#amel

Amel again! I’ve been braiding his hair lately and a friend told me to make him an Egyptian-style outfit… and somehow I ended up making an 18th-century one too.

Had to make a matching outfit for Lestat of course. I FINALLY HAVE MY TWINS

Occasionally I see people say that Anne Rice revealed in lore in a later book that the vampires are actually aliens. This isn't true, it's not what that book says, and the book pretty obviously doesn't say this. Anne Rice also clarified this on Facebook:

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.

Amel is not an alien, he's also not a Replimoid, an extra-terrestrial artificially engineered being. You may have missed this if you bailed on the book before finishing it, because of the part where the aliens say that Amel is a replimoid:

This being, Amel, was the most powerful and versatile Replimoid we’ve ever made.

Which is a setup for the big scene where Amel reveals that the aliens are liars, because he's not a Replimoid:

“So they didn’t make you,” I said. “You’re not a Replimoid.” “No, I’m not,” he said. “But I am apparently the first human being they ever forcibly and stealthily and immorally removed from this planet. And what I became in their hands is the enhanced creature you see before you, ever resilient and self-renewing, and seemingly immortal.” Once again, his face was flushed, and he was clearly angry.

This clarification is not hard to miss, because he goes on to give a big speech about Not Being a Replimoid:

“Understand this,” he repeated. “Everything good in me came from my birth as a human being, my childhood among human beings, my parents on Earth, my teachers on Earth, the wise and the kind of my village, the children brave enough to befriend me and pity me—and not so much from the superstitious and fearful notions of my tribe, but from the underlying morality of the tribe!” ”

Why, if you don't know or don't remember what happens in The Queen of the Damned, does it matter to whether the vampires are aliens whether Amel is an alien?

From Blood Genesis, the lore explainer at the beginning of Prince Lestat:

Amel, the furious familiar spirit of the witch Mekare, sought to punish the Queen. When she lay dying, stabbed over and over by conspirators of her own court, this spirit Amel entered into her, fusing with her body and her blood and giving her a new and terrifying vitality. This fusion caused a new entity to be born into the world: the vampire, the blood drinker.

The additional context we get of this in The Alien Book is that Amel was once a human, and he has special spirit powers because his ghost was fused with the organic polymer luracastria, which he invented, and which, for what it's worth, is based on elements developed by aliens, but all the elements of it are from Earth. Luracastria is terrestrial. I can't go further into it, or we'll be here all day. Luracastria is terrestrial. How are you going to pretend you know Anne Rice vampire lore if you can't even explain luracastria and how it's terrestrial?! Luracastria posers out there, there's too many, my god, catch up with the utopian society of Atalantaya, you're like fourteen thousand years too late.

Anyway, this is how that works out for the vampires:

And so is this what is happening to us, that this subatomic luracastria is slowly invading and transforming every cell in our bodies while those cells retain their self-replicating nature and we are slowly becoming luracastria?

In Conclusion:

Vampires were, are, and were never retconned to be anything other than the fusion of the ancient spirit Amel with the body of the dying Queen Akasha.

Amel was originally a spirit of unknown origin, in The Alien Book we learn his origin, which is that he was human.

Amel, the spirit at the core of vampirism, is not an alien.

The vampires aren't aliens.

Vampires might be made of luracastria.

Luracastria is not alien either.

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This is a continuation of my previous post where I did the same but for TVL.

If you haven’t read the book, reading the methodology miiight spoil you about the identity of some characters.

Nicki and Magnus appeared a sad total of two times each, and since it’s clear, when compared to the two previous books, that the complexity of the story increases both in plots and number of characters, and neither of them really participates in any plot and are merely mentioned by Lestat, I omitted their names.

Methology

Automatic count of names using the search tool of a common PDF reader.

Manual removal of a character’s name when included in titles. For example, for Khayman there is a count of 246, but there is a chapter called “Khayman, My Khayman.” In all cases, the title appears twice: in the index and as a heading in the actual chapter. Therefore, the number of times Khayman’s name is counted was adjusted to 272 instead of 276.

For the Twins and Akasha, extra titles were also added, since respectively twins and **queen represent 30% and 59% of the occasions the characters are referred to.

A small additional count was added to Akasha under the word **goddess. This title is also used for Pandora, so manual removal of those counts was also done before reaching the graphed number.

Do you have other ideas for what that illness might be?

Thank you!

Hey! Not a stupid question, just.... Amel is a spirit not the reason why Akasha is so strong. She is so strong because she is the first and has had millennia to grow stronger. Enkil was the second, and he was as strong as her for long millennia, kept her imprisoned with himself until she finally drained him.

And Sam already confirmed that Amel is already present in Autumn's video, so that is not a theory, just as a note.

The thing is - Amel is VC lore. What you are proposing... is not.

This show, and the Talamasca show, draw heavily on the lore. Including the later books lore.

Rolin stated years ago that there was a "lot of the prince" in Lestat already (at the SDCC 2022 panel iirc), and he famously held the books he uses for this show up into the camera:

Look at that stack of books. Definitely more than the first ones, don't you think.

Also, while Louis' and Lestat's problems may (definitely) be a trigger, not everything is about Louis.

Lestat has survived without Louis. For decades. He knows he can do so. He does not want to, but that is a different matter.

As per that illness... I have heard about that "leak". I don't think it has anything to do with Akasha's blood, but more actually with Amel and the visions that come with Amel awakening.

Because Amel's awakening was a brutal and... long one. It took years for him to reach consciousness. He manifested in mirrors, and in minds, as "the voice".

Now combine that with Lestat's PTSD he carries, and the visions he sees. The hallucinations. And the canonical ghosts.

I think Lestat is crumbling under all that. And thinks he may be sick, but I think it will eventually turn out that Amel is awakening.

It could be that Lestat has also a sickness, somehow, sure.

But canonically the brain surgery that later happened, and the silver cord being cut... both had to do with Amel.

And while the details of the show may be different - the big way points and emotional arcs... are not.

And they do keep to the lore, even if they push the envelope on it, and have made some very specific modifications. And, given later books lore... even those modifications to the lore... are actually more extensions of it.