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NAME
Andrei
CHANGED NAME
Amadeo, Armand
HISTORY
An outstanding artist when he was young boy and was sent to live in a monastery with monks until his father came for him and told him that he was going to go and paint for Royalty. Andrei didn't want this he wanted to stay with the monks but Andrei's father and the last say and they where off. He was fifteen by this time and when he and his father set off for the Royal Palace he was capture by Tatar Raiders and shelled to a Venetian brothel. But fortunately he wasn't there that long and was bought by a painter and vampire Marius de Romanus. He began his new life by living with Marius' other apprentices and he latched onto Marius and became his constant companion.
He became infatuated with a young woman called Bianca and fell in love with her as did Marius and he spent a lot of time with her during his time there.
At the age of seventeen he drew attention to himself from an Englishman who liked him and it soon became deadly when this Englishman broke into Marius home and killed a couple of the apprentices. Amadeo was angry and therefore dueled with this Englishman and killed him, but not after being cut by this Englishman. It turned out this weapon had poison covering it and he would die without assistance from Marius. Marius couldn't bear to see Amadeo die and he gives him the dark gift and made him into a vampire.
Amadeo stayed with Marius until a Coven by the name "Children Of Darkness" attacked Marius and they believed that they had incinerated Marius. Santino was the Coven leader of this coven and give Amadeo the choice between death or becoming apart of the Coven. Amadeo hungry for blood and frighten to die reluctantly agreed. He was later given a coven of his own in Paris and he and Alessandra left for Paris. Alessandra gives Amadeo the name Armand.
Armand disbanded with the "Children of Darkness" Coven after Lestat broke the Coven up with his tales of a better life for vampires. A lot of them give up the old ways, the ones who survived that is. Armand cast many of these vampires into the fire before Lestat give him his theatre he owned. Which Armand and Lestat's friend who was also a vampire give the name Theatre des Vampires where he would remain for quite sometime.
In 1862 a couple of new world vampire came to Paris these where Clauida and Louis, unfortunately the Theatre des Vampires Coven still followed some of the old rules and put Clauida to death.
He asked Louis to become his companion and Louis agreed there remained with each other until the early 1920s where Louis and become so distant that Armand could not remain with him. Armand left Louis but stayed in New Orleans visiting Lestat and staying there until he met a young reporter Daniel Malloy who had been the author of "Interview With The Vampire", Daniel still a mortal and Armand an immortal made a new Coven called The Night Island Coven. Where they would remain for quite sometime.
But in the mid-90s after listening to Lestat tale of "Memnoch The Devil" he tried to commit suicide but failed. He was nursed back to health by two mortals, Sybelle and Benji, who later became vampires at the hands of Marius.
He was at the trail where Thorne killed Santino.
CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH
He receives a poisons wound from a dual at the age of 17.
MAKER
Marius de Romanus
VAMPERIC GROUP
Children Of Darkness: The Roman Coven, Children Of Darkness: The Paris Coven, Theatre des Vampires, The Night Island Coven
APPEARING IN THE FOLLOWING BOOKS
Interview With The Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen Of The Damned, Memnoch The Devil, The Vampire Armand, Blood and Gold.
FLEDALINGS
Daniel Malloy
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