (e.g., Armand, Botticelli, Avicus) and female
(e.g., Pandora, Akasha, Zenobia, Bianca) lovers.
