Hello! I’m in the middle of reading VC and I was wondering, do you by any chance remember if there is any mention of the name of the particular Greek island Marius resided on with Akasha and Enkil? I live on an island in Greece and that information is embarassingly important to me (I mean, we never get mentioned in anything, this is a big deal) but internet research hasn’t been helpful :(

Awww, that’s so cute! Which island do you live on? If you don’t mind sharing. 

(I admit it’s pretty cool living in New York, a place that’s often mentioned in VC. We even have St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Memnoch the Devil locations.)

(AND I AM GOING TO NEW ORLEANS THIS THURSDAY awww yisss. Such bragging.)


AS FOR YOUR QUESTION: Someone else may have the answer, but if I recall correctly, I don’t think the island is ever mentioned by name because Marius doesn’t want Lestat trying to follow him after being expelled for Doing The Thing. I did a quick scour of TVL and B&G and didn’t find anything more specific than this: 

“And then as the 1700s commenced, I prepared to make a daring move to an island where I would rule supreme in the Aegean Sea, surrounded by mortals who would easily accept me as their lord, in a stone house which I had prepared for me by a host of mortal servants.”

“…I was on the terrace of this new house, gazing out at the sea and over the many small islands that surrounded me,– Marius de Romanus, Blood and Gold

So it’s in the Aegean Sea, and it’s an island surrounded by many small islands.

Alonnisos seems to fit that description, although it isn’t SURROUNDED. It’s one of the few that has a bunch of islands around it in more than one direction. IDK what his definition of “small” is for an island, they all look pretty small to me. 

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There’s also Siros, which is also surrounded by a number of small islands and is, itself, in the Aegean Sea.

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Hope that helped!

I’ve been seeing some posts about Santino’s death and ????? And I tried to find an explanation and ?????????????????????????? Can you enlighten me?

Well, I don’t want to spoil you but… If you must be spoiled, then you must be spoiled! Lestat doesn’t care about Santino but I do.

Let’s say What goes around comes around.

Longish complicated story short, Santino is killed pretty gruesomely (although quickly!) at the end of Blood and Gold, for past crimes he committed against Marius (kidnapping vampnapping? fledgnapping? idk Armand and turning him into an evul Child of Darkness, attempting to kill Marius and actually murdering innocent Boys of the Veneto at the same time, etc.)

So Santino, well, his uppance did come. He is dead as a doornail, my friend.

Like, personally, even though Marius is a strange blonde Roman, I still feel like he should have a Roman face, like a big nose and cheekbones that could cut glass and a strong chin.

Yah someone more like that. ;] Marius’ blondness comes from his mother’s side, IIRC. She was from Gaul:

“Marius, the tall one with the blue eyes, Marius whose mother came from Gaul and whose father was a Roman.“ – Raymond Gallant, Blood and Gold.

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^Here have a nude Marius by garama bc of reasons.

ISO: Blood and Gold Bookmark

princessoftheveneto:

Hey all!
I was wondering if any of you know where I can buy one of the original Blood and Gold bookmarks that was released with Blood and Gold when it first came out. I know that they are super rare, and William and I are having a hard time finding one. It would be preferable if we could find just the bookmark and not the book set. 🙂 if anyone could help us out, that would be amazing!!! We really, really need this bookmark. Please reblog this, or if you have any info about where to find one, or if you want to sell one, send me or William a message! Thank you!! 🙂 -Bethany

♫ Just BREATHE ♫

cloudsinvenice reblogged your post anonymous asked:So vampires breat… and added:

I’ve always been kind of bugged by the bit in BaG where Marius stays at the bottom of a canal for an hour, because it suggests they don’t need to breathe. I remember seeing something in PL that seemed to refute that, so then I was irritated at having to mentally explain away the BaG reference. I’ll have to go back and see what the PL thing was now…

Yeah same! I remember that part in BaG. 

But… if we don’t count PL as canon, then there’s no discrepancy. Well. There MIGHT be. I just can’t remember breathing being specifically mentioned elsewhere.

This is one of those situations where I wish I had vampiric super-fast reading so I could skim the whole damn VC and gather up all the vampire physiology facts. *siiiigh*

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unionthesalmon:

Have some really self-indulgent Marius/Armand