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Blood and Gold: the Vampire Marius Free FREE BLOOD AND GOLD: THE VAMPIRE MARIUS PDF Anne Rice | 752 pages | 05 Jul 2011 | Cornerstone | 9780099548157 | English | London, United Kingdom Blood and Gold | The Vampire Chronicles Wiki | Fandom Sign in with Facebook Sign in options. Join Goodreads. Want to Read saving…. Want to Blood and Gold: The Vampire Marius Currently Reading Read. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Blood and Gold: The Vampire Marius. Blood And Gold Quotes Showing of Because if you lost Blood and Gold: The Vampire Marius you lost everything. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my backward glances, but even to suffering, some memories will yield nothing of their beauty or their splendor. Rather they remain as hard as gems. I knew it yet I didn't know. Dreams are your unwelcome guests. Anger is as weak as fear. I lived it out of anger. This is what I am trying to tell you. I have lived lies. I have done it again and again. I live lies because I cannot endure the weakness of anger and I cannot admit the irrationality of love. Oh the lies I have told myself and others. I knew what he meant. What must a brave general feel when he knows the battle has gone against him and nothing remains but death? Let them keep you here. And nothing ever really makes it warm. You knew of this cold. You tried a thousand times to melt it, and transform it to something more brilliant, but you never succeeded. This always Blood and Gold: The Vampire Marius with me. I feel foolishly safe with books which can be a mistake. What am I to do? We argued, yes, you and I, but it was with loving respect, was it not? I cannot endure without you. Please come to me, from wherever you are. Had I ever revealed more of my Blood and Gold: The Vampire Marius to anyone than I had revealed to him? If my tears spilled now, he would see them. If I trembled now, he would know. Because in the passage of time reason may fail you and when it does, you may find yourself taking refuge in madness. Of course there should be another library. What was a house to me if it did not possess a library? I wanted him to share all that I could teach and give. Oh, the pain of it! All that I could teach and give. It was from its very beginnings, it seems, a religion of great quarrels and wars, and it wooed the power of temporal authorities, and made them part of itself in the hope of resolving through sheer force its many arguments. Memory knows that we cannot endure its company. Memory would reduce us to fools. Be witnesses of all splendid and beautiful things human. Be true immortals. The idea came to me unbidden as if there really were a Satan in the world and that Satan had come crawling along the stone floor towards me and put the idea in my mind. I could not sink back in agony for that would breed but more agony. I must go on. Be like the god Heimdall before the battle call, so still that you can hear the wool grow on the backs of sheep, and the grass grow far away in the lands where the snow melts. I pray for mercy, yet I cannot envision how it would come about. Loneliness in itself could not destroy him. Neglect was insufficient. And so he slept. Welcome back. Just a moment while Blood and Gold: The Vampire Marius sign you in to your Goodreads account. Marius de Romanus - Wikipedia Blood and Gold is a horror novel by American writer Anne Ricethe eighth book in her Vampire Chronicles series. The Blood and Gold: The Vampire Marius begins with an ancient vampire of Nordic descent awaking after being frozen in a block of ice for hundreds of years. The vampire, Thorne, meets Marius de Romanus and inquires about Marius' past. Marius then provides his life story. Blood and Gold: The Vampire Marius a young Roman patrician Blood and Gold: The Vampire Marius, Marius was abducted by druids who were trying to find a replacement for their "god of the grove"—a vampirekept locked inside a chamber underneath a tree, who took on the role of a god in a druidic religion. Marius does not want to receive the powers of the dying god, but is given them nonetheless. Unable to face a life imprisoned in a tree, Marius escapes from the druids one of whom is Mael. He takes them back to Rome with him after learning that if they die then every other vampire in the world will suffer the same fate. He falls in love with a mortal woman, Pandoraand turns her into a vampire. They live together happily for a long time, although they argue frequently. One day, their house is attacked by a group of vampires who want to know the secrets of Those Who Must Be Kept. Though they destroy these vampires, the attack leads to an argument between the two and Marius, filled with anger, leaves Pandora. Marius then returns to Romewhere he creates a life for himself as a socialite, fraternizing with mortals and practicing painting. It is here that he meets Mael and Avicusthe latter of which is a former god of the grove—a vampire older than Marius, but who does not seem to know his own power. There is still much enmity between Mael and Marius, and Marius asks them to leave. They do so, but remain in the city of Rome. Marius does not mind this, as they keep the city free from other blood-drinkers who may pry the secrets of Those Who Must Be Kept from his mind. Marius continues to live this way even as the Roman Empire splits, with its capital city moving to Constantinople. Eventually, Marius, Mael, and Avicus leave Rome when it is sacked by barbarians. They travel to Constantinopletaking with them the Mother and Father. After a series of violent conflicts, Marius angrily drags Eudoxia back down into the shrine and casts her at Akasha, who suddenly awakens to destroy her. Blood and Gold: The Vampire Marius that he cannot live with other vampires due to his custody of the Divine Parents, Marius elects to return to Italy. He becomes disheartened by the horrors of the Black Death and sleeps for hundreds of years. He awakes again during the Renaissance and travels all around Italyvisiting Venice and Florenceadmiring the art and culture. In Rome he meets the vampire Santinowho claims that Marius is living in sin by not serving Satan. Marius threatens him and tells Santino to never come near him again. Marius decides to make his home in Venice, and he establishes himself as an amateur painter. His house is set up as a place where young boys can come and improve themselves, preparing to go to university or to become craftsmen. During this time, he also falls in love with the works of Botticelliwhom he briefly considers turning into a vampire. It is in Venice that Marius meets Amadeo Armandwhom he discovers in a filthy cellar, waiting to become a prostitute in the city's brothels. He purchases the boy from the slave traders and takes him back to his house, where he bathes him and promises him a better life. As the years pass Marius happily continues his life, disappearing occasionally to attend to the Divine Parents. Amadeo grows up, and the two often share a bed. Marius is sorely tempted to give Amadeo the Blood and Gold: The Vampire Marius Giftmaking him into a vampire, but he stops himself from doing so. When Marius is away looking after the Divine Parents, his house is attacked by the Englishman Lord Harlech who became obsessed with Amadeo after sleeping with him. Amadeo manages to kill Harlech, but Blood and Gold: The Vampire Marius several wounds from Harlech's poisoned blade. He slips into a fever. Marius arrives and is told that Amadeo will die as the poison is too strong. Marius turns Amadeo into a vampire in order to prevent the boy from dying. He teaches him to prey only on evildoers in order to save his conscience. Some time after Amadeo becomes a vampire, the house is attacked by a large mob of Satan-worshiping vampires under the leadership of Santino. Marius is Blood and Gold: The Vampire Marius and almost killed, but manages to save his own life by jumping into a canal. Nonetheless, he is severely wounded and believes that Amadeo will be killed. He calls a woman named Bianca to his aid. The two have known each other for a number of years and have a close relationship. Marius is too weak to hunt, so he transforms Bianca into a vampire in order to have her help him to recover his strength. The two move to the shrine of Those Who Must Be Kept and live there for over a century, where Marius gradually recovers his strength by drinking from Akasha. After Amadeo had transformed, Marius had met with Raymond Gallant, a man from the Blood and Gold: The Vampire Mariusa group of scholars who found out information about supernatural things, just for information. He hears from him that Pandora is being kept hostage by another vampire and moved around Europe and Russia ; so Marius decides to move to Dresden to try meeting with Pandora, whom he still loves.
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