Lestat’s father was a distant man, whose blindness leaves him bitterly dependant. He owned a thousand-year-old family castle in the Auvergne. Out of stubborn family pride, he forbids Lestat from entering the monastery. Ten years after he became a vampire, Lestat goes to his blind father to take care of him. When his father is dying Lestat asks Louis to kill him.
Lestat had six brothers, but only two of them survived to adulthood. Lestat only briefly mentions his brothers in his story of his mortal life. Augustin was his eldest brother. Lestat’s brothers ridicule him and seem to only just tolerate him. Both brothers are killed during the French Revolution.
I should call it the Dark Moment, but it was still high-pitched and full of eerie light (TVL)
The dark moment is the sensation of dread that can accompany the loos of suppor that occurs when one doubts the existence of absolute values; it is the stark recognition of unbuffered chaos. (TVC)
The dark moment confronts Lestat with nothingness and the inevitable frailty and corrosion of things around him. It is a painful epiphany that colors his later perceptions: “The world looked different forever later.?(TVL) He recognized that there would be no righting of wrongs, no time when everything would be explained. For Lestat, everything was and would always remain in the limbo of ultimate chaos. (TVC)
Lestat was the seventh son of an indigent marquis and the youngest of the three who had lived to manhood. At the age of twelve, Lestat decided to pursue life in a monastery, because he loves the rituals, orderliness, and sense of being good. His father forbids it, locked Lestat up, and takes his books away. Lestat tried to runaway again with a wandering theater group, but is once again caught and brought back. This monotony lives, eventually lead him to wolf hunting and nearly dies trying to fight off these pack of wolves. As a result for his bravery, he became friend with Nicolas, the son of a local merchant.
After Lestat went through the Dark Moment, his mother, Gabrielle sent him off to Paris with Nicolas. Lestat and Nicolas worked at Renaud’s House of Thesbians on the boulevard du Temple. Lestat became a regular actor there and was very well received by the audience. Life seems to be getting better and better, until one October morning, when Magnus stole Lestat away from his bed and his mortal life.
Lestat’s Father
Lestat’s brothers
Dark moment
[Main]
[Introduction]
[Timeline]
[Mortal Life]
[Fledglings]
[Aliases]
[Lestat Rules]
[Shrine]
[The Movie]
[Miscellaneous Facts]
[Gallery]
[Vampire Links]
[Lestatians' Coven]
[Forum]
[Webrings]
[Webpage Resources]
[Awards]
[Contact me]
[Guestbook]