Marius de Romanus, the only Anne Rice vampire who thinks colonialism and war are bad, but constantly maligned by the fandom because shipping matters more than if “foreign” people die.
Anne Rice was playing with some interesting possibilities for the motivations of Amel, Gremt, and the other spirits! Not to mention what would have happened to David if Lestat hadn’t Done That.
Good Morning, People of the Page. Spoiler Alert Maybe — Regarding “Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis,” unfortunately some people who apparently did not read the book closely, or did not finish it, or only heard about it — came to the conclusion that the vampires are descended from aliens from outer space. This is not so at all. Amel, the spirit who fused with Akasha to create the first vampire, does indeed have a back story in the novel. But he is not an alien from outer space. And the story of who he was and how his spirit managed to infuse a tribe of connected vampires has to do with his own ingenuity and how that ingenuity infused his ghost or spirit making of him a unique being. I feel the need to say this because misinformation does indeed surround this novel and what it explores. Also the novel does not provide an explanation for Memnoch. One of the characters offers some speculation as to the origin of Memnoch but this is just speculation, nothing more. And for what it’s worth, the speculation is wrong.
Anne Rice on Memnoch’s true nature and misreadings of Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis, from Facebook (2018)
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