

Marius provides them with education, shelter, and food, and he assists them in finding respectable positions once they are grown. Marius lives the extravagant life of a respected Renaissance painter, and mentors many boys who serve as his apprentices.

Soon after his arrival, he is purchased by the vampire Marius de Romanus, who names him Amadeo. He is forcefully taken out of this life of prayer and devotion by slave traders, who transport him to Constantinople and then to a brothel in Venice. With Lestat de Lioncourt still in slumber since Memnoch the Devil, the vampire coven is reunited around the "brat prince" and the vampire David Talbot asks Armand tell his life story.īorn somewhere in the Kievan Rus in the late 15th century, Armand (at this time called Andrei) becomes an icon painter in a monastery. The Vampire Armand (1998) is a horror novel by American writer Anne Rice, the sixth in her The Vampire Chronicles series.
