Quake and behold, The Queen of the Damned!

"Her garments were timeless, a black silk coat, a gown of silken folds that swirled gently about her narrow form...
Beautiful she was, so beautiful. The goddess with her long black plaited hair...
Akasha's black eyes widened. Her mouth opened as if to scream."

In Paris (1780), a vampire, looking to pass his immortality on to a worthy predecessor, discovers Lestat during one of Lestat's performances where his thoughts are filled with his experience with the wolves. The vampire, Magnus, kidnaps Lestat because of the courage he showed when fighting the wolves and forces Lestat into a world of immortality. Magnus then commits himself to the fire, leaving Lestat to discover and learn about his new existence alone.

He is perhaps one of the most powerful vampire alive.

Slender, slightly less tall than Lestat, his maker, black of hair, gaunt and white of skin, with amazingly long and delicate fingers, and feet that don't make a sound. Louis, whose green eyes are soulful, the very mirror of patient misery, soft-voiced, very human, weak, having lived only two hundred years, unable to read minds or levitate, or to spellbind others except inadvertently, which can be hilarious, an immortal with whom mortals fall in love. Louis, an indescriminate killer.

Louis was made in 1791 when he was 25, by Lestat. He lived in New Orleans with Lestat for 4 years until Lestat made the child vampire Claudia. They lived together in New Orleans for some 65 years.When Claudia rebelled against Lestat and 'killed' him, they left New Orleans for Europe and stayed there until her death. Louis spent the next hundred years wandering the world with Armand and finally left him after he learned from Lestat that Armand was resposible for Claudia's death. Louis is always described as a great beauty. Lestat also called him Mercifiul Death; he is the most human of vampires, and who, in his early years, didn't kill humans out fo his "respect for life". He has long black hair and green eyes with a slight french accent.

Marius was born in Rome in 30 BCE. He was the son of a Roman patrician and a Celtic slave.

When he was mortal he travelled most of the land, writing a travelogue and the history of world, he became a Roman senator. Some time during his life he went to war, as his family wished, but he decided it wasn't for him, he preferred a life filled with books and all things of beauty and art.

At the age of 40, when he was sitting in a tavern recording his travels he was encountered by a man from the north -- a druid.

After small conversation and a short while later, he was abducted by druids and taken away to caves in Gaul and keep prisoner. He was prepared to be given to the 'god of the sacred Grove' an ancient vampire who resided in the sacred oak. He was extremely burned, black as charcoal, hurt and weak. It was there that Marius was made into a Vampire. Afterward, he was told by his maker to go to Egypt and find Those Who Must Be Kept -- the ancient Vampires, Akasha and Enkil.

Magnus, the maker of Lestat, gave himself immortality during the 1400s when he trapped a vampire and stole blood from it. He chose to make Lestat a vampire because of his courage.

On the same night he made Lestat a vampire, during the year 1780, he destroyed himself in a fire, leaving Lestat alone to discover and learn about his immortality.

Claudia was the diseased human girl Louis feasted upon but could not bring himself to kill. In an effort to keep Louis from leaving him, Lestat turned the ten year old girl into a vampire. Later she attempts to kill Lestat, and finally meets her fate at the Theatre of the Vampires in Paris.

I am not one who has dalliances with mortals. I have lived in the shadows nearly all of my immortal life, which to me is more fitting than to keep company with the world of men. This life I have is not causing me endless sorrow, I have known no other for so long now that I do not dwell on what I do not have. I was a warrior as a mortal, this may account for my disposition to be stern, aloof, and not easily give in to close associations with others. I lived as a Druid Priest, but we were in truth warriors, not simple men of prayer.

Khayman was the chief steward in the palace of King Enkil and Queen Akasha of Kemet (now Egypt) circa 5000 BCE. Of Egyptian descent. He was tall and strong as a mortal, with very tan skin, dark eyes, and black hair (after being transformed into a vampire, his skin whitened and smoothed considerably).

When Akasha and Enkil become vampires, they made Khayman bring Maharet and Mekare back into Egypt to find out how their insatiable bloodlust can be mitigated. Maharet replies that the evil spirit now inhabiting the Queen is too large to be contained in her human body; only when more vampires are made (and the spirit thus diluted more and more) will the bloodlust become tolerable. Akasha then betrays Khayman's loyalty and forcibly turns him into a vampire against his will, to verify the witches' claims.

After Akasha is finally destroyed, Khayman becomes the oldest vampire in existence.

She is Lestat de Lioncourt's mother and first fledgling. She had yellow-blond hair like her son's and cobalt blue eyes with "too small, too kittenish" features, as Lestat described them, that "made her look like a girl."

Lestat was now the maker, parent, and teacher, while Gabrielle became the fledgling, the child and the student. Lestat took her to his tower where they lived happily for months. Things changed, however, when Lestat destroyed the Satanic cult headed by Armand, founded a theater and made Nicolas de Lenfent into a vampire. After this, Lestat and Gabrielle went traveling around the world. Gabrielle became increasingly distant and cold to her son. They finally parted in Egypt just after the French Revolution. Gabrielle went into the deep jungles of Africa and Lestat went underground to sleep for two years.

Gabrielle was off exploring the world on her own for the next 200 years. She did not reappear until 1985 (during The Queen of the Damned.) She was there to help her son fight against Akasha and help save the world. During this time, she developed a slight bond with Marius, but nothing became of it and she drifted away from everyone again. Gabrielle resurfaced for the last time after Memnoch the Devil, in The Vampire Armand while Lestat was in his catatonic sleep.