The God of the Grove
His followers imprisoned him inside the hollowed trunk of a tree, and held sacrificial services regularly where they would feed him with humans they had taken captive. He was, naturally enough, a vampire, but was burnt badly during the time that "Those Who Must be Kept", Akasha and Enkil, were exposed to the sun by their inquisitive keeper. As a result of his weakened state, his followers decided that they needed a new God, and to these ends, elected Marius, a stranger travelling through the land, to be their new leader. He was brought to the sacrificial ceremony and the God of the Grove transformed him into a vampire. Now, no longer needed, the God was destroyed by his followers, but not before he warned Marius that he must escape. And here endeth the brief appearance of the God of the Grove.


Marius
The bastard child of a Keltic woman and a wealthy Roman, he was a citizen of the Roman Gallic city of Massilia durning the time of the Roman Empire. Never bored or defeated by life, he always felt a sense of invincibility and wonder. An important life theme for him was the idea of the existence of a continual awareness because Marius desired that nothing spiritual ever be lost. A scholar, at the age of forty, at work on a history of the world when a Druid abducted him. Because he was an extraordinary human being, the Druids wanted him to become their new god and thus replace the God of the Grove, a burned and crippled vampire who no longer inspired their ceremonies. It was Marius who sired Armand, Marius was also the keeper of "Those who must be kept", he is said to be a wise teacher. He was abducted by Druids, Mael was one of these, to replace the God of the Grove. Marius was imprisoned in a tree, with the previous God, who was a crippled burnt vampire. Marius escaped, now a vampire himself, and thus his story began.


Mael
Mael, a Druid priest, became a vampire during the Roman Empire, by drinking from a vampire himself. Before he became an immortal, he teached Marius the customs and laws of the Druids. Two millennia later, he becomes protective of Jesse and even tries to make her a vampire. Jesse first describes Mael as being a tall overpowering man with long blond hair and deep-set blue eyes. He survives Akasha's worldwide slaughter and is one of the immortals that stand against her at Sonoma. Mael later destroys himself in the sun after Lestat returns, from his journey, with Veronica's veil.


Pandora
Pandora's tragic act is akin to that of the vampires, who take the Dark Gift and only perceive its evil when it is too late. This is especially true of the vampire named Pandora. Marius falls in love with the tall, brown-haired Greek courtesan when she is a mortal. She knows exactly what he is and seduces him into making her a vampire; she claims she once had been a vampire, destroyed when the Mother and Father were placed in the sun, then reincarnated into mortal form. Pandora is a dark, despairing immortal. Even after Akasha dies, Pandora remains detached, there is no sense of recovery in her, as there is with the others.


Armand (Queen of the Damned)
Armand was abducted as a boy in Russia by Tartars, who sold him to a brothel in Constantinople. Marius bought and apprenticed him in Venice, did a painting of him called The Temptation of Amedeo, then made him a vampire.


Armand (Interview with the Vampire)
Armand eventually took over the leadership of a coven in Paris, bringing the spiritual and carnal together in an inverted echo of Holy Communion; he considered himself a saint of evil and preserved these satanic rituals until Lestat's arrival brought his coven to an end. After Lestat's experiences, Armand himself greatly needs to have a supreme spiritual experience himself. Armand decides to go die in the sun to confirm the miracle. He is completely enveloped by it, and, to Lestat's horror, destroys himself in a blaze of fire.


Daniel
Daniel was the recorder of Louis' confession that later became the story Interview with the Vampire. Born in 1955, Daniel comes across Armand in 1975, after he had recorded Louis' story. He becomes Armand's mortal companion, but conflicts drive them apart. Armand continually refuses Daniel's requests for immortality. Daniel turns to alcohol and becomes a mortal recipient of the dream of the twins. In 1985, Armand gives Daniel (who is dying) immortal life. He survives Akasha's worldwide slaughter of vampires.

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